Is this how Democrats support free speech?

Question

http://www.nysun.com/article/41020?access=649942

JackBauer, notme: Therefore it's OK?

Cantcu: The University invited the Minutemen to speak. Liberals VIOLENTLY suppressed them. To take your analogy, it would be as if gangs of YahooQuestions users could delete any content they didn't like.

Tenacious le grande: So, as a liberal, you support the VIOLENT suppression of any idea you disagree with? Would be OK with you if Republicans did that?

Tenacious le grande: Could you elaborate on your point? Is it that Universities should be a political ideas-free zone? Or is it that they should be a political controversy-free zone? Or should they be just political-ideas-liberals-don't-like-free zone. I'm guessing that the answer will involve the liberal double-speak code word "hate" - it's what liberals use so they don't have to admit they are squashing the free exhange of ideas.

Functionary: Of course there's a big difference between "supporting free speech" and "attacking people" for what they say. Those two concepts are diametricly opposed. And, for the record, I'VE never ridiculed liberals as pacifists - although some are. I've seen how violent liberals can be.

Answer 1

Wow ! You don't see conservatives acting like that.
They voice their opinion legally...at the voting booth.

Regardless of your beliefs, it is wrong to interrupt an invited speaker. If one has relevant opinions, there are places and times to state them.(get your own audience) If I am attending a lecture on political or religious comparison, I should absorb what is being said and use it for the comparison which it was intended.

I do not like Hillary Duff's music so I just don't go to her concerts

Answer 2

There is a big difference between supporting free speech and physically attacking people.

If anything, Democrats are constantly being ridiculed as pacifists. Curious how quickly that changes if an opportunity to smear the whole party happens along.

Universities have alway been political hot zones, with many young, idealistic people learning about injustices or percieved injustices finding others who think along the same lines, and finding a heady sense of belonging and power in that environment. Your chosen incident is not the first time such unrest has occured on a school campus.

If responding to injustice with physical force were a typical Democrat response, believe me, the current administration would have been toppled by a coup long since.

Answer 3

Or This:

The attempt by liberals to stop television stations from airing the Swift Boat veterans ad about John Kerry's military service because they say it contains false and libelous charges.
Liberal organizations run television ads against President Bush based on innuendo, speculation, accusation and distorted truths. Liberals have always run these types of ads. Remember the James Byrd ad that ran in Texas? Moveon.org has even created ads comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler. Julian Bond - the leader of the the NAACP- in speeches has compared the Bush Administration to Nazi Germany. All of this is rhetoric. It is opinion and not based on facts or eyewitness accounts. The Swift Boat Veterans are speaking out based upon their eyewitness accounts. This is just another example of the tactic of liberal spin, which is accusing their opponents of the exact tactic they are using.

Answer 4

Typical college kids, think the world owes them a living. Wait until the get bit by the real world and see what happens .

Answer 5

Democrats and republicans don't support free speech.

Answer 6

Like how the Dems tried to get The Path to 911 kept off tv..

Answer 7

Minutemen practices sound like a lot of what the KKK used to do, just without hoods!

I guess the students didn't like what they were saying! It is a school and they can limit the speech anyway they want! You can't say anything you want on here as you would be violating their rules, thereby limiting your speech! That's legal! If they tried to limit what you said about them outside of here, it would violate the 1st amendment!

You make like Repubs don't do the same! They even murder Md's coming out of women clinics where they gather, and harass everyone!


"Last Sept. 17, Perry Patterson of Eugene attended a political event featuring Vice President Dick Cheney at the Monaco Coach Corp. hangar at the Eugene airport. Patterson had obtained a ticket legally from the local Republican Party office and wanted to hear the vice president. She had no intention of disrupting the gathering. Motivated by concern for her two teenage sons, Perry was hoping for the opportunity to ask Cheney about the possibility of a military draft.

Patterson, a gentle and passive person, spent the two hours before Cheney's arrival calmly socializing with other ticket-holders. Cheney arrived and began his speech to the crowd. As the speech continued, Patterson became somewhat alarmed at the vice president's messages, including his oft-repeated mantra: "President Bush is making the world safer now."

Patterson became emotional and blurted out a simple "no, no, no!" Her utterance was not enough to disturb the entire crowd, but it caught the attention of those immediately around her. Patterson described the reaction as that of "zombies awakening" as they slowly gazed at her in mild shock. Someone then grabbed Patterson's arm and forcibly led her out of the room.

The Bush-Cheney campaign routinely staged political events on private property. That made it easier to arrest attendees who showed any sign of dissent. Patterson was charged with criminal trespassing against Monaco. The company has not requested that the charges be dropped."

Answer 8

Yes I seen that. Democrats would not do that, only Liberals.Whats worse is its a black man, proving how racist they are once again..

Answer 9

is that what passes for logic with you? holding an entire group accountable for the actions of a few of it's members?

Answer 10

Not all liberal Democrats would do that. But it does seem to be increasing daily, doesn't it?