Commentary By Bill Donohue | January 27, 2021 | 3:27pm EST
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My organization, the Catholic League, like all advocacy organizations, makes maximum use of its First Amendment right to freedom of speech. To this extent, the increasing calls for censorship of organizations that espouse traditional moral views is worrisome.
We live in a time of unparalleled attacks on free speech, emanating from establishment sources, including the media. One might think that the media, which does not exist without freedom of speech, would be reflexively opposed to censorship, but not anymore. In many cases, those who work in the media are leading the charge to silence what it sees as its opposition.
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Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous
Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Trump on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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Ten Republicans within the House of Representatives helped bestow on Trump the ignoble distinction this week of being the first president to be impeached twice, charging him with âincitement of insurrection.â
But the vast majority of Republicans in the House either remained silent or produced further falsifications diverting attention away from Trump and their own role in inciting the violent insurrection. For instance, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) claimed that impeaching Trump will turn him into âa martyr.â
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Lebensunwertes Leben is a chilling German phrase that means âlife unworthy of life.â It was coined in 1920 by two German professors, Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, who thought that people with congenital, mental, or developmental disabilities burden their families and the state while contributing nothing. Hoche described such people as âhuman ballastâ and âempty shells of human beings.â These are lives unworthy of life, they argued, and it should be permissible to end them.
That argument was the seed that grew into the horrific fruit of the Holocaust. Before the Nazis built Auschwitz or perfected the gas chamber, there was Knauer, a baby born blind, missing a leg and part of an arm, and considered to be an âidiot.â When a family member requested a âmercy killingâ for Knauer, Hitler and his personal physician, Karl Brandt, directed doctors at the University of Leipzig to end Knauerâs life.