"I started thinking, 'How does one stop it?' " ~ Danielle Allen
It is not often that I read something from back home that puts a chill down my spine, but the recent article in the Washington Post by Matthew Mosk entitled "An Attack that Came out of the Ether" did just that.
It is not often that I read something from back home that puts a chill down my spine, but the recent article in the Washington Post by Matthew Mosk entitled "An Attack that Came out of the Ether" did just that.
In the article, an enamoured Mosk fawns over the diabolical musings of Dr. Danielle Allen who obsesses over the "secret identities" of 23 individuals and how they can be silenced. Their crimes you may ask? Speaking ill of the left's golden calf. While both Mosk and Allen agonize over the alleged rumors concerning Barack Hussein Obama's Muslim heritage neither makes the attempt to simply refute the allegations and instead subtly implies that the government should be able to control what people write and say.
It is a central tenet of the first amendment that the government must remain neutral in the marketplace of ideas. But Dr. Danielle Allen is not alone is her desire to stifle and inhibit the free flow of ideas, just last year I posted an essay here entitled "Freedom From Fear" where one of Dr. Allen's liberal comrades Dr. Eddison Richardson called for Ann Coulter to be arrested for implying that John Edwards was a faggot.
In the words of Justice Holmes,
"...when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas - that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."
It's been said that one never truly appreciates something until they have lost it. For the majority of Americans it is difficult to imagine what the loss of freedom and liberty is like. Many can't imagine living in a country where you can be arrested for you say or write. Like many of you, growing up in America I had always taken my liberty and freedom for granted. That all changed when I moved overseas and discovered firsthand that it is our love of freedom and liberty that has made our country an exceptional nation, it is today what we fight for.
Our forefathers before and our brave soldiers today are fighting and sacrificing their lives for freedom and liberty, not for diversity, respect, tolerance, "politcal correctness" or for that matter "Hope" and "Change".
Shame on you Danielle Allen and shame on the Washington Post.
Are adoption records public records in Indonesia? Would it be a public record if O's mother became a citizen of Indonesia? And if so who and how do we contact the correct person to obtain these records?
ReplyDeleteThank you. And thank you for your blog and perspective.
Excellent post.
ReplyDeleteExPat says: "Their crimes you may ask? Speaking ill of the left's golden calf. While both Mosk and Allen agonize over the alleged rumors concerning Barack Hussein Obama's Muslim heritage neither makes the attempt to simply refute the allegations and instead subtly implies that the government should be able to control what people write and say"...
ReplyDeleteHence I'm sure the following will come as NO suprise to you you ExPat:
Pelosi: I Want to Bring Back 'Fairness Doctrine'