Free Speech for Leftists Only

Nobody is quicker to stifle freedom of speech than Leftists. Try saying “homosexuals are from the Devil” almost anywhere (but particularly on college and university premises) and you will be in big trouble. In Canada you can even go to jail for it. But, when conservatives object to obscenities directed at them by Leftists, freedom of speech is suddenly rediscovered. The press excerpt below tells you what actually happened. Read further in the article to hear about the Leftist protests:

“Southwest Airlines earlier this week booted a Washington woman off a flight in Reno after she refused to cover up a T-shirt some considered to be in poor taste. The cotton T in question played off the comedy film “Meet the Fockers,” and featured black-and-white pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice alongside the movie’s title - with a strategically misplaced vowel…. And in the Southwest case, it was fellow passengers who objected to the T-shirt. Beth Harbin, a spokeswoman for the airline, said Thursday that it was not a case of stifling criticism of the president. “It could’ve been a (T-shirt) of Michael Jackson - it doesn’t matter,” she said. It simply was, she said, that the language is not “appropriate for Southwest Airlines.” ....

While an airline can prohibit passengers from wearing certain types of clothing, only government incursions on free expression are considered a violation of the First Amendment, said Scheer, of the First Amendment coalition. Southwest calls it a “contract of carriage,” and Page 10 of the document reads: “Carrier may refuse to transport” passengers whose “clothing is lewd, obscene or patently offensive.” “

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So apparently speech that offends Leftists on government-funded property (as most universities and colleges are, at least in part) is rightly suppressed in violation of the first amendment but speech which offends conservatives should NEVER be suppressed—even when it occurs on private property and the property owners are perfectly within their rights to suppress it. Double standards anyone?

Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 10:04 PM in Liberalism & the Left
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Posted by John S Bolton on October 11, 2005, 10:37 PM | #

strangely enough, the cross fertilization of leftist political ideas with their antitheses, is to be assumed to be capable of only producing sterile offspring. You can only get mules that way, when what is wanted is a purified, even clonal, lineage of socialist vanguard elements, naturally superior in pushing efficiently towards mass murder for its own sake. Absolute corruption through absolute power is to be called ideal and kept pure, and if you bring up any crippled analogies to hybrid vigor, you have proven that you are just inbred.

Posted by jonjayray on October 12, 2005, 12:29 AM | #

JSB
That was a bit abstract for my old brain

Posted by Andrew on October 12, 2005, 12:40 AM | #

That is not entirely true JR, If Kaiser Trad, of the Lebanese Moslem group can give an Outstanding speech on Homosexuals, Homosexuality (Need not Guess what the content was) and how it sits with Islam, and be applauded, I did not here any Media or politician mentioning anything about it, apart from a small article written in a Greens leaf magazine, hmmmmm, sounds much like the women’s liberation group’s silence on Islamic rape and women’s rights,pure Silence.
Need we mention Maandau Habib on the lecture tour for the left? and the promotion of anti American and Western Ideals from a Moslem terrorist’s perspective.This is in our UNIVERSITIES. Close the place down.
It is that obvious.

Posted by Al Ross on October 12, 2005, 02:16 AM | #

Interesting piece on the suicidal folly of British immigration policy by Frank Ellis. ://www.right-now.org/articles/rn53ellis.pdf

Posted by AD on October 13, 2005, 03:01 AM | #

This is in our UNIVERSITIES. Close the place down.
It is that obvious.

Trivia: Enoch Powell used to be the chair of Greek at Sydney University, and one of his students was Gough Whitlam. What an apt representation of our plight.

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