Circle Ansuz Bay Area Leidang Leafletted Counter-Currents Press

These people are publishing books, not organizing rallies or intimidating immigrants and people of color. It would be one thing if they were denying the rights of others. But to shut them down based solely on their ideas would itself be fascist and authoritarian.

I was wondering how long it would take for a real liberal to comment on this. Congratulations Concerned Citizen - and right there begins the trouble - one epitomizing the incoherence of a liberal. First off, a citizen is a person who is created as an object of circumscribed and imposed belonging; the state decides who it wants as a citizen, that is, a legally recognized (and therefore saddled with all sorts of involuntary obligations) being, who is forced to be loyal to the ideology of a given polity wherever s/he happens to reside. A "concerned citizen" is someone who is forced to face the inherent contradictions of living in a class-based society, finding the path of least resistance (because a citizen is not a dissident except in the most extreme cases), the path of propriety and good manners. The liberal, to paraphrase Sartre, is the fool who generously extends freedom to the enemies of freedom. Or to paraphrase Voltaire, the concerned citizen is the one who disagrees with ideas s/he finds abhorrent, but who will fight to the death for the right of the asshole who holds them. Hence we arrive at the idiocy of citizenship and liberalism. The neo-nazi scum who promote the vitriol that is certainly at least partially directed at you as a complacent law-abiding middle-class do-gooder have no interest in polite debate or reasonable discussion. They adhere to the poisonous ideals of institutionalized authoritarianism and brutality masquerading as law and order. You can whine about how sad it makes you feel that there are people who understand the menace and threat posed by fascists - because you would be happy to employ those very fascist tactics and policies if your precious citizenship were challenged by a radical social movement. By all means, use the laws of citizenship to counter the excesses of the scum who want a stronger state (and what cop wouldn't want more impunity? Please see how much support the Greek Golden Dawn cretins have among the Greek police...), but you had better not stand in the way of the indignation of working class, poor, gender variant, feminist, and radical people who know better than you what these fascist assholes represent, and who will take the appropriate action(s) to make them know they are unwelcome.

...is the demand. Demanding that they be shut down. By who? Them? They won't! By the government? How absurd. It would violate the First Amendment. And besides the g'ment likes these racist assholes around just in case they can't stop real freedom fighters. So rather than making silly demands, why don't people attempt to shut these white supremacists down. There are many ways to do direct action to do so. Just do it.