In one of my first blog posts I declared, in detail, that I won't be fair to fascists, I won't be nice to Nazis and everything I've studied and looked at since then has led me to decide that I won't cover up for commies, either, because their body counts are no less horrific. "Our" mass murderers and "our" SOBs are not any less criminals because their victims are not less dead or enslaved or harmed.
The insane delusion that liberals "owed" fairness to those whose every expressed idea, whose ever fervently stated intention would mean that, if they gained influence in the population and political power, that they would abolish all rights of those they chose to deprive of them, who reject the idea that they have any moral obligation to respect those rights and they would start killing, enslaving and oppressing people, is one of the things that has discredited the left. It has discredited us needlessly and to the benefit of our illiberal domestic opponents whose targeted intentions of violating rights has not harmed them. The "free press" has aided that effort of enhancing the chances of Republican-fascists by exploiting the idiotic defense of Marxists and communists and through exploiting such insanity as such allegedly liberal institutions which have promoted the alleged rights of fascists and Nazis, white supremacists..... and, yes, communists, to attack and endanger the rights of people and to promote those in other countries who have.
There never was any reason to pretend we or courts couldn't tell the difference between the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the American Nazis. There was never any reason to pretend that courts couldn't distinguish among non-violent groups and groups which glorify war and murder, only that is what they have been allowed to pretend in order to give groups such as the Phelps cult the "right" to rob people of their rights to so much as bury their dead in peace.
So I reject that whole line of tripe, the line that says there is any rational reason to be tenderly concerned with the rights of such poeple to try to destroy democracy. There is certainly no obligation or any rational interest in the left coming to their aid, comfort or assistance. I have no obligation to lie and cover up what I've concluded by watching things like the ACLU fighting for the "right" of Nazis to terrify the people of Skokie while, at the same time, fighting for the "right" of the media to lie us into a state in which a Donald Trump has gotten the nomination of one of our two major parties. If you comfort yourself that we've dodged the bullet that the insane, fascist reality TV star poses, ask yourself if you can be so confident that the next time, when it will be Ted Cruz or someone as bad that we'll dodge that bullet again. Especially after the "free press" does what it will do to Hillary Clinton as president. A Cruz-fascist government has every prospect of being more dangerous than one under the control of a loud-mouthed mad-man who will make himself a joke. Look at how they turned such unpromising material as George W. Bush into the two-term worst president in modern times. They do it by lying, they get to lie with impunity thanks, in no small part, to the activity of the ACLU and "free speech" lawyers like Joel Gora, held up as heroes by the lefty media.
That making decisions about what is true and what is false, what is dangerous to democracy, what is innocuous and what enhances democracy is, sometimes, very hard, is sometimes somewhat true. But those hard decisions have to be made and sometimes we will get it wrong. But using those instances as an excuse to allow what has happened to this country, through the media, in the past half century is a supreme act of civic cowardice and monumental malfeasance. It is an act of self-interest on the part of those who make money from the media and those who hire on as its lawyers and paid legal promoters and an act which blatantly favors the wealthy who are in a position to buy them all off*. Whining like a college freshman "That' haaaaarrrrd!" doesn't matter because that's what it takes to preserve democracy from people being sold lies that destroy democracy. The choice is between allowing lies and having democracy because you can't have both.
* The very same lawyers and legal thinkers and judges who act as if making those kinds of decisions is too hard have no problem with judges making decisions about their copyright, trademarks, contracts, etc. being violated when, at times, the issues involved are far more obscure and require judicial decisions about matters entirely outside of the realm of competence of the judges making those decisions. It's mostly a matter of where money is to be had or protected, which is where this really all gets down to, in the end.
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