This is almost too easy. Ok, in unison, what is the Liberal answer to any conundrum? Let the government decide. When the Liberals want someone to stop doing something that they don't like, what do they do? Get congress to pass a law. When the law doesn't allow for specifics, what do liberals do? Get the judicial system to rule on a law. If all else fails, what do Liberals use as a last resort? They throw an infant style tantrum on television. Ok, now that we've had a lesson on the vulgar misuse of power, let's go over a topic that really boiled my blood.
Conservatives can paint themselves in Liberal body paste sometimes (I think you can purchase a bottle of it down at your local adult novelty shop). I read an article recently about a Missouri judge's ruling that a girl not get pregnant. Ok, this one definitely is the ultimate in the government controlling our decisions. First, political correctness was levied on our expression (violation of the First Amendment), then hate crime laws were tied around current laws to make punishment more severe (I'm going to write a blog separately about these), and now the government wants to tell us when we can or can't procreate. Listen to this carefully my children: THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL US WHEN WE CAN AND CAN'T HAVE A BABY, EVEN IN WELFARE SITUATIONS. If we as a people don't like women gathering their livelihood from creating babies to increase their government handout checks, then we need to do something about the welfare system. It is preposterous and ridiculous to attempt to fix a broken system by ruling against human rights. The judge also ruled that the girl get her GED, perform community service, and pay resititution. This was a ruling on a FORGERY case. This judge stepped completely out of bounds and needs to be told so. Fining someone for a crime is customary in America. I believe all resititution should be taken directly out of her handout. The community services causes her to be responsible and find a way for her kids to be watched while she earns some of that handout. However, obtaining a GED is a choice in this country. It is not the government's job to make our life choices for us. If we make good decisions, we are left alone by the government. If we make bad decisions, we are punished by the government. That is good enough. It is our job as parents to teach the decision making process to our kids. If we fail and the child grows up only physically, then we have failed as parents and must spend whatever resources it takes to correct the mistake we made.
Here's a message to all of you Conservatives: the government is not here to legislate the morals that you failed to instill in your kids. We as the American populus do not want our tax dollars going to play mommy and daddy.
Here's a message to all of you Liberals: people are going to make bad mistakes. Passing laws to help them out of the pit they dug for themselves is only enabling them to make more bad mistakes. You're using money that is stolen from us by the Federal Government to help people we don't even know to get back on their feet only to wind up right back where they started. This is gross misappropriation of funds and is not fair to the American public.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Stop in the name of love
Monday, October 16, 2006
Limited free speech?
So, I'm reading this article from a local news reporting bureau online and I realize just how low people will stoop for political opinions. Pundits are wonderful people. I consider myself an unofficial pundit of the Libertarian Party, so being an apoligist for your political beliefs is acceptable to me. This story consisted of a law enforcement agent attempting to limit free speech and a citizen attempting to collect a handout.
A woman in the Atlanta area has a bumper sticker that reads "I'm tired of all the BUSHIT", which, to one officer, was obviously offensive and potentially illegal given the state's former "lewd decal" law. I for one find the sticker a little over the top, but still well within the bounds of expressive freedom. Appropriately, the judge that oversaw the case threw the ticket out because that "lewd decal" law did not exist anymore. Strike a huge blow for freedom lovers everywhere!
This is the point at which the story turns sour. This woman apparently suffered some inexplicably tremendous emotional trauma because she has brought charges against the county for "emotional distress." You could label that case a stretch, at best, if she was diagnosed with bipolar or schizophrenic, because any damage caused by having to go to court for a traffic violation is frustrating, at worst. To add insult to injury, the woman is asking that a declaration be set forth that her bumper sticker is protected under the First Amendment. Ok, so let me get this straight: You want us to make a law stating that having "I'm tired of all the BUSHIT" on your bumper is constitutionally justified by our First Amendment. If you get your way, when we read the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment will say "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the abridging of having "I'm tired of all the BUSHIT" on ones bumper, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." All I have to say is "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"! You are not so special that we need to customize a law for your pathetic, fame-seeking persona, or your blood sucking subhuman lawyer. Grow up.
Wake up people. We have to start rebelling not against our government, but against those that seek to destroy the freedom of the group by trying to gain some sort of special treatment!
