The Price of Free Speech

A recent political debate between Illinois Democratic Rep. Melissa Bean and her GOP challenger Joe Walsh provides a look at the intolerance of the socialist left and how their notion of free speech being free only if you agree with them is closer to the Castro brothers than the Founding Fathers.

Rep. Bean and her challenger squared off in a local high school in a debate moderated by league member Kathy Tate-Bradish.  In evaluating her bona fides as an impartial moderator know please that Ms. Tate-Bradish is also a member of Organize for America, Pres. Obama's scam to register Democrat voters and have you and I pay for it.

 Also note that Ms. Tate-Bradish is a former member of ACORN, the disgraced community organizing group with which Pres. Obama was formerly associated. To give her credit, she also teaches sex education at an AIDS clinic in Africa.

During her introductions of the candidates, someone from the local audience asked if they could begin by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Ms. Tate-Bradish said no. Click over to You Tube to see what happened next.

Ms. Tate-Bradish gave it the academic suede show act to try and lecture the audience about why they had erred by expressing their fidelity to their country and not being stifled by an academic hard core leftist. Somebody should have shown her a road map of her location-middle America.

Perhaps no incident in the last two weeks has shown the dichotomy in American than this. On one hand you have people like Ms. Tate-Bradish's audience. People who understand the greatness of this country, feel a debt to those who have gone before and created that country, and are unashamed to express their loyalty to it. On the other hand you have people like Ms. Tate-Bradish herself. People who believe that most Americans are stupid and need an elite class to think for them, who believe that reciting the Pledge or singing the national anthem are hopelessly outdated, and who look down on the rest of us who think the Pledge is as meaningful today as when it was first penned by Francis Bellamy. Frankly, I'm happy to be counted in the first group.

Just thought you might like to know.