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If freedom of expression is faced with the threat of illegal violence, freedom should be curtailed.

...So now it's ethical to give in to violent mobs.

The Tea Party has gotten beaten up for the past year for embodying a threat of violence that doesn't actually exist.

The lesson we are getting is that maybe it should.  After all, if you want something, the ethical thing is to threaten somone who disagrees with you.

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Desk Set
Pleasing Siamese and Line-up (from a week ago)

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MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer was frustrated that the latest terrorism attempt turned out to be by Yet Another Islamic Radical.  Unfortunately for her, she was dumb enough to talk about it on the record.  James Lileks pounces.


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1 Yea, verily.  And it doesn't hurt that the link goes to someone legitimately crushworthy.  

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...This story is much more important than the accusation of fifteen racists among the thousands of protesters that day. This is now about the accusers. It’s not just that Congressmen Carson’s accusation of an extraordinary racist verbal assault by the tea party participants on March 20 doesn’t appear to have occurred, it’s that the accusers have now gone into the bunker and, having raised the incendiary subject, are doing everything they can to avoid the discussion.
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When I offered a reward of $100,000 to be donated to the United Negro College Fund if anyone produced video and audio evidence that this occurred, I was accused of a publicity stunt (because everyone knows that the best way to get publicity in America is to accuse a civil rights icon of lying about racism). Rep. Carson himself suggested that my challenge was “a veiled attempt to justify actions that are simply unjustifiable.” Get it? He calls protesters racist and if you ask him to prove it, you’re a racist, too.

Needless to say, no one has claimed the $100,000.

...We have spent the last three weeks searching for any evidence that might support the allegations, without any help from the accusers. The primary accuser, Congressman Carson, who audaciously claimed the crowd screamed the “N-word fifteen times,” would not return our call.
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Congressman Carson refuses to respond to our requests because he can’t answer questions that deserve answers...

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...but “alot” said.

Via:  Holmes
(No, not him.  Sorry, not that one, either.)

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