Just a little bit of free speech

Cartoon by the very courageous Bosch Fawstin

As an American, I believe that I have the right to say anything I please.  I don't deliberately offend others.  Rather, I use the rules of polite society to guide my choice of words.  I would never make deliberately insulting or offensive comments about Mormons, Buddhists, Sikhs or Catholics.  They don't attack me so I feel no need to attack them.  If Muslims behaved in the same manner I wouldn't deliberately say anything offensive to them.  But they don't.  Of all the world's major religions there is only one that demands subservience of all the others.  There is only one religion that routinely threatens others.  There is only one religion that spreads by means of intimidation and violence.  There is only one religion that is not willing to coexist peacefully with the others; Islam.  And when Muslims tell me that I must not insult their religion, I am comfortable in telling them to go piss up a rope.  I will not submit to threats.  I will not abandon my right of free speech. 

If you want me to stop deliberately insulting you then fix your religion and culture and come join the rest of us in the civilized world.  Civilized people peacefully discuss and debate their differences.  Savages use threats and violence.  If you cannot live in the civilized world, please feel free to go back to your 7th Century Islamic paradise.

The Hypocrisy of the Progressives

"Just follow the damned Constitution"

There's this congressman from California who's got all the techno-hipsters swooning because he is fighting a government effort to require back-doors in personal electronic devices that would allow law enforcement agencies to access encrypted private data.  He really gave the hipsters some serious wood with his impassioned remarks about privacy;

 "just follow the damned Constitution."  

That's great.  Good for him.  I'm glad anytime somebody fights for our 4th Amendment rights.  He went on to say 

"And that's why our founders put in the Constitution of the United States—that's why they put in the Fourth Amendment. Because they understand that an Orwellian overreaching federal government is one of the most dangerous things that this world can have."   

There's just one little problem with Representative Lieu's heartfelt defense of the Constitution.  Like all progressives, he's only worried about defending those parts of the Constitution that will advance his leftist ideology.  He doesn't give a rat's ass about the 2nd Amendment.  His record of promoting extreme gun control measures shows that.  And, being that he is a progressive, he tends to ignore the fact that the Constitution is all about LIMITATIONS on the power of government.  Like all progressives, he wants to expand the size of the government and give it powers never dreamed of by the men who wrote the Constitution.  The federal government dictating to private citizens that they must purchase health care insurance......he's all for that.  Limit free speech by overturning Citizen's United....sure.  The government ordering religious institutions to engage in actions that are in direct contravention to their beliefs....yep, Ted wants that too.  I guess he never read the 1st or 10th Amendments either.  He supported Obama's executive amnesty, which overrode the powers granted to Congress by Article I, Section 8.  I guess he just skipped past that part too.  

Progressives love to say that the Constitution is a 'living, breathing' document, that can be altered as needed to adapt to the current situation progressive political agenda.  They don't even need the consent of the governed to change the Constitution to suit their purposes; they just get some activist judges to create new law on the fly.  That's not the intent of the Constitution.   It is supposed to be the bedrock foundation upon which our laws rest.  The founding fathers deliberately made it difficult to alter the Constitution.  They specifically did that to protect us from the tyranny of the majority and an all-powerful state.  But that is exactly what is at the heart of the progressive movement; an all-powerful federal government run by an unelected bureaucracy. 

I've got a little bit of advice for you, Ted.  Just follow the damned Constitution!

Mighty white of you, Barry

You can't call 'em thugs.  You really can't call 'em thugz.  

 That's RACIST!!11!!!!

Obama's in hot water with the race outrage industry and its demented allies, the social justice warriors.  Even though the progressives have been touting Obama as the first black president, evidently he is now only half black.  That means his other half is white.....and that half is RACIST!  While the black half was out on the golf course, Obama's racist white half ran up to the microphones and started making racist statements about the violent thugs in Baltimore who are using the death of a black man as an excuse to riot and loot.  Yes, it is thuggish behavior, but you can't call it that.  By calling them thugs you are ignoring their legitimate grievances against CVS and other local businesses.  Oh, and don't forget the cars and other property belonging to local residents.  They must have had serious, legitimate grievances against that stuff too.  By calling them thugs for committing violent acts of destruction against public and private property, you harm their self-esteem, marginalize their grievances, disenfranchise their voices and ignore the tyranny of the white patriarchy, or something like that.  Whatever; you just can't call 'em thugs.

Baltimore mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Let-Them-Loot-Blake, a proud Oberlin College grad, also called the rioters thugs.  She must have some of that racist white blood in her as well.

 I know it's hard to tell from that picture.  It looks as though her skin is a little lighter shade of not-completely-black than Obama's.  But according to MSNBC's Alex Wagner, Mayor Rawlings-Let-Them-Loot-Blake is a black woman.  Huh???.  The only difference that I know of is that Mayor Rawlings-Let-Them-Loot-Blake went groveling before the black outrage industry and recanted her description of the rioters as thugs.  I guess that supplication before the grievance mongers eliminated her white half (possible 63%....it's hard to tell).  I guess we'll have to ask the whiter-than-marshmallow-fluff Alex Wagner for a ruling on that.*

Leftists don't even try to make sense anymore.  They live in a fantasy world where facts no longer matter.  When reality refuses to comply with their Utopian fantasy, they must change reality.  They twist the language to alter the truth.  They ignore what is plainly evident to any objective observer to provide the outcome that they want.  The only thing that matters to Leftists is that, when all is said and done, they feel good about themselves.

The destruction we are seeing in Baltimore is the direct result of decades of Progressive single-party rule.  None of the blame can be placed anywhere but the Left.  This is what happens when you have nearly unchecked rule by people who refuse to accept reality and are absolutely convinced of their own moral and intellectual superiority.




* Before you express your righteous indignation over my comments, take a listen to the absurdity of Alex Wagner's statement.  She and others in the progressive mainstream media have been using Obama's 'blackness' to protect him from any criticism for 7 years.  They gloried in the ascendency of a black president.  They cheered his triumphal entry into Washington as the beginning of a port-racial America (funny how that turned out, huh?).  And now that he used one word that is not approved by the black outrage industry, he is only half black.  How absurd is it that a man who self-identifies as black, was raised, mentored and educated by Marxist-socialists and has used his skin color to deflect blame for all his actions, is now criticized by the Leftists for being half-white.  Can Alex Wagner possibly be THAT racist that she thinks a little mixed-race DNA affects his actions and beliefs?  She couldn't possibly mean that Obama isn't authentically black because he was raised by a white woman?  Could she?  Well that would just fly in the face of the whole 'first black president' crap that the media has been using as a shield for all of his malfeasance and incompetence.