By Ralph Peters
New York Post
AFTER a lecture to the Marine Memorial Association last week, a reporter thrust a mike toward me and asked if I thought I should be tried for war crimes for my columns in The Post supporting our military.
The reporter – who avoided revealing what outlet he was with – thought he was being wonderfully clever, but what fascinated me about the silly encounter (it was in San Francisco, after all) was how unintentionally revealing it was about the shameless hypocrisy of the left.
Think about it: For expressing my views to readers like you on these pages, hardcore leftists believe I should be put on trial as a war criminal.
It tells you all you need to know about the extreme left’s view of the First Amendment: Free speech is great, as long as it’s their free speech (or extreme pornography). But dissenting views must be censored. The more effective the opponent, the more important it is to shut him down.











