The New Left Fascists
The internationally notable Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy last week took a can of spray paint and began spray-painting over an ad in the Times Square subway station that she didn’t like. Eltahawy painted the ad until a supporter of the ad got in between her and it; shortly thereafter, Eltahawy was arrested, charged with criminal mischief, and spent the night in jail. That a prominent journalist would stoop to this crude act of vandalism is noteworthy in itself, but even more striking is the fact that so many on the Left are applauding her for it.
The ad read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.” It was created by my colleague Pamela Geller and sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), of which I am associate director. The mainstream media has widely circulated the claim that this ad is somehow referring to and demeaning of all Muslims, even though the words “Muslim” and “Islam” never appear in it, and it is quite clearly referring to those jihad terrorists who commit acts of savagery against Israeli civilians and then celebrate those acts.
Nonetheless, whether as part of their ongoing efforts to demonize and marginalize all those who speak out against jihad, or out of visceral hatred for Israel, or both, Leftist and putatively “moderate” Muslim writers have enthusiastically praised Eltahawy’s vandalism and called for more ads to be defaced. Cyrus McGoldrick of the New York chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) exulted about Eltahawy’s vandalism: “THIS is GOLD.”
Christina Abraham, the “civil rights director” of Hamas-linked CAIR’s Chicago chapter, went even farther, tweeting that “what some might call hate ads,” Eltahawy “sees as a blank canvas. everyone should do the same.” Ironically, Abraham describes herself in her Twitter profile as a “human rights enthusiast.”
Likewise the Islamic supremacist writer Reza Aslan, who enjoys a widespread reputation as a “moderate Muslim” despite being a Board member of the National Iranian American Council, which has recently been established to be a mouthpiece of the Iranian mullahcracy, was enthusiastic about the vandalism and wanted more. “Hey New York!,” he tweeted: “How many racist ads are left unscathed? Get busy.”
Despite (or perhaps because of) this enthusiastic and unapologetic thirst for violent suppression of the free speech of others, Aslan frequently speaks on college campuses and in other prominent liberal fora. He is the epitome of the new Leftist spokesman who increasingly has no problem with violently suppressing the free speech of his opponents, and cheerfully owns up to wanting to do so.
This contempt for the freedom of speech is rapidly becoming commonplace on the Left. Washington Square News is the student newspaper of New York University, but it is editorially and financially independent from the university, and has a circulation of about 60,000 in lower Manhattan — one of the nation’s foremost epicenters of the far Left. An indication of how quickly the restriction of the freedom of speech has become a fashionable opinion among the Leftist intelligentsia at universities and elsewhere came last Wednesday, when the News ran a piece calling for restrictions on the First Amendment.
Referring to the AFDI ads, author Faria Mardhani wrote: “The decision that the United States must now make is whether hate speech like this should be legal. Do values of free speech override the values of equality and of preventing profound personal offense to any singular group? Was the First Amendment passed with the intention of grouping very diverse people into one entity and then vilifying them?”
In the 1930s, when the Nazis were taking power in Germany, brownshirt storm troopers regularly terrorized Hitler’s foes, shouting them down when they spoke, vandalizing their messages, and even physically threatening them. We are rapidly approaching the same situation, not due to a resurgence in “right-wing extremism,” but because of the Left’s increasingly positive attitude toward thuggery. Hundreds of people have hailed Eltahawy on Twitter and elsewhere as a hero, and many have echoed the calls from Aslan and Abraham to imitate her vandalism. When Geller or I or any other speaker who opposes jihad terror and Islamic supremacism speaks on a college campus, it’s a scene that could easily have taken place in 1934 in Berlin or Munich: we have to go with bodyguards and prepare to be shouted down by self-righteous thugs.
Left fascism like that displayed by Mona Eltahawy and her supporters increasingly threatens the freedom of all Americans. If their cavalier attitude (at best) toward the freedom of speech is any indication of their respect for human rights in general, if they do succeed in forcibly silencing all their foes and come to a point where they are able to exert their will unchallenged, the tyranny that will result will make Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot look like pikers.





End all immigration. End of story. There is no shortage of human beings in America.
Do you think the Nazis were immigrants? Do you think only immigrants want to censor free speech?
If the Nazis were unexceptional morons who couldn’t reverse engineer a safety pin or make a society they even wanted to live in and so emigrated out to cause trouble elsewhere, that would be the equivalent.
In Egyptian terms, Eltahawy is a far left moderate. In American terms, she is an anti-Semitic Islamic apologist. She has no business in America nor moral right to be here. Let her express her exceptionalism in the subway in Cairo, where she can spray paint Salafi and Muslim Brotherhood signs and get her limbs broken for her troubles – again. She’s so damned ardent about the middle east yet refuses to live there. I’d revoke her citizenship if I could and send her packing.
The new Americans like Eltahawy are killing America. I’d keep them out.
Oh. You mean like our democrats.
And WTF is a “far left moderate”? Oxymoron much?
Amen brother, send her back to the Middle East and stick her ugly fascist mug in a burkha.
My point being, there are plenty of people who look, talk and dress just like you or me that would eagerly support a government that would shut us all up. At least to cool any speech they disagree with. See the Canadian Human Rights Commission. It wasn’t immigrants who thought that up.
“Do you think the Nazis were immigrants?”
Funny you should mention that. A significant fraction of Nazi sympathizers were German immigrants, and I have even heard personal accounts from those who witnessed it.
“Do you think only immigrants want to censor free speech?”
Of course not, but if Islam is a threat to freedom, then it makes sense to oppose muslim immigration. Similarly, it made sense during the Cold War to oppose communist immigration.
Just because there are domestic totalitarians is no reason to allow immigration of foreign enemies.
Perhaps but “end all immigration” and end some immigration are very different things.
Bless your little heart, Tommy!
He means, but could have been more clear, that persons antagonistic toward our Constitution should not be permitted to reside in the USA.Why do we allow moslems to immigrate when they are committed to the Koran, which commands them to kill or enslave us, and throw out our Constitution and replace it with Sharia?
Why do we allow those who hate America, burn our flag and flout our laws, like Obama does, to remain within our borders? We do not need a single traitor in the USA, let alone millions of them. They need to get their minds right or get their asses out.
Thanks Pussy but if I need you to explain what someone means when they say “end all immigration”, I’ll ask. Otherwise, it appears abundantly clear what it means.
I beg to differ. Human beings aren’t the problem here.
Honey, human beings are the only problem.How we act and react is either problemsolving behavior or the opposite. We may not lay off our responsibilities on Mother Nature, the Tooth Fairy or Peter Pan. Our polity and our economics are whatever we make them to be. Ideas are important, but meaningless until they are implemented. Our works, our behavior, our acts determine the quality of our lives. We can choose what we do or don’t do and therefore we are our problem. We have met the enemy, in re Pogo, and he is us.
We should stop all immigration from Muslims countries, except for non-Muslims who are trying to escape religious persecution. It makes no sense to allow immigrants from Muslim countries that do not share our values (freedom of speech and religion), and who hate Western civilization. Currently we allow over 1 million legal immigrants into the USA, many from Muslim countries; this is insane! Join NumbersUSA to fight for lower numbers of immigrants – http://www.numbersusa.com
Actually go back to having Ellis Island, no one gets in until they pass as an american.
Pass the citizen test or go home.
Its not a problem with immigration, as plenty of longtime pedegreed americans have attitudes like this, and plenty of immigrants beleive more in american values that longtime americans. The problem is with the total lack of respect for free speech among too many leftists today.
My saying is, leftists beleive in absolute free speech, for other leftists, for others, not so much.
Hate speech is a ridiculous term. Leftists define it as anything with which they disagree.
Absolutely, hate speech is like hate crime, both are the creation of the tyrannical left. Anyone who oppose their evil ideology first is accused with hate speech then if one doesn’t comply then he/she is charged with hate crime and punish to left’s liking. All versions of the left ideology (Progressive, Liberal, Socialist, Nazis,and Communist) are rooted in tyranny, oppression and death, soo is Islamism. You like it or not Islamism is the 21st century version of the evil empire and it must be defeated. At the end of the day is kill or be killed.
People must first understand that totalitarian ideologies are like twins separated at birth.
In other words, the current incarnation of the left (the reds) are the same totalitarians as the Islamists (the greens). This is precisely why my blog concentrates on their morphing ideologies – the RED/GREEN alliance.
Therefore, has anyone wondered why the so called liberal left keeps coming to the defense of the the most repressive, jihad-fueled ‘struggle’ of Islamists? Isn’t it the case, the left screams for freedom from religion, and the granting of minority rights – its holy grail being everything that is NOT attached to the traditional family?
So, how is it possible they are marching in lockstep with those who stone/kill gays, and are so devoted to their ‘religion’, they murder/pillage on its behalf screaming – Allah Akbar – and on and on?
Here’s the deal -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/09/shariah-law-enforcers-continue-unimpeded-westerners-terrified-to-counter-them-the-redgreen-alliance-assures-their-eventual-western-triumph-if-not-stopped-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Make sure to read the embedded links. Yes, there IS a clash of civilizations!!
Agree completely. Hate speech and hate crime is basically the leftist reeincarnation of the Orwellian term Thought Crime.
Someone PLEASE explain to me why they keep referring to Islam as a race.
ISLAM IS NOT A RACE! It is a Totalitarian Complete-Life Ideology.
There is no Constitutional right to “not be offended”. End of story.
Time to shout down the facism of the left?
You nailed it! Left wingers who do not support freedom of speech are liberal fascists and dhimmis.
Only a matter of time until Muslims in the US start showing the useful idiot Leftists, Feminists, and LGBT their “tolerance.”
Once they do, I’m sure it will be the fault of conservatives for not “protecting america.”
That’s a looooong way off.
What they do with dhimmis is squeeze them into a little space and let them do whatever they please. “Go ahead! Have your gay pride day! Have your abortions!”
The left will say, “See! They’re SOOO much more tolerant than those Christians who were always trying to ‘save’ us! Let’s help the Muslims wipe out the damned Christians!”
After a long, long age of this, what’s left of America will be corralled into one tiny spot (probably San Francisco). Only when there’s a wee smidge of them remaining will the Muslims end it.
(Ever seen Muslims picketing abortion clinics? Ever see them protest gay pride? They don’t care if the dhimmis do that stuff. They just slowly and smoothly take over more and more space.)
I hear that in Britain, desperate single mothers are converting to Islam in search of charity and provider males willing to marry their sorry asses.
Single mothers over there have no such problem. They are a protected class. That is why they don’t get married anymore and only have “partners.” Keeps the benies and the council houses coming.
Twenty years ago in London, a work colleague of my sister said that she got pregnant specifically so that she could get free housing from the local authority, which she duly did. Pregnant, single women go straight to the top of the list.
She then had a second child, and announced she was gong to have it with the same man, “coz it’s nice when they got the same dad…”
That’s actually how they conquered a good piece of the Byzantine Empire; Jews and Christians branded as heretics by Byzantine authority accepted Muslim rule because dhimmitude was preferable to Byzantine persecution.
As for me, I’d like to do some persecution.
A bit sanatized. Islam was spread almost entirely through military conquest. Dimmitude was a choice of submit or die.
Watching the American left crawl into bed with jihadies makes my skin break out, kind of like I walked thru and #Occupy zone. This can’t end well for liberals, don’t they realize this? Or is their hatred for all things American so blinding they are willing to take up with any despotic, tyranical and totalitarian regime allied against our nation? Our forth estate is now the 5th column.
The short answer is yes – they hate everything American.
Don’t know why. Besides the slavery thing – which we only had for one generation (or the life of a man) after our official founding (and which we killed about 1/3 of our entire male population to halt) we have a pretty good thing going here. We’ve had our growing pains, but we learned from our mistakes and we have fewer warts than other countries.
Somehow, it’s like they really haven’t gotten over (genetically) the fact that there are no kings and serfs any longer and they WANT that back.
Some people would rather be ruled, than risk making their own way.
It all comes down to people.. it’s not that they just love the left’s ideology.. it’s they just HATE the people around them, their fellow Americans. You see…. we’re stupid.. we’re evil, ignorant, mean spirited ugly beings. for no particular reason other than one..
we said “no” to them, for something they wanted..
The “sickness” is not in us.. but in their narcissism..
“nar·cis·sism
[nahr-suh-siz-em] Show IPA
noun
1.
inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
2.
Psychoanalysis . erotic gratification derived from admiration of one’s own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.”
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The left is stuck in their infantile stage, and unable to empathize or hold compassion for anyone outside themselves..
They love the old aristocracy King/serfs system.. because that’s what communism, raging socialism is.. a ruling class everyone else.. a “worker” class.. they’d lump a stellar brain surgeon with a dog shampooer.. if the surgeon was born outside their inner circle.. didn’t go to the right prep school, the correct ivy league freak farm.. an incestuous band of elitists who hate the common folks.. exactly the type who they project Romney to be..
They know that world.. because it’s theirs..
That Mitt would leave the comfort of family and go in the middle of the night to comfort a fellow member of his church with a cancer stricken child.. help another who lost his job, to save their home.. another who’s child went missing in New York.. setting aside everything, using his companies whole resources to bring that teen girl home..
This is the “enemy” according to the left.. because he broke their code..
He rejected their kind of all people are sheep ideology and ran as an American who believes in the potential of all of us..
That explains their hatred of him.. of us..
The left’s trust fund, old money eugenics freaks are the core of their ideology.. it’s all about them creating a permanent ruling class..
it’s all about them creating a permanent ruling class..
As long as “they” are the “ruling class” that is…..Never the “other guys”.
The left has taken their beliefs to a religious level and hold them as such to make them the “better” people in their tiny little minds. Even with the spot light on the total failures of Progressive policy and thought they trudge on blaming any and all the dissagree with them for the lefts failures.
They control the Media, the schools and vast parts of the Government we are doomed and November will only pick the rate of decent.
Re: “Our forth estate is now the 5th column.”
THANK YOU! I’VE GOT TO SPREAD THIS ONE AROUND!
The Nazi’s weren’t right-wing thugs. They were the German National Socialist Workers Party, leftists all.
You and I know that. Anyone with a brain knows that, but at the time the Nazis were considered “right” of the Communists. That’s nonsense. It was just a very thin veneer of Capitalism covering the Statist Nazi regime, but that adjective has stuck for all these decades.
Every time I hear a Statist puke up a statement like “Nazis weren’t Socailists you idiot!” I want to beat them to death with their own stupidity.
Nationalist Socialist Worker’s Party
They were one, big public sector union. Like Greece. Like the TSA, or the NEA or AFSCME or SEIU. Huh. Funny how simil….oh crap!
To the left fascism that connects with their world view isn’t fascism. But rest assured that is how fascism will be institutionalized. It will come in on little cat-feet of anti-fascism.
Perhaps most telling of all has been the pitiful response of the NYC transit authorities to this vandalism. If they’d had any courage and integrity, they’d double the number of these ads and double their display time–for free. And if they were smart, they’d not that would be the best way to end the fuss about these sorts of ads.
Also, I’m not sure the left has ever been that ‘into’ free speech. In the late 1920s, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin visited Stalin’s Soviet Union and described his experience in a book titled, I kid you not, Liberty Under the Soviets. In it, he admits that there were no civil liberties there but, what the heck, that is good because it spares the people we like from having to deal with criticism.
In this case the ‘people we like’ are the radical Islamists, and this metro ad was criticism of them. Defacing it is OK. Stopping such ads altogether is even better.
–Michael W. Perry, Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II
No, the left are all about free speech as soon as they perceive some pushback against anything they want to say.
islamists are savages.
many muslims are not savages.
some are thugs – like aslan – who seek to intimidate with less than deadly force.
and the vast majority – [by virtue of the fact they do not proest things like 9/11 and 7/7 (london: or 3/11 (madrid) or the mumbai attack or the recent buddhist temple burnings and so on] – are c-conspirators.
like “hitler’s willing executioners”.
their enablers here in the west are also co-conspirators.
these cowards – like the folks at the MTA rewriting the US Constitution, and the Hollywood lefties submitting movies to imams for vetting of possible offense to muslims – are the real islamophobes: they are the ones afraid of the islamists.
and the islamists need that fear to succeed. that’s why they riot and loot and burn and maim and behead and riot and threaten.
if we give in on free speech then we are dhimmis and they have won.
KEEP FIGHTING BABY!
islamists are savages.
many muslims are not savages.
some are thugs – like aslan – who seek to intimidate with less than deadly force.
and the vast majority – [by virtue of the fact they do not proest things like 9/11 and 7/7 (london: or 3/11 (madrid) or the mumbai attack or the recent buddhist temple burnings and so on] – are co-conspirators.
like “hitler’s willing executioners”.
their enablers here in the west are also co-conspirators.
these cowards – like the folks at the MTA rewriting the US Constitution, and the Hollywood lefties submitting movies to imams for vetting of possible offense to muslims – are the real islamophobes: they are the ones afraid of the islamists.
and the islamists need that fear to succeed. that’s why they riot and loot and burn and maim and behead and riot and threaten.
if we give in on free speech then we are dhimmis and they have won.
KEEP FIGHTING BABY!
“many muslims are not savages”
What is your definition of a savage? to know how to operate a cellular phone does not make you civilized. Anyone who can read the Quran and does not feel excruciating pain can hardly be called “homo sapiens”
Can you imagine Buddha or Jesus raiding caravans, inflicting corporal and capitol punishment. Receiving stolen goods, taking a wife away from a son, sending assassins to kill poets and it just goes on and on.
Individual muslims can be OK, but their religion and ideology is troubling. The effect it tends to have on the group as a whole is also troubling. Muslims seem to have a pronounced tribal mentality. Yes, there may be many who do not precisely agree with what the Islamists, the savages, are doing, but you’d never know it because they have that tribal need to at least hold their silence and stick together.
They’re a tribe first and mostly individuals second if at all.
Excellent article. It is frightening that the left is so blatant and obvious in its criminality and ugliness. I find myself wondering if things have gotten worse (I am sure they have) or I have been asleep (I know this is true also).
My hope is that these criminal acts and attempts to silence free speech will help wake up my fellow citizens who are currently sleeping. My fear is that this behavior is just a precursor to much worse.
How does a person who is committed to following the law, protest/rebel/resist against persons who refuse to follow the law (who do so with a high degree of success) and who also successfuly use the law against their opponents?
I don’t think it’s gotten worse. I do think it has gotten more open. Having a president and attorney general who clearly flout the law themselves and refuse to prosecute those with whom they agree had emboldened the left into coming out into the open.
I’m afraid at where it might go if we can’t put the cockroaches back in the dark on Nov. 6. At present, if this administration stays in power, we have serious assaults on our first amendment underway in a variety of ways, and this could be yet another. I think if one side refuses to follow the law, you’re looking at having to rebel openly, and if it comes to that, I’m hoping we can get the other side to fire the opening shots.
Chile has little problems with leftists or islamists…..
Being a left/liberal means never having to say you’re a hypocrite… that’s for those nasty, intolerant conseratives we call “racist” and refuse to let speak for the sake of openmindedness, you know.
Being a liberal means you get to make the rules for everybody ELSE.
Being a liberal means you get to demand tolerance for you by everybody ELSE.
Being a liberal means you are exempt from the rules and demands you make for everybody ELSE.
Why wouldn’t anybody want to be a liberal?
Well, being a liberal means you’re always offended, always angry at everybody ELSE.
Hmmm …kind of like being a Muslim.
Open you eyes children! This is a “progressive liberal” in full rage.I think it was William Buckley who said that liberals talk and talk about respecing others opinions, but then are horrified when someone has an opinion that differs from theirs.
The future must not belong to those who try to take the free speech of Americans away from them.
Why Obama no say that?
Just as one is either pregnant or not pregnant, one is either a friend of Free Speech or an enemy of Free Speech. There is no in between. There never has been and there never can be. Anyone who does not understand this, knows nothing about free speech. And anyone who even thinks about misapplying “Fire in a crowded theater” or “Fighting words” to try to justify what is clearing being held hostage to the lowest common denominator on the planet, Islam, knows even less than nothing about free speech.
The metamorphosis of “normal” people to terrorists
Today it’s a can of spray-paint, tomorrow burning down synagogs and then, after the left apologists have manufactured the usual excuses on behalf of the Muslims, they will start burning down christian churches and the icons of western civilization. See what just happened in Bangladesh
Our laws and customs were never devised, nor meant to, grant special consideration(s) or privileges of any kind to any identity groups, religious affiliations, beliefs, or political views or ideological persuasions. That excludes Baptists, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Communists, Buddhists, Hindus, and many others, even Polynesian Cargo Cults, from having the right to claim any special favorable treatment by our government(s).
The 1st Amendment specifically enjoined Congress from creating any such preferences, or restricting the freedom of speech. Article 6 made it the supreme law of this land, valid for all jurisdictions. And the 9th and 10th Amendments reminded the government that the preceding list of rights was by no means exhaustive of the Peoples’ Rights. The People hold ALL rights, except those specifically granted the government(s) by our Constitution.
(What, pray tell, is so difficult about this concept for Muslims and their whole kaboodle of “alphabet orgs”, like CAIR, ISNA, OIC, etc., to understand? Are they stupid? Deliberately obtuse?)
So, if the laws are to be applied impartially, this must once again become our principal doctrine. And, we must practice it, consistently and intransigently! No room for bullying or threatening thugs and their thuggery, regardless of their identity claims!
Islam gets no special pleading. Its prophet is of no particular interest to 98percent of our population, nor are its practices, as long as carried out peaceably. That even includes ITS adherents’ hate-speech, whereof apparently there is plenty.
That changes instantly upon their commission of criminal acts, whereof the defacing of private property is but a minor example. Their reasons are irrelevant. The act is criminal and needs to be treated as such.
The defacement was one, a minor, issue. Much more criminal became the matter of civil rights, Pamela Geller’s: Her message against the toleration of violent jihad was suppressed, in violation of her Constitutionally guaranteed RIGHT to publicly state such an opinion. A violation of her 1st Amendment rights. I hope she sues!
No exceptions, and zero tolerance of requests for such. If you don’t like that, find and go to another place on earth which you deem to be more accommodating. Good luck!
We need neither you nor your proto-criminal attitude of deeming yourselves above our laws, construing for yourselves a right to suppress our political speech, and all in favor of a “politeness” and “respect” which you patently have failed to earn! Your actual criminal acts in furtherance of this deemed pseudo-right are even less welcome. Your and your extreme left cronies’ “lawfare” powerplays, attempting to subvert and pervert our laws to your special benefit, are most especially unwelcome.
Presumably, you came to these shores to become Americans. That includes accepting our laws and customs, perhaps adding some of your own so long as they did not conflict. If that was not your true purpose, then you erred, or lied, or we erred in admitting you. Either way, your best option would be to depart as swiftly as you arrived.
This applies to all identity groups, but it says much about Islam that partcularly its adherents apparently would need to be reminded of this daily.
Beautifully expressed, Roger. Exquisite and very appreciated, as always. Thank you, our esteemed and gentle friend.
Beautifully expressed Roger. I can only add that “Freedom of Religion” IS NOT and absolute. For instance, old-time Mormons who sought to openly practice Polygamy were suppressed (and rightly so) for prescribing unlawful behavior. Likewise, if we had in our midst actual Aztec Pagans who insisted on ritually sacrificing American captives, they would be exterminated, again rightly so. Freedom of Religious expression stops where the rights of individuals begins. “Religions” as organizations have no “rights” per se, such as the “right” to persecute other religions, or other individuals because of their differing religious beliefs. Therefore, I see no reason why we, as Americans should have to tolerate in our midst, a “religion” that openly advocates genocide against the Jews, the forcible conversion or enslavement if Christians and the killing of Homosexuals, Hindus and pagans, and claims special “rights” for itself, such as sharia blasphemy laws. Muslims offend our God-given rights. Muslims immigrate to America, not to become Americans, but to COLONIZE and SUBVERT America. America and Americans need to wake up and TURN THE LEGITIMATE POWER OF THE STATE AGAINST ISLAM. Islam is the most arrogant, retrograde, barbarous and totalitarian political ideology left in the world, and it is OBSESSED with conquering us. We must organize, resist and send them packing.
“COLUMBIA’S* DAUGHTER”
I saw the images on my screen
And I wondered at strange days
For I had never thought to see
The “audacity” of the depraved.
Where “violence” is hailed as “speech”
And assault is deemed a “right”’
And, yet, I was renewed in faith,
To see Pamela Hall that night!
* Columbia is New Latin for the United States. Taken from Christopher Columbus, the term first appeared about 1775
Well done, Pamela– heroine of Liberty; friend of the free. Thank you.
If Mona wanted to express herself, UNDER THE RULE OF LAW, then SHE RENTS HER OWN SIGNS FOR THE SUBWAY WALL; OR “PICKETS” THE ONES OTHERS BUY–She has no right in law or morality to deface the speech of others. “Your right to swing your fist ENDS before my nose.”
There are so many things about the Obama administration that are outright fascist, I have to think that people aren’t writing about it because it is generally so facile to call someone a fascist.
As example, just the fact that an innocent man is sitting in jail for the sole purpose of hiding one of dear leaders’ policy blunders is fascist. Not to mention that they are not presenting Obama as a president, but rather as a saviour, a messiah, a god-like figure. And faces at the DNC reflected this. I believe Hitler, Mao and Stalin enjoyed a similar status.
Another fascist element is that, while Obama’s policies are ostensibly socialist, he is in fact redistributing the wealth to the corporate backers that put him in power. I believe Hitler and Mussolini used similar tactics.
Worse yet, the entire Democratic movement is based on hatred of anyone who is not part of their collective, and this is the most fascist thing of all. You have racial hatred, class hatred and religious hatred.
As with all fascist movements, one cannot expect that hatred to go away if Obama is re-elected. The only question is which factions will win the hatred war. I can envision the Muslim faction hating the Black faction hating the Hispanic faction hating the LBGT faction hating the self-hating white faction hating the self-hating Jewish faction. I thoroughly expect the latter two groups to lose out first because self-hatred is not a genuine qualification for identity based victim hood.. Next they will come for the LBGT crowd, and still no one will speak out. And by the time they get around to going after the blacks, there will be no one left to speak out – as the saying goes.
It was years ago that I first came across a reference to “politicaly correct” speech. It was in referenece to the old Soviet Union. That is where the term “Politically Correct” came from. It is an old Soviet term. This term should NEVER have been introduced to the U.S.
Read Ronald Radosh’s “Red Star Over Hollywood” for 50s Communist use of it. Even though the phrase “politically correct” was not used, it’s blatant. Dalton Trumbo was condemned by his fellow Communists for writing that a Negro boy was “polished and dressed in his very best”. This was bad because this implied he was “clean only on special occasions”! In another book, another Communist described this sort of thing as a “witch hunt”.
You can read parts of the book via Amazon “Look Inside”.
They aren’t “new left” fascists. They have always been fascists. They’re just now getting full enough of themselves to come out proud and strong about it.
#12 fortibus85
Which law are you following? The statutes on the books, and the Constitution are still in existence, but the rule of law and the Constitution are pretty much gone. The Soviet Constitution granted all sorts of rights. But they did not exist in reality. The United States Constitution and the US Code no longer protects against those in power, or those who who have the favor of those in power.
Reality. And they set up the new reality. What counts is force. The application can be against people or against institutions or things. But force is what counts now. And it has the sanction of the law, such as it is. The New York decree about offensive materials is the future.
From the article above:
The law now is the law of the jungle. How many anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-American ads, or other expressions are there out there? Does it not work both ways?
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity …
Subotai Bahadur
I think these assaults on free speech will not only continue but increase unless we,the American people, stand up for our First Amendment rights.
Until incidents like this spontaneously provoke thousands of angry Americans to take to the streets and demand that their government protect their rights things will continue to get worse.
A thought about the leftists. Didn’t their mothers ever tell them that just because all the cool kids were doing something stupid didn’t mean that they had to follow along and do it too? Didn’t anyone ever tell them to think for themselves?
Illiberals, Fascists etc., believe in Free Speech ONLY when benefitting their causes.
As for the anti-jihad ad SPECIFICALLY mentioning jihad – of course the aforementioned rabble rousers use nonsensical conjecture.
The 1300 + year old problem, which has spread worldwide only furthers the OBVIOUS failures of Islamic countries policing and contain their own s hitheads.
The anti-semitism in ‘moderate Islamic countries’ is a freakin’ sick joke.
I’m in a SE Asian country considered ‘moderate Islamic’ which doesn’t allow those with Israeli passports nor those with Israeli stamps in their passport.
Their border signs warn visitors not to bring into country kosher foods.
I won’t go into their ‘assigned prayer times’ via P A speakers beginning at 4 a.m., television programs interrupted for prayer, their airline having an automated prayer on your personal t.v. screen prior to T/O, their ahem, ‘newspapers’ which make Al-Jazeera news spin resemble that of the most pronounced neo-Con aspects etc.,
‘Modern’ – riiight.
There is NO ‘modern Islam’ – for Islam doesn’t encourage free will whatsoever.
There is of course a very old fashioned solution to that 1300 year old problem called Islam. It’s called Crusade.
Call it radical Islam if you must, though the so called moderates seem to do precious little to rein in their extremist brethren. But their stated intent is to impose their ideology, their Sharia law, their domination world wide. That attitude is in direct conflict with the principles of the West and in particular those of these United States of America.
In ancient times the purpose of Crusade was to free the Holy Land, allow access to Holy places by Christians. Today a Crusade is needed to protect the rights of our noble experiment, our country, our attempt to establish a free people as the natural order in the world.
Or, to borrow a phrase from Cato the Elder, Islam Delenda Est!
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, (but it’s really: “Islam Delendum Est”)!
Well Pamela Geller should be pleased to get the attention. The poster was designed to provoke a response and it did. It’s a suprise how few posters are defaced these days compared to 20-30 years ago. Defacing a poster doesn’t make you a fascist!
Maybe not …. But, it IS a criminal act, in this particular case in more ways than one, and those committing such acts are CRIMINALS. Those who encourage, call for, even demand, more of the same, are ALSO criminals. We do not need them here. If they are citizens, they need to experience the full force of the law. If they are applying for citizenship, they should be denied it and asked to leave. If neither, then they should be punished as required and subsequently deported, never to return, not even as tourists. There can be no wiggle room. If we are not intransigent about this, it will be seen as weakness, and they will walk all over us. This we really don’t need!
Technically, you are correct. The point is that she vandalized the poster BECAUSE she’s a fascist.
“but even more striking is the fact that so many on the Left are applauding her for it.”
No, it isn’t. I saw plenty of mobs shout down speakers in the 1960s. Intimidation is the tactic of the ’60s generation, whether it is Eldridge Cleaver writing about rape, Bill Ayers building bombs, or Eltahawy defacing posters. And it works.
“Someone tell right wing racist sh** Pam Geller she’s got 20k followers in TwitterLand & I’ve got 8 that times so she shld back the fu** off”
This is a typical tweet from Mona Eltahawy.
I certainly hope Mr. Spencer was being sarcastic when he referred to Mona as an “internationally notable” journalist.
All I see is an unhinged bully fighting for her 15 minutes of fame.
Eltahawy would be flogged in Saudi Arabia for 1. Not being in her burkha. 2. Not in the presence of male family member. 3. Making noise in public place.
Somebody should tell Mona that she is now an “internationally notorious fascist bully” AND a CRIMINAL, and that nobody gives a flying eff how many tweeters twitter for her. The number of “followers” will not change her legal/moral status: CRIMINAL !
“In the 1930s, when the Nazis were taking power in Germany, brownshirt storm troopers regularly terrorized Hitler’s foes, shouting them down when they spoke, vandalizing their messages, and even physically threatening them.”
And were the Nazis stopped by requests, laws, and polite debate? Oh, HELL NO.
They were stopped by killing every one we could catch. The lesson should be obvious.
Hitler’s Brown Shirts were just a copy of Mussolini’s Black Shirts. In fact they were actually kinda tame in comparison. Gangs of Black Shirts would roam the streets and beat anybody they found standing on a soap box or handing out fliers expressing ideas that were counter to ideals of Italian Fascism. They’d even go so far as to follow the people they wanted to silence home, force their way in, hold that person down, and make them watch as they beat their family. Of course if someone tried to do that to me they find themselves on a business end of a Sig Sauer p229; God Bless the 2nd Amendment.
I consider myself left wing progressive its for this reason I oppose anything to do with Islam.I would also remind people that it is the left who fought for todays remarkable high standard of freedom of speech in the USA especially the much maligned 60′s had a civilising effect and brought down many authoritarian policies also in universities.Before the 60′s it was uncommon to see casual dress or minorities and woman on campus,informal relationships were absent.Much was achieved including the high standard of freedom of speech in various high profile court cases.This bashing of the left in general is not good.But exposing the anti-democratic authoritarian strains of “leftists” I have no issue with.I just want people not to lump everyone together who is of a left progressive incline.Certainly the religious right is not the guardian of these hard won rights.The left is.
We live in a crazy world in a Democratic country where freedom of speech is only part of it,we have to take the good and the bad in order to be FREE AMERICANS.If the left and the Muslims take advantage or distort our freedom-be it,we must take advantage of their stupidities and empty phrases which are many. I’ll put my money on America every time,it might take time,patience, effort and set backs,but we will prevail in the end.America is not fully awake yet, we’re big, slow,clumsy and naive at times, but our heart is in the right place,and those who wake up the sleeping giant will regret ever being born.Liberty for ever!
I’ve got a quick question for all the liberals I intend to post everywhere:
“Hey liberals! Is islam some sort of inferior race?! “NO!”? Then why do you always defend their right to remain irresponsibly wrong?!”
Otherwise, their other backwards nonsense really only amounts to this victim-blaming cry, that: “It should be illegal to accuse any criminals of their crimes, if doing so might hurt their feelings (and so “force” them to commit even more crimes)! Whee!”
No wonder we’re in such bad shape, our own side has accepted the narrative of the Left.
“In the 1930s, when the Nazis were taking power in Germany, brownshirt storm troopers regularly terrorized Hitler’s foes, shouting them down when they spoke, vandalizing their messages, and even physically threatening them. We are rapidly approaching the same situation, not due to a resurgence in “right-wing extremism,” but because of the Left’s increasingly positive attitude toward thuggery.”
Mr. Spencer you seem to forget something, the Nazi Party was The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, they were the LEFT not “right-wing extremists”. So the reality is the Left is just resurecting its old methods.
LIberals (the facist left) are generally blind to Islamic Facist’s failings….all the up till they are put against the wall (see current events in EGypt)…only then do the realize they’ve been duped.
When will Obama ask the muslims to “Stop clinging to their guns and religion”!!?