{"id":2317,"date":"2008-03-25T09:49:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2008-03-25T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:49:28","slug":"dissent-must-be-crushed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Dissent Must Be Crushed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news has gotten around – the Vets For Freedom Heroes Tour, a nationwide bus tour of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, was scheduled to appear in Forest Lake to speak at Flake’s High School, alma mater <\/em>of Pete Hegseth, one of the group’s leaders.<\/p>\n

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The FLHS principal cancelled the appearance<\/a>.\u00a0 Reports indicate the district folded to pressure from anti-war groups, mostly from outside the district.\u00a0 There’s apparently more news about to break on this story, and True North <\/em>is covering it.<\/p>\n

Chief at TN <\/em>writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Why would I thank the far left for this infringement on free speech? Well I guess that already answers it. They have shown once again who wants freedom of speech to be practiced. Rather than offering to have their own anti-military forum, say on the following week, these people pitch their point until the school concedes to banning these fine young vets tell their story. Nice work.<\/p>\n

Why? because once again it gives far more press to Pete Hegseth and his VFF effort. He has already been on the top of the Democrat Underground<\/font><\/a>, Michale Moore’s site<\/font><\/a>, several of the metro area radio shows, and it would be a safe guess, he will be on many national radio and TV shows before the day is over.<\/p>\n

So instead of talking to 150 students, a handful of teachers and perhaps some parents, the VFF message is getting broadcast all across the nation for free.<\/p>\n

Re-create 68? Yes, please.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is nothing the Twin Cities’ far-left fears more than other peoples’ <\/em>freedom of speech.\u00a0 Eventually, it’s going to cost them.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news has gotten around – the Vets For Freedom Heroes Tour, a nationwide bus tour of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, was scheduled to appear in Forest Lake to speak at Flake’s High School, alma mater of Pete Hegseth, one of the group’s leaders. The FLHS principal cancelled the appearance.\u00a0 Reports indicate the district […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}