All of us are equal, but some are more equal than others

Matt Margolis ruminates on how the perception of "Free speech and expression" only seems to go one way:


The "Unassailable" Cindy Sheehan

Since we starting discussing Cindy Sheehan's flip flopping on President Bush, and her nauseating bloody-shirt waving regarding her son's death, we've received a lot of criticism from our friends on the left. "How can you attack a grieving mother?", and "Have you no shame?" are the typical responses - usually followed by a string of vulgar insults. If you're a blogger and have written about it from the same perspective we have, you've probably heard the same stuff.

The other day, we posted a picture of Cindy Sheehan getting kissed by President Bush after Ms. Sheehan's first visit with the President a year ago. Right after we posted that picture, Blogs For Bush became the target of a massive DDoS attack. Someone, or some group, decided that they wanted to force Blogs for Bush's server to crash. My webhost informed me that Movable Type's comment script received over 10,000 requests in a short period of time.

Sadly, we are the target of such attacks fairly regularly... However, this attack was by far the biggest one in quite a long time. Why? Because we could prove that Cindy Sheehan's original version of her story about meeting President Bush was, well, true... that it was in fact a positive experience, and thus everything she is doing is now is the result of her being used by MoveOn.org as a political pawn. MoveOn (and the whole leftwing circus) using her, of course, because as a "grieving mother" the left believes she should be immune from criticism. I leave it to others to figure out how posting an accurate picture constitutes an attack.

Still, the left couldn't have it; truth being like a cross to a vampire for the left. Rather than have their PR goldmine threatened, they decided to try shutting us down. The same people who think that President Bush should have a dialogue with Cindy Sheehan think that we shouldn't have a dialogue with each other about Cindy Sheehan.

We do not fear Cindy Sheehan or the movement that has risen in support of her. In fact, we welcome it They represent the far left of this country and their effort will be for naught - indeed, the more the backers of Cindy Sheehan are exposed in the public square, the more people turn away from Cindy Sheehan and the entire so-called "anti-war" movement.

The left wing of this country needs to learn that everyone in this country has a right to his or her own opinion. Trying to silence the opposition only reflects the weakness of your own position... and there is no weaker position then the one that aligns itself with MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, and Code Pink.

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I am particularly partial to this comment by Rhod, a mother of 3 soldiers, all serving in Iraq:


Leftism is turning into plain and simple necromancy. Note the Wellestone celebration, and now the exploitation of Casey Sheehan's death.

This vile and ugly charade is necessary for The Left, because in their rotten presentations, moral authority is achieved only when people suffer or die in enterprises with which they disagree. Empty of any real ideas, virtue or honor, Leftism now is a death dance around the civilization they hate, and a celebration of the rude, the ugly, the vulgar and the tasteless. Egalitarianism as self-soiling.

Cindy's Sheehan's brainless participation in the freakshow scorns her son and every other service person, dead or alive, fighting abroad (including three of my sons).

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The left wishes everyone to forget that President Bush ALREADY MET with Cindy Sheehan over a year ago--a meeting that Sheehan put down in her blog as a positive and comforting experience. Later, however, for reasons unexplained, Sheehan's positive write-up and pictures (1, 2) of President Bush's meeting with her were deleted and only exist in Google's cache now. Now, put that together with this report by The Reporter.com, Vacaville, California. What was that about a "Vast Right-wing Conspiracy" again?

Hmm...