Juan Williams Loses His Job at NPR: Free Speech is Dying

If you think you can say whatever you want to say in these United States of America, you better think again. Well, let me rephrase that. You can say whatever you want to say, but you also better be ready to face some pretty stiff consequences. Like: losing your job; being labeled a phobic, bigot, intolerant, hate monger and maybe even forced to lick the boots of someone like Al Sharpton.

Liberal news correspondent and frequent talking head on radio and television shows, Juan Williams, has been the recent target of the PC police. Juan Williams lost his job with NPR because of some honest comments he made recently on Fox News. More specifically, comments he made on Bill O'Reilly's show. Comments, I also personally heard. What horrible, bigoted, intolerant and hate mongering comments did Juan Williams make?

In the wake of the blow-out with Bill O'Reilly and Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar last week, Juan Williams appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show. When asked what he thought about Bill O'Reilly's comments on the television show, The View, Juan Williams responded with this:

"Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

Juan also went on to say that Bill O'Reilly or anyone, for that matter, should be careful not to paint all Muslims with a broad brush, but, he was simply being honest with what he felt when he saw Muslims on a plane. And guess what? Juan Williams is speaking for millions and millions of other Americans as well.

If you're going to tell me that you can see a Muslim man boarding a plane in this country wearing traditional Muslim clothing and you do not have one fleeting moment of pause, I will tell you that you are a liar. Because, to not have a response is to completely go against our psychological make-up.

Have you ever been in a serious car accident? Have you ever consumed too much Jack Daniels at a party and been sick for days over it? Have you ever been viciously attacked by a specific breed of dog? How about bitten by a poisonous insect?

Because if you have? I can assure you, that the next time you get inside a vehicle where you nearly lost your life, you will be apprehensive. If you threw up enough after your bender on Jack Daniels, you will have a tough time not recalling that unpleasant experience the next time you see it, smell it or taste it.

You will have an involuntary, visceral response the next time you see the breed of dog that attacked you or another insect that bit you. It happens because that is how we are biologically and psychologically wired to respond. It is called self-preservation and it is so deeply ingrained into your DNA that you cannot control it.

Because Juan Williams admitted what every, single American would feel if they boarded a plane and saw a Muslim man sitting there in traditional Muslim clothing, he is admitting he is human. However, that is the problem with politically correct speech. It's about an idea that is not based in reality or truth.

Furthermore, if you think punishing someone for saying something or attempting to stop certain words from exiting their mouths, is going to change the thought processes that occur on the inside, you are sorely mistaken and lack a genuine understanding of what it means to be human.

Controlling people with fear is called tyranny. If you honestly believe that it works, then you are as delusional as anyone who believes morality can be legislated or that you can create a greater society by force or coercion.

Mohandas K. Gandhi once said when leading the struggle for India's sovereignty from the oppressive rule of the British Empire, "They may torture my body, they may break my bones, and they may even kill me. But then, they will have my dead body. Not my obedience."

How blind and foolish we have become.

Sources:

NPR.org
Associated Content
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Washington Post.com