ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE: "HERE BE DRAGONS"

Original Content | 6/27/2013 | by Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

In the maps of old, when an area was unexplored and presumed dangerous, a mapmaker might pen the phrase "Here Be Dragons". This warned the explorer that possessed the map that the area had not been tamed, or often, even explored, and that there were uncharted dangers in that area.

The Supreme Court of the United States has struck the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) down. While individuals may have feelings one way or another about this decision, what should trouble everyone on both sides is the report that the majority of the Court has called the minority "enemies of the human race."

As Anthony Scalia wrote, "But to defend traditional marriage is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions. To hurl such accusations so casually demeans this institution.... It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race."

This is the most henious, troubling verbiage we have ever seen emenate from the Supreme Court. It smacks of dehumanization of the opposition. When any tyranny wants to eliminate or exterminate the opposition, it must start by dehumanizing them. So if a group of people who hold a given ideology are "enemies of the human race", then they clearly -- in the eyes of the people who so declare -- are not human. An enemy of the human race cannot BE human.

When the dehumanization of your opposition has penetrated your soul, you become capable of any act of violence, any act of oppression. History is riddled with examples of this sort of speech. What invariably follows are pograms and mass-executions, tortures and oppressions, and denials of basic liberties. That our very highest Court has engaged in this sort of verbal assault should make everyone -- regardless of their political persuasion -- quite alarmed.

We do not want to travel into this uncharted area. America has had its' flirtations with depredation of an entire race, nationality, or ideology... but never have we engaged in wholesale slaughter, and we have great regrets for the times we have oppressed an entire class of people. We should not want to embark on another oppression.

We are a divided nation, this much is certain. However, for either side to start speaking of the other as "enemies of the human race" starts us down a path to tyrannical terror and bloodshed of a Biblical scale. I recommend our side, conservatives, not engage in this sort of behavior, and I would ask that our opposition do the same.

Otherwise, as our forebearers once wrote: "Here Be Dragons".

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[no-to-illegals]

the majority of the Court has called the minority "enemies of the human race

Thanks to the majority of the Court for the label. Will wear it like the Star of David.

[Lazamataz]

So very close to the truth, this Star of David comment, my FRiend. The NSA has the methods required to identify the ‘ideological Jews’; namely, Conservatives. All it would require, now, is an order from Der Leader.

[Lazamataz]

Ping to *my* ideological leader.... :)

[LUV W]

JR is presently cavorting with his fav lady...Sarah Palin! :)

[no-to-illegals]

Have no doubt Laz, not only Conservatives, Christians and our Jewish FRiends are on the list, as is Israel. History is Repeating.

[humblegunner]

I oppose faggotry.

Except maybe for some really hot lebesians.

Otherwise, no way.

[Lazamataz]

JR is presently cavorting with his fav lady...Sarah Palin! :)

WOW! My favorite, too. JR, if you get the chance, direct Sarah to this editorial. Bet she'd like it! :)

[dfwgator]

Except maybe for some really hot lebesians.

It ain't like in the movies.

[LUV W]

No doubt you’d hit THAT! ;)

[Joe 6-pack]

Just for you Laz. Here be dragons...

[Lazamataz]

LOL!

[Lazamataz]

No doubt you’d hit THAT! ;)

Sarah Palin? No, I wouldn't. Her husband can kick my a&&!

[LUV W]

True.

*boop*

[DuncanWaring]

However, for either side to start speaking of the other as "enemies of the human race" starts us down a path to tyrannical terror and bloodshed of a Biblical scale. I recommend our side, conservatives, not engage in this sort of behavior, and I would ask that our opposition do the same.

Asking our opposition not to characterize us as "enemies of the human race" is like asking water to flow uphill.

You can ask, but it ain't gonna happen.

It is their plan to have most of us in the ovens, and the rest in chains.

There is a cleansing coming, and it will be Old Testament in both nature and scale.

And there is nothing any human can do to prevent it.

[trisham]

Well done, Laz.

[Bratch]

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

[trisham]

Ahem. Mr. Robinson does not "cavort". :) As is clear in this pic, he is a gentleman and she is a lady.

[BipolarBob]

Thanks for posting.

[Bratch]

[LUV W]

Well....maybe so...but I saw him personally cavorting with some mighty fine firearms earlier this month! ;)

[LUV W]

PS....that is just an awesome picture! Mrs. JR looks pleased, too! :)

[Zeneta]

We are already enemies of “nature” and the passion of their hatred is completely unhinged.

Now we become enemies of “the human race ?”

Insane.

The party of death is going to call/label conservatives, the enemy of the human race.

They would have to redefine the human race.

What it means to be Human.

Don’t get me wrong, I think they are on their way to doing just that.

[trisham]

Well....maybe so...but I saw him personally cavorting with some mighty fine firearms earlier this month! ;)

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That would be perfectly appropriate for a gentleman such as Mr. Robinson, as well as a lady such as Sarah. :)

[trisham]

It’s the best. :)

[lentulusgracchus]

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

That never stopped Friedrich's fans ....

"Nietzsche is dead." -- God.

[MHGinTN]

A judge who accuses his fellow judges in such a way is no longer fit to be a judge and should be removed from authority over the laws that govern us. To accuse in such a way from such a high position is to at once declare his opinion is superior to the laws. Such an judge should be removed from adjudication over the laws he so clearly abrogates in favor of his opinion.

[humblegunner]

Well....maybe so...but I saw him personally cavorting with some mighty fine firearms earlier this month!

Damned right he was!

And all around him were folks with all manner of hardware
who believe as he does and stand ready to back him up.

Front line when TSHTF baby.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Cyber Liberty]

Scalia is correct about this. It is astounding the carnage people are capable of once they’ve established their opponents are not human. They choose to be...for want of a better word, “inhumane.”

[trisham]

Great pic. I’ll bet he was having fun!

[VietVet]

They will regret declaring their opponents to be enemies. One can disagree with opponents, and still respect each other and our right to disagree; one can only fight enemies, until one or the other prevails.

[Cyber Liberty]

A judge who accuses his fellow judges in such a way is no longer fit to be a judge and should be removed from authority over the laws that govern us.

Which justice, exactly, said that? I can't tell. There's a quote here from Scalia decrying the term, but who used it in the first place?

[Cyber Liberty]

So that’s you next to him at the shoot? You look familiar.

[Charles Martel]

Disturbing, but given the recent additions to the court, not totally unexpected. I'm a bit surprised that they've leaped so soon to replacing rational legal argument with ad hominem attacks and pure invective, but I knew Kagan and the Wide Latina would steer the court in an ugly direction, given half a chance.

They are not jurists - at least not of the type we as Americans expect. They are apparatchiks, in the original Soviet meaning of the word.

[humblegunner]

Heck no, that’s either a range marshall or a homeless guy.

[TheOldLady]

This is a disturbing one, but I will join Cyber Liberty (Post 34) and ask which justice first used the term,
"enemies of the human race" to describe the minority justices?

[Thane_Banquo]

I wonder if Scalia chose these words--hostes humani generis--intentionally. Early Christians were labeled "enemies of the human race" by the Roman empire, and persecuted them as such. Perhaps this signals that Washington is now officially seeking to persecute Christians as Rome did to the early church.

[Jim Robinson]

And luv’n every minute of it too. Just give me my sniper rifle WTSHTF and a post to rest it on and we’ll see what fur.

And I think we’re about thirty miles out from the Troopathon now, but the traffic is killing our time. The GPS has been routing us all around creation trying to avoid the most congested spots, but we’re inching up on it. Hope to be there within the hour. Damn shame about that blowout that left us stranded in Bakersfield last night. Who the hell came up with the idea of a donut as a spare anyway? Sounds like a government plot.

[no-to-illegals]

Happy Trails, Jim. Say Hello for all of us not there, please.

[verga]

Several years ago there was a Radio series on how oppression has happened over the years.

Every time it happened it began by dehumanizing the oppressed. Romans tried to do it with the Christians. The white settlers did it with the Native Americans and Africans to make them slaves.

The third Reich did it with the Jews.... and so on.

The last part spoke how the left was referring to infants in the womb as Tissue, or fetus, etc..... everything but babies or infants.

[humblegunner]

It's tightened up, re-sighted, cleaned and in the case boss.

Unfortunately, them Eakers are threatening to come out in a week or so.

Might be it'll get a bit more breaking in then, being a n00b and all....

[verga]

Would that be a Ruger 10-22 with the black nylon stock and the Stainless steel barrel that JR is using?

[humblegunner]

Nah. I wish it were.
The shop had no Rugers when I went in.

It’s the Savage Arms version.

[TheOldLady]

Gunner!

[50mm]

Buy lots of ammo whenever you can. Supreme Court dyke quota fillers Kaka and Wide Latina are trying to stir up the taker class.

[onyx]

Lord have mercy. I hadn’t realized till now you were without a proper spare. Sheeesh. That’s a real PITA.

I can vouch for your shootin’ expertise and also for LA’s traffic.

Just get to President Nixon’s Library safe. That’s all that matters.

XOXOXOXO

[TheOldLady]

Justice Kennedy was the one who referred to the minority justices as “enemies of the human race.”

[Bullish]

Stalinist, Marxist ideologies always devolve into eliminating their political opposition.