[ April 18, 2024 ]
Throughout human history there are violent men who do what they do for their own mad, evil reasons. America’s intellectual leadership has collapsed. Sacrificing our our first and second amendment rights in response to irrational violence betrays the very premise that made their existence possible. The rule of force harkens back to the dark ages.
Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced. Putting up with speech that offends is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.
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Fear Free-Speech Curbs More Than Exposure to Racist Manifestos
By John Fund, August 6, 2019:
People can decide for themselves what to make of hateful words, whether in Mein Kampf or a murderer’s manifesto.
As horrifying as the killings by the El Paso and Dayton shooters are, let’s not make free speech another casualty of these murders.
In the wake of the El Paso shootings, many commentators have attacked the Drudge Report for publishing the killer’s alleged 2,300-word manifesto entitled “The Inconvenient Truth.” The document states the killer drew inspiration from white racial-supremacy theories found in a manifesto written by the murderer of 51 Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last March.
The document gets specific in its hate. It denounces the “invasion of Texas” by Hispanics, the “cultural and ethical replacement” of whites, and “race mixing” as “selfish.”
Former Fox News reporter Adam Housley, who lost a niece in a mass shooting in California last year, tweeted: “Would the racist diatribe of this slimeball have been published if he hadn’t murdered anyone? Nope. So we publish now and wonder why others then copy.”
In another tweet, Housley added that the manifesto “needs to be public….it does not need to be published and promoted.” But if something isn’t published, how public is it?
In addition to understanding the twisted motivations of mass killers, a reason that it’s important to allow ordinary citizens to access their writings is that the media can’t always be counted to provide a full interpretation or context of their motivations.
How many Americans know that the El Paso killer also made it clear that he hates automation and corporations, and blames them for a stagnant economy even while he blames Hispanics for environmental degradation? His solution harkens back to the most fanatical views of zero-population-growth advocates: “If we can get rid of enough people,” he wrote, “then our way of life can become more sustainable.” Ambitious left-wing projects such as universal health care and Universal Basic Income “would become far more likely to succeed if tens of millions of dependents are removed.”
We’ve already learned that the shooter who killed nine people outside a Dayton, Ohio bar, early this morning described himself as a “pro-Satan “leftist,” and that he was a registered Democrat who supported Elizabeth Warren and hated President Trump and law enforcement. Who knows what else we may learn about the complexity of his background and thinking?
The El Paso killer expressed admiration for the Christchurch killer’s manifesto, perhaps because they were on a similar wavelength. The Christchurch killer clearly hated minorities, but his racism was rooted in environmentalist concerns:
The environment is being destroyed by over population. . . . We Europeans are one of the groups that are not over populating the world. The invaders are the ones over populating the world. Kill the invaders, kill the overpopulation, and by doing so save the environment.
This is not to minimize the racist white-supremacist views expressed by either killer, but merely to say they don’t neatly fit into a Right-–Left paradigm. But that’s not a message many people want to hear.
Last March, John Lott, head of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of the book More Guns, Less Crime, sent out this tweet trying to debunk claims that the Christchurch shooter was a right-winger.
New Zealand killer’s manifesto says that he did attack to get more gun control/gun bans in New Zealand and the US, Killer was a socialist, environmentalist who hated capitalists and trade.
After this post, Twitter blocked Lott’s Twitter account without explanation.
Lotte later noted that the killer had even called himself an “eco-fascist” and had written, “The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People’s Republic of China.” Lott then included a link to send people to a story on his website that explained why his tweet was accurate. “The link conclusively proved what I said was truthful,” he told me.
Lott appealed to Twitter and asked for specifics. He was informed he had lost his appeal, but Twitter officials still gave no reason for blocking his account. Off the record, a Twitter representative explained to me that their move likely resulted from the company having to comply with regulations that the New Zealand government imposed, banning publication of quotes from the Christchurch manifesto. But the Twitter representative did not explain why Twitter had not blocked left-wing tweets linking to avowedly racist quotes from the manifesto. Sounds like a PC double standard to me.
New Zealand’s restrictions on use of the manifesto are indeed draconian. It has made it a crime to possess or distribute it anywhere in the country. “People who have downloaded this document, or printed it, should destroy any copies,” warned David Shanks, the chief censor in New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also has pressed Facebook to deny access worldwide to the manifesto, and she has promised to “look at the role social media played” in reporting on the attacks. “They are the publisher, not just the postman,” she charged.
Nor is New Zealand the only country where free speech has been chilled. In June, Michael Cooper, a Conservative Party member of Canada’s Parliament, was permanently removed from the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights after reading an excerpt from the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto.
During a hearing on online hate speech, Cooper had read a passage from the manifesto to counter claims by a Muslim witness that linked conservatism with racism and violence. The passage merely quoted the shooter’s statements that he was not a conservative but rather an admirer of China. After protests at Cooper’s speech escalated, the hearing was hastily adjourned — Cooper was unable to finish his remarks.
All of this amounts to an attempt to intimidate people from engaging in a full discussion about the motives of some of the mass shooters.
No one is denying that white supremacism is on the rise, but people should not have their eyes and ears covered over with cotton wool by those who think they can’t handle the full story. As blogger C. J . Harris Kretzer tweeted:
People have a right to read the “manifesto” for themselves if only to judge the killer’s motives for themselves as opposed to trusting the media’s interpretation of the killer’s motives. I like to have original source material to view and judge for myself.
Indeed, Mein Kampf, Hitler’s infamous manifesto, is freely available in most countries. Even German authorities recently legalized its publication, saying that people needed to understand the nature of evil and how it expressed itself. Restricting access to the rantings of mass killers only makes their writings a form of “forbidden fruit” — all the more sought after because they are censored.
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19 Comments
4 years ago
“If we can get rid of enough people,” he wrote, “then our way of life can become more sustainable.”
Ambitious left-wing projects such as universal health care and
Universal Basic Income “would become far more likely to succeed if tens
of millions of dependents are removed.”
When the “universe-saving” plan of mega-villain “Thanos” — wiping out of existence half of all living things — was revealed in the Avengers series plotline, it was horrific and eye-opening to see how many “fans” jumped in to defend the monster’s “idealism” as “heroic”. How many more El Paso shooters are out there with the same attitude and an itch to make a dent in the population with bullets, explosives, vehicles, poison, or whatever weapons they can get their hands on. We need — and have a right — to know that, not be “protected” from it.
4 years ago
Without going into specific cases, I believe that generally speaking extreme acts of political violence by solitary players which run counter to a prevailing religious moral code need to be explored more fully in order to understand whether there was a grievance in the mind of the perp which reflected concerns he or she had about current trends or their contemporary society.
Being voiceless because your fears are dismissed as flights of fancy or worse, racism can result in acts considered extreme, talking openly about trends in our societies which raise concerns was until recently considered normal, but as we know, things and morality have changed. Repression and resentment demands its own price.
4 years ago
Whoa …
Black Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Hispanic Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Muslim Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
LBGTQxyz Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Native American Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Transgender Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Communist Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Globalist Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Academic Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists
Government Uber Alles Supremacists = Okie-dokie with Leftists …
But White Supremacists are right-wing??? … Why??? Because Leftists hate Whites???
All Identity-Supremacists are Leftists in ideology … until proven otherwise.
In the cases of Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton … like Christchurch, Vegas, Sutherland Springs, and the Charleston Church shooting … none of these psychotic a*holes believed in anything that would be embraced by the Founding Fathers, American patriots, or any other anti-Leftist movements today.
A casual relationship between nationalist and populist movements and their concerns about illegal migration does not make these a*holes ‘Right-wing’
… any more than the Globalist elites are ‘Right-wing’ because they fly private jets and sail private yachts to their Environmental – anti-human hate fests.
These are ALL Government Uber Alles shooters … and I would bet they’re all or almost all anti-Semitic and/or anti-Christian … and that means they do not believe in Limited Government and they do not believe in God.
So automatically assuming a racist is ‘Right-wing’ if he happens to be ‘white’ (which itself is just a political construct folks) … is absolutely letting the Leftist Big Lietards drive the narrative.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
PS … I don’t generally read idiots like John Fund (NRO), but … I appreciate the fact that Pamela posted him, and I can see why …
If even an idiot like Fund can see that the shootings are a threat to free speech … it should be obvious to everyone.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
The white Leftist elites struggle to make themselves non-white in any way they can since only non-white people are allowed to be superior.
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotliz
Yes … it would be riotously funny … if the consequences of Leftism were not so seriously awful…
You and yours have an excellent half week and weekend Patriotliz!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Copy & paste worthy! Dan, I read this article late last night and was too sleepy to post a comment to you…tonight is very much the same but sleepiness must take a back seat for a few more minutes.
While reading some of the manifesto and some of the shooter’s statements, I thought to myself that among other things, these two shooters show signs of our public school indoctrination! Quite clearly. They have swallowed the liberal talking points that so many teachers and professors feed the students and digested it in a way that diseased the mind and body.
Your analyst is excellent and witty as usual. 🙂 I have a little something for you. Diet candies: 10 calories per piece! Believe that and I’ll build you a wall across the southern border. 😉
4 years ago
BTW: All of these writings and “manifestos” are available on the deep dark web which one needs the TOR browser to access. Its not like this censorship has any effect whatsoever for those who feel compelled to read these documents.
4 years ago
Matt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
If we practice what the left wants on us to them they would have a taste of their own medicine.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/files/2015/03/2760142778_59803ea31a_b.jpg
4 years ago
The Second Amendment protects all the others.
Those in politics and the media who see fit to limit the freedom of expression of others need to be reminded that the constitutional liberties that protect those freedoms are the very same ones that allow political discourse and a free media to even exist in the first place.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
4 years ago
People have a right to believe that Whites are a superior group of people.
It is an opinion and they have a right to express it.
4 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
I think whites have the right to prevent “ethnic cleansing” of their race from 3rd world non-white population replacement. America wouldn’t be as attractive a place to all people of all ethnic backgrounds around the world were it not for its founding by European settlers. Why kill the goose that laid the golden egg? Why criminalize the achievements of white Europeans in their own countries? What good would that do if you wish to maintain that country’s greatness and its heritage unless the point is in fact to destroy Western Civilization? The white race seems to be the only race in the world that isn’t allowed to be proud of its race or its achievements.
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotliz
When I read your comments I Googled an excellent video entitled “Diversity is a code word for White Genocide” and could not find it. After the 4th page it showed up with a message that it had been removed. Need I say more?
4 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
That figures. Diversity and Multiculturalism = anti-White or anti-Western Civilization which was based on Judeo-Christian values and “classical” civilization perpetuated by Europeans. The Globalist Leftists want to bring all that down and the first step is the “tyranny of guilt” (from Douglas Murray’s book the “Strange Death of Europe”) directed at white European descendants. When there is a white majority in a country…they are automatic racists and supremacists (unless they accept the Leftist propaganda of white guilt). In a dominant black South Africa it’s not only OK to persecute the white minority but it is also OK to ethnically cleanse them (‘payback’). White people are not allowed speak of or seek self-preservation of their race or heritage. When Poland and Hungary did that by resisting mass Muslim migration that makes them automatic NAZIS. Thomas Sowell, a conservative who happens to be black, said it best referring to what I would call the “War against Western Civilization” by the greatest alliance of evil that has ever existed…the Leftist-Islamic alliance (some call it Red-Green but that can be confused with environmentalism). Leftists and Muslims are certainly strange bedfellows but both will tolerate the other until such time as one or the other becomes supreme and that will most likely be the Muslim Supremacists since they are the most aggressive and the most fertile.
4 years ago
The 1st Amendment was written to PROTECT unpopular speech!
THERE IS NO REASON TO LEGISLATE PROTECTION OF SPEECH THAT OFFENDS NO ONE.
4 years ago
Guess who decides what is “hate speech” or “dangerous” or “radical” speech—-the hate-filled Leftist Commie-Nazis who control major digital media.
4 years ago
“Free Speech” is already DEAD in America. And in most other Countries. Ask Pamela.
4 years ago
40% of U.S. millennials already support restricting free speech deemed offensive to minorities:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities/
