April 9, 2008: Political Correctness is well on its way to destroy the liberties we
have been granted as citizens of this country. And political correctness doesn't only mean,
as we used to say when I was a young man - you gotta call a spade a spade - but
any comment made about anything - animate or inaminate - can create for you all kinds of trouble.
It happened here in Nevada - a woman's license plate, one she has had for a number of years,
was XSTACY - was taken away by the DMV because someone was offended by what it might mean.
Today's news reports an Obama campaign worker fired becasue she said a bunch of kids
were running around, c limbing trees, "..like...monkeys..."). And the example continue
almost everyday.
Groups of people - call them a community rather than groups - are protesting
the Olympic torch bearers and the Olympics, based upon China's apparently heavy-handed
in Tibet. A human rights problem? More than likely. But China has been a human rights violator for the past 30+ years,
but everybody is still buying goods marked "hecho in China".
When Germany held the 1936 Olympics, and the National Socialists were led by Hitler, nobody
here boycotted the games. When United States athletes, upon winning medals in a more recent Olympics,
raised their
fists in the fascist salute as a political symbol, the Olympics were not boycotted.
The point is that every country has problems that other countries' citizens rally against. But to
boycott the Olympics just because it is being held in China, and that government is acting
in a way many people are unhappy about, the Olympic athletes should not be punished.
So why is this happening? Groups (communities) protest over that which they do
not like or want; people have to be afraid to say anything lest it be considerd racist or
anti-government. Folks, the problem has been here for years - under the Wilson and Roosevelt
administrations, as well as under the current Bush administration. Fascist liberalism is slowly but surely
taking over this country.
We've been living under a kind socialism, but now it is becoming harsher. The Hitlerian/Nazi
policy of the community over the individual is what we are witnessing in this country.
Classical individual liberty is slowly but surely being destroyed, in favor of statism.
Nothing new, as I said - but appealing to most of our youth and others who, knowingly or not,
believe extreme liberalism will make their life better.
Unfortunately, those people may get what they're asking for...
[April 28, 2008: A thank you to Michael Moore for the correction re: the license plate
note - plate letters stated left out the letter S (XSTACY)]
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