Good day all. Do you remember former governor Howard Dean? He was the governor of Vermont once, and managed to torpedo his own reasonably successful presidential campaign by demonstrating how nuts he is.
Recently, Howard “The Screamer” Dean sent out a tweet demonstrating his complete ignorance of the 1st Amendment. The tweet read:
Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment. https://t.co/DOct3xcLoY
The Screamer sent this out on April 21st. Dean the Screamer is a former head of the DNC and a stereotypical Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrat. Eugene Volokh, in a column in the Washington (Com)Post, took him to task:
This leads me to repeat what I’ve said before: There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Hateful ideas (whatever exactly that might mean) are just as protected under the First Amendment as other ideas. One is as free to condemn, for instance, Islam — or Muslims, or Jews, or blacks, or whites, or illegal immigrants, or native-born citizens — as one is to condemn capitalism or socialism or Democrats or Republicans.
Mr. Volokh is a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and unlike The Screamer, knows what he’s talking about.
To be sure, there are some kinds of speech that are unprotected by the First Amendment. But those narrow exceptions have nothing to do with “hate speech” in any conventionally used sense of the term. For instance, there is an exception for “fighting words” — face-to-face personal insults addressed to a specific person, of the sort that are likely to start an immediate fight. But this exception isn’t limited to racial or religious insults, nor does it cover all racially or religiously offensive statements.
Basically, what the good professor is saying, you can’t yell “FIRE!” in a crowded theater with the goal of causing a panic. The “Fighting words” doctrine is also geared at a “One on one” scenario. What Dean the Screamer and the other moonbats want to do is punish people for saying things they don’t agree with.
And there is the issue. The Progressives have run out of things to say to bolster their views and have turned to insults and violence. (See the anti-Trump protests by the thugs of the Antifa groups) The conservative groups are winning the arguments because they actually have ideas and, unlike progressives, are capable of logical thought.
The only recourse left to “The Left” is blatant censorship. In the last election, we had on candidate, Felonia von Pantsuit, aka Hillary Clinton, state, on the record, that she would have a litmus test for judges and supreme court justices that would move to limit the 1st Amendment. (She also wanted the 2nd Amendment revoked as well by judicial fiat)
The Democrat party long ago walked away from the Constitution. They never supported the Civil Rights movement in the 60’s until it could be used for their own benefit. The Democrats also started a civil war just so they could keep black in slavery. President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, utterly despised the Constitution and wanted to do away with it completely.
This is what the Democrat party truly is. Backers of enslavement, totalitarian power vested in the few, and suppression of any ideas that they do not like. They have shown that they will resort to violence if they don’t get their way. Previously, the center and center right would fold because they didn’t want to resort to violence. Now, much to the shock of people like Howard “The Screamer” Dean, the center and the right have decided the time has come to take the gloves off. I hope they understand what they have started.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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