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".

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d wonder how such a thing managed to get into a judicial opinion at all. Generally judges don’t make stuff up like this; they get it from one of the parties to the case. The argument that oh, it’s just reasonless hatred has popped up before in court cases, and I’d wonder why there wasn’t an effective counter to that (i.e. to provide reasons why it’s bad public policy to dilute the meaning of marriage this way).

[Lazamataz]

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.

LOL! Love it! Cannot wait to be there next year, the treatment of my medical condition is coming along nicely. :)

[Lazamataz]

It wasn’t them. It came from a unexpected (for me) source: Justice Kennedy.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, it IS true enough from the devil’s standpoint that anything God wants is hatred. God wants a kingdom that He can love pure and whole. The devil wants God’s kingdom to be torn down in rebellion and chaos and, at least till he has to burn for eternity, to be one he can revel in.

Well, we “mean, inhuman” Christians need to keep on keepin’ on. When the devil tells you to go to hell, then you’re doing the right thing.

[luvie]

I saw how y'all were looking at each other at dinner! *grin*

[Lazamataz]

Finally got here a few minutes ago. Great place. Great program!

Glad you made it! Tell us all about it in a thread and ping me!

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, I’ll admit it. We’re in love. LOL

[luvie]

We’re ALL in love!

But it’ll also save us in the end...right? :)

[Lazamataz]

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

Every damned time.

[luvie]

Can hardly wait for the reports to start coming in.

Laz is right...we need a thread letting us know what’s happening! :)

[txhurl]

He looks like Chris Kyle.

Owen K noted a month ago that we lost a freeper ...

[Eaker]

Thanks to BuckEyeTexan we have this to play with too.

[Lazamataz]

Thanks for those observations. I cannot find a place to disagree. I'm glad I wrote this thread; it is making us ask some difficult questions about our ideological opponents and just how far they might go.

We must be ever-vigilant not to respond in kind. We cannot lose our souls. We can stop it without losing our own consciences.

[Lazamataz]

Well, we “mean, inhuman” Christians need to keep on keepin’ on. When the devil tells you to go to hell, then you’re doing the right thing.

We are. Thanks for those sober observations.

[Lazamataz]

I’m jealous. :)

[Lazamataz]

You are the 208^th Satisfied Customer!™

[Lazamataz]

Er, I mean YOU are the 208^th Satisfied Customer!™

(First clear indicator I might need to go to sleep)

[luvie]

YOu are so right!

Come to Texas...we’ll just secede and then TheMom can start her FReeper village. :)

BTW...LOVE your tagline...and it’s so true. I thought about “stealing” it for my status. :)

[Lazamataz]

I think you will appreciate this editorial.

[Lazamataz]

Come to Texas...we’ll just secede and then TheMom can start her FReeper village. :)

I jest might.

Ya never know. :)