They're Hunting Freedom

By Lee Duigon
May 8, 2014
NewsWithViews.com

The neo-Stalinists and Hugo Chavez wannabes of the American Left—in a word, Democrats—are always looking for new ways to take away our freedom. They hunt Lady Liberty like Captain Ahab hunted the white whale.

Two of their latest efforts surfaced in the news last week.

In Congress, a pair of Democrats, Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, are pushing a bill, S.2219, that would authorize a government agency to monitor all “telecommunications” for “hate speech” that might could, maybe, just possibly inspire violent crimes motivated by “hate”—except, of course, for games of “knockout.” Democrats really hate hate, and they’ll destroy anyone who hates. Unless they hate those whom Democrats hate.

By “telecommunications” they mean any and all forms of communication more sophisticated than passing notes or muttering out of the corner of your mouth to the woman behind you on the checkout line. But they do want to monitor radio and TV broadcasts, Internet websites and blogs, Facebook pages, “commercial mobile services, and other electronic media”—meaning our email messages and cell phone conversations—for “hate speech.”

And what is “hate speech”? Why, whatever the feds say it is, on any given day. But of course we already know from experience that “hate speech” is anything we write or say that dissents from the government’s vigorous program of promoting homosexuality, amnesty for illegal aliens, and racial favoritism. “Hate speech” also encompasses any opposition to or criticism of the current occupier of the White House, his performance, or his policies.

Just for laughs, they throw in some malarkey about all their actions and recommendations being “consistent with the First Amendment.” All they know about the First Amendment is an insatiable desire to see it stuffed and mounted in the Oval Office as the great trophy of their freedom hunt.

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