How Not to Act

I want you to watch this video.

It’s a clip from The O’Reilly Factor with guest host Laura Ingraham in which she discusses disruptions by the far left. What I really want you to pay attention to are the videos they show. Someone rushed the stage while Alberto Gonzales is speaking, dressed in a prisoner uniform and a black bag on his head (depicting inmates Abu Ghraib). Another man rushes the stage with a sign that says Habeas Corpus.

Both these acts show the irresponsibly and sheer foolishness of far-left activist. But they also show their hypocrisy. The left loves to tout that they are “all for free speech,” yet it would appear they’re only “for it” if they are the ones conducting it. Free speech isn’t free speech when it interrupts someone elses free speech.

And this isn’t the first time this has happened.

Far-left loons, at a CIA recruitment session, dressed up as clowns and staged a fake water boarding driving the CIA out.

There was the woman with blood on her hands that ran up to Condoleezza Rice and waved her hands in Condi’s face.

There was the idiots who stormed, and almost knocked over, Ann Coulter at a speech she was giving. So much for peaceful protest.

And we can’t forget the countless times that a “9/11 Truther” has interrupted speeches and even TV shows with their lunacy.

This just goes to show that the right is simply more civilized than the far left. Not even the main stream media can find video of people from the far-right disrupting speeches or TV shows. For example, no right wing lune rushed the stage when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia.

To explain my point here the best I can I’ll use a liberal saying that is used to support censorship. “If you don’t like what’s on the channel, change it.”

Same thing applies here. If you don’t like who’s speaking, don’t go. If you don’t agree with them you have every right to protest, peacefully and without disrupting the speaker. And generally a good place for that is outside. You are perfectly welcome to come inside and listen to the speaking, so long as you can put on your big boy panties and deal with it.

This all goes back to my belief of having respect for everyone, regardless of their political views. I’m not the biggest fan of Bill Maher, but if I heard that he was coming to Metro Detroit area, I certainly wouldn’t plan a stage rush just to prove my point. Let’s be honest, the morons that rush the stage usually don’t get their point across, they simply make fools of themselves.

The best way to get your view heard is to do so intelligently. Do it with respect and dignity. By rushing the stage you just look like some pansy that wants to get their 15 minutes of fame. Go read a book, go research your viewpoint, and then get back to me.

Let me put it this way. In this country you’re allowed to have an opinion, you’re allowed to express that opinion, but you’re not allowed to express that opinion in a way that would suppress another persons opportunity to express their opinion. It doesn’t matter if you’re an arrogant, obnoxious think-you-know-it-all-left-wing-slob, the rules are the same.

–jb