The power of the common, the fascist. Thats where we get the word fascism. Todays neofascism is likewise an unbreakable bundle of power, its a group of people bound together so tightly in unbroken compliance, no differences, no diversity, its the rule of the gang. It is unquestioned and unchallenged power, the call to arms of these modernday jacob and, you must omit. So the questions we face today is whether we want to be ruled by the ideological fascism of prevailing across our land or do we want to enjoy intellectual freedom . Let me ask questions just to point out headlines of the past couple years. Should government have the power to force religious syncretism on its students or do we have freedom to believe and behave by the dictates of our conscience unimpeded by government hubris . Should the government have the power to force a jewish owner of the Meat Processing business to process pigs . Should the government have the power to force the muslim owner of a newspaper to publish
Tls and panamerica, and its a total delight to discuss the issue of free speech which never seems to go away. As i edit a literary magazine, i thought id begin things with a literary angle. In britain he wrote the polemic against [inaudible] and in it he said this which has continued to resound, give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. But before we get mistyeyed though, he also said this those which otherwise come forth, if they be found mischievous and libelous, the executionist will become the remedy to follow. He was the godfather of i believe in Free Expression but, which has been active as a brigade ever since. As were going to discuss over the next 50 minutes, free speech is never in practice absolute. The question before us today is how much it should be championed over other rights, especially in universities. And those rights might include the right not to be offended, but also the right to live free from abuse and
You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading. Heres what oklahoma congressman Steve Russell had to say. I read all kinds of stuff. Im a voracious history reader. Not much onion fiction although there are some. I just finished a fiction book, i should say im not much on fiction. But i did just finish a fiction book by Derek Robinson that was kind of a british antiwar protest on a world war i setting, and it kind of reflects the times. But i have a great interest in world war i. My great grandfather and his brothers were world war i veterans, one of my relatives is buried in france, killed in the first world war. And since were in the 100th anniversary of our entry into that war and our participation in the campaigns, ive been reading quite a bit about that time. Congressman, youre also an author as well. Could you kind of talk about your experience as an author . Well, it is i have a Great Respect fo
Introduce the state speakers. Cell phones or any other devices that go bang should be turned off. Tonight there is one event. If i could just head everybody fold up their chairs at the end of the event. Last thing is for the q a session after the presentation if i could ask you to step to the side we have a microphone we do record this. For posterity if we could just get that all on recording that would be wonderful. Thank you. I would like to introduce tonights author. The amazing story and escape from slavery to union here. It is a second major work with the secret rescue. Nominated for the 2014 at gore award of her best and number one wall street best seller the heroic journey in the life of robert small. In 1862 seats at confederate steamer. Freed himself in his family as all of you will soon see and learn he have a mission that did not end there. And enjoy the illustrious career of a state and national legislator. They declared that reading these like recovering a national heirloo
Forgiven for thinking tha that u were reading the 2016 platform of the democratic party. They issued an official platform that had a 25 points to it. And if you go down the list, you basically realize that they want a minimum wage, they want to have a National Healthcare system. As you read down you begin to realize wait a minute, this runs against everything ive been taught because this has been an idea since world war ii bu thate rightwing phenomena so in the platform you realize this is collectivism and it bears a resemblance of socialism and to a lot of the ingredients of Bernie Sanders and the reign of the democratic party. So, very quickly a definition of fascism, socialism, marxism. How close are the political philosophies . It refers to the workers owning the means of production and later communism talked about the state owning the means of production. Fascism is very similar. It simply means that the state while not owning the means of production direct them so the states dire