Posted on 06/27/2013 4:20:30 PM PDT by 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."
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".
You’d love it. You know you would!
We are! I showed alla y'all Freeper women, by hitting each and every one of you!
*boop*
I’m already in love with Texas!
Which one?
I’m heartless.
;<)
Well, almost ..............
I seem to remember you ,,, aw ferget it, glad you’re here.
No good will come of this!
It was 6 related. I asked in the thread but never heard back.
That be good in a revolver fer sure!
I’m not there yet, but I’m closer... Georgia....
Thank you.
You did!! And we all loved it!
*boop* :)
My Henry held about 20 rounds which is cool but when I tipped the barrel downward they all just fell out.
:<(
heh-heh :)
Owen K noted a month ago that we lost a freeper ..
Which one?
... and a FReeper.
10 posted on 5/18/2013 9:33:55 AM by OwenKellogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3020968/posts
Father Of Late SEAL Speaks Out About Suing Obama, Biden
thank you for that! I need to read it.
I hate when that happens...
Far from uniting anyone,truly Obama is dividing the Nation with the World.
Here be dragons indeed.
I keep waiting for Evil Spock to knock on the door. “Mr. McBean, there’s been an accident. You’re in the wrong universe.”
That would pretty much make perfect sense of the last 20 years or so.
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