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And Then They Came For Me...

6/7/2019

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Rick Robinson

Everyone says we’re headed for another Civil War. I say we’re in one now. It is a cold civil war and the battle lines are being drawn in cyberspace. (I freely admit I am old, so do they even call the internet cyberspace anymore?) Orwell once said, “Those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past.” As we marked the 75
th anniversary of D-Day, it’s important to remember that when we defeated Nazi Germany we dealt a great blow to fascism, but it still exists today.  Now instead of waging war with bullets, bombs, and guns, we are doing so in the marketplace of ideas, and they are winning.

Fascism has recently been wrapped in phrases like “political correctness.” We watched this happen in real time this week as half the country cheered as Youtube restricted content, while the rest of us looked on in shock. For some of us the shock was accompanied by horror because we have seen these types of things before.  When did we as adults forget how to police our own lives? Isn’t that what the people who are trying to censor everything now used to say when the shoe was on the other foot? “If you don’t like vulgar music, don’t buy it! If you don’t like nudity on television, don’t watch it!” On and on down the list they went telling us we should be adult enough to police our own lives. So we did and we learned to adapt but that wasn’t enough, it’s never enough.

As the needle has moved and now that technology affords everyone a mobile soap box through platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, suddenly the very same people who told us to be adults about what content we ingest have decided it’s their turn with the censor button. We’ve started seeing phrases such as “Healthy speech is just as important as free speech!”  My question: Who determines what healthy speech is? And what does that even mean? I’m both happy and sad that George Carlin is not alive to see the current state of “free speech” in America.
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For those of you eagerly watching YouTube destroy thousands of hours of blood, sweat, and tears, or Facebook and Twitter purging people for wrong-think while you cheer, remember we warned you. We warned you that once they start the Thought Police never stop, they only change targets and eventually you will be in their crosshairs. May not be today, maybe not even tomorrow, but it will happen.  ​

Rick Robinson is a syndicated talk show host, the Programming Director at KLRNRadio.com, and a contributor for both Misfits Politics and The NOQ Report.
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Rowdy Ron D
6/7/2019 01:42:32 pm

A warning to the left concerning the peril they put themselves in is not one they will heed. The left at this point in history recognizes that they were defeated at the end of WWII and culminating with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But they were not totally crushed. Their ideology lived on in China, Cuba, and parts of Central and South America. For this reason they know they have only this one last chance to eradicate individual freedom from the face of the earth because they know, we will not make the same mistake again. This is, literally the last chance for both sides of this battle. I urge freedom loving people to recognize it as such because the left already does and the gloves have come off.

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Chris Christensen
6/7/2019 07:55:58 pm

Excellent!

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Rick Robinson link
6/8/2019 12:42:02 pm

Chris, thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to read the piece!

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bhm
6/9/2019 02:16:32 pm

Excellent piece Rick.
I'd like add that Left/Progs are trying to normalize things that are not. And if you dare to disagree, you're labeled a *phobic' or *icsts. For example, that (at last count) there's 26 genders, men have periods, men have babies, playing word gymnastics...that a fetus doesn't have a heartbeat, it has an 'embryonic pulse,' thus attempting to deny it's a human life, and, ideas like..a 3 year old can decide for itself whether or not they're a male or a female. Maybe it's me? I'm 52.
I try to be open minded, but I can't get onboard with the above said examples.
Am I close minded? If I disagree with any of their ideas and/or actions, they would have me and others think I am.
I fear for humanity and America if a Democrats win control.
Falling off a cliff is the new 'slippery slope.'

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Rick Robinson link
6/9/2019 02:34:36 pm

I completely agree! I will be completely honest. I didn't vote for Trump in 2016. I thought he was boorish! That being said I cannot watch this country slide any more into fascism and socialism and that's all the left cares about anymore.

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