Addendum to "The Party of Mandatory Assent"
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In our immediately preceding post, The Party of Mandatory Assent, we concluded that:
What weaves all these threads together is a common theme of “winning” debate — legislative, administrative, judicial, and academic — by gagging the opposition, by mandating assent, by locking out dissenters, and by throwing freedom of speech under the bus of the permanent campaign.
Bearing that in mind, here’s another datum; this comes from the post “Free speech for me - not for thee,” by Mark J. Fitzgibbons; I think you’ll see the relevance:
I recently received a direct mail fundraising appeal from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) that contained a premium (direct mail term for ‘freebie’). The letter was signed by Senator John Kerry. The premium was a flexible magnet, the type people put on their refrigerators and such.
The magnet read: STAND FOR CHANGE — SILENCE GOP LIES
Silence them? Does the fundraising appeal also include a free SEIU t-shirt and standard-issue truncheon?
Submitted for your thoughtful consideration…
