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9/16/20

Disintegration of our Freedom of Speech

Amendment I:  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The First Amendment to the US Constitution, the number one item in the Bill of Rights, guarantees our freedoms of speech, press, religion and the right to peacefully assemble to protest and petition the government.  The First Amendment is what has set us apart from the other two world superpowers, China and Russia, as well as other tyrannical and despotic governments.  In our opinion, these four guaranteed freedoms (religion, speech, press and assembly/petition) make America unique and are fundamental to ensuring our way of life.  

Each of these freedoms is disintegrating.

 Our freedom to speak our minds is under an existential threat by the so-called “cancel culture” taking over our public discourse.  This insidious current trend to shut off, shut out and shut up anyone who dares to express a belief, concern or view different from the current group-think is subject to the wrath of the frenzied internet mob. But the mob is no longer only an electronic threat, now the internet cancel culture mob is using social media to call for demonstrations outside the homes and business of anyone daring to express a view contrary to the current mob think.  The mob screams for folks with different opinions to be fired from their job and hounds them out of our neighborhoods, colleges and universities, and even out of restaurants and entertainment venues.  They chase them down streets as they leave political meetings, assaulting them by shouting threats and invectives in their faces while blocking the victims’ progress on a public sidewalk.  

If you need proof, look up the videos of the mob harassment targeting people who disagree with the mob.  Older couples assaulted leaving business meetings during the Republican Convention, Senator Rand Paul and his wife assaulted by a mob outside the White House, Sara Huckabee-Sanders chased from a DC restaurant, Mitch McConnel’s wife, Elaine Chou confronted by a mob outside her home, the fires started in front of the Portland Oregon’s  Mayor’s condo building to name just a few examples.  The only sin these victims of mob rule and mob intimidation have committed is expressing a view different from the mobs.  

The First Amendment has created a country with a tradition of tolerance even for views we hate, while steadfastly defending the right to express those views.  That tradition has been totally upended by self-appointed arbiters of acceptable thought, speech and behavior.  Today’s mob will subject anyone not conforming to their ultra-left agenda to harassment, assault, shaming, doxing, and demands for firing.  

Now, you have no right to say anything other than the current predetermined group-think mantras and chants.  If you dare to speak in another way you will be punished.  If instead of “Black Lives Matter,” you say “All Lives Matter,” you are victimized by the mob.  If instead of “Defund the Police” you say “Defend the Police” you can expect to become a casualty of the mob.  But even more alarming, we are now told even our even silence is unacceptable.  The mob’s current chant is “Silence is Violence.”  In other words, not only can we only think and speak their way, we must speak their way, we must join the mob chants or we are also subject to the mob’s vengeance.  This fact should terrify anyone with even a hint of education on the history of fascists.

Proof that all must now speak from the Antifa and BLM playbook, look no further than the mob demanding the resignation of James Craig, the African-American Police Chief in Detroit.  Chief Craig refuses to mimic the mob’s preordained messages—apparently, he isn’t black enough.  According to mob orthodoxy, as we have been informed by Hawk Newsome, the head of New York Black Lives Matter, “When black people become the police officers, the are no longer black.  They are blue.”  

What happened to Martin Luther King’s dream of judging a person by their character and not the color of their skin?  Character no longer matters.  For proof of that all you need to do is look at the mob standing outside an LA hospital chanting for the hoped-for death of the two ambushed police officers inside?  

It is shocking how quickly we have abandoned our tradition of free speech and respecting other’s rights to express their views.  How has this happened?  Where are the defenders of free speech—primarily our education system and the press.  These systems have been perverted to the extent that they are now organs of the mob’s message and as intolerant of divergent views as the mob ruling our public discourse.  

9/14/20

Another Example of How Our Country Has Fundamentally Changed

There are people standing outside a hospital in Los Angeles shouting “we hope they die.”  The people whose death this mob hopes for are two law enforcement officers who were shot without provocation, ambushed, as they sat in their patrol car.  The victims of the attack are a 31-year-old mother and a 24-year-old man.  The shooter used a handgun, not an automatic weapon.

These are facts.  There is video proof.  

The people in that mob outside the hospital in California have been called “protestors.”  What are they protesting for or against with their hateful chant?  They are advocating for the death of two people shot for doing their jobs.  Do these so-called protestors want the end of all law enforcement so that individuals like the shooter can run wild in the streets shooting whomever they wish? 

The people in that group outside the hospital are not “protestors” they are a hateful, bloodthirsty, out of control mob advocating violence and death to whomever they dislike.  Their actions, like the action of the shooter, simply cannot be justified in a civilized society.    

Find out what our presidential candidates are saying about this incident.  Anyone who cannot condemn without reservation such barbaric conduct has no business holding public office in a country supposedly governed by the rule of law.  

Our country has fundamentally changed, it is no longer a nation we recognize.  Ask yourself why the country is suddenly like this and is it the country in which you want to live?     

9/14/20

Caveat:  Keep an open mind!

When you get mad at something we say in this website, stop and ask yourself, did they say anything that is factually wrong?  Keep in mind Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan’s quote, “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”

 If there isn’t a factual error or inaccuracy then ask yourself why you don’t like it?  Is it simply because it disagrees with what you have thought up until now, or what your friends or political party think?  Is it because if we are right it will mean you are wrong and you may have to change your current belief?  

Change isn’t really a bad thing and, with an open mind, it is possible.

9/13/20

The New Face of Fascism and Tyranny

Please look up the definition of fascism.  You will find it is forcible suppression of opposition, usually with strong regimentation of society and the economy.  And while historically the emergence of fascism has been on the far-right, ultranationalist side of the political equation, there is no requirement that it occur only on the right.  We believe what we are seeing in our city streets and on social media is a new kind of fascism arising on the left, and being forced and enforced by those ironically calling themselves Antifa (anti-fascists).  Perhaps they should have paid better attention in history class when the World Wars were being studied.  Perhaps then they would have selected a less ironic name for themselves.  Take some time now and read about the “Black Shirts” in Italy and the “Brown Shirts” in Germany.  The actions of those groups should sound familiar.  And I suggest the present-day members of “Antifa” take a look a bit further into the history books and see how it ended for the Brown Shirt in Germany; specifically, look up “Night of the Long Knives.”

If you’ve never read Animal Farm by George Orwell, you should do so soon now.  It is a very succinctly told political parable first published in 1945 and as relevant today as it ever was.

Antifa, the people who hate America so much they seek to destroy it from within, are being investigated by our Department of Homeland Security and hopefully the FBI will join in.  Any terrorist group should be investigated, especially one that advocates the violence we are seeing in our cities.  Let’s shine a light on the source of financial support for the Antifa movement.  

Destruction from within is likely the only method that will be successful in bringing an end to our bold American experiment in governance.  Attacks from the outside—think Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in NYC—though exceedingly painful have failed and instead made us stronger and more unite and resolute.  

Will this new attack from Antifa and its related movements succeed or will it, like the physical attacks make us stronger?  The choice is up to you.  Read your history.  

If you disagree with us and yet you are still reading these posts, congratulations on keeping an open mind.  Continue to think about what we’ve said.  Is there anything factually incorrect?  Are you resisting because it’s hard to admit you might be wrong?

9/12/20

The Disintegration of the Rule of Law

Rule of Law: The authority and influences of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior; (hence) the principle whereby all members of the society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes.  (Oxford English Dictionary) (emphasis supplied)

As early as last October, we asked each other, “can we still say the US is a country founded on the rule of law?”   A case could be made even then that we were not.  Today we know we were correct.  

We are no longer ruled by laws, rather we are ruled by the violence of the mob—both the physical mob in the streets of our cities and the mob on social media.  Anyone who disagrees with the positions taken by the mob, or even questions the current mindless chants and slogans of the mob, is threatened with physical or reputational harm, and loss of life and property.   

One by one we have seen the bonfires of hatred and violence flame up in our cities:  Seattle, Portland, Chicago, NYC, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Raleigh, Kenosha, etc. – really too many to name.  If it isn’t outside your front door yet, it will be.   Why are the political leaders in these towns not protecting their citizens?  The people who work hard, play by the rules, provide services, create businesses, pay taxes, the very people who are now being assaulted and their businesses looted and destroyed, are not being represented.  They have been abandoned by their so-called “leaders.”  

Why?  Because those elected officials are afraid of speaking out against the rioters, they fear they might say something the mob will considered politically incorrect, unacceptable, something not currently in fashion with the group thinking of the mob.  They fear being attacked by the “cancel culture” strongarms and media trolls.  The officials in the cities under siege are no longer the leaders of those cities, they are followers.  And what they are following is mob rule.  Laws no longer matter.  This erosion of the rule of law has reached a tipping point and the crumbling we are seeing will continue to accelerate day by day.

Even when arrests are made during the riots plaguing our cities, the rioters are not being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and sometimes not at all.  Bail is being arranged by various organizations, one of which has been supported in a recent text by the democrat vice presidential nominee.  A sort of “catch and release” pattern has been established allowing these rioters to return the next night for more looting and violence.  

Are the officials who refuse to protect their citizens afraid of losing the vote of the mobs?  We suggest these so-called leaders of these cities, the ones so afraid of losing their mandate, their license to feed at the political trough, examine the arrest records of those taken into custody.  Are all of these rioters actually from your jurisdiction?  Are these people even eligible to vote for you?  If not, ask yourself why they are there, why are they in your town?  And why are you protecting them?

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