Only 9 More Free Speech Days Until Fitzmas

WTF?  There's something truly special brewing in the realm of wingnuttia. Michelle Malkin's up in arms about Berkeley cancelling a Veteran's Day event:

File this under "We support our troops...by refusing to honor their service."

Berkeley's Veterans Day ceremony, scheduled for Nov. 11, was abruptly canceled on Monday because the volunteer organizing committee split over the political content.

At issue was a proposal by the chairman, singer/songwriter Country Joe McDonald, to have Bill Mitchell, a co-founder of Cindy Sheehan's organization, Gold Star Families for Peace, as the keynote speaker.

Mitchell's and Sheehan's sons were killed in Iraq the same day.

Some committee members worried that Mitchell would inject an unwelcome note of partisanship into the event, which has been scrupulously non-political in years past.
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"They have the other 364 days and 23 hours to make their political point," he said. "This one hour should be reserved for honoring veterans, period."

McDonald, backed by other members of the committee, disagreed, saying that not permitting Mitchell to express his point of view would be tantamount to censoring free speech.

"Their position was that no matter what he said, because he was a member of Gold Star Families, he wouldn't be allowed to speak," McDonald said. "I've been doing this for 10 years, and this is the first time content and affiliation ever came up for discussion. I was shocked to find this kind of narrow-mindedness in my own hometown, in Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement."

Oh, we're not shocked by your narrow-mindedness at all, Mr. McDonald.

First there were free speech zones.  Now there are free speech days.  Why?  Because liberals don't know how to use their enshrined rights responsibly, I guess.  The reader who tipped Michelle to this travesty writes:

One thing I find interesting about the left and its desire for "all sides to be represented" when they feel it should be so is that they seem to have no sense of decency or maturity and are unable to realize that there is a time and a place for certain things. On occasion, it's simply inappropriate to voice comparative ideas or points of view. They fail to maintain a civil discourse on many issues, especially their double-speak on supporting the troops.

So help me understand something: we can't invite a person who lost a son in the Iraq war to an event honoring veterans because we can read his mind and know exactly what he will say which will clearly dishonor the vets because liberals are too indecent and immature to know that exercising the free speech that the vets allegedly have died protecting is wrong?  And then when the event is cancelled, it's some how the liberals' fault and proof we don't support the troops?  Odd that Malkin hasn't expressed any outrage over this story given her deep concern for the troops.

To be fair, I'm sure everybody in the wingersphere is a bit stressed right now.  Even the trial of Saddam Hussein probably isn't enough to distract them from the fact that Fitzmas is just around the corner.

Treason's greetings!

ntodd