{"id":5414,"date":"2017-06-19T05:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/the-summer-of-hate\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T05:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:18:56","slug":"the-summer-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/the-summer-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer of Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty years after the Summer of Love, the summer of 2017 is shaping up as the Summer of Hate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Left has come full circle, from (talk of) peace and love to resistance and hate. <\/span><\/p>\n

Their resistance is tantamount to sedition<\/a>. Lefties posture as like unto the brave members of the French Resistance who opposed by assassination and sabotage the Nazi occupation.  But Trump was duly elected, and to date no evidence of collusion with the Russians has emerged. The leftist posturing belongs in the Theater of the Absurd. Leftists are in effect opposing our system of government.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for hate, prominent liberals, leftists, 'progressives,' are working to incite it. They should be held morally accountable and not allowed to hide behind the First Amendment.  Good advice from Victor Davis Hanson:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Trump administration should insist that all universities and colleges that receive federal funds guarantee to their students First Amendment protections of free speech, due process, civil rights, and the right to assemble peacefully. If they cannot or will not comply with the Bill of Rights, then campuses should come under review of their funding from Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Moreover, anyone who makes a direct threat or clear allusion to killing the president of the United States should be put on a terrorist no-fly list for six months, an act that can be done without a formal indictment and trial. If revving up a crowd in Washington by yelling out a personal wish to blow up the White House and its occupants, or holding up a facsimile of the decapitated head of the president to galvanize a video audience does not constitute enough suspicion to take a breather from flying, then nothing much else does. If Madonna had to take a slow freighter back to London, then she might curb her macabre enthusiasm at her next rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The only way that the Resistance can be halted is to insist that its efforts remain lawful. If they are not, perpetrators must be held accountable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The first of Hanson's point is rock-solid. The second raises the ticklish question of when hate speech ceases to be protected speech. See first of the related articles below.<\/span><\/p>\n

You should read the whole<\/a> of Hanson's latest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fifty years after the Summer of Love, the summer of 2017 is shaping up as the Summer of Hate. The Left has come full circle, from (talk of) peace and love to resistance and hate. Their resistance is tantamount to sedition. Lefties posture as like unto the brave members of the French Resistance who opposed … Continue reading “The Summer of Hate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}