You have not converted a man simply because you have silenced him

That was a somewhat popular saying for hippies and serious leftists back in the early 1970s.

It’s not being spoken now, but today’s Soros Progressive Democratic Socialists are using social media and big banks to muzzle and downright silence conservatives. The leftists have forgotten what their forebears presumably protested.

Here’s the thing, and I have said it over and over: Those people want you and me gone, out of sight, out of hearing, behind barbed wire if necessary, probably preferably.

The newest attack on free speech comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which convinced Visa and MasterCard to stop processing contributions to Freedom Center.

David Horowitz writes: “For years, the SPLC has labeled Freedom Center a hate group and tried to get organizations like Amazon, Facebook and Twitter to ban us and silence our message.

“Yesterday, SPLC finally convinced MasterCard and Visa to cut us off. Now we can’t process donations from any major credit card companies.”

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2018/08/22/david-horowitz-deplatformed-by-visa-and-mastercard/comment-page-1/

When first reading the story at jihadwatch, I thought, “Is it that easy for a non-profit political organization to shut down another non-profit political organization?” Well, yes. Except Horowitz would not convince Visa to stop processing donations to SPLC, nor would he even try.

That is a major difference between them and us. We believe in debate and logic. They believe in making us shut up.