The hypocrisy of both sides seems to never end. While people on the left were certainly wrong to silence the free speech of Ann Coulter, who wanted to speak at Berkley, so is the right wrong to try and silence TV personalities like Stephen Colbert, who said the other day on television “The only thing [Trump’s] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock-holster.”
While certainly what Colbert said was highly inappropriate, who cares? The right is now calling for a government investigation into his comment. Yet, when someone like Trump prior to election says “grabbing women by the pussy,” and it’s aired on the internet, or on television, then that for some reason is okay. Both comments were inappropriate, by both people, however, free speech doesn’t care about your feelings. It never has nor should it ever, with the exception of outright threats of course.
It seems the left is obsessed with being coddled by their college campuses, or parent’s homes as their “safe space,” and the right uses the government to create their “safe space” through nonsense, like their complaint to the FCC on Colbert, asking for him to be investigated and fined. Both are ridiculous. The right is infamous for calling out the left (and rightfully so), about their sensitivities and crying about this, that and the other, but they go and do the exact same thing when their beloved Emperor is insulted by another American. To that, I say “cry me a river.”
We live in a constitutional republic for a reason, versus a democracy. In a democracy, you have “mob rule,” which is the equivalent of the far right and the far left. Both of them are the mob, both of them have their own hypocrisy, and both them only want their version of what freedom and liberty is, not actual freedom and liberty. The realization of this is why libertarianism is on the rise.
While the left certainly gravitates toward government handout programs, the right does the same thing, except instead of handout programs like welfare, they choose government force as their sector of government worship to provide them with a “safe space” in their mind and world. This is also evident in how the right has a blood lust for allowing our own government to kill us. Sound absurd? It’s really not at all.
The right makes excuses all day long when the police or any agent of the government uses excessive force on a person. Or even unlawful entry into homes, cars, etc. Even when police give unlawful orders and they are not followed, the right stands up and defends their government against the people refusing the unlawful orders. Just a little bit of internet research confirms everything I’m saying. Every single conservative Facebook page I follow does the same exact thing. I see comments like “play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” or “well, they should have just done what they were ordered to do, and that wouldn’t have happened,” and so on and so forth. The problem with this is excusing government abuse of power. Yes, sometimes it is necessary for police to use force on criminal suspects, I’m not ever going to argue against that, however, under what circumstances is the issue here. Both the right and left want to be coddled by the government in one form or another, either with freebies or force, depending on the side they stand on. The right also has an obsession with the death penalty, even though it’s been shown and proven that our government(s) have put to death innocent people. The right doesn’t care about that though, and they still want to grant that level of violence and control to the state over our own people.
No one, and I do mean no one, on the far left or the far right can claim that they believe in freedom and liberty, because they don’t know what those things actually mean any more. They both just want their “safe spaces” maintained.
* Shane Foster has worked his entire career in military law enforcement, corrections, and as a private investigator. He has a unique perspective into how law enforcement operates from within its ranks, our judicial system, as well as our privacy laws and how every day our individual freedoms and liberties are gradually taken away from us and our individual rights abused on a regular basis.
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