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Libertarian left

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-27 12:47

I just took this quiz
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
i got in the middle of the libertarian left box.
What is this exactly? Whats a libertarian leftist?

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-28 13:58

Here we see a dismayingly common problem these days: just cos censorship's corporate and not goverment, they think it's not really censorship. It's a problem cos it still is censorship, cos it still promotes one view, cos it still forbids free speech for dissidents.

I think it was Noam Chomski that once commented that the Soviet Union under Stalin and the Third Reich under Hitler both had relatively absolute free speech -- for people that agreed with the man on top.

If the US is to have real freedom of speech, then, just to name one example, a girl group from Texas should be able to express disdain for sharing home state with a certain president, without there being disproportionate repercussions. Like death threats.

Also, one aught to be able to point out the physical courage required to undergo a suicide strike (like 9/11), without everybody and his pet German Shepard suddenly pretending that there no longer is a difference between physical courage (to do something you know is gonna kill you) and moral courage (to back out when you realise what you're doing is at best stupid). But then, even over here I heard those voices that questioned the courage of those that "didn't dare" march with Der Busch. All while us over here (especially Germans) knew all to well where we'd heard that kind of talk before.

FYI, the last time that kind of assaults on free speech was norm over here, the boss' name was Adolf Hitler. He was also the last one here to arrange book burnings (cough couch Harry Potter cough cough), the previous one being the Spanish Inquisition.

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