Comments on: Speech is Free – But Only If Politically Correct

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:38:03 +0000

If it’s racist to vote against someone because they are black, is it racist to vote FOR someone because he is black?

By: P. Ami

P. Ami — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:27:34 +0000

Socialism is based, largely, almost exclusively on Christian interpretations of Jesus’ life. The idea of communal property, communal wives, and Utopia come from Protestants and their disillusion with the Catholic Church, its wealth and hypocrisy. That said, many Americans, especially on the Right, are realists. We recognize human error and don’t insist on responding to them each with a law or fine. We recognize that evil is different then error and that evil should be combated. We understand there is collateral damage and we hope to minimize it. We recognize that perfection is for the next world even as we struggle to achieve some level, an imperfect level, of goodness in our life. As for the Christians in Martin Luther’s time, not all the Protestants were content to live the simple life as interpreted by some of their sect nor did they create their communes and wait there for Jesus to return. Some of them found love for G-d’s creation, studied it, learned how to function better within G-d’s world and made a better life for themselves. It is these Christians that contributed mightily to making America and it is their ideal that the Christian Right, which I am not a member of, is progeny of.

By: Wolf Pangloss

Wolf Pangloss — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:20:27 +0000

MLK was a Republican, like all the civil rights leaders of his time and earlier. He was simultaneously smeared by Bobby Kennedy’s goons in the FBI and by USSR operatives. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there was “evidence” that he was guilty of any crime you care to name somewhere in the piles of disinformation that were written about him.

It does Republicans no good to smear MLK. Much more enlightening and truthful would be to claim him for the GOP.

By: John (Proud of America)

John (Proud of America) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:30:00 +0000

Every time the Reverend Martin Luther King comes up, you can always count on some Jim Crow throwback (who no doubt believes that they are “not racist”) to try to mention that King was either:

1. Socialist

2. Unfaithful in marriage.

Funny how they have no compulsion to expose the faults of any other American hero. None.
There is a word for what’s glimmering under the surface here, but people might howl if I use it.

MLK was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived, and America would not be what it is today if it weren’t for his life and work. Period. He deserves his status as a hero.

On the other hand I am not quite sure why anyone would claim to be “shocked” that MLK would have hesitated to cheer lead for the “American way” sometimes. I mean, for example, what’s a little Jim Crow among friends?

(Anyways,
McCain all the way! Socialism cannot be allowed to get any more traction in this country.)

By: Ed Wallis

Ed Wallis — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:33:16 +0000

Yah. Sure, AA. “Celebrate.” “Freedom.”

Just as with the P.C. zealots on university campuses around the USA, with Hill or Obi Americans would get the finest state approved “freedom” (sic)of “speech” (sic) which only persons such as you would “celebrate.”

By: Angry African

Angry African — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:50:30 +0000

Hye Nahanni,

I am not using it to defend Obama. I am saying that if you start slinging mud then you should expect it to come back. Again. Sleeping with pigs makes you. Well, stink.

If someone wants to hold the moral highground then shouldn’t they obey their own rules? Or is it okay to break it if the other side does.

And no – speck of dust… murder, killing, lies, theft? Speck of dust.

But I agree – let’s not be PC. The last thing we want the Republicans to be. It just wouldn’t fit would it?

And I agree – I can’t vote. But have an interest. Remember Iraq? That was an interest for the US. So I am allowed to have an interest. But I have no plans to invade. Only to engage and celebrate what makes America great. The freedom. Yes. That is something to celebrate – and the people who defends that. All Americans.

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:00:33 +0000

Barack not only cites Wright’s being in the marine corps, he refers to Wright as a “religious scholar”.

Wright is heavily into the Black Jesus mantra, Jesus, of course, was a black man.

Very scholarly, that.

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:49:58 +0000

Under the strictures of political correctness, only certain (pre- selected and pre-approved) kinds of speech are “free”.

Any other speech can be banned, squelched or, in the extreme, even prosecuted (as in “hate” speech).

If some lamebrained standards setter is going to try to determine what I can say or think, the battle is already lost.

The exercise in “democracy” is already finished.

Both Hillary and Barack would interject the federal government into your life on levels that would make the nation’s Founders shriek in disbelief.

I’m so tired of race and gender, I could shriek. In fact, I think I will.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:52:03 +0000

Multiculturalism + political correctness = no freedom of speech which = no freedom.

Good column, Mr. Crittenden.

By: Fat Jolly Penguin

Fat Jolly Penguin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:48:54 +0000

OOPS! Sorry for the double post! I hit the button and thought of more I wanted to say!