One of the people in my neighborhood has seen fit to put up a series of signs criticizing President Obama. New Orleans is not known for its conservative bent with the city being largely made up of blacks who vote strongly Democrat and white students and artists, who vote Communist with Brad Pitt. If you read the story closely, you'll note that no one seemed bothered by these until a local radio station had a show on it, and then the "offended" people had to actively seek out the signs to be offended by them. Then, all of a sudden it was such an offense (despite apparently having been up for many months previously)that protesters showed up, that former Mayor Ray Nagin (and here I thought he had taken his "chocolate city" campaign to Dallas, hell, he didn't even come down for Katrina) and Councilwoman Susan Guidry (a former community activist) had to show up to talk to the homeowner. Notice how she basically says she's going to look for any excuse to find them illegal and then weakly modifies it with "of course we have to balance that with First Amendment rights." Clearly, Mrs. Guidry feels that city zoning ordinances trump free speech concerns. Yet these vital ordinances didn't seem to be a problem until a radio show Wednesday morning.
What you see is the essence of modern liberalism: political correctness over individual freedom. Group rights over individual rights. Silencing the dissent. President Obama has done it from day one, starting with his 2008 campaign's "Fight the Smears" to the "flag" e-mail site to the new "Attack Watch" web campaigns.
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