It's pretty funny how the same demographic that boos candidates who talk about the threat of terrorism and condemns it as Orwellian, is at the heart of it so fundamentally Orwellian themselves. It's just another reminder that the people who co-opted Orwell to describe any policy they didn't like, never understood him in the first place.
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Of course.
Free speech right up until they are disagreed with.
Then whoever is making the "free speech" is really a mole.
Check out this site, btw. I think it'd be interesting to run this on the Ron Paul movement.
http://www.neopagan.net/ABCDEF.html
Ignore the "Neopagan" in the domainname. It doesn't change the content of the page.
On a related line of thought, check out this RPF thread where they espouse pretending to be new converts in blog comments and venues for internet feedback:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=96839
Their justification: people are "sheep" anyway, so might as well have them be led by the Good Shepherd Ron Paul than by the neocon right. They say as much in the eagerly agreeing responses.
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