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Date: August 15, 2017 09:04AM
caffiend Wrote:
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> What I'm saying is that the most despicable people
> have the right to march, demonstrate, air their
> grievances and proclaim their cause.
One might like to think that still true, but this reads more like China to me:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40935770A little digital cooperation here, a little digital cooperation there, and pretty soon, your name, address and phone number are subject to the dear leader's opposition to the opposition.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/29/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-wants-to-know-the-voting-history-party-id-and-address-of-every-voter-in-america/People who hurt other people forsake their "rights," and go beyond "despicable." I don't see murderer, pedophile or thief "marches" or parades. To claim that the KKK or neonazis do not seek to harm people is ludicrous and ignores history. For the ACLU to equate KKK "free [hate] speech" with "peaceable assembly" is an error, for even the ACLU is fallible.
I'll agree with them on the Skokie case as soon as they defend pedophiles' rights to hand out pro-pedophilia materials in school lunchrooms. In Skokie, they failed to differentiate between "free speech" and history of actual crimes against persons.
In Skokie, far from it being "their finest hour" as they lay claim to, the ACLU sided with the majority, and the price of their support is evident in Charlotte. I'm not referring to the "lone gunman" with a car, but to the erosion of freedoms -actual harrms to others - that those with a KKK mindset would impose.
It's real, and they want your name, address and voting record. Am I to hope for you that your wife or daughter (if any, and apologies if needed) did not secretly vote for the other side?
People who seek to oppress and/or harm other people are not supporters of "freedom," a core principle of the"freedom-loving" people who would defend oppresors' rights to march. It was/is not "unpopular," as the ACLU would like to claim, for "their guy" (the KKK claims) is now CIC. The ACLU erroneously defended those who would destroy the constitution, given the opportunity.
https://www.aclu.org/about/aclu-historyI absolutely don't care about a pedophile's "rights" to "air grievances," and I don't care about Nazi's "rights" for the same exact reason.
I believe that this is the type of point that alexdc was trying to make. I think it would behoove all of us to help the ACLU recognize and acknowledge their error.
My only hope is that Eric stop logging IPs, right? Invisible god knows who will want that list tomorrow. Some popular TBM on the CIC staff, maybe.
That, or we all support the next pedophile parade.