So, I decided to share a few excerpts of an 1860 speech given by Frederick Douglass titled "A Plea for Free Speech". Granted, he was talking about slavery but free speech is free speech. I wonder if Anita Dunn (Communications Director), Robert Gibbs (Press Secretary), Rahm Emmanuel (Chief of Staff), David Axelrod (Senior Advisor), and the President have ever read this.
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts
and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of
tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They
know its power...There can be no right of speech where any man, however lifted
up, or however humble, however young, or however old, is overawed by force, and
compelled to suppress his honest sentiments.
Dunn has publically stated that Mao-Tse Tung is one of her favorite political philosophers. Mao Tse-Tung! Mao-Tse-Tung, whose own "war" was to kill 50-70 MILLION people. Don't believe me? Watch the video! Is it me or is her "chewing" and facial expressions annoying as all hell? For those who will say, "You took this clip from Glen Beck's program? It's clipped to slant (pardon the pun) to my argument." Sorry to disappoint you, but this is from YouTube and the clip is over 3 minutes long.
2 comments:
Sean, so sorry about Menino. I always had such a hard time voting in MA because I felt like my vote never counted :). Keep up the writing, hope you are well!
Hey Jen,
Unfortunately, you're right. My vote really doesn't count. I will still vote for the only Republican nominee to fill Teddy K's seat, but we all know whoever wins the Democratic primary will be the next Junior Senator from the Commonwealth.
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