Comrades!
You are needlessly alarming yourselves over legislation that is patently intended to protect you from bandits, exploiters, anarchists, rootless cosmopolitans, Kadets and kulacks. Naturally, obamunism has no designs on your freedom of speech - properly understood, that is, for just as your freedom of speech does not entitle you to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater in the absence of an actual conflagration, neither does this right permit you to employ words wantonly in order to cause injury to other citizens (and taking the big, broad, humanitarian view, I think you will agree that “injury” should include damage to, or the unsettling of, the self-esteem, equanimity and legitimate political ambitions of those comrades with whom you may not fully agree, but who, nonetheless, have your best interests at heart).
For those of you who are still confused by this issue, I suggest that you take the safe path and govern yourselves in accordance with that venerable proverb, “Silence is golden.”
Truly, Silence is golden
ReplyDeleteWhenever I see a Soviet propaganda poster of Lenin, I'm reminded of the theory that his early death was caused by Stalin having Lenin poisoned. That's Communism for you.
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MCB: Great find! What a case of poster serendipity.
ReplyDeleteWronwright: I hadn't heard that about Lenin being poisoned; entirely plausible, though. Stalin was capable of anything.
The guy in my post, incidentally, is Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka.
Well, it wasn't Sumerian mead. I don't care what McEnroe has said.
ReplyDeleteI mean, how could that happen? Like Sumeria was, what, 4000 to 5000 years ago. It would, you know, be impossible. Yeah.
(wronwright walks quickly away)
Every time I try to click on that link, something kills Safari. It's not the Hot Air site, I've been there plenty of times without problems. DOS attack? Perhaps a disgruntled Obamunist, who's decided you're practicing domestic terrorism by linking to the article?
ReplyDeleteRebecca: I don't have any trouble with the link.
ReplyDeleteHere's the original Washington Examiner story. You really must read it.