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Title: The Left No Longer Finds Dissent Patriotic
Source: RS.com
URL Source: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/ ... onger-finds-dissent-patriotic/
Published: Mar 27, 2012
Author: Erick Erickson
Post Date: 2012-03-27 07:05:11 by CZ82
Keywords: None
Views: 2677
Comments: 8

The Left No Longer Finds Dissent Patriotic

Erick Erickson

Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the videos here at RedState. The videos document a growing trend in American civic discourse — the use of intimidation against private citizens to punish dissent.

Listen to Media Matters For America and other outlets on the left and they claim they are outraged at Rush Limbaugh for using the word “slut.”

They’re OK with it when the left does it. Routinely, conservative activists are targeted for harassment, subject to degrading comments, etc. from the left and they are okay with that. Bill Maher gets invited to keynote Democratic dinners.

Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia, in a Lenten Letter to his pastoral flock, said that evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant and then tries to silence good. The secular left, having preached tolerance for years, is proving the Archbishop true with their new found intolerance for opposing views. Witness opponents to Proposition 8 in California actively targeting for harassment supporters of Proposition 8. Witness union goons showing up on the doorsteps of private citizens to scare them into submission. Witness Media Matters For America targeting American supporters of Israel and attacking them as “Israel Firsters,” questioning their loyalty to the United States.

The left is trying to shut down the opposition. When they were out of power, dissent was patriotic. Now that they are in power, they want to use both the state and intimidation in the public square to shut down opposing views. It goes beyond boycotts to financially intimidate those who disagree with them. Now, the left is showing up at the private homes of American citizens they disagree with to intimidate them, threaten them, harass them, and make them pay for daring to have a different view.

The only time anyone wants to shut down opposing views is when the opposing views are winning. And that is the left’s problem. Rush Limbaugh, the free market, the right to work states, etc. are all winning. And it is not just that the right is winning, the left is losing.

David Brock of Media Matters, for example, took the desperate act of spending $850,000.00 to buy his ex-boyfriend’s silence about Media Matters. He only spent $100,000.00 to try to silence Rush Limbaugh, by comparison. Media Matters has been subjected to two months of revelations that raise questions about their tax exempt status and coordination with the Democratic Party.

But it is not just Media Matters. It is unions too.

Like Media Matters, the unions are threatening and bullying businesses. They are threatening private citizens. Threatening the livelihood of businesses and individuals, unions, Media Matters, and the left are intending to shut down the opposition through fear of a loss of livelihood.

What is most appalling to me, however, is how the right has failed to counter this bullying with an aggressive adverttising campaign showing what is happening — showing the gay rights protestors in California targeting donors to the Proposition 8 campaign, showing Media Matters targeting businesses that support free speech, showing unions targeting small businesses that won’t give in to union demands, showing union thugs showing up at the private residences of individuals to silence and intimidate them, etc.

That may be changing. Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the videos here at RedState.


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Aahhh yes the haters are allowed to hate you or anybody else they want but you're not allowed to say anything back to them.... does this really surprise me???---- Rules for Leftards #28). Political correctness is mandatory for you not me…..

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#1. To: All (#0)

Witness Media Matters For America targeting American supporters of Israel and attacking them as “Israel Firsters,” questioning their loyalty to the United States.

Boy does that statement sound familiar, seems like it gets used on LF on a daily basis..... Guess they don't really realize (Or care) how much the Jews do for the Leftards causes..... now why doesn't that surprise me....

You know I really wonder if any member of the Leftard family really cares about anybody else in their own family. They seem to rail about Jews one day, blacks the next and then top it off with a denigrating women..... that's one hell of a family you guys have, totally disfunctional at best psychopathic at worst!!!

"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."

CZ82  posted on  2012-03-27   7:14:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: CZ82 (#1)

The Left bullys?

Seriously?

homeland Security co ordinates the 'destruction of OSWer camps coast to coast violating the Bill of Rights and the Left 'bullys'?

LMFAO

When will the Left be bullying the Pentagon? 8D

There is no Left. There's only the Bottom 99%.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-03-27   9:31:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: CZ82 (#0)

Dissent is patriotic.... when they are dissenting.

Don't you know, some are more equal than others....

To: mcToejam, rat-boy, drippy, Alzheimer Fred, whitesands, t-bird, loonymom, ming, e-type jackoff, goober56, wreck, cal-CON, rabid dog, dummy DwarF, biff, harrowup the communist, and meguro. You're on the "a waste of human flesh" list. Brian S[ocialist], you're a propagandist moron. ALL of you can piss off.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2012-03-27   14:54:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: CZ82 (#0)

Witness union goons showing up on the doorsteps of private citizens to scare them into submission.

That sounds like fun!

How come they never come to my house?

We The People  posted on  2012-03-27   21:18:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mcgowanjm, CZ82, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#2)

homeland Security co ordinates the 'destruction of OSWer camps coast to coast violating the Bill of Rights and the Left 'bullys'?

Uh, yeah. Are you trying to con someone into believing that Big Sis and O'Marxist are right-wingers?

Mayor Jean Quan of Oakland is Limbaugh listener? You may need to recalibrate your tinfoil hat.


"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Hondo68  posted on  2012-03-27   21:42:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: We The People (#4)

How come they never come to my house?

I've always wondered the same thing????

Must be I live to far out for them to bus them all here or maybe they just can't follow/read Mapquest directions... But then again I don't think they would want to meet the Three Stooges face to fangs!!!

"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."

CZ82  posted on  2012-03-28   6:57:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: AKA Stone (#0)

Aahhh yes the haters are allowed to hate you or anybody else they want but you're not allowed to say anything back to them.... does this really surprise me???---- Rules for Leftards #28). Political correctness is mandatory for you not me…..

You missed this one....

"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."

CZ82  posted on  2012-03-28   7:01:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Capitalist Eric, AKA Stone (#3)

Don't you know, some are more equal than others....

That's why they are constantly trying to change the laws of this country to protect themselves.....

Rules for Leftards #15). We have our own set of rules, your laws don’t apply to us.…

"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."

CZ82  posted on  2012-03-28   7:21:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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