Posted on 08/12/2011 10:27:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Because the radical demands of groups like the American Civil Liberties Union run counter to common sense and the tenets of Western Civilization, they and their leftist allies and colleagues use fear, intimidation, and disinformation to accomplish their ends which generally mean a loss of liberty for everyone else. We see this in the way they rely on shame tactics, the court system, and behavior controls, like speech codes and anti-bullying regulations, to implement and protect their agenda.
Just think of how many times youve heard someone mention they wanted to say something about the blatant lawlessness and immorality in our culture, but they hesitated because they didnt want to rock the boatthey didnt want to disturb the status quo. All too often, this is because the totalitarians on the left have successfully levered sufficient shame to intimidate decent people into silence.
In other words, groups like NARAL and their media allies use shame to bring a strong man low enough to allow a weaker man to control him: shame takes the fight out of the dog.
For example, the lefts use of the court system is ubiquitous, and perhaps best exemplified through Roe v. Wade (1973), the case which made most state laws against abortion unenforceable.
Even now, the leftist American Atheists is suing to have a cross a cross not made by human effort removed from the National 9/11 Memorial in New York, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are suing to shut down a proposed school voucher system in D.C.: a system aimed at delivering some of the students from the cycle of poverty and ignorance by allowing them to attend private schools where both the curriculum and environment are better. Because the vouchers could be used to attend private, Christian schools, Americans United for Separation for Church and State complains, Vouchers compel taxpayers to subsidize religion. (As if they dont know that the other option is to have government compel taxpayers to subsidize the anti-Christian/Jewish curriculum now rampant in government schools.)
The great irony here is that many of the aforementioned groups are among those who claim to do everything in the name of the people, yet it is they who frequently use the court system to bypass the people and even sue to prevent elections because they know their ideas lack popular support when put to the test.
And for those who dare brush aside the shame tactics or fight fire with fire in the courtroom, the left has enacted speech and anti-bullying codes that serve as more stringent forms of behavior control. Promoted by those like GLSEN and the ACLU, the speech codes are prevalent on high school and university campuses where even certain student-sponsored statements and phrases are disallowed unless uttered in a designated free speech area. And on the same campuses, diversity campaigns, and the anti-bullying campaigns that usually accompany them, result in the implementation of policies that actually create a caste system for those whose sensitivities are not protected from insult and discrimination, and that usually means a Christian ministry that wants to spread the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
One last point: these methods of intimidation are bolstered by the lefts use of cripplingly costly lawsuits, which go above and beyond their normal use of the court system to rid our landscape of crosses, references to Scripture, In God We Trust inscriptions, etc.
Frivolous lawsuit after lawsuit is filed against things like Texas Gov. Rick Perrys call to voluntary prayer or any public mention of ones faith by a political figure with the hope not simply of ending a day of prayer but of scaring small municipalities into scrubbing their speech free of any religious referenceor else. (For example, groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation maintain an Internet link which exists solely for the purpose of reporting any violators.)
Reality is thus twisted and turned upon its head in a world where the left ignores the metaphysical while waging war on logic and tradition. In the end, they have to intimidate people into playing along or being silent because they lack arguments sufficient to convince us that their way is better.
If they think they can intimidate this cowboy, yeah I know how to use a computer, they have another thought coming. I guess they haven’t played Cowboys and Democrats yet.
All too often, this is because the totalitarians on the left have successfully levered sufficient shame to intimidate decent people into silence.
Tactics of totalitarians.
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Waiting for the day, RC2. Cowboys and Democrats, Cowboys and Collectivists, Cowboys and Socialists, Cowboys and Progressives, Cowboys and Totalitarians. It's all good. HOORAY Cowboys!
I reside in the Communist -- err... Commonwealth of Massachusetts and one of my leftwing friends blamed the tea party for schools closing here. I replied that the policies of the Communist in the Whitehouse are responsible for the terrible economy and he should stop blaming innocent people.
He said he didn't want to talk to me anymore, but he knows better than to spout such nonsense to me. Did he think he would get an agreement from me?
I hope this meme of the tea party being responsible for the horrific economy instead of The Messiah does not take root.
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