Hollywood's Conservatives Anonymous: A hidden group gives Republicans a chance to speak freely

[Mattw]

In America today, one must hide or be very discreet in order to speak freely - unless you don't care about your job or your life.

 

Take a look at Hollywood:

 

Dave Berg was invited to Friends of Abe during a commercial break on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Berg was a producer on the show, and one of his many duties included keeping Leno’s guests company between segments — making small talk, coaching them through their appearance, asking if there was anything they wanted Leno to mention. During a taping in 2007, Berg sat down next to the actress Patricia Heaton, who was promoting a new sitcom. Before he could say anything, Heaton leaned over and said in a playfully conspiratorial tone, “I hear you’re a conservative.”

 

Berg felt his face flush. A trim, ­sandy-haired native of Chicago who’d run CNBC’s Los Angeles bureau before landing at The Tonight Show, Berg went to great lengths to keep his political views to himself. “How did you know?” he asked. Heaton wouldn’t say but told him about a group starting up where he could speak freely. “We’re going to have a meeting at my house,” she said. “Would you like to come?”

 

Buddy Sosthand was unwinding at a bar in Albuquerque after a day of stunt work when the discussion turned to the 2004 presidential election. Sosthand told a fellow stuntman he had supported Bush. “I can’t believe you, as a black person, would vote for George W. Bush,” the other man said. Their argument became so heated that the two nearly had to be separated.

 

After Sosthand had cooled off, an actor named Chris Ashworth approached him. “Were you saying what I thought you were saying?” Ashworth whispered. Sosthand asked why Ashworth’s voice was so low. “You got to watch yourself,” replied Ashworth, who mentioned something about an industry group called Friends of Abe that he might want to join.

 

Conservatives Anonymous — The California Sunday Magazine - http://bit.ly/1ORIc6F

 

The debate club at Brown University goes "underground:"
 

On some issues, though, students really do need assurances from administrators that they’ll be “safe” – particularly when it comes to an environment that promotes intellectual clashes and the pursuit of knowledge, unencumbered by sacred cows.

 

The likelihood that students will be punished for expressing their views in a way that upsets the most radicalized members of the community is precisely why Christopher Robotham started the “underground” debate club at Brown University known as Reason@Brown, he told the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

 

Founder of 'underground' debate club: We can't 'come out' because Brown officials won't support us - The College Fix - http://bit.ly/1ORIj23

 

 

 

 

Pointing out problems with Muslims can also get you in a lot of trouble depending on where you live.

 

The West appears to be pointed in a dangerous direction where free speech is increasingly shut down, and the state assumes more and more control over everything.

 

If the servers for this website are located in the US, then someone might want to rethink that.