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November 30, 2006

How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Is America headed for a disappearance of its freedom of speech? A few recent events should be sending chills up and down your spine over the potential of loosing one of our most valued rights (such as actor Michael Richards' epithet-laced outburst at a Los Angeles nightclub, Newt Gingrich's suggestion that the country will be forced to re-examine free speech as it attempts to deal with the terrorism, and John Conyers' sudden concern for religious intollerance - only for Muslims, not Christians).

Selwyn Duke writes that once support for the criminalization of hate speech has galvanized, we'll have legislation, and eventually, America will indeed be a very dark place:

Once support for the criminalization of hate speech has galvanized, we'll have legislation. And once the legalistic rationalization that allows for it permeates enough jurists' minds, we'll have it upheld in court. Then, with the principle of hate speech enshrined in American law, it will be open season on positions contrary to those of the positioned. Once an unacceptable belief is identified, our culture-shapers in the media, entertainment and academia will simply define it as "hateful" and beat that drum until it becomes the next supposition. And then the legal definition will be sure to follow.

And hegemony will be ours. As it is, the media, entertainment realm and academia sing our tune. Even corporations feel the pressure, as evidenced by their sensitivity training classes, support of politically correct causes, refusal to support traditional ones, and the limiting of the dissemination of politically incorrect ideas by certain Internet entities. Yes, we have done our best to imprison dissenting voices in that small, dark box. The last piece of the puzzle is the destruction of that box. And then America will be a beautifully dark place indeed.

Read all of Selwyn's must-read piece at The American Thinker.

And while we're on the topic of free speech, I'm wondering, why is it that the left is so deeply concerned about religious intolerance - but only for Muslims (one of their newest addition to their special victims unit) and NOT, of course, for the pervasive and nitpicking intolerance they routinely exhibit toward any symbol, word, or expression of Christianity.

Posted by Richard at November 30, 2006 12:18 PM

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