Memories Pizza Place May Never Re-Open, Due to Death Threats

There will be no reportage on this. Death threats are only publicized to the extent they can portray the left as sympathetic victims.

When the left threatens to murder political opponents, the media covers it up.

The Federalist's @seandavis linked this great 2007 article by @baseball crank on The Seven Steps of "Liberal Activism."

Here is how the Overton Window is moved, one (big but not huge) step at at a time, until the point which is always the end-game: criminalizing dissent.

1. It's a free country, X should not be illegal.

2. The Constitution prohibits X from being made illegal.

3. If the Constitution protects a right to X, how can it be immoral? Anyone who disagrees is a bigot.

4. If X is a Constitutional right, how can we deny it to the poor? Taxpayer money must be given to people to get X.

5. The Constitution requires that taxpayer money be given to people to get X.

6. People who refuse to participate in X are criminals.

7. People who publicly disagree with X are criminals.

Step 8 has been reached by a few over-achieving cultures, such as nationalist, communist Russia or nationalist, communist China or nationalist, socialist Germany.

Everyone knows what Step 8 is.

posted by Ace at 05:52 PM

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