Radical left counter protesters at Tea Party try to silence free speech of others they deem so important for themselves

Above, April 16, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. Counter protester sign tells Tea Party to 'shut the F up' from Althouse blog.

"Liberals have more or less given up on winning arguments. They just want to

• shut the rest of us up." Powerline blog sums it up.

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4/16/11, "How animalistic, frenzied, loud, rude, and desperate was the Wisconsin Capitol today?" Ann Althouse, Althouse blog

"But today was distinctive because it was a Tea Party rally, and many people wanted to hear the speakers, especially Sarah Palin. The counter-protesters were there to drown out those speakers. Their earlier

• anti-Walker protests were about how

• they wanted to be heard.

Over the last 2 months, the anti-Walker protesters have said many times — often directly to me or Meade — that they felt the GOP governor and legislators had the obligation to listen to them, that it was terribly wrong for their voices to be excluded, and that

• dialogue is the essence of democracy.

They made a godawful noise saying that (and more), but what they did today was hypocritical, because today they showed up

• for the express purpose of denying other people the right to listen.

So today was loud and angry, but it was nowhere near as loud and angry as it has been on other days. Nevertheless, today was bad in a different way, a way that betrayed values the anti-Walker protesters had

• voiced many, many times."

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