Life in America today suddenly seems like a combination of a seriously illogical dream and being on the trip that Alice took to "Wonderland." It appears as if someone set off a device that has deprived almost everyone of any common sense or logic.
Dealing with the relatively new phenomenon of "Terrorism" is bad enough; the senseless killing of innocent individuals by Muslim Extremists, Mentally Ill individuals and a couple of Far-Right Fanatics is an unfortunate fact of life today. All violence or any sort, whether against persons or property, is to be condemned and punished no matter who the perpetrator.
But by what logic does this sudden desire to sanitize and/or revise History become a populist movement, seemingly endorsed by the Media, the Democrat Party (and its members) and the Republican Party (and its members)? Has the entire country become so narcissistically enthralled by a desire to "attack" something that such action a denial of historical truth will erase anything or improve life in America in 2017 for anyone? If this was the 1850's in our West, tomorrow the mob would wake up feeling guilty and avoiding looking each other in the eye out of embarrassment and guilt.
Our President condemns the violence in Virginia by all who took part in that violence, and goes on to condemn the attitudes of Racism as being "wrong" and "unacceptable" but the Media, the Democrat and Republican elected officials and anyone on the ideological Left insists on misinterpreting his comments as equating the beliefs of the Racists with the beliefs of those who declare that Racism is wrong. Instead of seeing the statement(s) as the plea and demand for non-violence by both sides, promising punishment for those who act violently, as the call for sanity that it clearly is, they incorrectly label his comments in an attempt to profit politically.
Seems as if there is a strong logical basis for suggesting that all of America...or, at least the media and the political establishment (all sides)...should properly be undergoing treatment in a mental hospital.
The only speech allowed these days seems to be Leftist, Socialist, Progressive, Marxist, Liberal and Fascist. All others are shouted down or prevented from speaking without being denigrated and insulted with the aid of the media. What is going on today is the over-turning of the Constitutional guarantee of "Free Speech."
For those who respond that the "speech" being quashed is "bad" speech, they might consider that if a group that disagrees with that definition gains power, the reversal will make it impossible for them to speak at all. The court held that the church that demonstrated at military funerals with a message that clearly was hurtful to the families involved had a Constitutional right to so demonstrate. There was emotional hurt but no violence.
How much more effective would it have been if the legal march in Virginia (they had a permit, after all) had simply been allowed to take place...BUT NO ONE ATTENDED OR REPORTED ON IT? After all, they were after publicity. Any intelligent person or group would have won the day by simply ignoring the matter...it is a fringe group with no significant support and that would have been clear is all had simply stayed away. But unfortunately today's attitude is that anyone with whom you disagree must be shouted down and "prevented" from saying anything. Why?
Politicians say a lot of things that I don't like. But they get to say them anyway. News reports are very often wrong on facts or incomplete and slanted...but I don't get to shut them down. But I don't want to shut them down. If I feel strongly enough about a matter, I can write letters, make calls, ask questions and made suggestions. But the actions of the last week suggest that my right to do so will not exist for long, because this feels like an attack on our very rights under the Constitution.
When History is being sanitized revised, and re-written...and mob rule replaces our Constitutional guarantees, we are in very big trouble.
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