Can’t appease them, can’t accommodate them, shouldn’t try
Aug 16, 2017 4:58:18 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Aug 16, 2017 4:58:18 GMT -5
Can’t appease them, can’t accommodate them, shouldn’t try
August 15th, 2017 By Mike
Thanks to the unbridgeable chasm between Statists and lovers of liberty, those civic ties are all but extinct anyway, and rightly if tragically so. The First Amendment, along with the rest of the Constitution, isn’t far behind. Scapegoat them all you may like, but it wasn’t the Nazi boobs who killed ’em off, either. As Limbaugh says above, somebody wanted this to happen, and from the official maneuvering before and during it seems to be fairly clear who. The question we need to be asking is: why?
coldfury.com/2017/08/15/cant-appease-them-cant-accommodate-them-shouldnt-try/
August 15th, 2017 By Mike
Thanks to the unbridgeable chasm between Statists and lovers of liberty, those civic ties are all but extinct anyway, and rightly if tragically so. The First Amendment, along with the rest of the Constitution, isn’t far behind. Scapegoat them all you may like, but it wasn’t the Nazi boobs who killed ’em off, either. As Limbaugh says above, somebody wanted this to happen, and from the official maneuvering before and during it seems to be fairly clear who. The question we need to be asking is: why?
coldfury.com/2017/08/15/cant-appease-them-cant-accommodate-them-shouldnt-try/
Thought crimes and misdemeanors
By Klaus Rohrich, August 16, 2017
One could almost draw the conclusion that certain elements of the left were looking for an incident such as what transpired in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend to bolster their momentum in altering our understanding of American history. In what can only be described as a Stalinesque attempt to cleanse America of its ‘shame’ over events of the early 19th Century, the left is doing all it can to destroy any extant memento of the Confederacy, by removing statues, memorials, flags and other reminders of that tragic period in American history because all these artifacts are ‘racist.’ This is tantamount to Stalin having Zinoviev’s and Kamenev’s images removed from official soviet pictorial records.
The ongoing yammering even by reasonable people that ‘hate will not be tolerated’ in our culture is nothing less than the criminalization of thought. Looking at the concept of hate, which is a perfectly normal human emotion much like love, anger, sadness or the myriad of other emotions afflicting the human psyche, the intolerance of hate by the oh-so-tolerant left is a red herring designed to cover what’s really at issue: control over individuals’ thoughts and beliefs.
Having recently reread George Orwell’s seminal work, ‘1984’, I was shocked to arrive at the realization that 1984 is in fact today in the here and now, as our ultra-inclusive culture is only inclusive of beliefs and opinions that toe the party line. It’s okay to hate, so long as your hatred has an official seal of approval and those whom you hate are on the approved list of the hated.
Tearing down Civil War statues and memorials is a way to erase the past. Certainly Orwell understood the concept very well, when he wrote, “The past, … had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?”
Orwell’s understanding of this concept is brilliant: ““Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.””
canadafreepress.com/article/thought-crimes-and-misdemeanors
By Klaus Rohrich, August 16, 2017
One could almost draw the conclusion that certain elements of the left were looking for an incident such as what transpired in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend to bolster their momentum in altering our understanding of American history. In what can only be described as a Stalinesque attempt to cleanse America of its ‘shame’ over events of the early 19th Century, the left is doing all it can to destroy any extant memento of the Confederacy, by removing statues, memorials, flags and other reminders of that tragic period in American history because all these artifacts are ‘racist.’ This is tantamount to Stalin having Zinoviev’s and Kamenev’s images removed from official soviet pictorial records.
The ongoing yammering even by reasonable people that ‘hate will not be tolerated’ in our culture is nothing less than the criminalization of thought. Looking at the concept of hate, which is a perfectly normal human emotion much like love, anger, sadness or the myriad of other emotions afflicting the human psyche, the intolerance of hate by the oh-so-tolerant left is a red herring designed to cover what’s really at issue: control over individuals’ thoughts and beliefs.
Having recently reread George Orwell’s seminal work, ‘1984’, I was shocked to arrive at the realization that 1984 is in fact today in the here and now, as our ultra-inclusive culture is only inclusive of beliefs and opinions that toe the party line. It’s okay to hate, so long as your hatred has an official seal of approval and those whom you hate are on the approved list of the hated.
Tearing down Civil War statues and memorials is a way to erase the past. Certainly Orwell understood the concept very well, when he wrote, “The past, … had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?”
Orwell’s understanding of this concept is brilliant: ““Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.””
canadafreepress.com/article/thought-crimes-and-misdemeanors