Free Will And Speech - ILANA MERCER

“What we observe in the political landscape is a function and a reflection of human nature, acting in aggregate. Over and above the idea that we get the government that we deserve is the devastating reality that this government doesn’t stand apart from us. It is us.”—ILANA Mercer, “2-Party Pox: The Republicans Suck AND The Democrats Want To Kill You,” May 26, 2022.
“In 1978, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ‘took a controversial stand for free speech by defending a neo-Nazi group that wanted to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, where many Holocaust survivors lived.’ As a free-speech absolutist, a term Elon Musk has revived, I long for the return of what I shall term here the Skokie Standard of free speech and thinking.”—ILANA Mercer, “Ukraine’s Azov Battalion: Nazis Or Just Nationalists?“, May 12, 2022
“Let us be clear on what free speech truly is. The words people speak, write, tweet; the beliefs they are known to hold, the flags they fly, the symbolic, non-violent ceremonies and rituals they enact, the insignia, paraphernalia, the goose-stepping, Hitler salutes they dick around with—all that is protected speech, licit in natural law.”—ILANA Mercer, “Ukraine’s Azov Battalion: Nazis Or Just Nationalists?“, May 12, 2022
“So long as these oddities and idiosyncrasies, whether performed alone or in groups, thoughts harbored or shared in public—so long as no violence accompanies such speech or behavior (prohibited here is violence visited on animals as well); so long as mitts stop at the next man’s face: SPEECH. It’s all speech. It should be free, unfettered and as wild and as wanton as it can be.”—ILANA Mercer, “Ukraine’s Azov Battalion: Nazis Or Just Nationalists?“, May 12, 2022
“Spoken, written, preached: Impolite and impolitic thoughts are nothing more than thought crimes which ought to be ferociously protected by a free people. By logical extension, any accusations of Naziism—if leveled at a belief system, rather than at palpable violent actions—is suspect.”—ILANA Mercer, “Ukraine’s Azov Battalion: Nazis Or Just Nationalists?“, May 12, 2022
“Thoughts and words spoken or written that are not politically polite—for example, racism; Naziism—ought to retain protected status as speech beyond the adjudication of law-makers, bureaucrats, mediacrats, educrats and technocrats.”—ILANA Mercer, “Ukraine’s Azov Battalion: Nazis Or Just Nationalists?“, May 12, 2022
“In the current climate, I had suggested—and considering the inherently paranoid style of American politics—it’s worth contemplating special protections for politically impolite, racist speech.”—ILANA Mercer, “Ukraine’s Azov Battalion: Nazis Or Just Nationalists?“, May 12, 2022
“If America’s so free and fair, why is Julian Assange, innocent in natural law, so terrified of being extradited to the USA? And why must journalist Glenn Greenwald live abroad, after heroically helping whistleblower Edward Snowden, now safely ensconced in Russia? American heroes living abroad for fear of the American Security State? Time perhaps to shut up about China?”—ILANA Mercer, “Extradited! Why Assange Fears Being ‘Epsteined’“, December 23, 2021.
“All you and I really deserve, as innocent, law-abiding individuals, is to have unfettered access to social-media’s irreplaceable public square–to Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, PayPal and other banking facilities–without being singled out for excommunication absent a crime. What are we, social lepers?“—ILANA Mercer, “Big Tech’s Financial Terrorism And Social Excommunication (Part 1: The Problem),” August 5, 2021.
“In their weak case against Deep Tech, Republicans are still defending only some speech on the merits, rather than all speech, no matter how meritless.”—ILANA Mercer, “Big Tech’s Financial Terrorism And Social Excommunication (Part 1: The Problem),” August 5, 2021.
“Racism—systemic or other—remains nothing but thought crime: Impolite and impolitic thoughts, spoken, written or preached.”—ILANA Mercer, “‘Systemic Racism’ Or Systemic Rubbish?” August 6, 2020.
“By Candace Owens’ consistent line of argument on Mr. Carlson’s TV slot, the Democrats made some Africa-Americans simulate coitus and engage in an orgiastic celebration of murder and mayhem around the vans of the emergency medical technicians. In all, ‘The Democrats made them riot and rut’ argument is doo-doo. It doesn’t fly, and it’s pretty bad moral reductionism.”—ILANA Mercer, “Candace On Tucker Is Wrong About ‘Riot And Rut’ Crowd,” June 24, 2021
“Free people associate and dissociate at will.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020
“Thought crimes are nobody’s business in free societies.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020
“In free societies, the role of law enforcement agencies is to police corporeal crime—the kind that injures property and person. Thought crimes, when voiced, hurt only feelings.”—ILANA Mercer, “An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1),” December 9, 2020.
“To intellectually disembowel the Left, the Right must unapologetically reject the very idea of policing, purging and persecuting people for holding and expressing politically unpopular ideas.”—ILANA Mercer, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!” August 20, 2020.
“In the current climate—and considering the inherently paranoid style of American politics—it’s worth contemplating special protections for politically impolite, racist speech, to be offered by a loose association of employers in the private sector and across civil society.”—ILANA Mercer, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!” August 20, 2020.
“First-Amendment jurisprudence is just as clear-cut with respect to the great guerrilla journalism of WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks operators have committed no crime in publishing what is undeniably true, newsworthy information. Antsy America has no jurisdiction over a foreign entity (WikiLeaks) and its proprietor (Julian Assange).”—ILANA Mercer, “Assange is Us,” December 10, 2010.
“WikiLeaks’ proprietor has martyred himself in the cause of truth. Without fear or favor, Julian Assange has exposed the workings of business and government alike, Republican and Democrat—from Facebook, Google and Yahoo’s ‘built-in interfaces for US intelligence,’ to the clandestine wheeling-and-dealing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, to the neoconservatives’ war-crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Proof Is NOT IN The Putin,” Dec 15, 2016.
“For the sins of man, hard leftists blame society, and hard-core libertarians saddle the state. ‘The State made me do it’ is how such social determinism can be summed-up.”—ILANA (June 6, 2009)
“To say… that the state’s laws made masses of men and women commit … crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.”—ILANA (May 4, 2007)
“In the ‘progressive’s’ universe, evil actions don’t incriminate, they mitigate. Rather than signify a lack of moral fiber, the criminality of the darling buds of France—her raging Muslim youths— is said to be a symptom of inadequate freebies and fraternité.”—ILANA (November 11, 2005)
“The philosopher and distinguished psychiatrist Viktor Frankl said this of his experience in Auschwitz: ‘In the camps one lost everything, except the last of the human freedoms, to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.’ You can see why liberals have always preferred Freud to Frankl. Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.”—ILANA (December 29, 2004)
“In every situation, no matter the constraints, one can exercise some free will, even if it’s only to decide how to respond to a hopeless predicament.”—ILANA (March 20, 2002)

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