Dave Easterly’s Bravo Sierra Blog

In Praise of Red State Fascism

A letter ran in the local paper praising the same legislation that has made S. Hartgen a nationwide laughing stock. That letter appears here:
This was the response I wrote.

So if Hartgen’s bill were to become law, can I say that I felt annoyed, terrified, threatened, intimidated, harassed, and offended by the comments of the anti-Constitution and anti-Liberty comments of people I disagree with and have the State on my side? If someone threatens me or libels me, there are already laws to deal with it. I’d much rather have the freedom to simply click “Delete” on an email or instant message or click “Back” to navigate away from a comment that offended me and know that others have the same freedom than to rely on the State to “protect” me from what other people think.

It always gets my goat how hyprocritical some so-called “conservatives” are, getting up in arms when something “offends” their delicate little sensibilities by not being in 100% agreement with their narrow world view. They p**s and moan when a few gay rights activists picket a TV station and persuade them not to show a program that spends an entire hour talking about how gays are all going to burn for eternity and how they’re all evil, perverted predators. And yet these self-proclaimed “conservatives” would use the exact same tactics to prevent the broadcast of an opposing viewpoint like that those same people should have the rights and protections of marriage. And then they get upset when their goose-stepping, jack-booted authoritarianism gets called out for what it really is. Well, I have two words for these kinds of people: “STOP IT.” Stop calling yourselves “conservative” because you and your “Limbaugh Leninism” and your “Coulter Totalitarianism” are the very ANTITHESIS of real Conservatism. You don’t _deserve_ the adjective and you’ve distorted and stained that good word with your putrid stench. Stop calling yourselves conservatives and start being honest with yourselves and the world. ANYONE that would support any bill like this isn’t a conservative. You don’t have a right not to be offended by what’s on TV, the phone, or the Internet. You DO have a right to change the channel, hang up, or click to a different site and that is all a decent and mature human being SHOULD need.
Hartgen and his sycophants need to simply grow up and stop crying if their little feelings get hurt.

Again, I doubt it will make it through the filters at the local Ministry of Truth, but we’ll see.