Okay, I used that on my other blog, Explorations, too.
This is a new blog, representing an old idea. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
We who contribute to this blog believe that the First Amendment is essential, central, to the Constitution and to the natural rights that we share as free people. We further believe that these rights are in danger; they have been and are being infringed by “campaign finance reform”, and we believe there is a movement to infringe them further, through imposition of a new Fairness Doctrine, and through content-based requirements imposed in the name of “net neutrality.”
We intend to oppose these infringements.
3 Comments
Thank G…., uh, Gaia. We need such a clearinghouse badly, because daily there is an increasing number of attempts by the left to gag and censor any viewpoint but their own. I am astounded at the brazenness with which the left (and their knowing accomplices, the media) now try to stifle, and even erase evidence of, variance from the approved version. It disgusts and disheartens me that postmodern liberalism has slipped into thuggishness as its natural response to debate as easily as if it were a favorite pair of slippers. Today the primary method with which “liberals” meet conflicting ideas is not with a free and fair exchange of opinion, but immediate recourse to tired and tiresome accusations of racism, fascism, greed, or cries for some investigative institution to hound those who dared deviate from the party narrative.
Well, we now see that all those years they marched for “free speech” they were just lying. They really meant that free speech was only for those ideas with which they agreed.
Good luck – we need this site.
Thanks, Jum. I think Ayn Rand would have argued that thuggishness is the natural outcome of a coersion-based model of the world. Personally, I prefer Heinlein’s formulation: the two real parties are the people who want to be controlled, and the ones who want to be left alone.
I’ve blogrolled you at Stubborn Facts, where this subject is near and dear to us.
Post a Comment