NEWS: Newt Gingrich: We Must Destroy Freedom to Save It

POLITICS: Newt Gingrich: We Must Destroy Freedom to Save It

At an event ironically to celebrate free speech, former Congressional amphibian Newt Gingrich announced that free speech must be curtailed if we're to survive terrorism.

Maybe since Gingrich left elected office he's been a little out of the loop on policy matters, but the whole "become a fascist state or the terrorists win" doctrine was tossed aside a few years ago by GOP strategists. Believe it or not, Americans, but even those who identify as Republicans prefer to keep their freedoms intact.



Another choice moment in Gingrich's speech came as he criticized the current partisan tone of Washington.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the Gingrich-led Congress of the mid-90s that gave Congress a good, hard shove into the current cesspool where it's residing? You know, the_impeaching Bill Clinton for no good reason_sort of thing? You reap what you sow, unfortunately, and if the new Democrat-led Congress isn't as friendly as someone like Gingrich would prefer, he should know where to place the blame.

I agree, we need to kill freedom! Then we can stuff it, mount it on our wall and show it to guests when they come over. It will last much longer this way.

I don't even know this country that I'm defending any more.

But wait! There's more! Old Newt is also trying to get McCain-Feingold repealed because he believes that limiting campaign contributions is an infringement on free speech. So apparently, according to Mr. I left my wife while she had cancer for a newer model, free speech for the rich and corporate america is good but not for anyone else.

Someone connect the dots for me. How does free speech = losing a city within the next 10 years?

Where else would he protest free speech? He's demonstrating tact, that man, tact.

"You can't handle the speech."

Given the whole 'terrorists will use it against us', I'm sure he's all about the 'free-speech' zones that get erected in Bush's honor. Wait...no. I think he'd be for removing the zones. Not allowing free speech elsewhere, just removing the pesky zones that are just out of sight from everyone else.

so in a speech bemoaning the lack of first amendment protection in regards to certain groups (the rich, the christians and the rich christian politicians), newt also endorsed the limitation of the very same rights for the rest of the nation? the good news for newt: moronic statements are covered by the first amendment.

dear god this is a useless leader story? i am from NH and first of all this is embarassing that it happened in my state and secondly the union leader is as about a right wing news paper as you can get.... not that that has anything to do with this story. and on another COMPLETELY unrelated to this topic but related to the article...

that aside...

this makes me sick and i'm glad the american public spoke up and said "NO! we will not give up our freedoms to further your neocon agenda."

fixed!

I have heard that a reputable magic spell for good luck involves boiling eyes of newt



not to suggest anything to anyone

This dude is one of the lead crackpots that has been hellbent on destroying the America we all learned to love and respect. Remember his uncontainable excitment at the prospects of a WWIII on the horizons a few months ago. His "Contract on America", his prosecuting Clinton for an act he was actually guilty of himself at the time. Big time creep is just a place to start with this guy. He can read, study and therorize untill we are all dead and still be just as sick and wrong as he is now. Must curtail free speech...like I am sure we will get it back later when we are safer. Must curtail free speech, well untill then Mr. Gingrinch it is my humble opinion you are UN-American and perhaps should seek your wretched conservative utopia somewhere else other than the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE!

Sirloins, thanks for your service Dude. Remember there is alot more to America than this political pervert, like all us SG members

Kind of makes a mockery of our oath doesn't it?

i hear ya man...it's like our leaders are so far out of touch they're a different species. like amphibians.

He's pretty much the size of a city. Start with him.

i hear you, bro.

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How could we forget the Contract ON America, Newt?

When Republicans lie to the American people and the American people hold them accountable, the terrorists lose every time.

Iraq is an albatross around the neck of the Republican Party. It will only get worse for them if we continue on our present path, but they are in a state of denial.

When the Democrats take control of Congress, it is really time to pull the purse strings. The President thinks he can have his cake and eat it, too. Forget it. It's time to bring our boys home. The Iraqis don't want freedom. They want us to leave now and are reinforcing the insurgency.

The war against militant Islam is not over, but the Iraq War should become history--the sooner the better. It is time for our great nation to mend its wounds so we may fight another day. That is, fight in self defense and no longer in agression with no clear purpose but to fill the coffers of the military industrial complex and Bush's cronies in the oil industry.

Newt...the guy who proposed the death penalty for pot dealers.

Right. I forgot. That's straight out of Petulant Whining College Republican Hackery 101. That class meets on Thursdays.

these douchebags have never thought about why the roman empire or the french experiment or the british empire collapsed.

1984

Lose a city? Wha?

American Exceptionalism - The belief that history is non-cyclical, and that the US will not endure the same fate as other countries that enjoyed such dominance.

Those who are willng to sacrifice freedom for saftey... deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin