If He Ain't A Hypocrite, He's Close
Published by BG on Friday, June 08, 2007 at 2:36 PM.Power Line: The sidelines for Newt?
Phillip Klein at the American Spectator blog reports on Newt Gingrich's appearance before the American Enterprise Institute. According to Klein, Gingrich remained coy about whether he would run for president, but suggested he may be able to accomplish more by staying out of the race and focusing on developing and spreading ideas for confronting our nation's challenges.
Gingrich had kind words for Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson. He was more critical of John McCain, stating that McCain faces the "greatest challenge" in terms of capturing the nomination. Gingrich also referred to McCain-Feingold as the first legislation to try to silence dissent since the Alien & Sedition Acts, and he blasted the McCain-Kennedy immigration legislation.
Newt Gingrich is for freedom of speech? This Newt Gingrich?
Newt Gingrich - Winning the Future
And, my prediction to you is that ether before we lose a city, or if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.
This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to proactively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement.
Free speech, so long as it's either via soft money contributions or fits my idea of acceptable is okay. Brown people using the Internets? Keep an eye on them, and let's not worry about whether what we're doing is constitutional - we'll just try them on Fox News for a cycle or two, and then disappear them down the memory hole.
9/11!
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