Comments on: Miami Cuban exiles chase away Code Pink demonstrators on Calle Ocho http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/ It's a First Amendment Right Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: asus http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-1057 asus Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:59:23 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-1057 Hysterical. Someone call Rick Sanchez... Hysterical.
Someone call Rick Sanchez…

]]> By: ELMIAMINEWS http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-713 ELMIAMINEWS Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:14:40 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-713 MIAMI "EXILES" ARE A BUNCH OF COWARDS! MIAMI “EXILES” ARE A BUNCH OF COWARDS!

]]> By: alustyday http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-461 alustyday Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:40:05 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-461 I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links: I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

]]> By: Doodee http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-419 Doodee Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:25:27 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-419 Thanks for sharing Thanks for sharing

]]> By: Kathie http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-364 Kathie Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:45:36 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-364 nonee, we may disagree, but your passion is inspiring and I like the way you write :-) nonee, we may disagree, but your passion is inspiring and I like the way you write :-)

]]> By: nonee moose http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-281 nonee moose Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:39:39 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-281 The reality I see is that there are elements in this country who react to dissenting opinions, and the expression thereof, with violence. I'm not referring here to the clinic-bombing anti-abortion evangelicals, the church-bombing white supremacists, ship-bombing eco-terrorists, or even blood-flinging animal activists. No. I am referring to the bullhorn-weilding septuagenarian Cuban intransigent. They exist, along with the rest of the cultural Yetii I mentioned. None of them should be used to tar the entire phylum. You seem more non-plussed with a portion of this community's unwillingness to listen to or accept differing opinions, "not about Elian Gonzalez, the embargo, nothing. They don’t have to change their opinion and they don’t have to listen to others’ and they can support any issue they please..." I assume they have not changed your mind. It sounds like you also disagree wholly with a differing opinion, unwilling or unable to see any validity in it. So, shall we call you pot, or kettle? It is OUR Constitution, and my tongue was firmly in my cheek when I suggested otherwise. I think you fell short in only extending its protections to "the citizenry of the U.S.," but as an avowed non-xenophobe, I know you just misspoke. This Constitution of ours, through its Amendments, protects us from reprisals from our government for the expression of our opinions. Our criminal laws protect us from physical reprisals from anyone for the same. What's more, anyone who violates those norms of decency should be made an example of by heaping helping of ridicule, scorn, and incarceration. But nothing anywhere says that anyone has to listen to you express your opinion, much less agree with you. I'm not convenient. The reality I see is that there are elements in this country who react to dissenting opinions, and the expression thereof, with violence. I’m not referring here to the clinic-bombing anti-abortion evangelicals, the church-bombing white supremacists, ship-bombing eco-terrorists, or even blood-flinging animal activists. No. I am referring to the bullhorn-weilding septuagenarian Cuban intransigent. They exist, along with the rest of the cultural Yetii I mentioned. None of them should be used to tar the entire phylum.

You seem more non-plussed with a portion of this community’s unwillingness to listen to or accept differing opinions, “not about Elian Gonzalez, the embargo, nothing. They don’t have to change their opinion and they don’t have to listen to others’ and they can support any issue they please…” I assume they have not changed your mind. It sounds like you also disagree wholly with a differing opinion, unwilling or unable to see any validity in it. So, shall we call you pot, or kettle?

It is OUR Constitution, and my tongue was firmly in my cheek when I suggested otherwise. I think you fell short in only extending its protections to “the citizenry of the U.S.,” but as an avowed non-xenophobe, I know you just misspoke.

This Constitution of ours, through its Amendments, protects us from reprisals from our government for the expression of our opinions. Our criminal laws protect us from physical reprisals from anyone for the same. What’s more, anyone who violates those norms of decency should be made an example of by heaping helping of ridicule, scorn, and incarceration.

But nothing anywhere says that anyone has to listen to you express your opinion, much less agree with you.

I’m not convenient.

]]> By: Kathie http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-278 Kathie Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:52:53 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-278 and P.S. Nonee, "our constitution" doesn't mean mine. It means the entire citizenry of the U.S. It's very convenient for you to take that and couch it in some non-existent xenophobia. and P.S. Nonee, “our constitution” doesn’t mean mine. It means the entire citizenry of the U.S. It’s very convenient for you to take that and couch it in some non-existent xenophobia.

]]> By: Kathie http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-277 Kathie Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:40:09 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-277 Oh please, you know what I mean about the Constitution. The hardcore Cuban exiles don't want to hear any opinions differing from theirs: not about Elian Gonzalez, the embargo, nothing. They don't have to change their opinion and they don't have to listen to others' and they can support any issue they please, but they don't want differing opinions to even be expressed. If you don't see that reality, then you are living in denial. Oh please, you know what I mean about the Constitution. The hardcore Cuban exiles don’t want to hear any opinions differing from theirs: not about Elian Gonzalez, the embargo, nothing. They don’t have to change their opinion and they don’t have to listen to others’ and they can support any issue they please, but they don’t want differing opinions to even be expressed. If you don’t see that reality, then you are living in denial.

]]> By: nonee moose http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-276 nonee moose Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:06:48 +0000 http://carlosmiller.com/2008/01/15/video-photos-and-rant-from-saturdays-thwarted-code-pink-protest/#comment-276 "...understanding and respecting our Constitution..." - Kathie You mean like the freedom NOT to address any of the things you mentioned? Aside from that whole suppression of dissent thing, it seems to me we understand YOUR Constitution pretty fucking well... See what I did there? I said "fucking". First Amendment and all that rot... “…understanding and respecting our Constitution…” – Kathie

You mean like the freedom NOT to address any of the things you mentioned?

Aside from that whole suppression of dissent thing, it seems to me we understand YOUR Constitution pretty fucking well… See what I did there? I said “fucking”. First Amendment and all that rot…

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