I saw a post on Facebook this afternoon when I got home that has disturbed me in more ways than one. The post was a video posted by one of the Confederate heritage pages I'm a fan of, and it showed a black female in Philadelphia "bravely" walking up on someone's porch and ripping down a Confederate flag that was flying there. Of course, the original poster of the video called her a "shero," which is a made-up word I've never heard before until today. But the point is that her actions were hailed as "heroic" and "brave."
And that, friends and neighbors, is a matter of opinion. In my eyes she's a thug and a criminal because she destroyed someone else's property, and had she tried that crap down here in the South she'd be very likely to end up getting her ass shot. But I digress.
Liberals will be very quick to tell you that the Confederate flag is a "racist" symbol, and they will defend any and all activities whether they are legal or not to tear the flag down wherever and whenever it is displayed. They'll come up with a thousand different reasons why the flag should never be displayed, and of course every single one of them is nothing more than an opinion - and total bullshit in my mind. If you tell them "It's just a flag" you can count on a vehement and nasty rebuttal in which they will lecture you on the "evils" associated with the Confederate flag, totally mindless of the true history of the flag and the bravery of the Confederate soldiers which it represents. No, they don't care about that, all they care about is that THEIR opinion is heard and THEIR will obeyed, and that means the flag must come down. It's not "just a flag" to them, and you'll never convince them otherwise.
And you know, I think I understand that point of view as well as any white man can. Additionally, I understand the feelings the display of the flag causes, but I also understand that those feelings don't justify any hostility, violence, or destruction on anyone's part. I also understand that those with a differing opinion should be as understanding about MY feelings as I am about THEIRS, but I ain't holding my breath.
So when a black football player who was raised by white parents and who has a multi-million dollar contract with a professional football team chooses to "protest" against "racial oppression" in this country by kneeling during the National Anthem and disrespecting the flag and those who died defending it, what do the liberals tell us in defense of his actions?
"IT'S JUST A FLAG."
In the first place, NO, motherf***er, it's not. It's the emblem of our nation and the banner of freedom for all the world to see, and there are countless thousands of men and women who have died defending that flag and your right to act like a total asshole.
In the second place, you can't have it both ways. If you're going to use that line to defend the actions of someone who chooses to "protest" by kneeling during the National Anthem and disrespecting the flag, then you're going to have to use that same line of thought when someone flies a Confederate flag. After all, 'it's just a flag' and you have no right to get upset when someone flies it - just like you say we have no right to get upset when someone disrespects the American flag by kneeling during the National Anthem.
But then again, we are talking about liberals here, aren't we? For that reason alone I don't expect for them to use that line of reasoning when talking about the Confederate flag EVER. After all, it just doesn't fit in with their "right" to be offended at every little bitty thing they choose to be offended about, does it?
So let me be clear on a couple of things.
I'm a proud Southerner and I'm proud of my three ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, and I'll fly the Confederate flag proudly. And I'll defend that flag and my right to fly it just as vehemently as I'll defend the American flag.
As for the American flag, well, it's like this: if you ever try to burn an American flag in my presence, you're gonna get your ass kicked. And if you choose to kneel during the National Anthem and disrespect the American flag in that manner and I'm anywhere around, you're gonna hear from me as soon as the anthem is over and I'm finished saluting the flag and the nation it represents.
And it ain't gonna be a pleasant conversation, but I guarantee you that it'll be one you'll never forget.
Deo Vindice
IHC
Friday, June 15, 2018
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Liberal Lunacy #2: "Blame The NRA!"
I'll be the first to admit that we have a violence problem in our society; however, I will be the LAST person you can ever expect to hear use the term "gun violence." Actually, this posting is likely the only time you'll ever hear me use the phrase and the only reason I use it now is that there's no way around it. Violence is violence, and to slap a label on it particular to the weapon used is both stupid and unrealistic. And to complicate the matter, apparently the loonies in the liberal left think that the only kind of violence which deserves such a special classification is violence that is committed with firearms. Why don't they refer to violence committed with knives as "knife violence?" How about violence committed with clubs? Why do we never hear about "club violence?"
The answer is simple: none of that fits into their agenda to eliminate firearms and repeal the Second Amendment. They operate under the misguided principle that if you make up enough scary terms and frighten the uneducated members of the general public bad enough, they'll see things your way and give you what you want when they go to the ballot box. And make no mistake about it, the agenda and the goal of the liberal left is to eliminate all firearms and strip us of our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the better to establish total control over the American people.
While the loonies in the liberal left may be unrealistic and downright stupid in some of their goals, one of the (few) things that they're smart enough to realize is that their main opponent in their fight to repeal the Second Amendment is the National Rifle Association. They correctly recognize the NRA as the most powerful and influential gun rights organization in the nation, and they also realize that if it weren't for the NRA the liberals would easily attain their goal of establishing total control over the American population. They realize - as did Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Adolph Hitler - that to control a nation you must first disarm its people. And so, taking the page out of the Josef Goebbels playbook which read "If you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth," the liberal left is attempting to convince the American public that the NRA is responsible for the mass shootings we are plagued with in this nation by their support of the right to keep and bear arms. After all, if there were no guns there'd be no "gun violence," right?
Yeah, sure. Just like there's no drug problem in this country because meth, LSD, heroin and cocaine are all illegal. THAT has worked out really well, don't you think?
And the really sad thing is that there are hundreds of thousands of people who believe this nonsense. Instead of doing some simple research on their own and discovering the truth, they'd rather believe the liberal lies and give the loonies telling the lies the support they need.
Think back to the last two decades of the 20th century when we had a really bad drunk driving problem in this country. Seems like every time you turned on the news you were hearing yet another story of someone getting killed by a drunk driver. The response by the American people and the Federal government to fight this problem was spot-on. What they did at both the state and federal level was simple: they held the drunk driver accountable and responsible for his actions. In addition to that, the individual states lowered the BAC level required as prima facia evidence to prove drunk driving from .10%BAC down to .08%BAC, which made it easier to get convictions and get the drunk drivers off the road. Most of the states took this action on their own, and for those who were reluctant to do so the federal government gave them an incentive - lower your BAC level needed for a conviction or lose all federal funding for your roadways and bridges. The result of this effort is that the BAC level needed for a drunk driving conviction is .08% nationwide, and the drunk driving problem we faced in the '80s and '90s is long gone. We still have drunk drivers, to be sure, but we don't have anywhere near the problem now that we had then.
All because the person committing the crime was held accountable and responsible. We blamed the person and not the car or the manufacturer of the alcohol. This alone is proof that holding the individual accountable works.
But of course the liberal left refuses to see this. They continue to blame the NRA for the actions of what has proven to be mentally unstable persons, and instead of focusing on the root cause of the problem itself they choose to take this issue and twist it to fit their agenda of total control and try to eliminate the NRA in the process.
The really funny thing is this: in reality, the NRA is the sponsor of the largest, most effective gun safety program in the nation. And what's more, this program is focused on children as the primary audience. They operate this program on the proven theory that if you teach children what guns are, what they are capable of, and how to handle them at an early age, you reduce the number of children who are hurt or killed in firearms-related accidents.
But you can count on the liberal left to continue to exercise its own special kind of lunacy and continue to blame the NRA instead of blaming the shooter, and you can count on them to continue to push for more and more useless gun control laws which do nothing to take guns out of the hands of criminals but only serve to disarm law-abiding citizens.
Just for fun, let's take a minute and use that twisted liberal "logic" on the liberals themselves, shall we?
Out of the past 15 mass shootings in which the shooter was old enough to vote, the ones who were registered to vote were registered as DEMOCRATS. So using the "logic" of the liberal left, all we have to do to eliminate mass shootings is to eliminate DEMOCRATS. After all, no Democrats means no mass shootings, right?
Works for me.
Deo Vindice
IHC
The answer is simple: none of that fits into their agenda to eliminate firearms and repeal the Second Amendment. They operate under the misguided principle that if you make up enough scary terms and frighten the uneducated members of the general public bad enough, they'll see things your way and give you what you want when they go to the ballot box. And make no mistake about it, the agenda and the goal of the liberal left is to eliminate all firearms and strip us of our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the better to establish total control over the American people.
While the loonies in the liberal left may be unrealistic and downright stupid in some of their goals, one of the (few) things that they're smart enough to realize is that their main opponent in their fight to repeal the Second Amendment is the National Rifle Association. They correctly recognize the NRA as the most powerful and influential gun rights organization in the nation, and they also realize that if it weren't for the NRA the liberals would easily attain their goal of establishing total control over the American population. They realize - as did Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Adolph Hitler - that to control a nation you must first disarm its people. And so, taking the page out of the Josef Goebbels playbook which read "If you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth," the liberal left is attempting to convince the American public that the NRA is responsible for the mass shootings we are plagued with in this nation by their support of the right to keep and bear arms. After all, if there were no guns there'd be no "gun violence," right?
Yeah, sure. Just like there's no drug problem in this country because meth, LSD, heroin and cocaine are all illegal. THAT has worked out really well, don't you think?
And the really sad thing is that there are hundreds of thousands of people who believe this nonsense. Instead of doing some simple research on their own and discovering the truth, they'd rather believe the liberal lies and give the loonies telling the lies the support they need.
Think back to the last two decades of the 20th century when we had a really bad drunk driving problem in this country. Seems like every time you turned on the news you were hearing yet another story of someone getting killed by a drunk driver. The response by the American people and the Federal government to fight this problem was spot-on. What they did at both the state and federal level was simple: they held the drunk driver accountable and responsible for his actions. In addition to that, the individual states lowered the BAC level required as prima facia evidence to prove drunk driving from .10%BAC down to .08%BAC, which made it easier to get convictions and get the drunk drivers off the road. Most of the states took this action on their own, and for those who were reluctant to do so the federal government gave them an incentive - lower your BAC level needed for a conviction or lose all federal funding for your roadways and bridges. The result of this effort is that the BAC level needed for a drunk driving conviction is .08% nationwide, and the drunk driving problem we faced in the '80s and '90s is long gone. We still have drunk drivers, to be sure, but we don't have anywhere near the problem now that we had then.
All because the person committing the crime was held accountable and responsible. We blamed the person and not the car or the manufacturer of the alcohol. This alone is proof that holding the individual accountable works.
But of course the liberal left refuses to see this. They continue to blame the NRA for the actions of what has proven to be mentally unstable persons, and instead of focusing on the root cause of the problem itself they choose to take this issue and twist it to fit their agenda of total control and try to eliminate the NRA in the process.
The really funny thing is this: in reality, the NRA is the sponsor of the largest, most effective gun safety program in the nation. And what's more, this program is focused on children as the primary audience. They operate this program on the proven theory that if you teach children what guns are, what they are capable of, and how to handle them at an early age, you reduce the number of children who are hurt or killed in firearms-related accidents.
But you can count on the liberal left to continue to exercise its own special kind of lunacy and continue to blame the NRA instead of blaming the shooter, and you can count on them to continue to push for more and more useless gun control laws which do nothing to take guns out of the hands of criminals but only serve to disarm law-abiding citizens.
Just for fun, let's take a minute and use that twisted liberal "logic" on the liberals themselves, shall we?
Out of the past 15 mass shootings in which the shooter was old enough to vote, the ones who were registered to vote were registered as DEMOCRATS. So using the "logic" of the liberal left, all we have to do to eliminate mass shootings is to eliminate DEMOCRATS. After all, no Democrats means no mass shootings, right?
Works for me.
Deo Vindice
IHC
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