Normally I don’t like talking politics, but some of the recent lunacy about preventing Obama from speaking to school children, some going as far as comparing him to Hitler, was a bit too much. The closest thing to logic they had: Hitler talked to school children, and so is Obama, therefore whatever Obama has to say MUST be bad. Never mind that many other Presidents have done the same thing, including ones from their own political party.

Basically they were calling for preemptive censorship because what Obama would say MIGHT be bad.

Censorship is never good for a democracy, and anyone calling for political censorship typically has their own agenda to pursue. They don’t want opposition to poke holes in whatever their arguments are, or even worse steal away people with logical arguments. Democracy works because there is no (or limited) censorship of political thought. The whole idea is to throw a bunch of ideas into a pot, stir it up, and see what floats to the top.

My opinion on the whole thing is: “Anyone calling for censorship of political thought in a democracy by claiming the message is anti-democratic, is being anti-democratic.”