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"Canada Is In Serious Trouble" Again, And This Time It's For Real
It's a huge land mass with few people, but they believe they need growth boundaries to limit growth This is an Anglospheric mental illness. It pollutes the thinking of all Anglospheric peoples to some degree, but Australia and Canada have been hit the worst. Clapper Busted Leaking Dossier Details To CNN's Jake Tapper, Lying To Congress About It
I mean other than when he is clueless. This Is Not A Post About Global Warming
"This is definitely not a post about global warming. Except that it is. A friend this morning sent me a link to the Quillette website, which a few days ago posted an edited version of a speech that was to be delivered at Kings College, London, by a guy named Adam Perkins. The title of the speech is "The Scientific Importance of Free Speech." Unfortunately, Kings College canceled the speech at the last minute because it was deemed to be too "high risk." Perkins thus joins the ranks of Charles Murray, Christina Hoff Sommers, and -- as of just two weeks ago -- Josh Blackman, as people who have been run off campus or shouted down for holding views deemed by contemporary progressives as too offensive to be heard. Try reading the Perkins piece, and see if you can figure out what about it is so offensive." I have copied and pasted the entire short version of the speech below. (Comment below if you can figure out why it is "radical.") Even Trump's opponents think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize
They have given the Peace Prize to terrorists, and even the incompetent dilettante Obama, and he for doing nothing at all. The Peace Prize is a tarnished award unworthy to be accepted by any man who succeeds in achieving meaningful peace. The Peace Prize award is an attempt by the fools and charlatans of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to steal some of the glory and value real men of honor and accomplishment achieve Let them eat cake. The American Principle of Liberty
This issue arises every 80 years like clockwork. After more than 80 years as colonies, the American/British colonies found the British Crown stifling and authoritarian. The result was the American Revolutionary War a war for American independence and liberty. The next iteration of the conflict between liberty and state authoritarianism occurred in 1860 when the American South seceded from the United States. The third iteration happened in the 1940s, WWII a war between the nations fighting for authoritarianism, fascism, Nazism, and the countries fighting for liberty. In each case, liberty won. We are now 78 years after 1940. Our 80-year cycle is up, it is time for America, and probably the world, to again fight the eternal battle between the forces of state authoritarianism/fascism, and the forces of liberty. By all accounts, it appears this will once again be a civil war, although it could also be an international war. The author is correct, liberty is is a tight position, and if we fail to protect it, it seems likely that the progressives will usher in an extended period of social, economic, political, and personal decline. The erosion of rights will be swift and sure, as will the expansion of regulations which will stifle economic growth, destroy the middle class, shrink the upper class to only the very wealthy while expanding the poor just like the Soviet Union, China, and every other socialist movement did once they achieved power. "To take back America from the Progressives and to restore America to the Founders' principle of liberty won't be easy. The Progressives have captured the commanding heights. They populate the permanent administrative state, the courts, the media, academia, and Hollywood, and they are determined to have their way. But in America, the people are still sovereign. If we are to turn the tide, each of us must first learn to think like a Founder, just as Americans have always had to learn to do. Then we must reach out to our circle of influence and beyond as far as we can to help our fellow Americans also learn to think like Founders. I have this bit of advice for you. We are not going to change the minds of the people at the core of the Progressive movement. They are ideologues. Our opportunity is elsewhere, with the many Americans who can be reached, who want to believe in America, who want to believe that America is a good country that can be made better again, but don't know where to turn for help. Take up the cause; be the help they need." Now is the time to rise, to be counted, and to fight. There is no longer an alternative. Fight for family, friends, and country. Fight for liberty. The right to self-preservation and the right to self-defense are inalienable natural rights The Natural Right of Self-Preservation What do progressives not understand about Constitutional rights? Pop star Halsey says free hotel shampoo 'alienates people of color
I suspect that hotel management should ask or have a checkbox asking if shampoo is desired. If not, no shampoo, problem fixed, no racist shampoo! Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Emotional Support Animals Proliferate At Yale. “Emotional support …
But then the University has driven anything resembling grit out of the University setting. Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside "What's more dangerous: rugby, or a walk in the woods? At Pennsylvania State University, the administrators apparently think it's the latter. The student "Outing Club," which has gone backpacking, kayaking, and hiking in state parks over the course of its 98-year-existence, will no longer be allowed to host outdoor events after administrators conducted a risk assessment, according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "The types of activities in which [Penn State Outing Club] engages are above the university's threshold of acceptable risk for recognized student organizations," according to an official announcement. A key issue for administrators was that the Outing Club frequently visit locations with poor cell phone coverage. This wasn't an issue during the Coolidge administration, but now that cell phones exist, students are apparently expected to remain glued to them at all times." Cattle and sheep can be free ranged, but adult students cannot be allowed off the progressive plantation for fear they may be exposed to terrifying ideas that government cannot provide infinite safety. We are in end-stage progressivism. This is likely to get uglier before it gets better. Instapundit » Blog Archive » STEPHEN L. CARTER: Georgia’s law against wearing masks in public must be applied to everyone, inc…
The New KKK call themselves Antifa, but they play the same role as the KKK did for the same Democratic Party. Both created fear, kept party regulars in line, and attacked hated groups. "I’m a little confused by some of the responses to the arrest of self-styled anti-racism protesters in Newnan, Ga., earlier this week for violating the state’s law against going masked in public. Observers seem somewhere between troubled and outraged that a statute originally enacted to deal with the Ku Klux Klan should be used against people who were marching non-violently against (in this case) self-proclaimed Nazis. But were the law applied selectively, hitting only racist targets, it would be blatantly unconstitutional. Statutes that prohibit wearing masks in public go back to the decade after the Civil War, when Reconstruction authorities were searching for a way to deal with the terrorism of what historians call the first Ku Klux Klan. By the end of the 19th century, the group had died out, but a second Klan arose in the 1920s, leading to pressure on state governments to enact anti-masking laws. The Georgia version was adopted in 1951. . . . That’s it. Nothing about the Klan. Nothing about whether you’re being violent or not. Nothing about which side of a dispute you happen to be on. As a matter of fact, it’s quite important that the statute applies equally to racist and anti-racist groups. Otherwise, the law would be flatly unconstitutional. I’m certainly not comparing the Georgia protesters to the Klan, but it’s hornbook First Amendment jurisprudence that regulations on speech must be neutral as to content – that is, the state can’t treat two speakers differently depending on which side each happens to take. To propose that the good guys and the bad guys be subject to different rules is to fall into the trap that the journalist Nat Hentoff memorably labeled “free speech for me but not for thee.” In short, if the racists can’t cover their faces, neither can the anti-racists. Some of the protesters arrested in Georgia told reporters that they kept their faces covered for fear of retaliation by white supremacists. The idea, wrote one critic of the arrests, is to make it harder for opponents “to weaponize their politics with employers or fellow right-wingers.” The fear is understandable, but to cite it as a justification for masking also carries a certain irony. If you peruse the pro-Klan writing of the past, the desire to avoid retaliation was a consistent theme. The night riders had to keep their faces covered, they claimed, so that those perfidious Yankees would not arrest them for protecting their communities against crimes and depredations that Union occupiers ignored." |
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