Speech

By Jay Moore in Counterpunch - A politician was set to give a speech to a large gathering of liberal supporters. However, before he could get a word out, an activist began speaking loudly from the balcony and refused to be shut up. Other activists stationed around the audience shouted out their support, whereupon the politician lost his temper and began lecturing them on the damage they were doing to their cause which he claimed to support. Because of the continual heckling, it took two hours for the politician to give what ought to have been a twenty minute speech. The next day the press was full of outraged editorials. How could they show such disrespect to him? Lock them up. Send them in straight-jackets to an asylum. If you thought this was a description of a recent confrontation between the intrepid BlackLivesMatter activists and the faux socialist running for U.S. President, Bernie Sanders, you would be wrong.