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Title: Neocon Gingrich Calls for Trashing the First Amendment, Few Notice or Seem to Care
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Published: Nov 28, 2006
Author: Nimmo
Post Date: 2006-11-29 07:51:01 by Kamala
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Neocon Gingrich Calls for Trashing the First Amendment, Few Notice or Seem to Care Tuesday November 28th 2006, 8:16 pm It really is quite amazing. Newt Gingrich slanders the Constitution, arrogantly suggest the First Amendment be sent to the deep freeze, and few complain, few even comment, except bloggers at Huffington, a bastion of so-called liberalism. “Speaking in Manchester last night, Gingrich said the country may need a different set of rules to reduce terrorists’ ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message,” the Boston Globe reported. If we didn’t live in Bushzarro times, the response would be immediate and scorching, and Gingrich would be pilloried as the fascist he is. But we live in Bushzarro times, so little was said, except at the aforementioned Huffington and a handful of other sites. “Our rights are not Gingrich’s to eliminate, we are endowed with them by our Creator, as some dude named Jefferson wrote in 1776,” notes a post on the NW Progressive blog. “This man intends to be the Republican president of 2008. Perhaps we should change the title of the office to Unser geliebter Führer with a snappy long-armed salute of respect should he win,” another post declares on the Technocrat site. “In keeping with the Republicans’ continuing power grab and trampling all over the US Constitution, Newt says free speech laws need to be changed ‘before we lose a city,’ which he said ‘could happen in the next decade,’” writes Short News, a German site. Apparently, it takes a German to understand the Constitution. In fact, it is not a stretch to say many Europeans understand the Bill of Rights better than your average American, who is intellectually incurious and really can’t be bothered. Earlier this year, I read Anne Norton’s book, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire. Norton does not really take the Straussian neocons to task like Shadia Drury, but she did point in the right direction, specifically when she observed that Americans seem to be all too oblivious when it comes to what the neocons have in mind for us. “Europeans rightly see the shadow of fascism in Straussian politics, and … Americans fail to,” Norton writes. “Straussian neoconservatives want a ‘strong state’ with a strong leader. They want an expansionist foreign policy. They praise war and warlike virtues and denounce the decadence of intellectuals. They want women to return to children, cooking, and the church. They delight in the profusion of flags: flags on cars, flags on houses, flags worn in lapels. They encourage citizens to inform on their neighbors. They plan to establish a new world order to rival Rome.” Apparently, only decadent intellectuals insist on preservation of the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. In Bushzarro America, most people will not miss the Bill of Rights because they have nothing to hide and even less to say. “Neocons don’t believe in debate,” explains Paul Craig Roberts. “They specialize in slandering critics and stamping out debate. Dissent is not possible within the Bush administration, because dissent is equated with treason and anti-Americanism. ‘You are with us or against us.’ Increasingly, Republicans demonize their critics as ‘abettors of terrorism.’ The Republicans’ intolerance for debate makes many Americans uneasy about the real purpose of the $385 million detention camp that Halliburton is building in the US for the Bush administration.” Or it makes some Americans uneasy. Most simply shrug and say, “I don’t have anything to worry about because I don’t have anything to hide.” Of course, by the time the neocon government—and by this I mean both the Republican and Democrat version of neocon—demands those with nothing to hide queue up for their subdermal microchip, it will be too late. It really would be pathetic if it wasn’t so disgusting
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#1. To: Kamala (#0)
Gingrich is consistent with his favorite President FDR on the subject...what is everyone so shocked about?
No question that Gingrich, Hannity, Fox News and all associated psycho-pathetic nazis sing from the same sheet of music in the satanic hymnal.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined." Patrick Henry
Olbermann did his opening segment on this topic and Gingrinch last night. It is getting some attention but certainly not on Faux Jooos.
It's all "Diebolds" fault...
Duly noted with outrage by all here on a thread yesterday. We were also intrigued by his possible foreknowledge of an eminent "t'rrst" attack on a city.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." FDR was against the First Amendment, you're saying? Colonel McCormick was allowed to publish pretty scurrilous attacks on the man, wasn't he?
Katrina was America's Chernobyl.
Are you suggesting the contrary that FDR had deep felt beliefs about protecting free political speech? The man imprisoned US citizens of German and Japanese lineage, n'est ce pas? He tried to get critics removed from publications, sometimes succesfully, sometimes less so. He used government power to unleash a propaganda arm in favor of Uncle Joe
FDR is irrelevant to this discussion. He's in a warmer place now. Sure nobody can be really surprised that the fascists like Gingrich really are fascists, but when they begin to admit it in public is an ominous indicator that they think it's too late for us to change the inevitable. As a simple subject of the Fourth Reich that is AmeriKa, I might remind them that the fascist state of affairs in AmeriKa can and will be reversed. It will be exciting to to see these traitors hang. Their arrogance will be their defeat. We are aware of the very small percentage of patriots that changed the course of history in the AR. Some of poorer means can not leave the country and would rather sacrifice here on our soil for our Freedom, preferably alive, but dead if necessary. TheStateInc disregards history at their own peril.
The most important point Gingrich made in New Hampshire is the statement that we could very likey lose and American city to a "terrorist event."
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
The real question is what do we do with Gingrich and similar people? They aren't elected, they can't be fired and they never seem to die.
Seriously!
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." And to think there was a time I liked this guy. I don't know who changed more, him (they) or me.
IMO, most of us were just blinded, they've always been that evil.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." Then how come the Europeans have so many GUN CONTROL LAWS!!! The right to bear arms mantains the right to free speach.
#2. To: JohnGalt (#1)
#3. To: Kamala (#0)
Few Notice or Seem to Care
#4. To: Kamala (#0)
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
#5. To: JohnGalt (#1)
#6. To: aristeides (#5)
#7. To: JohnGalt, bluedogtxn, ferret mike, all, jethro tull, btp holdings (#6)
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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Just as there is no money in peace or freedom, there is also no money in a healthy Amerika - - IndieTX
#8. To: Kamala (#0)
#9. To: IndieTX (#7)
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
The real question is what do we do with Gingrich and similar people? They aren't elected, they can't be fired and they never seem to die.
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
#11. To: robin (#10)
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#11)
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
#13. To: Kamala (#0)
Apparently, it takes a German to understand the Constitution. In fact, it is not a stretch to say many Europeans understand the Bill of Rights better than your average American, who is intellectually incurious and really can't be bothered.
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