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This is an attack on the freedom of elected officials to debate the issues, going down the same slippery slope as Europe. For a functioning democracy, our elected officials as well as citizens need full ability to debate issues. The statements complained of were clearly made in debate and in response to remarks of the thin-skinned Democrats who complained. They are presented by the ultra-leftwing WRAL article above totally stripped of context.

What we have are whiny thin-skinned Democrats with a victim mentality and a grievance mentality. This is something new in politics and Democrats a couple of decades ago would not have been so whiny. Unfortunately, the GOP leadership was wimpy themselves to even respond at all to the Democrat nothingburger. As George Orwell wrote, "freedom of speech is your right to say what I don't want to hear".

The British House of Commons is considered the "mother of parliaments" and a role model for how a democratsic legislative body should function. Throughout the history of that august body, comments about other members have been part of the process, and at periods even quite common. One famous such exchange involved Sir Winston Churchill when he was First Lord of the Admiralty in a Conservative cabinet and was speaking on the floor of the House of Commons. A female Liberal MP interrupted Churchill and exclaimed "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk" to which he replied "Madame, you're ugly, but tommorrow I will be sober".

There were no consequneces when a former Beaufort County legislator, Zeno Edwards made sexually suggestive comments toward a colleague in a House committee meeting. The meeting was in session considering a bill, and a female Democrat legislator who was a chiroprator by profession had just finished substative remarks on the bill when Edwards obtained the floor and rather than discussing anything about the bill, he decided to discuss the prior speaker, saying "I don't like to think of her as a back doctor because her front is not too shabby either." That was a totally graituitous remark that did not have anything to do with the bill or with the other legislators comments on the bill, but there were no consequences for it.

Politics is a rough sport and politicians as thin-skinned as these two whiny Democrats are just pathetic. It is also sad for the functioning of our elected legislators that the GOP House leadership caved in to their whining. That is starting down a slippery slope of restricting the freedom of debate of our elected legislators.

This brings us to the threats to freedom of debate now happening in Europe. In France, a French Senator was charged criminally a couple of months ago with "hate speech" over a social media post that "immigration kills" after an illegal alien migrant brutally murdered a young French woman. Then leftwing members of the EU parliament filed complaints seeking penalties against three conservative colleagues from three different parties from three different countries for remarks in debate on the floor of the parliament. The "offnese" of a Romanian MEP was to say that the safety of women should take precedence over gender ideology. An Italian MEP was targeted over her discussing an "honor killing" in a Muslim migrant family of a young woman who refused an arranged marriage. A Danish MEP was complained over because he mentioned official Danish government statistics on migrants and sex crimes in Denmark.

The left around the world is at war with free speech, and Speaker Tim Moore has just knuckled under to that attack here in our own General Assembly, which is shameful.
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I wish the BO would seek sources other than a notorious far left propaganda organ like WRAL.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 10:01 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Be happy with your political prisoners as your Non Patriot Class does love to collect as the Fascists they have become.

And just know that we patriots that "work through the system," Stan Deatherage being a perfect example of such, will one day exact those changes that will forever weaken your Non Patriot Class that only seeks to subvert the system to their evil will, and thereby destroy that well woven fabric of the former Good Republic, which must be saved.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 8:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Still not a clue. It's simple math. BTW lets not forget, we agree that nuclear energy is an option.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 8:06 pm By: Big Bob

Some places are finding out that electric school busses are a flop. freebeacon.com

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 5:43 pm By: Countrygirl1411

If you had bothered to watch just the opening segment of the British TV documentary "The Great GLobal Warming Swindle" you would know from scientists that 1) the Earth has had as much as 30 times as much CO2 in its atmosphere as we have today, and 2) it did not impact the climate then and it will not today either. These are scientists who do not have their snouts in the pig trough of government grant money tied to promoting the global warming theory like the Climategate rogue secientists. It is easy enough to listen to the scientists who do not have a financial interest in promoting the unfounded manmade global warming theory.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 4:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Anyone who attacks another because of their religion should not be allowed to be in the USA. They need to be deported after they serve their prison sentence.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 3:13 pm By: Coy

Still have no idea of the amount of CO2 we are talking about? How can come to a conclusion to a problem not knowing the scope of the problem? Guess that Hillsdale math isn't all its cracked up to be.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 3:42 pm By: Big Bob

Sounds more like you smoked crack and came up with some lame political propaganda to falsely attack a conservative. OH, and are you one of the leaders of the NAACP that put out this BS or do you pull its strings? Who is the "we" here? .

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 2:46 pm By: John Steed

What Big Government Bob conveniently ignores in his usual tunnel vision, or perhaps those who wrote the narrative he,she parrots deliberately left it out is the relationship betweeen the Earth's oceans and CO2. When the Earth in in one of its cooling periods, the oceans absorb large quentities of CO2 and when it is in a warming phase, the oceans release large quantities of CO2. They are by far the largest source of CO2 changes in the atmosphere. There is a lag time of decades from the start of a warming period before the oceans start releasing CO2 and a similar lag time of decades from the start of a cooling period before it starts absorbing CO2.

The current natural warming period started in the mid 19th century at the end of the preceding cooling period, called the Maunder Minimum or Little Ice Age. That would trigger the oceans starting to release CO2 in the early decades of the 20th century and continue to do so until decades after the next cooling cycle starts.

Bobbie may want to junk the tunnel vision of his / her narrative and listen to prominent scientists explain it on the British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle". Here is the link to that documentary which was broadcast nationally on the UK's Chaneel 4 and is packed full of scientific information from prominent scientists from around the world: www.youtube.com

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 2:13 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

We cracked the code. And its very justified.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 11:44 am By: Big Bob

I can do the math. Something CT is unable to do. You try it.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 11:48 am By: Big Bob

Read the first sentence in the original post above, moron. Your far left woke narrative is NOT fact. Take your far left idrological blinders off, Little Bobbie.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 9:53 am By: Conservative Voter