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If the Tea Party movement has taught us anything, it’s that liberals hate the idea of freedom and liberty leaking into mainstream thought. The Democratic Party has mobilized to silence these and other voices on the Right through denying tax-exempt statuses, shutting them down on social media, and even censoring videos on YouTube.

Conservative mainstay Dennis Prager is one of the latest victims of these tactics with his online video presentations under Prager University. More than a dozen of his videos have been labeled “restricted” by the online video outlet even though the content is G-rated. Ironically, the latest video is all about the Left’s attempt to censor the right.

The video in question is titled “The Dark Art of Political Intimidation.” It features Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel. She takes viewers through the three-steps the Left uses to intimidate its opposition: Harass, investigate/prosecute, and then blackmail. It’s very informative and describes how the practice has evolved through the years:

The object of this very real “game” is to make political opponents pay a high price for expressing their opinions. It was a standard technique in the Jim Crow South in the 1950’s. It was used by racist southern Democrats to shut up black civil rights groups like the NAACP. And now these tactics have been revived and improved upon by today’s Democratic Party and their allies on the Progressive Left. They want to shut up conservatives; just like racists once wanted to shut up blacks and their liberal supporters.

As noted by The Federalist, parents and schools can place a restriction on their YouTube accounts to shelter children from graphic content on the site, but it’s odd YouTube would place PragerU videos in this category since it contains nothing questionable — except for its conservative politics — in the form of animated educational and age-appropriate videos.

In all, 18 PragerU videos are on YouTube’s “naughty list.” A petition with nearly 80,000 signatures hopes to release the short videos from “restricted mode.”

Google responded to the official complaint by PragerU and assured they “don’t censor anyone,” but do “take into consideration what the intent of the video is … [and]… what the focus of the video is.” In other words, censorship.

“There is no excuse for Google and YouTube censoring and restricting any PragerU videos, which are produced with the sole intent of educating people of all ages about America’s founding values,” a statement reads.

The truth is out there, but the Left doesn’t want anyone — especially children — to find it.

Click CONTINUE to see what YouTube found so “offensive:”

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About The Author

Mark was a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, and served as the national coordinator. He left the organization to work more broadly on expanding the self-governance movement beyond the partisan divide. Mark appears regularly on television in outlets as diverse as MSNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox Business and the BBC. He’s highly sought after for the tea party perspective from print and electronic media outlets, from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Examiner, Politico and the The Hill. Mark blogs at MarkMeckler.com, and his opinion editorials regularly run in many of the leading political newspapers both on and offline. Mark has a BA in English from San Diego State University and graduated with honors from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1988. He practiced real estate and business law for almost a decade. For the last eleven years of his legal career he specialized in Internet advertising law. When not fighting for the future of our nation, Mark is an avid horseman, and lives in rural northern California with his wife Patty and two children.

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