I don’t need a reason to write the truth. If you want a reason, then it’s a debate. Your position then becomes that I need a reason. Then it moves to whether the reason is agreeable or not to you. And my counter position is that I don’t need a reason.

Why do people write blog posts that may or may not be true? You don’t ask that question here, I have observed. But you asked it of me. That was interesting.

I know you weren’t asking me to apologize for it.

I know you weren’t questioning validity of the comments, your position was presented as a neutral question.

You had not written “that’s not true”, because you were waiting for something to disagree with ; )

Since I wasn’t writing what I knew of VoxDay to get into an argument, I didn’t respond that way. The easiest way not to get into an argument is to change the topic or stop communicating.

Wasn’t asking you to apologize for anything.

I also wasn’t questioning validity. I was questioning the point of the comment, wondering ‘Where is he going with that?”. (I like a good debate as much as the next guy). Hence the ‘And?’ and not the “That’s not true!” or that old standby, “That’s irrelevant!” (both of which you will note I did not say).

And?

And it’s true. What else do ya need.

Not gonna apologize for writing the truth either.

We have to champion free thought and free expression of that thought, as well as actions that are taken in the real world that flow from our thoughts.

That doesn’t work when people go Full Alinsky.

And, if they are really cooking, they hope they can crush anyone not toeing their line, to serve as an example of what happens when you don’t.

It seems to me that the only recourse we have to defend ourselves is to mock and resist–both passively, and, if we can, very actively–to slap down each and every such attempt by the Left or some individual Leftist or group of Leftists to force our thoughts, words, and deeds into the “correct” pattern that they dictate.

We have to champion free thought and free expression of that thought, as well as actions that are taken in the real world that flow from our thoughts.

The mind is–at least so far–the ultimate fortress; they can’t know what your actual thoughts are.

As in the old Soviet Union–that was just one gigantic lie, from top to bottom and back to front, inside and out–people paid lip service to the “party line,” did what they had to do to survive within that system, but knew what the actual reality was, and when the chance came to be free, they were.

I have seen people who lived in the former U.S.S.R. comment there and there that they see ominous signs of the kinds of things they lived through and saw in the old U.S.S.R. creeping into our country.

I would pay very close attention when someone who grew up in the old U.S.S.R., someone who has lived under those conditions, warns us that he or she sees and recognizes the signs that we are edging closer and closer to replicating the conditions of coerced mental slavery they lived through here in the U.S.

And?

VoxDay picked up a lot of his tactics from Alinsky. It took him quite awhile to go from moderate Christian to living in Italy and giving up on the US political experiment.

And make sure that he understands, no matter how much pressure is exerted Never Apologize.

Never ever ever ever ever…