Vince Everett Ellison, The Iron Triangle, 2020, "If protest brought about desired change, Black people would be the most successful race in the country and Asians would be the least. Instead, the converse is true."This may open up a ton of outraged comments by some - Many who will argue how "wrong" this post is. My suggestion: Save your time and effort! You're not changing the reality of what we are living by trying to somehow justify this insanity. Nevertheless, I couldn't resist because we are becoming the Twilight Zone. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!
- If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
- Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America. Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
- It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
- Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.
- People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
- Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.
- People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
- Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
- Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
- $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
- If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
- People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
- We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
- Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
- Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.
- And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
- Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are vying of a Chinese virus.
We are living in an upside down world for sure.
- Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
- It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
- Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.
- People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
- Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.
- People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
- Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
- Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
- $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
- If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
- People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
- We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
- Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
- Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.
- And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus. We are living in an upside down world for sure.
Liberty: Karl Popper from The Open Society and Its Enemies:
“ . . . our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous — from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.” As a system such as ours designed to breed discontent and radicalism. It is our very freedoms that encourage opposition to them. Notice, strangely, that those who oppose our ideals and systems through the free use of those ideals and systems are the first to demand that those same ideals and systems be suppressed, erased, or even destroyed morally and legally. Since our country's beginning the foundation, although weakened, has survived.
Freedom of Speech and Religion (1st Amendment) and the Right to Bear Arms (2nd Amendment):
I agree without exception. Those who do not, are and have always been welcome to seek to amend the 1st Amendment of the Constitution in accordance with Constitutional provisions.
I interpret the
No platforming.
Defining hate speech as completely subjective. https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/514251-how-silence-is-violence-threatens-true-free-speech-and-public-civility
How 'silence is violence' threatens true free speech and public civility“Silence is violence” has everything that you want in a slogan from brevity to simplicity. But it can also be chilling for some in the academic and free speech communities. On one level, it conveys the powerful message that people of good faith should not remain silent about great injustices. But it can at the same time have a much more menacing meaning to “prove the negative” by demanding that people show that they are not racist.In a previous column, I warned of the thin line between speech codes and commands, as people shift from compelling silence to compelling words. “Once all the offending statues are down, and all the offending professors are culled, the appetite for collective suppression will become a demand for collective expression.” Such a line between punishing and compelling speech is easily crossed if free speech itself is viewed as a threat.This goes beyond the cases of journalists, academics, and others fired for voicing their dissenting views. Even expressing support in the wrong way can be a terminal offense, such as declaring “all lives matter” rather than “black lives matter,” which led to the firing of Massachusetts dean Leslie Neal Boylan or Vermont principal Tiffany Riley. While most of us support the movement, it has become the official position of many colleges, and variations are not tolerated. The concern is not only an establishment of the orthodox values but also the forced recitation of the values.
National Review article, July 21, 2020, by Dmitri Solzhenitsyn
It is in this environment that groups such as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) operate. Samantha Harris, a senior fellow at FIRE and a specialist in free speech and Title IX law, spoke with me over the phone last week.
On the progression of campus culture, Harris said:
It has become more stifling, I think. It’s hard to find a concrete measure of the extent to which free speech is suppressed, but it certainly feels like it has become more so. When I first started at FIRE in 2005, free-speech and free-expression crackdowns seemed like they were from the top down; students wanted to express themselves, and administrators were stopping them from doing so. Now, it’s students themselves demanding speech to be repressed, and I think this has a lot to do with the education they receive in grades K–12; specifically, not being taught the value of free speech in a liberal society.
Vince Everett Ellison, The Iron Triangle, 2020
Near the end: What scares me the most right now are the successful efforts by anarchists, Black Lives Matter racists, academics, far-left politicians, many members of the entertainment industry, a number of corporations and businesses to control speech (and subsequently thought) and cancel our culture.
Cancel Culture:
If a country allows its symbols (nationally representative flags, heroes, statues, economic systems, etc.) to be destroyed, it is forfeiting its national identity and is well on its way to surrendering to the mob doing the destruction and is heading toward totalitarianism. Destroying a country's symbols is a symbol of the desire to destroy the country. As Francis P. Sempa says in his article, The Assault on Civilization, written for Real Clear History, "If we let the forces of anarchy reign, if law and order is not restored to our cities, if historic memories and manifestations of the past are erased, Western civilization as we know it will not survive." In a later passage in the same article he writes regarding what is happening in today's America, "Totalitarian reeducation is beginning and liberalism is ill-equipped to confront it."And as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
The North American Scrabble Players Association announced it is removing more than 200 words from the official list of words eligible for scoring in the word-building board game. The CEO of the association, John Chew, has been making the rounds with media outlets to explain the “necessity to take action on issues of diversity and inclusivity” as Chew wrote in a letter to association members. Chew, however, has not revealed the list of banned words with the exception of the N-word.
Media:
For the most part the mainstream media have become a joke. They are either thoroughly anti-Trump, anti-Constitution, anti-conservatism, anti-capitalist, and anti-America or they support Trump and the Constitution, are always conservative, anti-left, anti-socialism, anti-communism, anti-totalitarianism, anti-liberal (are there any remaining?),
Social Media:
Immigration:
Simple. I believe in the rule of law and I trust that an impenetrable wall on our southern border is one solution to stop or at least significantly slow non-American citizens from entry. If an individual enters this county by other than as provided by current law, they are here illegally and should be prosecuted and deported as quickly as possible. Otherwise, change the laws.
Education:
Anti-Racism Training
1619 Curriculum.
School Choice
Colleges and universities. I have always believed that higher education administrators and professors were intelligent, fair-minded people. Obviously, I have been out of that environment a long time. That is not now far from being the case. From their unbelievable and blatantly unfair implementation of Obama's guide to Title IX with regard to sexual abuse and harassment; catering to student snowflakes by creating safe spaces, trigger warnings, deplatforming or allowing the deplateforming of speakers, tolerating the destruction of patriotic artifacts, the American flag, and statues of historic figures, pandering to Marist groups such as Black Lives Matter, Council on American-Islamic Relations, ANTIFA, Black Bloc, Occupy, and John Brown Gun Club. Why have the majority of university professors become fair left anti-American communists? Do they really believe that we would be better off upon the conversion of our country to communism or socialism? As academics, they should be familiar with the failed countries around the world that have adopted socialism or worse, communism. Don't they realize that the radicals will never be satisfied and that eventually they will be coming for them? There will always be another group of radicals that are more radical than the current group. Do they not know the history of revolutions? Think of Robespierre, Stalin's The Great Purge. Know that sooner or later they will come for you.
A major teachers union is claiming that the re-opening of schools in its district cannot occur without several substantial policy provisions in place, including a "moratorium" on charter schools and the defunding of local police. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/la-teachers-union-says-schools-cant-reopen-unless-charter-schools-get
Social Justice:
Race:
I am unapologetically white and I did not make any person of any color a lesser human being or subject them to any form of servitude or slavery. If any person perceives him or her selves as a victim they are so by choice. As Vince Everett Ellison says in his book, The Iron Triangle, "Every adult person is responsible for their own lives. Until the former slave affirms, accepts, and takes responsibility for his own freedom, he cannot be helped."
Implicit Bias:White Supremacy: A racial slur.
White Privilege: A racial slur.
White Silence: A racial slur. Form an article by Francis P. Sempa, July 08, 2020: "Protestors hold signs with the words “white silence is white violence,” meaning that if you do not speak out as they want you to, you are committing an act of “violence” and presumably should be prosecuted.
Critical Race Theory:
The City Journal, September 16, 2020
Under the dogma of critical race theory, the neo-Marxist Left now treats members of “oppressor” groups (whites, males, Christians, Jews, conservatives) as inherently guilty by virtue of their group membership; conversely, members of victim groups are considered morally innocent. By this logic, claims of victimization by members of victim groups necessarily must be believed, while members of oppressor groups are already guilty by virtue of their group membership. This formula eliminates any need for due process, since the mere perception of victimization constitutes proof of same.
Conservative African American economist Thomas Sowell says that the term “systemic racism,” which is central to the Black Lives Matter movement, has “no meaning.”
Sowell is set to appear on Fox News’ Life, Liberty and Levin on Sunday evening with host Mark Levin at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT).
According to Fox News:
You hear this phrase, ‘systemic racism’ [or] ‘systemic oppression’,” host Mark Levin told Sowell. “You hear it on our college campuses. You hear it from very wealthy and fabulously famous sports stars. What does that mean? And whatever it means, is it true?”
“It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses,” answered Sowell, who added that the currency of the phrase reminds him of the “propaganda tactics” of Nazi Germany, where Sowell claimed that if a lie was “repeated long enough and loud enough” it would be widely believed.
Anti-Racist Training:
Any effort to raise one's self up at the expense of another is a violation of natural morals.
Reparations:
Cultural Appropriation:
Crime and Criminal Justice:
Kim Foxx, Illinois' Cook County (includes Chicago) States Attorney (like a district attorney) announced on July 9, 2020, that they will no longer prosecute crimes such as Disorderly Conduct, Public Demonstration, Unlawful Gathering, Criminal Trespass to State Support Land, and Curfew Violations committed by so-called protestors. And that serious crimes such as Resisting/Obstructing Arrest, Assault, Aggregated Assault, Battery, Aggregated Battery to Police Officer, Reckless Conduct, Mob Action, and Obstructing Identification will not be prosecuted where they are not supported by body-worn footage, dashcam footage or other substantial evidence. In other words, the word of the police is not good enough that a crime has been committed. Liberal bail laws set violent looters free soon after their arrests. In Seattle, Washington, left-wing revolutionaries took over a police precinct and surrounding city blocks and issued “demands” to abolish the police and empty the prisons. Seattle’s liberal mayor called the radicals “patriots,” while Washington’s liberal governor appeared oblivious to it all. Most ominously, radicals are waging war against law enforcement, and liberals in power pledge to disarm, defund, or disband the police.
Corporations, Governments, and Celebrities:
Why are corporations and governments afraid of Black Lives Matter? They are tripping over each other to be more "woke" than the other. Silly! Pandering! And Hollywood celebrities are to be ignored, whatever their politics. They are but actors that do best when they stay in their lane. They do not need to be embarrassed as I will be for them.
Politics:
Technology and Politics:
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/how-algorithms-affect-your-life/From that article:Inevitably more and more power and resources find their way into the hands of fewer and fewer people, until society breaks. Historically this is true, something like 100% of the time. Eventually people with power find a way to use their power to gain more power, to rig the system in their favor, and to pass on advantages to their children. Eventually you need regulation to re-level the playing field, or you get revolution that wipes the slate clean and starts all over.
Economy:
Jobs
Free Trade
Taxing and Spending
Abortion:
Murder!
Guns:
Religion:
I am not a religious person. I sometimes believe there is a God like the one my parents believed in, but usually, I doubt it. Nevertheless, I have a certain Christian-based morality guiding my actions albeit liberalized when I see fit because a particular code seems nonsensical, unnecessary, or harmful.
Deciding Your Own Sex:
Ridiculous! Unscientific.
Environment:
What the hell is environmental racism?
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NOTES:
Burnham Suicide of the West,
[C]ivilized society requires a certain rule and order to hold back from the edge of anarchic savagery where it is always precariously poised. Human beings must have at least a minimum security in life and property, must be able to move through the streets and between the cities, must accept certain common rules in their mutual intercourse, or civilization does not exist. If this necessary order is subverted, the civilization is destroyed, whether the subversion takes place from the best or worst of motives, whether or not it is in some supposedly moral sense justified, whether it is carried out by saints or devils. At some point the guardians of a civilization must be prepared to draw the line.
CAIR, ANTIFA, Black Bloc, Occupy, YLF & JBGC
The Prince, Noccolo Machiavelli, 1513:
Among the praiseworthy men, the most praiseworthy are leaders and founders of religions, after came founders of republics and kingdoms..Infamous and detestable, on the other hand are the destroyers of religion, the wreckers of kingdoms and republics, the enemies of virtue, of learning and of every other act that benefits and honors the human race. Such are the irreligious, the violent, the ignorant, the useless, the slothful, the cowardly.
In his 1972 Nobel Prize essay, Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn commented on the riots and disturbances then still raging across America and Europe. “Dostoevsky’s devils,” he warned, “are crawling across the whole world in front of our very eyes, infesting countries where they could not have been dreamed of,” and are “announcing their determination to shake and destroy civilization.”
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