The pillars of freedom are burning right now. If we are not careful, they will collapse before too long.

This whole situation just blows my mind. Here we have a guy who writes an excellent opinion piece and almost immediately after he gets caught up in a bizarre witch hunt.

One of the greatest freedoms of a free society is the freedom to question the actions of individuals and groups WITHOUT fear of reprisal. Someone should never be afraid to offer a dissenting point of view, especially when said point of view is backed up by ACTUAL verifiable facts. This is isn’t some nut with a blog here, this is a well spoken University Professor who understands the important of providing facts and details to make an effective argument.

You know what bothers me about this most? Is that the current Right has absolutely no problem with saying the most terrible, racist, bigoted, awful things about Barack Obama, George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Van Jones, the Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood and so on but the MERE second you throw a little of their own medicine back at them they not only cry foul, but use potentially illegal tactics to do so.

Are these the same Republicans who spend so much energy trying to warn us about how Obama and his radicals are going use strongarm tactics to intimidate us?

Beyond that, it’s not like this was a harshly worded attack on Republicans everywhere, it was actually a well thought argument as to what the true motivations of the Wisonin GOP are. Beyond that it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that what’s going on in Wisconsin (and other states) has NOTHING to do with cost cutting measures and EVERYTHING to do with destroying unions. It’s not like Walker and his cronies are making much of an effort to hide their intentions.

We can at least take solace in the fact that William Cronin will NOT be silenced. Even if he loses his job in Wisconsin, I’m sure another university in another state will be more than happy to take him on. Or he can start a blog on his own time and continue his work there. He’ll be just fine.

How has America gotten like this in only THREE years? Do you realize how quickly this has happened? It’s rather scary, actually. Sometimes, you’d swear that politically the whole damned country has lost its mind.

This is not freedom. This is not America. This is NOT right.

The pillars of freedom are burning…We had better hope there are more William Cronins out there to help douse the flames.