The land of free speech?

Editor's note: The author, a Chinese immigrant, is executive director of Alliance for a Sustainable USA, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland.

[Andrews]

Yeh Ling-Ling understands this issue and makes undeniable points that
confound the left wing open borders crowd whose crocodile tears have not
convinced Legal Citizens to give Amnesty to foot soldiers of Mexico's Agenda
to create an Illegal Mexican Nation loyal to Mexico First within the borders of the USA !!

[Jimi]

Political correctness long ago stiffled any honest discussions in America. It's now morphed into international affairs. We act like a paper tiger to the threats of the world. Rather than confront threats, we appologize for our offense. The end result will not be good. The last time this was tried it created WW2.

[Brian]

It seems like we are becoming more like a nation of cowards, then a nation that stands up to individual rights, including free speech. I believe illegal immigration will negatively impact our country, and it is not racist to speak out against it. I worry about the impact to my children when I consider how the population will grow close to 450 million people by 2040, largely due to illegal and legal immigration. Can our country sustain that type of growth and maintain our way of life. I don't think so. So when people worry about the impact to families when illegal immigrants are deported, consider the impact to your children's future, if nothing is done.

[lsjogren]

The field of journalism, which once spawned courageous practitioners who encouraged public discourse and investigated corruption by public officials, are now drooling footsoldiers of the political establishment.

However much journalists get paid, it is too much, because they have turned their profession into a cancer on our nation rather than the noble seeker of social progress that it once was.

[The Redskin Redneck]

Brilliant article by Yeh Ling-Ling. How right she is. People in authoritarian systems around the world protest them at the risk of death, and Americans who have a right to portest under the Constitutuion, sit around and take the abuse these politcians and corporations give them every day. Illegal Immigrations job killing and wage depressing effects, the forced subsidizing of for instance, Mexico's population when millions of Americans are struggling. Yet, we take it all.

[Wanglow]

Closer to home we stand daily witness to the selective removal of most intellegent comments that are contrary to the editor of the TH. It is alright to trade childish insults, discuss genitalia, critize decent law-abiding people (simply because they are non-minoroties), make serious threats of physical violence, and generally insult the knowledge and experience of our citizens, but to call upon the trash in this town to take responsibility for the problems they and the democrat "party" have saddled US with is too much for these defenders of "free speech" to stomach. As long as the poster goes along with the brain-dead liberal "Hope and Change" agenda they can say what they will, but tell the truth about the criminal welfare class, about the crooks in city hall (past and present), or dare critize the most detrimental and harmful administration is US history and the little girl down at the TH will delete your message. There is going to be a huge backlash and these anti-American drones will not escape the light of justice.

[Yes]

HELP STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.......MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD: http://www.numbersusa.com/content/

[Haha]

All well said.

Come out and let your voice be heard!
http://www.teapartyday.com/Locations.aspx

There is also a roving tea party going to the USA capital...
around sept.
I need to find the link.

[Max]

Free speech means that people get to tell you when what you say offends them, or if what you said is blatantly false. We are free to say whatever we want in America, and then the rest of America is free to tell us how they feel about, this is debate.

As far as immigration, every employer who hires an illegal immigrant should be thrown in jail. Amnesty only makes sense if it forces now-illegals to compete on an even footing with American's for jobs. Let's crack down on the black market for labor. Nobody should be allowed to undercut our labor laws, and businesses who practice in this type of behavior should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for ruining the market for the honest American worker.

[Barb]

And every time a illegal female here has a child in one of the hospitals that has not closed up yet, it costs the taxpayer around $10,000.00 per birth. And that don't include all the goodies afterward. All of these people need to be deported. You begin to wonder where will this country grow the food that will be needed and where will they get the water? With endless legal immigration with no thought to the future at all. Some of the larger cities already look like third world countries with no end in sight that I can see.

[Anonymous]

RED ALERT -- La Raza: "If the American people found out..."
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/06/red-...

"Suzanne", a female caller to Mark Levin's show on June 25th, revealed the ominous secret of the Democrat health care reform effort.......

I want to tell you that last week I attended a conference on health care reform sponsored by La Raza. And I will tell you that what they had to say, Mark, is scarier than anything that's been said so far on the health care plan. The kind of comments that were made and the notes that I took... they started the conference out by saying "America does not need health care reform, but Latino immigrants need health care reform."

[Joe G]

Political correctness is the scourge of our times -- and it has hurt the interest of minorities by preventing an open discussion of the real issues that concern them. We need to be more tolerant in this country -- and sometimes that includes tolerating some intolerance.

[John D]

WOW - so it's really true - in tough times, many people look for scapegoats. And why are most of these posts from anywhere but here?

[John D]

And Wanglow - "the trash in this town"? Holy Toledo. You're walking the streets with six shooters stapped on, right?

[The Sweede]

Politically correct speech was the beginning of the end of free speech. It only serves to seperate and catagorize--not a healthy alrternative, but gobbled up by millions under the guise of creating a more pleasant atmosphere and one of acceptence. It's funny to read the paper and listen to the talking heads on the news (doesn't matter which network) as they try to be politically correct and fail without even noticing or caring--it is truly a joke.

Hanging out with a group of my Indian friends I referred to them as them 'Native Americans' and we all just cracked up, they were kind enough to call me 'Sweedish American' instead of that bland old 'caucasian' word so my feelings wouldn't be hurt!(for those of you who might be all offended relax-that was sarcastic--the Indian in my veins hardly shows anymore cause it has been bleached out by those damned Sweedes!)

Hey, be sure to check out the Pow Wow later this month down at the waterfront, it's a great experience for the kids and whole family.

[Telmark]

The land of "politically correct" free speech is more like it.

Free speech has been replaced with "politically correct free speech" that is, all too often, filled with nothing but name calling and profanity.

[SAM]

Joe G wrote:

Political correctness is the scourge of our times -- and it has hurt the interest of minorities by preventing an open discussion of the real issues that concern them. We need to be more tolerant in this country -- and sometimes that includes tolerating some intolerance.

Political correctness keeps us from calling
"a spade a spade"

You never say the truth. You tiptoe and allude to what it is not. Never hit the nail on the head-and then life will reflect it.

Everyone wants to conform and not stick out and then go watch more mind numbing must see tv!

It hurts everyone except the promoters of this-and yes it does serve the purposes of some!

It hurts minorities no less than the majority!

What damage does mistruth do?!!!!

[Wanglow]

Notice the usual black apologists saying things about white people being pedophiles, making disgusting remarks about genitalia, even threats of murder; yet the editor of the Times Herald allows these morons to blog at will. But make a comment about the true cause of the violent crime, and it's source and you will be banned from the site. Wanglow will continue to operate from his mobile hidden bunker and will say what most everyone knows but are afraid to say. We're going to find out who has blocked us. The First Amendment to the US Constitution applies to ALL people, not just the liberal left.

[Shay58]

Wanglow wrote:

Notice the usual black apologists saying things about white people being pedophiles, making disgusting remarks about genitalia, even threats of murder; yet the editor of the Times Herald allows these morons to blog at will. But make a comment about the true cause of the violent crime, and it's source and you will be banned from the site. Wanglow will continue to operate from his mobile hidden bunker and will say what most everyone knows but are afraid to say. We're going to find out who has blocked us. The First Amendment to the US Constitution applies to ALL people, not just the liberal left.

Now is this anyway for one of our fine, upstanding city leaders to talk?

[Rick]

GO BARACK!!!!!!