(Click title above.)Neo Animal Farm --- “Some Have More Rights Than Others”
POLITICALLY CORRECT GARBAGE ---
Regarding Free Speech:
From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/12hate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin
“I think we should be able to punish speech that urges terrorist violence to an audience, some of whose members are ready to act on the urging,” Mr. Lewis wrote. “That is imminence enough.”
“Mr. Steyn, the author of the article, said the Canadian proceedings had illustrated some important distinctions. “The problem with so-called hate speech laws is that they’re not about facts,” he said in a telephone interview. “They’re about feelings.””
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Personal Comments:
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Must we come to trust elite governmental “empaths,” who now usurp to tell us what evolving standards shall be mandatory because of prevailing acceptability, to fashion for us their (subjective) concepts about what constitutes (objective?) fairness in broadcasting alternative viewpoints?
Yes, speech in the nature of urging or training people to commit conspiratorially guided violence or thuggery should be a crime, just as should any incitement to violence.
Yet, civilized regard for human freedom and dignity demands that legal respect for free speech ought not be withdrawn merely because speech may hurt feelings or be thought hateful or offensive to political fairness or political correctness.
Free speech ought not be curtailed merely because some religious zealots demonstrate willingness to become violently offended on account of commonplace communications among the citizenry.
Otherwise, we shall revert to Neo-Animal Farm, where the free speech for some is freer than for others, based merely on status or willingness to behave madly.
Government must not be seen as the solution for imposing a sort of angelic politeness on earth.
Do not the Liberals who clamor for free speech for “artistic” renditions such as “Piss Christ” tend to be fellow travelers with Liberals who would now restrict the free speech of those who are offended by such “art,” or who wish to defend traditional values?
In short, free speech must not become “free” only in some asinine Marcuse’ian sense of a double standard, for expressing tolerance for speech in support of every sort of depravity, while punishing speech only when it is used for expressing offense against violations of traditional sensibilities.
Do not be hoodwinked.
Get the red ass.
Summon the pitchforks!
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
Change and Hope:
From http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2008/06/12/warming_up_to_obamas_message_of_hope_and_change :
Unlike most politicians (?), Obama is for both change and hope! Who’da thought!
Modern Management:
From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/opinion/13brooks.html?th&emc=th :
“He [Barack Obama] proposes dozens of programs to build on top of the current system, but it’s not clear that he would challenge it. He’s all carrot, no stick. He’s politically astute — giving everybody the impression he’s on their side — but substantively vague. Change just isn’t that easy.
Obama endorses many good ideas and is more specific than the McCain campaign, which hasn’t even reported for duty on education. But his education remarks give the impression of a candidate who wants to be for big change without actually incurring the political costs inherent in that enterprise.”
Religious Toleration:
See http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/why_islamists_persecute_the_ba.html .
Anti-Semitism:
From http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DianaWest/2008/06/13/islams_legacy_of_anti-semitism :
Take anti-Semitism in Islam, the subject of his new book. The view that Islamic anti-Semitism is a relatively recent import into Islam from Christian Europe and Nazi Germany is declared as settled fact by historians such as Bernard Lewis and popular authors such as Lawrence Wright ("The Looming Tower"). Bostom's conclusions, based on an array of religious texts and commentaries, historical analyses and eyewitness accounts, which he presents in "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism," suggest otherwise.
From http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/how_our_marxist_faculties_got.html :
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Marxism collapsed in Russia and in Eastern Europe. But it survived in U.S. universities, where politically-correct feelings are now more important than knowledge, and where politically-correct emotions are now more important than logic and critical thinking. Our students and graduates are well trained, but badly educated. Outside of what they must learn to make a living, they don't know very much. But they have been taught to feel sad, angry or guilty about their country and its past.
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Their professors don't make the big bucks in America. What their professors do earn, however, are huge psychological incomes in the form of power -- the power to shape the minds of their students and the power to influence their colleagues who want raises, sabbaticals. grants, promotions, and tenure. One of the best ways to influence students, colleagues, and the citizenry at large is to hire, promote, and tenure only those people who agree with you. Duke University is a case in point. Some time ago, its psychology chairman was asked in a radio interview if his department hired Republicans. He answered: "No. We don't knowingly hire them because they are stupid and we are not."
Quote snippits from
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=79F671A7-DE83-4F6C-A219-B12076BA3AD3 :
In sum, then, what Littman was saying was accurate, and the Egyptian, Pakistani and Iranian representatives consistently characterized these truthful statements as insults to Islam, and moved to have them suppressed. Not only does this shameful episode bode ill for the human rights of women in the Islamic world; it also represents another victory in the war against free speech that Islamic supremacists have been pursuing with particular energy lately, calling on Western authorities to prosecute Dutch politician Geert Wilders for his film Fitna and Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard for his drawing of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, and in general to outlaw what they perceive as insults to Islam.
They have won at the UN Human Rights Council. That will not be the only battle of this war. But it remains to be seen whether any governing official in the West has the courage and the clear-sightedness to stand up to this challenge before it’s too late -- before we are required by law to stand by as mute witnesses to our own conquest and Islamization.
We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC , filled to capacity by many of America 's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, 'Mexifornia,' explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, 'If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.''
'Here is how they do it,' Lamm said: 'First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country.' History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.'
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, 'Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, 'We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.'
Lamm said, 'I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities.'
'Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school.'
'My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.'
'My sixth plan for America 's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common Language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. 'E. Pluribus Unum' --From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.'
'Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.'
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said,. 'Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book 'Mexifornia.' His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book.'
There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states – to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book '1984.' In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: 'War is peace,' 'Freedom is slavery,' and 'Ignorance is strength.'
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path especially The American Dream.
ABOUT NETROOTS:
From http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7372 :
Netroots activists commonly utilize a technique known as “blogswarming,” whereby they flood the Internet with commentary on whatever particular issue or event they deem vital to the Democratic/leftist cause. According to writer Jonathan Chait:
“It is a formulation that assumes that establishing the truth about an idea matters less than phrasing the idea in the most politically effective way and repeating it as much as possible. As Ed Kilgore (a moderate liberal blogger with a complicated relationship to the netroots) has put it, this wording ‘reflects the strange belief that politics is all about noise and narratives’; whoever makes the most noise or gets the most Google hits is going to win, regardless of objective reality.”
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As of mid-2007, the second most influential Netroots blog was Eschaton, written by Philadelphia economist Duncan Black under the pseudonym “Atrios.” Other notable Netroots affiliates include Media Matters for America, the New Politics Institute, MoveOn.org, Crooks and Liars, Americablog, FireDogLake, and an e-mail list called Townhouse.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." Thomas Jefferson
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington
What's Irish for "irony"?
Answer: "Kennedy"
Actually, Kennedy means "head ugly (but there's irony for you).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_%28surname%29:
"The Gaelic personal name Ceannéidigh is derived from ceann meaning "head" + éidigh meaning "ugly"."
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It’s ugly to live in a time when the deciding vote on our Supreme Court will evidently continue to be cast in a number of important decisions by a person (Justice Kennedy) who seems not even to comprehend a fundamental difference between law and personal habits of decency. It is especially ugly when even the NYT notices a big discrepancy in the Court’s reasoning.
For bitter irony, check out the last sentence, below.
From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/washington/02scotus.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1215007382-kllvyZtG3mES24gGxTg8Jg :
When the Supreme Court ruled last week that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the majority noted that a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states — not in any of the 30 other states that have the death penalty, and not under the jurisdiction of the federal government either.
This inventory of jurisdictions was a central part of the court’s analysis, the foundation for Justice.
Anthony M. Kennedy’s conclusion in his majority opinion that capital punishment for child rape was contrary to the “evolving standards of decency” by which the court judges how the death penalty is applied.
It turns out that Justice Kennedy’s confident assertion about the absence of federal law was wrong.
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... despite the flurry of activity surrounding the death penalty, the military has not in fact executed anyone for decades. Its last execution took place on April 13, 1961, when Pvt. John A. Bennett was put to death by hanging. His crime: the rape of an 11-year-old girl.
Makes sense to me — Quote snippit from commenter at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/the_case_of_expelled_embed.html:
If Miller's theory works maybe a Philadelphia newspaper could hire him to photograph the deaths of victims due to the high murder rate there. That will prompt drug lords, drug addicts, goons and thugs to stop killing people and quit their illegal and obscene activities. Just like Saddam Hussein, Al Q., and other terrorists would.
Miller is a liberal, leftist idiot.
Posted by: Mike S. | July 27, 2008 06:25 AM
CRITICAL MASS (of Muslims):
http://sigcarlfred.blogspot.com/2006/02/myth-of-moderate-islam-and-other.html
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/1853198.htm
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000936.html
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/6975.htm
http://www.criticalmassblog.com/submissions/2006/8/7/time-to-act.html
SAME SEX MARRIAGE:
See http://news.newsmax.com/?Z6IRXZSF1gCF77.dCqDED3PZkQrztfRAZ :
The constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California has been drawing large contributions from proponents on both sides of the issue.
Focus on the Family spokeswoman Monica Marti told the Mercury-News that Dobson's organization believes the outcome of the vote on Proposition 8 will affect the rest of the country as well. California does not require couples to be residents to marry there.
Back in 2000, a proposition declaring that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" passed with 61 percent of the vote.
The Supreme Court ruling struck down that statue, meaning the constitutional amendment is needed to ban same-sex marriage.
Barack Obama opposes the initiative, calling it "divisive and discriminatory," but he remains opposed to same-sex marriage and supports civil unions and domestic partnerships.
His presidential rival John McCain announced his support for the amendment in June.
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