Intellectual Book Burning in a Totalitarian Democracy

In an age of political correctness, censorship no longer seems to be considered a bad word. Yet as John W. Whitehead points out in this week's vodcast, when we suppress controversial ideas, we deny free speech. And when we deny free speech, we cease to be a free society.

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• Whitehead
• Rutherford
• Institute
• Grant
• Woolard

[Skip3643]

Ask OBAMA where the Transparency is whilst he is in Office The Puppet needs to leave Office in Shame!

Now he has Blood on his hands with all the families and children he has murdered under the Guise of Humanitarian Aid he sends DU Bombs

[Thomasl777]

Totalitarian Democracy is tightening the rope around everyone's neck. Interesting point here in the video, the political corectness has actually been hammered into people's minds, they have been brainwashed, so the reaction is automatic to certain key words. Watch the BORAT video, the part in a Rodeo stadium. How 20 thousand people hail each silly sentence of Borat without even considering their meaning.

[HappyRBOB]

Here is a fun homework assignment for you guys. Go find a copy of the patriot act and some copies of the laws passed by the Nazi party for the gestapo. They are eerily similar in the way they work and the powers they give, or rather the rights they take away. Fascism is very much a part of the government of the USA. Why do you think they keep trying to pass bills to remove the need for warrants all together? It covers everything from what you say to what you write or type.

[dfthompson]

I agree with Whitehead about this. It seems to me the push toward authoritarianism has been carried out by left and right.

[Teqsinterrier]

...but also for the resignation of over half the graphics/comics staff.

These five individuals are totalitarian leaders in a democratic organization.

[Teqsinterrier]

The current managing board of the Cavalier Daily not only has failed to own up to its own failings, especially in light of their dishonorable treatment of Grant Woolard as a scapegoat despite their responsibility for ultimately approving of the comic for print despite the fact that it violated managing-board-specific policy, but they have also become the first to be responsible not only for the firing of a graphics editor, and a comic artist...

[Teqsinterrier]

After the Bill O'Reilly spate in 2006 some of the comic artists drew a picture of the Virgin Mary on a dry erase board in the Cavalier Daily office; at first a caption below it read "censorship is next to fascism," but that was eventually changed to "censorship is fascism." During the silent student protest recently during which students lined the hallways surrounding the offices, students who could see this dry-erase board kept looking up at it out of curiosity...

[Rudenewt]

You're living in the past dude, you need to catch up. The representative republic is already gone, the praetorian guard just got reprimanded in Iraq and your version of tolerant political discourse is being tasered away on campus. Stop being ewe.