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DEL.ICIO.USNewt Gingrich, freely speaking on free speech
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You’ve no doubt heard about the stir that former House speaker Newt Gingrich, in the midst of a non-campaign for the ‘08 GOP nomination for president, has caused with his New Hampshire comments suggesting that free speech may have to be curtailed in order to fight terrorism.
Said Gingrich last week: “Either before we lose a city or, if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people.”
Many liberals have expressed outrage. Then there’s the web site that says Gingrich “proposes to turn the U.S. into a police state.”
Not so leftish, that one. It belongs to the John Birch Society.
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By GodHatesTrash
December 4, 2006 11:05 AM | Link to this
Gingrich is the founder of the Chickenhawk Chicken Little wing of the GOP - his favorite thing to do right now is wail and moan and gnash his teeth about terrorism and Islamists and myriad other bugaboos of the rednecks in the red states, while he hides under the bed…
By uncle jessie
December 4, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this
We is whar we is cause a rednecks, like George Washington, Andy Jackson, Alvin Yorke, George Patton, Chesty Puller… look what dey got us into.
By SpaceyG
December 4, 2006 1:53 PM | Link to this
Ahhh… the Birchers! Haven’t heard much of them since my granddaddy died. He was big into the JBS. They loved free speech, as long as it was for “decent” white folk only. That of course did NOT include white communist hippies and “infiltrators” of the sixties either, since they were the ones poisoning us with chlorinated water and stuff like that. Dang… I’m gonna want a mint julep now with all this nostalgia floating around here.
By Will Jones
December 4, 2006 2:18 PM | Link to this
Why is the Birch head Roman Catholic if they’re “so concerned” with preserving America? JBS against Gingrich, whose patron was(is?) Pierre DuPont, is just the “serpent” “grasping” its own “tail” in its mouth to “roll” faster misleading gullible Americans.
Gingrich is scum who knocked-up his math teacher to dodge the draft and divorced her once his evil had given her cancer and he’d reached Congress.
His serial adultery is probably just “cover” for his Mehlman/Bush/Foley/Rove-type closeted perversions.
By Tator Tot
December 4, 2006 2:41 PM | Link to this
Wait, Will: are you saying Newt is from “Midtown”? Shocker!
By ruth plummer
December 4, 2006 4:25 PM | Link to this
Newt, you are a has-been. Go somewhere and knit, make quilts, etc.
By Will Jones
December 4, 2006 6:44 PM | Link to this
TT: Hypocrisy should not be an Atlanta trait. Dealing with trauma and family dysfunction honestly and out is one thing - hypocritically pursuing perversion, like the GOP “leaders” (i.e. front-puppets for the fascist plutocracy) clearly do, while foisting off “anti-gay” issues on the electorate to confuse and mislead, is something else…political treason, imo.
That their party has benefitted the corrupt rich and Vietnam-era draft-dodgers, while destroying the 80% Working Class by privately profitting from the China Trade and off-shoring is only made infinitely worse by their 9/11 treason to send their betters to false war for Roman Catholic BIG OIL and Afghan heroin for Dubai’s and their crime families’ profit.
Only closeted perverts - no men and false Americans - could be so twisted as to perform such execrable misdeeds worthy only trial, conviction, and death for treason.
None of those are in Midtown, Thank G_d.
By GMoney
December 6, 2006 3:38 PM | Link to this
Didn’t we already lose an American city? What was Katrina? If Newt thinks the corrosion of free speech will save us, heaven help us all. However, based on the same premise, he has the right to say whatever he wants— how ever articulate he may sound when he’s spouting his quackery. We reserve the right not to listen.