Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): The Face of Evil
Not all liberals are evil, but it is becoming
increasingly clear that 21st-century liberalism is an evil ideology.
It incites race hatred for political advantage.
It
tries to keep disadvantaged people down, so they will stay on the Democratic
Party plantation.
It lies about pretty much everything–for example, “police
violence.” And liberals almost never debate public policy issues in
time-honored fashion; rather, they try to destroy anyone who disagrees with
them.
The Covington Catholic media scandal has brought these
issues into sharp focus. Liberals, mostly but not exclusively–i.e., the
Associated Press–on Twitter, have lied about the trivial encounter between a
group of aggressive left-wing activists and some kids from Covington Catholic
high school who attended the March For Life.
The misrepresentation
was one of the more egregious incidents of media lies that we have seen in
recent years, as I wrote here.
So, what has happened since? The Associated
Press has
refused to correct its lies.
Liberals have threatened the families of
the kids from Covington Catholic with death.
Liberals have written to colleges,
urging them to reject any applications from Covington Catholic students.
Liberals have explicitly urged that the lives of the kids who innocently
attended the March For Life be destroyed.
Twitter has
had no problem with tweets calling for violence, as long as the violence is
directed against conservative teenagers.
Where do you go when the whole world seems to be against
you?
You hire a lawyer.
Which is what some of the Covington kids’ families
reportedly have done.
For whatever reason, intolerant liberals on Twitter
are frantically deleting tweets
denouncing the innocent Covington kids, and in some cases calling for
violence against them.
Maybe they are just embarrassed at being caught
red-handed, lying and purveying hate. But when has that ever embarrassed
a liberal?
There is some evidence that the
scrambling is due to the threat of litigation:
The Covington kids have a good pro bono
lawyer and a lot of people gathering evidence on the threats, etc., though this
is a good chance to make some examples.
If I were still practicing law, I would have
taken their case in a heartbeat.
But there is a problem:
while the Covington kids are not public figures, the “issue” of MAGA
hat-wearing white supremacists (which, of course, they are not) is purportedly
one of public concern.
Plus, most of the things written or tweeted by
liberals–e.g.: “Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?”–are
statements of opinion, not fact.
I haven’t kept up with recent developments in
defamation law, but the general rule is that you can’t win a defamation case
unless you are unknown and no one cares about the topic with regard to which
you were defamed.
Is that fair? I don’t think so.
New York Times
vs. Sullivan and the many cases that have followed have more or less
extinguished the law of defamation in all but trivial circumstances.
Maybe
the Covington Catholic case will be the vehicle by which the Supreme Court
restores some vitality to the ancient idea that a person lies about fellow
citizens at his peril. That would be good, and it would be a serious setback to
21st-century liberalism.
UPDATE: There is a great deal more here.
Is this the most outrageous hate campaign of my lifetime? I think so. Being
sued is much too good for these liberals, but I am afraid it is the best we can
do.