Trump is Right about Free Speech
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/1539-trump-free-speech-english.htm
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http://www.ghandchi.com/1539-trump-free-speech.htm
The views of President Donald Trump have been discussed a lot (1).
Although I am not a member of any political party, but voted for Bernie Sanders in the Primary (2) and voted
for Hilary Clinton in the US Presidential Election (3).
Moreover, in my view, Iranian opposition figures such as Dr. Esmail
Nooriala (4), whom I highly respect, had a point to vote for Donald Trump (5),
because they wanted to express their dismay with Obama Administration's
appeasement of Islamic Republic of Iran (6).
During Obama era, I supported Iran Deal, and still do, nonetheless,
rejected appeasement of Islamic Republic of Iran, and still do (7). I always
rejected many of President Obama's Iran policies (8) including the firing of
many serious critics of Islamic Republic of Iran from Voice of America
(9) and selecting unqualified directors at VOA (10). Some Iranian
leftists and national front members continue to make fun of Dr. Esmail
Nooriala because of his
decision to vote for Donald Trump, and I believe they better make fun of
themselves because they are the ones who do not get the point that the issue
with regards to Iran is more than just the Iran Deal to avoid an imminent war,
and as was simply said to John Kerry long before Barack Obama, Islamic Republic
of Iran must go (11).
Moreover, as far as President Obama's internal policies were concerned, his lack of support for free
speech inside the United States was his major shortcoming. I voted for President Obama in both terms, because
I found him supporting many plans especially with regards to healthcare and civil society,
stateside, and peace, abroad, that I support, but I fully disagreed with Barack Obama about free speech. Mr.
Obama's views in this regard, were very much similar to many European politicians,
e.g. in Germany who think they have a right to curtail free speech to stop hate speech by those
like the Nazis. I have always rejected that European viewpoint. I applaud
President Donald Trump for upholding the American ideal of free speech. CNN is enjoying free speech
today, when CNN is opposing President Trump, whereas CNN did not
uphold free speech during the Obama Administration (12). The news outlets were
basically silent during Obama years, not reporting most of the internal economic
news or the world news (13).
I condemn the killing of Heather Heyer by a criminal White Supremacist in
Charlottesville last week, but I uphold the right
of White Supremacists to express their views in peaceful ways, the same way that if the reverse
had happened and a White Supremacist had been killed by the Left, I would still
support the free speech of the Left. This is the difference of European
democracy and American democracy and I side with the American democracy which
gives priority to free speech and not to stopping hate speech. As I
have written many times before, I also condemn the anti-Trump McCarthyism (14) that the Left has
started in this county to fight President Donald Trump and I strongly believe
this witch-hunting will set a precedence that will hurt the Left itself in the
future.
I have a
message for those Iranian leftists who say the views of Dr. Esmail Nooriala and
PMOI are the same, because they both supported Donald Trump. Those leftists are wrong. PMOI is a shiite version of Daesh
(15) and incidentally those Iranian Leftists themselves are supporters of PMOI
because they share similar Communist ideology, and not Dr. Nooriala. But if
those leftists like to make judgment about others by how people voted in the US
election, then we can say Iranian leftists who supported Hilary Clinton are the
same as Neocons who voted alike. This kind of cheap polemics and fallacious
argument was not even worth the time to respond to, but I just
responded to it, for the sake of record of the time
wasted with shy communists (16).
Hoping for a democratic and secular
futurist
republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi, Editor/Publisher
IRANSCOPE
http://www.ghandchi.com
http://www.iranscope.com
August 18, 2017
Footnote:
1. Donald Trump
http://goo.gl/hTsZWr
دونالد ترامپ
http://goo.gl/mgtUZq
2. Two Econ Solutions in US Election
http://www.ghandchi.com/1027-two-econ-solutions-english.htm
دو راه حل اقتصادی در انتخابات آمریکا
http://www.ghandchi.com/1027-two-econ-solutions.htm
3. سخنان اسماعیل نوری علا درباره پیروزی ترامپ
http://www.ghandchi.com/1241-trump-esmail-nooriala.htm
4. Dr. Esmail Nooriala
http://goo.gl/4iD2FX
دکتر اسماعیل نوری علا
http://goo.gl/niE7mr
5.
سخنان اسماعیل نوری علا درباره پیروزی ترامپ
http://www.ghandchi.com/1241-trump-esmail-nooriala.htm
6. Obama's Failure with Iranian
People
http://www.ghandchi.com/1276-obama-iranians-english.htm
قصور اوباما در ارتباط با مردم ایران
http://www.ghandchi.com/1276-obama-iranians.htm
7. Mr. Tillerson, Issue is not
Iran-Deal
http://www.ghandchi.com/1515-tillerson-trump-english.htm
آقای تیلرسون، مسأله توافق اتمی با ایران نیست
http://www.ghandchi.com/1515-tillerson-trump.htm
8.
Mr.
Obama, Please Stop Political Discrimination at VOA
http://www.ghandchi.com/901-obama-voa-english.htm
آقای اوباما، لطفاً تبعیض سیاسی را در صدای آمریکا متوقف کنید
http://www.ghandchi.com/901-obama-voa.htm
9.
VOA
http://goo.gl/KXP24n
صدای آمریکا
http://goo.gl/efYWYg
10. Setareh
Derakhshesh
http://goo.gl/z9tD3q
ستاره درخشش
http://goo.gl/Yz7eU3
Who is Steve Redisch of VOA
http://www.ghandchi.com/1425-steve-redisch-english.htm
استیو ردیش صدای آمریکا کیست
http://www.ghandchi.com/1425-steve-redisch.htm
11. Bottom
line, Islamic Republic Must Go
http://www.ghandchi.com/1251-iri-must-go-english.htm
اصل بحث این است که جمهوری اسلامی باید برود
http://www.ghandchi.com/1251-iri-must-go.htm
12. A Question
from CNN about Trump vs Obama
http://www.ghandchi.com/1321-cnn-trump-obama-english.htm
سؤالی از سی ان ان درباره ترامپ در مقایسه با اوباما
http://www.ghandchi.com/1321-cnn-trump-obama.htm
13.
Fortunately US Journalists are back doing real work
http://www.ghandchi.com/1285-us-journalists-english.htm
خوشبختانه ژورنالیستهای آمریکایی به کار واقعی خود برمی گردند
http://www.ghandchi.com/1285-us-journalists.htm
14. A Critique
of Anti-Trump McCarthyism
http://www.ghandchi.com/1365-anti-trump-mccarthyism-english.htm
نقدی بر مکارتیسم ضد ترامپ
http://www.ghandchi.com/1365-anti-trump-mccarthyism.htm
15. Mojahedin
Khalgh Organization, MEK, PMOI
http://goo.gl/GQ77Wb
سازمان مجاهدین خلق
http://goo.gl/5j6W2R
16. چرا برخی
کمونیستهای خجالتی همچنان حامی سازمان مجاهدین خلق هستند
http://www.ghandchi.com/1527-communists-khejaalati.htm
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