Tag: losing our liberties

California Governor Bans Thanksgiving

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No full-family get-togethers. No uncles, aunts, or cousins. If you have a big family, some of your children have to stay away.

No dining indoors, and so what if it’s late November. No turkey on a platter: all food must be prepackaged in containers.

No singing allowed–unless you sing very softly, with the face mask over your mouth.

Welcome to Thanksgiving 2020 in California!

Gov. Gavin Noisome has thought up a whole passel of new “regulations” to load onto the people of his state (https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/20/california-just-declared-war-on-thanksgiving-with-kafka-level-regulations/)–“regulations” affecting just about everyone in California. Gee, they’ll need a lot of people ratting out their neighbors, to enforce them.

Who knew a mere governor had so much power? This reminds me of World War II movies set in occupied France, with the people suffering under an SS colonel who has absolute power over them. All our governors are missing is the firing squads.

But, see, COVID-19 is gonna kill you dead, wam, bam, on the spot, unless you obey each and every mandate your governor can think of. It’s gonna kill you personally. Not like Climbit Change, which kills everybody. This virus has a bullet with your name on it.

Except it’s OK to riot, the virus will let you do that. Naturally–it’s for Social Justice. Loot, burn, assault, and freak out all you like.

But don’t have the family over for Thanksgiving!

Well, that takes care of Thanksgiving in California. Next target, Christmas. If they can ban Christmas, they can ban anything.

From October 21, 2020

You Can’t Say ‘Speak English’! (It’s a Hate Crime)

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Oooh! He must’ve said something Hateful!

What is England–Britain, the United Kingdom, whatever you want to call it–turning into? We knew it as the Mother Country, once upon a time. Now we hardly seem to know it at all.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1912724139204280516

Two people talking, one mumbles unintelligibly, the other says “Speak English”–and presto! The police are involved! By Jove, it’s a hate crime! We don’t have no hate in Britain! Haul this mucker off to jail!

Do UK police forces really have so little to do, that they have time to supervise private conversations? Or is it just so much safer than trying to catch Muslim terrorists?

If Britain’s still Britain by 2050, it’ll be a miracle.

‘Australia “Health” Honcho: “No Talking!”‘ (2021)

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“You there, in the back row! Didn’t I just say ‘No talking’?  One more word and it’s off to the gulag!”

Is it too late for the Democrats to lay another “pandemic” on us? Heck, they’re still wracked with jealousy over what was done to the defenseless citizens of Australia… by their own government.

Australia ‘Health’ Honcho: ‘No Talking!’

For 2020 it was COVID-19–lockdowns, drop boxes, vote by mail: ideal culture medium for Democrat candidates.

What’ll it be this year? How will they steal 2024?

“No talking!” Can we do that here? Shut down all talking as we run up to the election?

You know they’d love to. They’d think they’d died and gone to Heaven.

But it seems doubtful that they’ll go there.

Poll: Very Little Free Speech on Campus

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In another poll that discovers something that everybody already knows–this poll by the Associated Press, NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and the Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression–three polling organization, count ’em–we are now told that only 20% of Americans believe free speech still exists on our college campuses (https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24097).

Thirty percent of Democrats think so (I was expecting “Shut up! It’s more like 100%!”), and only 9% of Republicans.

Gotta be a leftist or they won’t let you talk!

How many hundreds of millions of dollars are we paying for this? We’re cutting our own throats. That “Everybody has to go to college!” nonsense takes a heavy toll.

It’ll take a miracle for America to keep her liberties.

‘So What’s the Mask For, Again?’ (2020)

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How easy it was to lock us down and shut us up! How we knuckled right under to house arrest! How compliant we were when they ordered us–ordered us!–to wear masks everywhere we went!

We must never forget how easy it was to take our liberties from us.

So What’s the Mask for, Again?

This must never be allowed to happen again. The globalists, you may be sure, are already brewing up the next Pandemic. What will they demand of us this time?

Never, never, never, never again.

My Newswithviews Column, March 30 (‘Confessions of a Blindfolded Newsman’)

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It shames me that I sat through the 1970s as a newspaper editor and reporter and never understood, never even really saw, what was being done right before my eyes. I was in a position to sound the alarm… and was asleep at the switch.

Confessions of a Blindfolded Newsman

I might have done something! I might have written something that would have moved people to rally, and to save the freedom and independence of their local school boards before it was too late.

And someone should have blown the whistle on the teachers’ union.

I don’t think the people knew what they were getting. And that was our fault–us “journalists.” We failed in our duty.

And some failed on purpose.

Now They’re Rewriting Agatha Christie

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A baby will grow up. A “modern reader” won’t.

Even the world’s all-time best-selling novelist isn’t safe from today’s censors and rewrite roaches. Yes, they’re even rewriting Agatha Christie (https://deadline.com/2023/03/agatha-christie-hercule-poirot-miss-marple-classic-mysteries-rewritten-modern-readers-1235310224/).

The crawling squid at Harper Collins want to make her mystery novels more–I don’t know what: stupid?–un-scary?–to “modern readers,” whatever they are, have decided to rewrite Agatha Christie’s tales of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. White out (oops! can I say that?) any word or sentence that might conceivably offend, wound, disturb, or cheese off some nonbinary toadstool out there.

Didn’t we use to despise the old Soviet Union for doing stuff like this? Don’t we laugh at the ancient Egyptians for vandalizing some of their own monuments by chiseling out the names of historical figures that had fallen from favor? For making like history never happened?

Move over, Roald Dahl! Move over, Ian Fleming! Agatha Christie needs her seat on the “Censored” bench.

I don’t believe that any novel ever written and published can do anything like the harm done by self-appointed Far Left censors.

They want to keep us in strollers, sucking on pacifiers, forever.

If You Defund The Universities, They’ll Behave

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You say exactly what we want you to say–you’re hired!

The English Dept. at the University of Houston Downtown has removed an “anti-racism statement” that it had required all faculty and staff to sign onto, expressing their heartfelt (LOL) support for Far Left Crazy (https://campusreform.org/article?id=21579).

Why did they back down?

Well, Gov. Greg Abbot’s office got involved and it was suggested that there might not be any more state aid for neo-Stalinist stupid factories. And that, as they say, was that.

Man, oh, man! If you’re looking to invest in stocks, run out and buy Compelled Speech–because it’s taking off like a rocket, all over the country. “We’ve told you what you can’t say. Now we’ll tell you what you must say!” And they start with having their hirees confess that they are “all [Yes–A-L-L] complicit in systems of oppression” blah-blah-blah. You had to sign it or you couldn’t have a job.

Why have we let our “educators” treat us with such contempt? But the solution to this problem is staring us right in the face: Take away the money. Here, just the threat of cutting off state aid got the commies to climb down.

I suspect we can get by very nicely with only 10% of the “higher education” that we have now. The remaining 90% can be thrown out with the tuna that went bad.

No ‘Commitment to Diversity’? No Job!

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What we’ll be when they get through with us

At Ohio State Looniversity, if you seek a job in computer engineering, architecture, or nuclear (!) engineering, you won’t be hired unless you submit a “diversity statement” that the looniversity finds acceptable (https://www.breitbart.com/education/2023/03/21/ohio-state-university-requires-diversity-statement-engineering-job-applicants/).

Oh, but that ain’t nothin’! At East Washington U., wherever that is, you’ve got to submit a Diversity Statement (yes, let’s use capital letters!) if you’re applying for one of the school’s “custodial positions.” You can’t even be a freakin’ janitor unless your politics is right!

In addition to your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement, they also want you to “please provide specific examples” of your commitment to Far Left shibboleths. I wonder if they check to make sure you’re not lying. Stalin would have.

So… The electrical system shorts out and the whole place burns down… the computer system goes mad and makes all the money disappear… and there’s a slight cock-up on the nuclear engineering front and a mushroom cloud over Ohio… Yeahbut, yeahbut! We’re all right! We’ve got the Diversity Statements!

How is this even remotely permissible under the First Amendment? How is this not “compelled speech”? Where are the lawsuits, people? You need to bring this to a crashing halt!

Will we let these twerps devour our liberties? Will our own stupid colleges and looniversities do to us what the Wehrmacht and the Imperial Japanese Navy couldn’ do?

We really ought to be ashamed of tolerating this.

Too Much Despair Out There!

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Are the big guys bailing out on us?

Yesterday I encountered several opinion pieces whose message was “We give up, the bad guys win! Goodbye, America!” And then I read Victor Davis Hanson’s recent essay, “Anarchy, American Style” (https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/29/anarchy-american-style/).

Holy cow. Over the years I’ve respected Hanson as a commentator–but this is something else. Maybe he ought to be put on a suicide watch.

According to Hanson (and he’s not the only one who says so), Far Left Crazy now controls virtually everything… and has become The Establishment. Any meaningful opposition simply does not exist. (Ron DeSantis apparently doesn’t know this.)

Victor, Victor! Live up to your name! Is God not on His throne? Will He not judge our time? Is truth no longer truth? And do the odds really matter? Because the enemy is big and strong and wealthy, does that mean we do well to surrender? I should send you one of my T-shirts that reads, “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.”

I am a nobody. Not too small to step on and crush, but still pretty much a nobody. Does this woeful era of history discourage me? You bet it does. Does it give me a license to give up?

No. Never.

My wife asked me, “So what’s his solution? What does he say we should do?”

“He has nothing to say by way of a solution. Not even a ‘Stay tuned for Part II, “What to Do About it.”‘

We belong to a God who uses the weak to overthrow the mighty, foolish things to confound the wise, and things that are despised to cast down things that are esteemed [See 1 Corinthians Chapter 1]. As bad as things are, we His people have faced worse. Much worse. Two world wars kind of spring to mind.

If our leaders are going to lose heart and give up–well, ask God to give us new ones. He can raise them up at will.