Sarah Palin at the Tea Party Convention on Progressives Telling Us to “Sit Down and Shut Up!”
EXCREPT FROM SARAH PALIN’S SPEECH:
“Now like a lot of you perhaps I have spent the last year thinking about how to best serve. How can I help our country. How can I make sure that I, that you, that we’re in a position of nobody being able to succeed when they try to tell us to sit down and shut up.”
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION FOR SARAH PALIN’S ”SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP” COMMENT WITH MY ANNOTATED FOOTNOTES:
Andrew Klavan on the Culture of “Shut Up”
[Transcript of Video Essay on Leftwing Politics]
Hi. This is Andrew Klavan[1] on the Culture.
Some conservatives are arguing that the beginning of the Obama era has been a disaster. They argue that the president’s soft approach to tyrants oversees has elicited predictable displays of aggression boding far worse to come. They feel the president’s high blown ethical rhetoric has given way to his appointments of political hacks. And of course there’s the gazillion dollars of spending and taxation that conservatives feel is a radical attempt to destroy our free market system. That’s the conservative argument. But today I’d like to explain the liberal argument. “Shut Up.”
“Shut Up” is the central rationale beyond the leftist program. We’ve heard it expanded upon recently by democrat bigwigs who want to bring back some version of the misnamed Fairness Doctrine to try to knock guys like Rush Limbaugh and Shaun Hannity off the air. See, Rush and Shaun argue forcefully against liberal policies and democrats want to explain to them, “Shut Up.”
A book called Manifesto for Media Freedom by my City Journal (www.CityJournal.com) pal Brian C. Anderson and Adam D. Thierer describes how high level Dems also support a plan with another Orwellian name. “Net Neutrality” it’s called that would force conservatives to “Shut Up” online as well.
But even if the left can’t turn “Shut Up” into law they’ve work hard over the years to make it the custom of the country. It’s the essence of Politically Correct phraseology and university speech codes. Say it our way or “Shut Up.” It’s inherent in the media’s demonization of conservative commentators. They way they try to turn names like Limbaugh and Ann Coulter into bywords for intolerance so they’ll just “Shut Up.”
And why were there more than half-a-dozen movies attacking the war on terror and not one in support of it? Oh, wait! I know! “Shut Up.”
The left here has been making the “Shut Up” argument at least since the 70’s when it became clear that all their arguments have failed. Since it was the only argument remaining to them they had to invent ways to say it.
- If you pointed out that their weakness allowed the murderous tyranny of Communism to expand for instance, well, you were a McCarthyite. “Shut Up.”
- If you proved that their leniency toward criminals turned our cities into cesspools you were a fascist. “Shut Up.”
- When you pointed out that their welfare policies destroyed black families and created a social disaster of vast proportions you were a racist, a sexist, uncivil, worse than Hitler. All just different ways of saying, “Shut Up.”
All around the world Leftism has failed everywhere “Shut Uppery” has been called to its defense. The full blown Leftists, the Communists, say “Shut Up” with prisons and guns. But Western Leftists laboring under tradition of freedom are sudtler.
In Europe they’ve had more than 50 years of the sort of soft Socialism the Democrats are now bringing here. There anti-individualist, anti-religious, anti-patriotic policies have so sapped energies of the European nations that the continent’s once great cultures now flaccid and passive. Fit for nothing but to be conquered in slow motion by the violent, intolerant Islamist invader within.
But when people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali,[2] Geert Wilders,[3] Oriana Fallaci,[4] have the temerity the Left’s impowerment of Islamist hatefulness they are the ones brought up on charges of being hateful, not because they’re speaking falsely mind you, but because, “Shut Up.”
So now, the Left is in charge of America and “Shut Up” is on the march. Watch for that Fairness Doctrine. Beware of Net Neutrality. Pay attention to the ways the liberal mainstream news media has distort, mock, insult, and exclude the conservative opposition. Listen to the people they don’t want you to listen to.
Whatever you do? Don’t Shut Up.
This is Andrew Klavan on the Culture.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Novelist of crime and suspense. Author of “Empire of Lies.”
[2] Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969 – ), born in Somalia and raised in Kenya. She became a Dutch citizen through political asylum and was a member of the Dutch parliment from 30 January 2003 until 16 May 2006. She is now a fellow at the conservative thinktank the American Enterprise Institute. She is under threat from Islamists for her public rejection of the Muslim faith and its cultural practices which subjugate women. In a BBC World Service radio interview [1] the week of June 19, 2005 Ali talks about the steps which led up to her rejection of Islam. “I came to the conclusion [that] I do not believe in the existence of a god or in the hereafter.” Quoting Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Author of her autobiography, Infidel.
For video of Chris Wallace (Fox News Sunday: Player of the Week June 3, 2007) interviewing Ayaan Hirsi Ali see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOy7Rj71m4k&NR=1
For video of Glenn Beck (CNN 2007) interviewing Ayaan Hirsi Ali see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tgY_eI_P0
[3] Geert Wilders was awarded the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award during a conference on “Islam & Free Speech,” February 19, 2009, at the Grand Palatino Hotel in Via Cavour 213, Rome, Italy, hosted by the association A Way for Oriana. The Freedom Party leader addressed the invitees and showed his film Fitna.
[4] Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 – September 15, 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. She interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities such as the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Haile Selassie, Sean Connery and Lech Walesa. After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of articles and books critical of Islam and Arabs that aroused both support as well as controversies and accusations of racism and Islamophobia.
Throwing A Constitutional Warning to Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Nation!
Re: Sarah Palin’s keynote speech at the Tea Party Convention, at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, February 6, 2010
Okay, from 17m;24s to 18m:41s into the CSPAN video that I downloaded to transcribe Sarah Palin’s keynote speech I noticed a politically sensitive omission in Sarah Palins use of a Barry Goldwater quotation. I noticed because I searched Google Books to verify the quotation. The omission is indicated by … .
TRANSCRIPT – SARAH PALIN:
The lesson of the last year is this: Foreign policy can’t be managed through the politics of personality. And our president would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy had made once he was in office: That all the world’s problems aren’t his predecessor’s faults. [Applause] The problems that we face in the real world require real solutions, and we better get to it, because the risks that they pose are great, and they’re grave.
However, as Barry Goldwater said, “We can be conquered by bombs[.]” … “[B]ut we can also be conquered by neglect—by ignoring the Constitution and disregarding the principles of limited government.”[MY FOOTNOTE]
[MY FOOTNOTE]: CC Goldwater, Ed., Barry M. Goldwater: The Conscience of a Conservative, (1960 by Victor Publishing Co., Inc.), Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2007), Chapter 2, The Perils of Power, pp. 13-15. The appropriate full quote reads:
Want to Get NRA’s Attention? Criticize the Hell Out of them!
My Statcounter Web Counter logged the NRA again today, January 28th visiting my post, “Is the NRA Finally Taking Notice of this Blog?” as noted below. The question now is will the NRA contact me by email with their offer of help? I will gladly email the NRA my PDF version of my forthcoming “Verified Admiralty Complaint” for their review. If only the NRA will contact me.
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF: Words of Civil War from Glenn Beck and Frederick Douglass
Glenn Beck, Fox News, Tuesday, January 26, 2010:
“We’re not a democracy. We’re a republic. And the Founders put those first three words in the Constitution in really big font for a reason, as dumb as we may be, ‘We the People’ still run the country. And it’s our damn country. The Founders like Thomas Jefferson knew the People would make mistakes. ‘Cuz yeah, sometimes we are dumb as a box of rocks. We usually miss it. It takes us a while. But the Founders, including Jefferson, also knew when the government got too big and too out of control the politicians would figure out they could bribe there way into more power. And time and time again it has happened. But the founders said even if the People make that kind of mistake the People would eventually figure it out and fix it. Get out of our way elites. Get out of our way corrupt politicians. It’s time for the People to role up their sleeves and fix it. Maybe, maybe the Founders were wrong as all the elites will tell you know now. It don’t think so.”
COMPARE WITH:
Frederick Douglass [1857] (1985). The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies. Speech, Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857; collected in pamphlet by author. In The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. Volume 3: 1855-63. Edited by John W. Blassingame. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 204:
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.”
“This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North, and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages, and make no resistance, either moral or physical. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.”
I’m Slowly Joining the Big Dogs in the New Media
Since I got official recognition from the ISSN Division of the Library of Congress I have the authority to issued a PRESS PASS to myself in the name of my own magazine: American Common Defence Review. I stamped “Sample” over it and used the black/white photo to prevent fraudulent use of my press pass.
I also bought the Sony IC Recorder, ICD-PX720 with companion software at Office Depot for $60.
The Digital Recorder is the perfect tool for transcribing interviews directly on my laptop through the USB Port, the fundamental function of a reporter.
However, the Sony install CD does not provide a device driver for Windows 7. Sony has not updated the support web page for the Windows 7 device driver even though Windows 7 was released three months ago in October 2009. Why Sony USA is dragging their feet on the Windows 7 device driver is a question I could not get an answer. All answers from their online chat sessions were vague and uninformative.
A Google search revealed that Sony ASIA does have a new version of the companion software and the Windows 7 device driver but when I tried the download the ERROR message stated that their server was under mainenance and to try again latter. Two days of attempted downloads were unsuccessful. I finally made the call to Sony USA 800 tech support provided the answer. After the installation of the companion software you will have to manually update the driver for Windows 7 by using Windows Vista 64 bit driver.
I did not keep exact notes on how I installed the device driver but it involved Device Manager and a Device Driver Install Wizard, a right click on something, then the Browse Button to get to: C:/Program Files (x86)/Sony/ICD-PX Series Driver as per Sony Tech Support Telephone Operator. However, a simpler way may be to go straight to the folder and double-click on PXDriverSetup.exe.
Is the NRA Finally Taking an Interest in This Blog?
I CHALLENGE THE NRA/SAF TO FACE THE ERRORS OF THEIR ARROGANCE!
The NRA in 2002 didn’t give a rat’s ass about my Second Amendment case for National Open Carry Handgun from a merchant seaman’s point of view.
Today, I caught the NRA with their hand in the Cookie Jar! (Statcounter web logger, see below).
Today, January 27, 2010, the NRA came snooping around my blog, excuse me, reading my blog 3 times after I posted my damning commentary slamming the NRA in my response to Ilya Shapiro’s article at the Cato Institute. What is the NRA up to. Damage control?
Ilya Shiparo of Cato Institute Confirms my Suspicion that the NRA (and SAF by Association) are More Interested in Glory for Themselves than for Your Constitutional Rights
Cato Institute - NRA Cares More about NRA Than Gun Rights, Liberty, Professional Courtesy, Tuesday, January 26, 2010:
by Ilya Shiparo, Cato Institute:
Yesterday the Supreme Court granted the NRA’s motion for divided argument in McDonald v. Chicago. What this means is that Alan Gura’s 30 minutes of argument time on behalf of Chicagoland gun owners just became 20, with 10 going to former Solicitor General Paul Clement, whom the NRA hired at the last minute to pursue this motion and argument. (Full disclosure: Alan Gura is a friend of mine, and of Cato.)
The NRA’s motion was premised on the idea that Alan had not fully presented the substantive due process argument for selective incorporation of the Second Amendment — presumably out of an outsized concern for the Privileges or Immunities Clause arguments about which I’ve previously blogged and written a law review article. This is a highly unusual argument and is a facial slap at Alan’s abilities as an advocate. Sadly, it’s also typical of how the NRA has behaved throughout this case and before that during the Heller litigation — sabotaging Alan at every turn and showing again and again that, even in the face of winning arguments that fully support its legal positions, the NRA prefers to seek glory for itself rather than presenting the strongest case for its purported constituency of gun owners.
Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Failure with Hodgkins Case Has Improved My Standing to Sue on “Preenforcement Challenge” Grounds!
WILL THIS ENTICE THE NRA AND SECOND AMDENDMENT FOUNDATION TO APPROACH ME WITH OFFER OF PRO BONO OR CONTINGENCY FEE REPRESENTATION? HMMMM. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. ARE THEY IN IT TO WIN THE FULL SCOPE OF SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS? OR ARE THEY IN IT JUST FOR FAME AND GLORY?
EXCERPT FROM MY FORTHCOMING ADMIRALTY LAWSUIT
A. Preenforcement Standing Under Maxwell Hodkins, et al, v. Eric Holder, U.S. District Court for DC, No. 09-0587-JR (January 5, 1010)
The Memorandum of Judge James Robertson, U.S. District Court for DC dismissing Maxwell Hodgkins, Steven Dearth, and Second Amendment Foundation v. Eric Holder, No. 09-0587-JR (January 5, 1010) for lack of standing in any of the plaintiffs. The presented constitutional challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(9) (does not allow any person “who does not reside in any State to receive any firearms unless such receipt is for lawful sporting purposes”) and 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(5) (prohibits the transfer of firearms to any person “who the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in . . . the State in which the transferor resides”). See ATF Form 4473, and 27 C.F.R. § 478.124(c)(1).
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U.S. Department of Justice, Arlington, VA (Robot?) Checked Out my Blog on Hodgkins v. Eric Holder Within 3 Hours of Posting!
CURIOUS EVENT! Is the U.S. Department of Justice using a CyberBot to collect data? Does anyone have information on this possibility?
On January 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM (East Coast Time) the U.S. Department of Justice, Arlington, Virginia got logged by my Statcounter WebLogger visiting my blog and clicking to read my posting on Maxwell v. Eric Holder case within 3 hours of my posting that commentary.
THEIR IP DATA PROVIDED BY ARIN WHOIS:
OrgName: US Dept of Justice OrgID: UDJ Address: P.O. Box 59110 City: Potomac StateProv: MD PostalCode: 20859 Country: US NetRange: 149.101.0.0 - 149.101.255.255 CIDR: 149.101.0.0/16 NetName: USDOJ NetHandle: NET-149-101-0-0-1 Parent: NET-149-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment NameServer: JUSTICE2.USDOJ.GOV NameServer: NS22.USDOJ.GOV Comment: RegDate: 1994-12-02 Updated: 2002-06-05 RTechHandle: ZU85-ARIN RTechName: U.S. Department of Justice RTechPhone: +1-202-305-2862 RTechEmail: EMWS@usdoj.gov OrgTechHandle: EXJ-ARIN OrgTechName: JMD-STS, EMWS X OrgTechPhone: +1-202-305-2862 OrgTechEmail: EMWS@usdoj.gov # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2010-01-07 20:00 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
January 5, 2010: Federal DC Judge Rightfully SLAMS Alan Gottlieb of Second Amendment Foundation in Maxwell Hodgkins, Stephen Dearth, and SAF v. Eric Holder
Plaintiffs Maxwell Hodgkins, Stephen Dearth, and Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, Inc. (“SAF”), presented constitutional challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(9) (does not allow any person “who does not reside in any State to receive any firearms unless such receipt is for lawful sporting purposes”) and 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(5) (prohibits the transfer of firearms to any person “who the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in . . . the State in which the transferor resides”).
January 5, 2010: Judge James Robertson, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed Maxwell Hodgkins, et al. v. Eric Holder, No. 09-0587-JR sponsored by Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation.
