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To: Neeka who wrote (178422)	5/13/2009 5:59:45 PM
From: Alan Smithee	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I was very impressed with Carrie Prejean's remarks yesterday. She called out the slime who created this issue, noting that he was promoting his own agenda and this entire thing would have been a non-event but for him making an issue out of it. She has taken a lot of heat, much like Joe the Plumber did, merely for being herself and stating her opinion (or in the case of Joe the Plumber, having the temerity to question The One). We've been seeing anti-free speech tactics by the left for some time and they're getting worse. First it started out with theft of college newspapers that contained articles displeasing to some. Then students found it effective to shout down anyone speaking on campus who dared to express opposing viewpoints. Colleges, the supposed bastion of liberty and free speech, have become indoctrination centers. Now, people in public life and even in private life are being called out for expressing their honestly held point of view. If one questions Obama's policies, you're branded a racist (see Jeannine Garafolo's remarks about participants at Tea Parties being "redneck racists"). It is reported that fund managers who dared to question the administrations usurpation of the rule of law were threatened. The term "thugocracy" has been coined, and it is a very good term. The Nazi movement in the 1930s started out slow and small, but when the majority of the good Germans sat back and did nothing, the thugs gained more and more power, until they took over, and the world knows what happened. If people don't wake up, and realize their constitutional rights in general, and free speech rights in particular, are being eroded, what lies in store for us and this country is very, very scary.