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Posted on 08/24/2013 8:08:13 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Have you ever seen this? A man was eating in a Mexican food family restaurant in South Central Texas when another nearby customer, his wife and 8-10 year old son got up to leave. As the man stood up, the customer noticed that the shirt had the title "Dome Time" with two stick figures beneath the title.
The "Dome Time" had white letters for "Do", orange for "me" and white for the last word "Time". The stick figure on the left was male, standing there holding the other figure's head, a female stick figure, as she knelt to perform fellatio on him. The customer mentioned to the waitress that the shirt was offensive and as she turned to look, her expression showed her disgust. The shirt-wearing guy glared back, obviously upset that he wasn't getting smiles and a thumbs up. As he left, he had a very ugly stare inviting conflict.
Several points come to mind:
1. What happens when this foolish man wears that shirt into a family-oriented location and encounters another man with daughters of age who doesn't like them exposed to such filth?
2. What happens when some other foolish person redesigns the shirt and labels the kneeling female figure with the title, "Your wife."
3. What kind of person is this 8-10 year old boy going to be when he grows up with a father figure like THAT?
4. What happens when he put his hands on someone who doesn't like his shirt after words are exchanged and he is shot dead over that vulgar shirt? The customer he was glaring at and with whom he was trying to escalate the situation into a conflict could have been armed.
It seems like almost every day something even more wicked happens than the day before. How long before we ARE Sodom and Gomorrah?
Small towns could not go against state or federal laws that applied or else we would have always had libertarians and unrestricted abortion and gay marriage etc.
Libertarianism is anti-conservative and anti-Christian, and anti-American, and has made incredible gains during the last 50 years, for instance homosexualizing the military and immigration and abortion, porn, etc.
It’s a T-Shirt. Lighten up Francis.
Not unexpected from the current state of our society. Eventually, such garbage will no longer be tolerated, but not until after a bloody civil war that will swing the pendulum back towards modesty, common respect and civility.
Of course, that depends upon the level of testosterone remaining in the men of this country who actually want modesty and civility to return. It won’t be easy and it will take extraordinary sacrifices from most.
Time will tell I suppose.
Beginning with the owner, otherwise he'd lose business as the local folk decided to avoid the place to punish him for not running a family friendly establishment! Shame used to work. Who has any shame now?
And truly, I know many libertarians that feel the same way about bad behavior. They seem to be libertarians at the national level, but radical conservatives at the local level.
That's fine by me.
I really don't care if others in their community embrace Sodom, but don't export it to mine and don't use the Federal Government to force me to accept it.
I consider my town private property and libertarians should respect that. If they can, then maybe progress can be made.
Where do we draw the line concerning such behavior? Does anyone even care anymore outside of parents who have to explain such filth to their children when they see these “1st amendment” examples?
If more people were armed maybe the offensive man with the offensive shirt would have been far more polite and not worn the shirt at all.
A few months ago, I was walking through Wal-Mart and saw a scruffy, short, fat, ugly guy walking down the aisle toward me with a t-shirt showing from under his jacket that said: "Sorry ladies, I suck **** better than you."
Instead of coming onto FR to complain about it, however, I told the sick bastard to cover it up because there were kids in the store.
He was looking to be offended so he could make some sort of political point, but was expecting to be opposed because he was homosexual, not because he was exposing kids to his filth. He covered up and went on his way.
Do you live in his town? If not, then mind your own damn business. This doesn't concern you.
Actually, a libertarian would be OK with it being legal to wear that shirt, but would also be ok with throwing the guy out of the restaurant without fear of lawsuits, with people shunning the guy, firing the guy from his work without lawsuits or unemployment, etc.
It could really be an ok thing. People would learn not to be boors in public, as Mr. T-shirt clearly was.
use to call such people just plane >>>>dirty old men>>>>and most would be too embarassed to wear such junk....now its anything goes in public...sorry state of affairs....
Anyone killing someone over what they wear on their shirt does not belong in public.
because you’d shoot him ... over a shirt?
are you mental?
strangely enough, minding your own business would include not caring what the guy wore
sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt your crazy. continue
That doesn't seem to fit history.
Many small towns had very restrictive rules at one time -- they're probably still on the books -- but they're unenforceable now that the Federal government has robbed them of their power through preemption. Take a look at your town's or city's ordinances. You'll see all sorts of rules concerning good public behavior.
The tendency of small towns has been greater rule-making and control to promote harmony in the town. The key, though, is that different rules promote harmony in different places and each town could figure out for themselves what worked and what did not.
Thanks to the Federal Government and it's rule-making, though, towns have little power. Even a very liberal city like New York city has been told it can't apply "stop-and-frisk" because the Federal Government believes it's unfair and is against their law.
See, we DO have a national morality imposed on communities by the government, it's just not the morality you agree with. It's a radical leftist's morality. It's a moral code that's PC. It's a moral code that preaches that any kind of intolerance is a sin. It's a moral code that forces you to economically support the worst. It may not claim God's authority, but it is certainly authority.
And it's coming to your town.
This has some interesting ideas along those lines:
http://www.joelskousen.com/Philosophy/principles.html
Evidently you just have a speech that you want to keep making.
sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt your crazy. continue
Nice try, but what people wear in my presence is my business. And what people wear in the OP's presence is his business, too.
Rules exists so that people can harmoniously share space. If you're capable of sharing space with people that wear such T-shirts, great. I'm not. One solution to handling this problem is to let people with like preferences and attitudes gather together in their own towns and decide what does and doesn't work for them as a group.
I'm all for that.
But if you're going to tell me that anything must go everywhere and if I don't agree then I'm crazy, well then you can go fark yourself.
Some people only learn through repetition.
Others are simply ineducable.
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