Yesterday, by a vote of 14-10, the New Hampshire State Senate passed HB587, a lawyer-up bill so poorly written that it will not just compel speech.
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Republicans Against Free Speech
Carolyn McKinney’s rebuttal to “some Republicans” pushing to remove the word ‘traditional’ as a qualifier to the word ‘marriage’ in the New Hampshire Republican State Platform is brilliant. It’s so good those Republicans don’t want you to read it. (If you have problems with the above link the piece is also cross-posted here.)
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Antifa’s War On Some Women
When the left tells you that women are a protected class, they are lying. Women who march in lockstep with the left’s narrow agenda are protected as long as they keep up. This is true for blacks, gays, trans, cis, Metrosexual-pajama-boys, bearded-Marxists, or any designer state of being manufactured by the liberal ministry of identity and progress.
You are not ‘protected’ based on who you want to have sex with or the color your skin. You are only special if you advocate one set of ideas which they define. It’s their Dogma or the dog house. Failure to comport excommunicates you to slave-class status. You become less than human, no longer entitled to your own words, thoughts, or even the rights they define and dispense.
They’ve even got stormtroopers to make sure everyone knows this and women don’t get a pass just because they are women.
Timberlane Superintendent Metzler: your “free speech” must have my prior approval before I will allow you to freely speak
Seems like the Earl of Metzler is coming up against “the rabble” (normally called students and people paying his salary) more and more. So he has arbitrarily decided to become like those college campuses that haven’t the foggiest idea of what the First Amendment Free Speech clause is all about. Instead – he “deigns” to decide who can speak, where they can speak, where they can speak, and when they disagree with him, not to speak at all. Free Speech? Ah, outmoded like the Second Amendment! After all, “safety” is the bugaboo of tyrants and totalitarians (and those that threaten Power) everywhere (reformatted, emphasis mine):
The superintendent of the Timberlane Regional School District is defending his decision to have a small group of student demonstrators removed from school grounds during a peaceful protest over possible staffing cuts Wednesday night. Approximately 15 to 20 students and adults with signs of support gathered outside the school administrative offices at 30 Greenough Road around 6:30 p.m., but police ordered them to leave the property and move their vehicles out of the parking lot. The demonstration was held amid uncertainty over whether dozens of teachers and other staff members will get pink slips because of a budget shortfall. Plaistow resident Kathy Slade — one of the adults who participated in the protest — said they had to park elsewhere because they were told they were not allowed to park on school property, including at the high school next door even though it was after hours. “I wasn’t surprised, but I was disappointed,” she said.
Metzler said the reason why he didn’t allow the demonstrators on school property was because the group had not communicated with him directly before the event to explain exactly what was planned and how many people would be participating. Metzler said if the organizers “took the responsible precautions and notified us, we certainly would have assisted,” he said. Metzler said it all came down to the safety of students and protecting school buildings and property.
How DARE they violate his Royalness, his Royal Washington Monument Syndrome tactic, and his Royal Property –
Notable Quote: Why Should Freedom of Speech…Be Allowed.
Who does this sound like? “Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.” – V.I. Lenin And when the … Read more
The Totalitarian impulse did not die with the Soviet Union
I think that the entirety of the modern American Left’s agenda can be summarized in the words of Theodore Dalrymple, who notes,
The totalitarian impulse did not die with the Soviet Union, but rather fractured into many different monomanias. The freedom that many people desire is the freedom to limit other people’s freedom, which they find much more gratifying than the mere expression of their own opinion, which has at most the effect of throwing a pebble into a pond, causing a ripple that soon disappears and is forgotten. Surely I am more important than that, and my opinion deserves to dictate to others?
Democrat Party Drooling Over Malaysian Law – Fake News Could Get You 6 Months In Jail
From the ‘They’d never do this here‘ files, yes they would.
Malaysia on Monday approved a law against “fake news” that would allow for prison of up to six years for offenders, shrugging off critics who say it was aimed at curbing dissent and free speech ahead of a general election.
And yes, this is always an imposition to silence political dissent the ruling class doesn’t want shared. Always.
The First Amendment Doesn’t Apply to You If You Are Pro-Life
Freelance writer, pro-life activist Ellen Kolb joins me to discuss compelled speech and the case of NIFLA v Becerra which challenges a California Law the forces pro-life clinics to advertise state-funded abortion services. Visit the original blog post for more ways to listen.
The Trans-Bill is Back and There’s Gonna Be Trouble…
The Trans-Bill is back (HB 1319) as Kimberly Morin joins me to talk about the legislation, how it threatens actual rights, violates women’s privacy, carves out special exceptions, and why we don’t even need it. You can find other ways to listen here.
Equity, Equality, Social Justice, and Speech Policing at Dartmouth College
A young man applied for a role on the Dartmouth Trips Directorate and was rejected. The Directorate is 15-4 women to men. So he wrote an opinion piece to the Campus paper (The Dartmouth), offering his opinion about the leadership’s response to his rejection and to their priorities.
Feeling Virtuous About Diversity is More Important Than (…)
This week Rich and Steve discuss the left’s diversity cult and its connections to an Uzbeck Jihadi Assassin, Antifa, intolerant college kids, and Free Speech.
Free Speech Gains on Wisconsin College Campuses
Liberty McArtor, a staff writer for The Stream, joins me to talk about a new University of Wisconsin policy, the bill that inspired it, and where we find ourselves and speech on college campuses in 2018.
You Can’t Defend Free Speech Without Challenging Social Justice Curriculum
This morning on ‘No Safe Spaces’ Rich Girard and I began with a recent article from the UNH Campus paper (TNH) defending Free Speech, then explore why TNH needs an open-minded exploration into what is at the root of the intolerance for opposing speech (primarily conservative or Republican) on college campuses.
Is Free Speech Doomed at UNH?
UNH, like most universities, is weighted down by diversity curricula and all the anti-free-speech BS that goes with it. This handicap culminated in the very public unmasking of the UNH Bias-Free Language guide that, among other things, suggested the word American might be problematic.
GT-Flashback March 1st, 2014
Those who ignore history and all that, right. So here’s our podcast from March 1st, 2014 with conversations on Crimea, Medicaid Expansion, Bondage and Submission sex videos for teens, and Democrats oppressing speech.
SJW’s Target Father’s Day
Kevin Kervick joins us to talk about the latest hateful atrocity destined to be ushered out of style by the Social Justice warriors, Father’s Day. It’s unfair to people without fathers and has to go.
Speech and Censorship
We talk about our bread and butter – free speech and how we’re better at allowing it and protecting it than our progressive friends.
Speech Can’t be Funded with Public Money Unless Money…is Speech.
Skip has been sounding the alarm on Democracy Spring, the latest (no-doubt well-funded) progressive-barbarian horde sent to pillage your constitutional rights.
But Justice Clarence Thomas, quoted here in Luis v. United States, also makes a case (IMO) for WHY the progressive left’s get-“outside”-money-out-of-elections fraud would violate those rights (emphasis, mine).
Constitutional rights protect the necessary prerequisites for their exercise.
The Word ‘Free’ in Free Speech, has Nothing To Do With Money
The image above (no longer available), is the exercise of political speech by people trying to get the money out of speech. I don’t believe that is desirable, so naturally, I have some questions.
HB320 Followup – Relative to the Removal of Certain Campaign Materials From Polling Places
On January 22, I reported on House Bill 320, an “Act Relative to the Removal of Certain Campaign Materials at the polling place.” I’m happy to report that two of the Bills co-sponsors responded to my email.