Bob Filner, the pervert progressive mayor of San Diego, (“let me stick my tongue down your throat; please don’t wear underwear to the office.”) is also another California speech regulator. Filner supports forced government speech through government funding of political campaigns, and a variety of other familiar free speech regulations.
“the suit seems to be more promotion and harassment than an attempt to change the law. Would the plaintiffs prefer a public campaign financing program in San Diego?”
The comments demonstrate the arrogance of many in the speech regulation universe, so convinced of the rightness of their position, they don’t take anyone seriously who disagrees with them. They must certainly be right. They must certainly be better qualified to decide who may talk and who may not. They don’t appreciate disagreement with efforts to regulate speech. Diversity of opinion, to them, consists of people with different last names offering the same opinion. Efforts to fund a vibrant debate are met with threats of criminal prosecution.
That’s what thugs throughout history have done – devise ways to threaten people with whom they disagree by crafting laws facially benign but ultimately malignant. People like Filner oppose freedom and individual liberty and concoct schemes to take away that freedom of speech and sell it as something desirable.
They fear vibrant debate more than they fear the government, despite the lessons of history.
We’ve seen perverts like Filner before, and we’ll see it again. We’ve seen attacks of freedom before, like San Diego’s, and given the well funded and overly-respected activity of the speech regulators, we are sure to see continued efforts to move power away from the people to the government.