Why do Bush-supporters undermine freedom of speech everyday?

Question

In case you guys didn't realize, we live in AMERICA! We are supposed to be able to voice our opinions without the consequence of morons assuming we hate our country or troops.
With your dissenting from this unique principle of our country, you would be better suited living in a dictatorship. I suppose that's why you abandoned your traditional conservative values of having a small government and support Bush's absolutely enormous rise in power during wartime.

p.s. YOU must be the ones who hate America and most of its citizens. You criticise those who criticise the President...and look at our president's approval rating--->about 33% now. You are the minority barking at the moral majority.

Hopeful, all you offered me was unsubstantiated and unlikely statements, and biased interpretations.

I DO support others criticising liberals too, but not with BS such as the ridiculous assertion that liberals hate America. I support VALID criticism of liberals!

Answer 1

Because it is often easier to attack people as a group and try to shut them up, than to have to address the issues on the merits.

It's just political efficiency. If you can spend 5 minutes calling someone names and pushing emotional buttons to get them silenced, that's more efficient than spending an hour debating the issue (assuming you even win the debate).

Both sides do this, though Republicans tend to be a bit more efficient and organized.

Answer 2

Here is what they are up to:....

Hermann Goering, second in command of the Third Reich and key founder of the Nazi party, said; “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger”.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
__Josef Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda

Notice how the ideas of 2 Nazis seem to match the practice and beliefs of the Bush Administration.

So obviously those in disagreement with the Bushies are not the patriots. See below:

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Patriotism quotes:
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

Sidney Hook, Patriotism quotes:
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.


Thomas Jefferson, Patriotism quotes:
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Answer 3

Uh, they said on the news, the liberal news that 70+ percent of the Republicans still support President Bush. And if we are the ones that don't allow free speech why is there that little attachment to the Reform Bill that wants to silence the Conservatives and Christians by putting in so much red tape for their radio programs that they won't be able to continue on. Where, liberal democrats who are the ones that came up with this is our freedom of speech?!

Answer 4

Oh shut up already! I am so sick of you bush-bashers with all the stupid, thoughtless, rhetorical questions! God!

Libtard:

(Lib-Tard) 1) Combination of the words Liberal and retard (see also: Libterd, libturd, libnerd, libsurd, libdiot, libored) 2) The result when a tree hugger successfully mates with a tree and the offspring is born with an extra chromosome. 3) Any helpless society that must always be liberated by the blood and sweat of others yet are too arrogant and stupid to realize that they owe their entire existance to others.(see also: French-tard, French-Tarded, Retarded-Frenchmen).

libtard
1) Hillary clinton and her husband, you know what's his face. You know that libtard that got impeached for going down on that fat chick in the beret that looked like Rosie Odonnel.
2) Look at that tall mongoloid with the vote Kerry T-shirt. Must be one of them libtards.
3) Screw you Frenchie! You freakin' Libtard.

Answer 5

If you are into valid name calling, you can dismiss the conservatives attempting to undermine anyone's free speech. Name calling is a whole different matter and results in nothing positive!

Answer 6

Free speech is a two way street. Free speech allows other to comment on your comments. It seems you are not so concerned with freedom of speech as you demanding of silence from your critics

Answer 7

Amen! I'm tired of being called anti-American or don't support the troops because I am against the war and against a power hungry leader. I am American and I want this place a better world for all and if that means protesting for it, then so be it!

Answer 8

That is the most nonsense I have heard come from one place.

Answer 9

Freedom of speech is one thing but you yahoos are lying out your butt!

Answer 10

so, I have no right to disagree with your retarded statements? Hypocritical much?