The Heavy-Handed Rhetoric of Stupidity
The Twin Cities Indymedia website is always good for a few laughs, and they have again come thru with another installment of the self-righteous comedy they do so well.
The latest installment concerns a possibly apocryphal “demand” by the FBI, who supposedly requested that the Twin Cities IMC remove two posts from their site.
One is the (supposed) identity of a female Special Agent. There’s no mention of what the other supposedly objectionable post was. When the sound system, excuse me, Collective asked the university on whose network the site is hosted to ask the FBI for an explanation of their request, they didn’t get a response. Supposedly.
If the request actually even happened, it’s no different than thousands of similar requests made every single day, by government employees, company representatives, and private individuals, and it’s just that - a request. Not a “demand letter” from a lawyer, not a “cease and desist order”, not a sealed injunction… a request.
Yet the Indymedia kids refer to it as “heavy-handed attempted censorship” and part of the “intimidation tactics” designed to “marginalize dissent in this city, this state, and this country”. Full of yourselves, much?
Heavy-handed attempted censorship is when you wake up one afternoon to discover your website is down, and then learn the FBI took the entire server. Intimidation tactics are interviewing all your classmates and coworkers about your political activism, not requesting the removal of a comment from a website. As far as marginalizing dissent, I think the embarassing antics of the IMC clowns does far more to keep the fringe moonbats justifiably marginalized than anything the FBI has done. “For every enraged voice they seek to silence, a hundred more will make themselves heard,” the “Collective” ends with.
Citizen Comrades, you need to get out, and get laid, more often.
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