Free Your Mind

Sorry for the long lag in posting, I have had a couple of big things come up recently, things I will post about soon, but for today I just have to pass on one quote.

Last night Ann Coulter spoke at KU. As could be expected, she was heckled and yelled at by people who were scared to hear what she had to say. I can't think of any other reason that you would buy a ticket to an event and then yell at the speaker. You will notice that this is a practice that our liberal friends indulge in regularly, but you never see conservatives participate in. When the Kerry-Edwards train stopped in Lawrence you didn't see young College Republicans yelling at them, trying to make it so people couldn't hear what they had to say, I doubt President Bush would receive the same courtesy from young liberals.

The reason is simple, conservatives can listen and respond in a civil manner because they know they are right. They know they have the facts on their side and that when people have all the facts they agree. Liberals don't have that advantage. The more you know about the policies they propose, and the results those policies have achieved in the past, the less you want anything to do with them.

The result is that liberals will keep yelling "Nazi", "Idiot", "Bush is stupid" and a host of clever rhyming sing song chants instead of actually debating issues and letting people who disagree with them speak. It is a sad day when you have so little to contribute that the only way you can win is by preventing people from hearing what others have to say.

Anyway, here is the quote from the article in the Lawrence Journal World:

"Some of the protesters, such as Robert Richardson, said they were members of the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics.

"We're just not open-minded enough to like Ann Coulter," Richardson, 28, of Lawrence, said."

Timothy Burger