My good friend William Teach of The Pirate’s Cove, who sometimes pinch hits on this poor site when I’m on vacation, uses as his blog ‘tagline,’ “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” And thus we have, in our good friends on the left, the ones championing freedom of speech and their right to protest our Evil Orange Overlord in the ‘No Kings’ rallies, showing us just how much they support freedom of speech for the people they don’t like.
KKK propaganda found in Central Kentucky city. Police ask for camera footage
By Christopher Leach | Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 10:09 AM EDT
The Frankfort Police Department is investigating after Ku Klux Klan propaganda was found in the community overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.
Police did not say specifically where the propaganda was found, but asked those in the area to share security camera footage with investigators. Allowing investigators to review footage could help identify those who spread the propaganda, officials said.
“The Frankfort Police Department does not tolerate hate in any form,” the agency said in an Oct. 22 Facebook post. “This behavior goes against the values of our community, and the Frankfort Police Department is taking this matter very seriously.”
Anyone with information can contact Frankfort police at 502-875-8582.
“The Frankfort Police Department remains committed to the safety of the Frankfort community and continues to support a thriving and diverse community,” police wrote in the Facebook post.
That’s it, that’s the whole story. Normally I’d crop part of the story, but I wanted you to see the whole thing, along with the linked Facebook post, so that you could see that in no place was it indicated that whatever the Ku Klux Klan propaganda said, there are no indications given that it contained any illegal threats to any specific individuals.
Similar ‘incidents’ in Midway and a neighborhood in Lexington have been reported by Christopher Leach as well, though they do not specify that the fliers distributed were by the Klan.
So, I have to ask: if there are no indications reported that the “propaganda” contained any illegal threats, why is this a concern of law enforcement in the state capital? Do the Klan somehow not have freedom of speech and of the press? What actual crime was committed by the Klan distributing their message? The Frankfort Police Department called it an “appalling act of littering,” which Mr Leach did not include in his news story, so apparently the city’s police department is devoting great resources to investigate the distribution as littering, not to investigate any actual threat.
Well, apparently asking such a question was enough for what my best friend used to call the Lexington Herald-Liberal to ‘deactivate’ my comment, screenshotted at the right. I wrote:
The Herald-Leader certainly celebrated the Freedom of Speech expressed by the attendees at the No Kings rally last Saturday, but now we’re hearing that “Ku Klux Klan propaganda”, another expression of freedom of speech, has led to “the Frankfort Police Department is taking this matter very seriously.”
What actual crime has been committed here? Just because people don’t like what the Klan are saying doesn’t mean that it is illegal for them to say it.
We have documented, many times, how much our good friends on the left, including in the credentialed media, hate the freedom of speech and of the press when it comes to those with whom they disagree. The New York Times itself told us how much they don’t like freedom of speech when it comes to Donald Trump or conservatives using Twitter. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s hard-left columnist Will Bunch loves using his freedom of speech and of the press to attack conservatives but absolutely hates it when anyone departs from the leftist line, attacking the very liberal Morning Joe hosts Joe and Mika Scarborough for having the unmitigated gall to interview Donald Trump after he had won the 2024 election.
The Klan? Yeah, they’re an extreme example, but so what? Do the left believe that they should not be allowed to express their opinions?
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Leftist hypocrisy is not unexpected, but there’s a more serious issue involved here: they have arrogated to themselves the authority to decide what may be said.
No one gave them that authority, and perhaps our side should start thinking the same way. Rather than waxing righteously about the First Amendment, maybe it’s time we started telling them: “No, WE will decide what YOU can say!” and back it up appropriately.
The Left really hateS — when did we stop using plural verbs with collective nouns? Sigh. It’s everywhere now. Save the English language, Pt. 2
PS. Just found you–good stuff!
A new Reader wrote:
I never stopped using the plural-proper verbs for collective groups of people, such as family or police.