HATE SPEECH IS ERODING AND COULD END FREE SPEECH

HATE SPEECH IS ERODING AND COULD END FREE SPEECH

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

The Charlottesville incident shows that telling the truth is no longer politically correct.  President Trump, after emphatically denouncing the white supremacists by name, said that both sides were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was condemned for saying this. He noted it would be evident on the videos, which showed that the anarchist, Antifa members, many of whom were wearing black masks and carrying bats studded with nails, were chasing down protestors and attacking cars with their bats. This protest was in part a response to out-of-control progressive mobs destroying confederate monuments while the police did nothing to prevent it. The absence of police establishing law and order emboldens lawlessness and further insanity.

Trump was correct there was violence on both sides. White supremacists are despicable but so are adults who “party” by destroying property or are paid professional anarchists. The videos proved the alt-left was swinging clubs as they came “charging as they say, at the alt right.” Police in Charlottesville did not separate groups as they did in Boston. There appeared to be another “stand-down order” from higher officials, which would be another example of politicizing the police making anarchists a protected class. Previously this has happened with Antifa anarchists on college campuses and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Not enforcing laws should be horrifying to all since it leads to further lawlessness.

In the Boston “Free Speech” protest the police were in charge keeping both groups separated. The only arrests were 33 mostly radical leftist protestors since the majority of the “Free Speech” protestors left early. Most importantly the Boston police separated the two sides to prevent violence unlike what was done in Charlottesville where the two groups were allowed to confront each other. These police did the job of setting impartial limits and did not take sides.

President Obama did call for a national dialogue on race when he was in the White House.  He lectured us. There was no debate and probably no intention of one, at the same time progressives introduced a “thought control” element that limited open dialogue. Hate speech was emphasized which smothers any free exchange of ideas. Any citizen who questioned this notion of hate speech was immediately smeared as a racist, homophobe, misogynist, Islamophobe, xenophobe and many other pejoratives. Americans were supposed to accept all “protected classes” with no discussion or questions or face punitive consequences. There was no referendum on these radical changes of dividing America into special untouchable groups that were supposed to correct social injustice.

Many people in protected classes are enraged that US history has been imperfect. They want to eradicate many past events and political figures that offend them even though they lived in a different cultural era.  These groups believe they have a right to dictate to the majority. Discrediting our national heroes and their monuments to expunge their memory and significance thus the important lessons of history is ignorant. This is the same technique used by Isis in obliterating ancient religious monuments in order to eliminate competing beliefs.

As Mark Anthony stated in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, ” The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones.” Robert E. Lee was considered a great man by both the north and the south. Lee was recruited to lead by both armies before the Civil War. After the war he became president of Washington Lee University for six years and earned accolades from almost everyone. Robert E. Lee freed his slaves upon his death.

Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson memorial in Washington, DC in 1943. It is still one of the most venerated sites in the capitol. George Washington was considered a great warrior, thinker and was beyond reproach as the first president. Yet too many radical anarchists are advocating eliminating him from our proud history. Eliminating a nation’s history is an effective way to strengthen one’s power base and destroy opposition. Mao, Stalin, Castro, Chavez and the 1960’s USA counter culture revolution are a few examples of this practice of attempting to alter history and transform society.

This tactic of dividing America into groups has been used throughout history to galvanize power. It is divide and conquer to gain and maintain control over tribes, nations and civilizations. Fomenting hatred among people is destabilizing to society. “Identity politics” has divided, not united our nation. This strategy decreases the power of the people while increasing that of the ruling class.

Free speech has been the hallmark of the US constitution and nation. It is the 1st Amendment of our constitution. Our founders believed that citizens would be able to critically think when they had access to the free market of ideas. They did not limit but protect it. These wise men limited the power of the government to encourage debate and give power to the people’s representatives.

When speech is disallowed through using politically correctness, truth will ultimately be stifled and crushed. Citizens will begin to look over their shoulder or under their chairs for recording devices and will finally stop talking and questioning out of fear of government eavesdropping. This is the path to totalitarian thought control ruled by a small elite political class.

The Rev. Martin Luther King changed our nation through peaceful resistance. He noted that we should judge each other by our character not our skin color. He was not revengeful. He understood violence and hatred would only create more of each. His goal was not the altering of history and truth through identity politics but to bring all Americans together as one. Open discussion and education, not shouting down the other side, leads to greater understanding of the issues.

When government dictates how and what constitutes free speech it censors our speech and it is no longer free. Free speech is the road to liberty and prosperity. “Hate speech,” identity politics and violence by all means necessary will end in a “banana republic” or in a repressive government without any individual freedom or power except for that held by the miniscule elite class. The choice is ours.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.