Kerry Attacks Bush, Goes On to Complain About "Intolerance" for Dissent

It's a farily consistent theme for the left:

Go out and make the most outrageous attacks and wild charges against President Bush, and by extension all those who voted for him, then complain that those who criticize your tired screeds are trying to limit your rights to free speech. Of course it doesn't hurt to add that opponents who fail to embrace your rejected ideology are "unpatriotic" for their criticism.

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry was at it again this past weekend in a speech he delivered in Grinnell, Iowa. A few choice bits:

• Kerry accused the Bush administration on Saturday of stirring up a "spirit of intolerance" to suppress dissent over the war in Iraq.
• "Although no one is being jailed today for speaking out against the war in Iraq, the spirit of intolerance for dissent has risen steadily, and the habit of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic has become the common currency of the politicians currently running our country."
• "Dismissing dissent is not only wrong but dangerous when America's leadership is unwilling to admit mistakes, unwilling to engage in honest discussion and unwilling to hold itself accountable for the consequences of decisions made without genuine disclosure or genuine debate."

No dissent? No accountability? Did Kerry see the harangue that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld received from a left wing moonbat at a public meeting in Atlanta? The same scene has been played out in countless encounters between left wing activists and leaders of our government. Maybe we need to ask Kerry to define his terms. Would he say: "Depends on what the meaning of the word 'dissent' is?"

And perhaps we need to ask Kerry to name JUST ONE GOP LEADER who has ever called a Democrat, or dissenter "unpatriotic."

I do recall Teresa Heinz Kerry calling Vice President Cheney "unpatriotic" for daring to criticize her husband during the runup to the election.

This is just another tired variation of the "chill wind blowing in this nation" crapola that has been pushed by Hollywood half-wits like actor Tim Robbins.

Yeah, there's a chill wind all right, but it comes from the oh so tolerant left. Here are a few recent examples:

• At a church discussion on immigration in Chicago, the meeting was brought to an end as angry protestors objected to the presence of the Minutemen, a border security action group. "How can you have 'minutemen' in here and say you're respecting God?" was followed by chants of "Hitler rose, Hitler fell, racist minuteman go to hell."
• Students at Boston College rallied Monday to demand the invitation to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice to deliver the commencement address be withdrawn. An online petition objecting to Secretary Rice's visit described here as: "A Secretary of State who supports morally reprehensible policies both at home in the United States and abroad....While we are not in favor of censorship...(editor: yeah, right!)
• Students and faculty at the New School in New York are demanding that an invitation to John McCain to deliver the commencement address be withdrawn. The faculty petition states "While affirming that the university has an obligation to offer access to views that might be rejected by many among us"...[editor: BUT] " Senator McCain's voting record and public pronouncements are starkly at odds with the progressive social values for which this university once stood, and which we want to see upheld."
• Threatening violence, a socialist group at University of Santa Cruz forced military recruiters to leave a campus job fair in April.

And of course we could go on and on and on with the above list. During the 2004 presidential election we had countless reports of gunshots fired into GOP campaign headquarters, organized union invasions of headquarters and multiple acts of vandalism against automobiles or property displaying Bush/Cheney signs.

But the example which so perfectly illustrates the left's tolerance for opposing views has to be the scene of union thugs yelling at three year old Sophia Parlock as she sat on her father's shoulders at a John Kerry airport arrival event. One union thug tore the Bush sign from her hands and ripped it up.

See the Mike's America February, 2006 wrap up of left hate for details.

Amazing how left wing fascists use brown shirt thuggery to shut down opposing views, then turn around and shout "HITLER" at the rest of us. Perhaps John Kerry can have a word with his own brownshirt gangs about the need for tolerance.