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Saturday, April 27, 2024

It’s An Insurgency - Treat It Like One….

I posted the following in response to a number of news reports appearing in Yahoo.  It quotes from those reports, yet my postings were rejected because the quotes I used to make a point, which were acceptable if used by “journalists,” were considered to be offensive and violations of community standards when ***I*** re-quoted them.

And Yahoo has the temerity to claim they don’t censor.

“Zionists don’t deserve to live.”  


“Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”  


“I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser, I fight to kill.”


If a person uttering these words had been considered a white supremacist, they would have already hauled him off in cuffs and charged him.  But since he is “just a protester” taking over a college campus and forcing many operations to cease, a pro forma apology and no hate crime prosecution is acceptable.  After all, he’s just exercising his free speech.  Move on, nothing to see here.  No, that isn’t a double standard you think you see.


And, oh yeah, shutting down university operations is the university’s fault, not the insurgents who chose to take over the campus.


Yes, this is an insurgency.  Treat it like one.

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Twenty-five Years Ago Today….

 


25 years ago today.  Columbine High.

Numerous school shootings later, those who write the laws leaving our teachers and students defenseless still enjoy the armed security they deny our schools.

For over thirty years an experiment has been conducted on the American public, and that experiment involves testing the notion that criminals obey laws, that declaring a given area “gun free” somehow appeals to the “inherent goodness” that supposedly exists in all people.  After thirty years, the results speak for themselves: “gun free” zones, whether they be schools, malls, churches, hospitals, or federal buildings, have protected no one and prevented nothing, but they have proven to provide shooters with unlimited sources of defenseless victims.  “Gun free” zones have proven to all who have eyes to see that criminals do not obey laws or designations, that they will, in fact, use those very laws and designations to their advantage.

The experiment is an unqualified failure.  It’s time to end it.