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Milo Y / Anti-Milo Why-Nots

Post author By Redactor
Post date February 4, 2017
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Berkeley, home to the Free Speech movement in the “olden days,” was home this week to violence and mayhem that “successfully” blocked the free and peaceful exchange of ideas.

As you consider how a free people should respond, here are various voices from the scene of the crime.

First, a former Clinton Era “economist” offers a number of judgments without any facts to back them up. Indeed, he spreads a rumor that conflicts with everything we know about the blackshirt thugs of Antifa and similar far-left “anarchist” groups:

http://youtu.be/K977LL87rd8

And if you want more of this loopiness, with even more outrageous comments shifting blame away from the actual perpetrators of the violence and onto Trump and others, watch the full CNN talking heads panel. If you dare!

Next, a young “By Any Means Necessary” (BAMN) member explains the “peaceful” nature of her movement:

You judge her logic. Her excuse-making. Her more-than-implied threats.

This young woman, and the illustrious Robert Reich, are not alone on the left in defending the violence and the suppression of free speech. Consider the long list of “celebs.”

Finally, mull over the actual words of the man Robert Reich calls a “hateful, odious” “right-wing character” (and whom others call “racist” and “homophobic” and even a gay “Nazi”):

This video has been bleeped to omit vulgarity; click here for the pristine (vulgar tongue) version, if you wish.

There are many greatly varying opinions about Milo Yiannopoulos. This is but one video wherein he very earnestly states his views. We welcome you to use the COMMENTS section to post any videos or links that you think folks should consider in making their own judgments about the man. Likewise, please leave links to additional information about speech-squelching activities by those on the political Left or Right or Center.

Thought

James Fenimore Cooper

The capital error is becoming prevalent, which holds the pernicious doctrine that this is a government of men, instead of one of principles. Whenever this error shall so far come to a head as to get to be paramount in action, the well-disposed may sit down and mourn over, not only the liberties of their country, but over its justice and its morals, even should men be nominally so free as to do just what they please.

James Fenimore Cooper, The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts, 1845.

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George H. Lewes

History shows how the human mind, which, at the dawn of civilisation, was a lyre of three chords, became in the progress of civilisation a lyre of seven chords. . . .

G. H. Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind (Third Series) Problem the First — The Study of Psychology: Its Object, Scope, and Method (1879), p. 157.

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Grant Starrett, “Make All Federal Employees Fireable, National Review (February 2, 2017).

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We should be more worried about the government taking away our free speech rather than us taking it away from ourselves.

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Facts don’t care about your feelings.

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