It is Cancel Culture, Ron.
2023 is like an eye exam result... Our Politicians need glasses
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY:
Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
- Romans 12:16 NASB95
TODAY’S READS:
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt - American Greatness
An Epidemic of Loneliness? - American Institute for Economic Research
The EPA's War Against Cars - American Thinker
TODAY’S FINDS:
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Blink Is Giving Away Their Outdoor Home Security Cameras For 50% Off For A Limited Time - Amazon
Hide.Me VPN Is Offering $2 VPN While The Deal Lasts - Hide.Me
TODAY’S SUBSTACK:
THE RIGHT AND LEFT HAVE ABANDONED THE CONSTITUTION
*footnotes can be found at the bottom of the post
If there is one thing the Israeli-HAMAS war has shown, it is that Republican Politicians, Presidential Candidates, the media elite, and Conservative influencers have abandoned the Bill of Rights and, therefore, our Constitution, just as much as their counterparts on the Left side of the aisle.
Take, for instance the recent back-door deal to let Rashida Tlaib slide only if Democrats agree to let George Santos slide. [1] The right conclusion came about for all the wrong reasons.
But even so, most Republican Members of Congress voted to censure Tlaib for simply saying Israel is an “aparteid state.” Calling this “Antisemitic.”
side note: a great read on the origin of the Middle East’s endless attacks against Israel is The Case For Israel by Alan Dershowitz. He leaves no stone unturned on the history of the conflict and shows how HAMAS and Islam have been the true aggressors.
What is Antisemitic about expressing an (albeit, incorrect) opinion about a government? By extension, wouldn’t almost every single Republican be Antipalestinian for expressing distain for HAMAS?
But the craziness at play here is that most Democrats also voted to expell George Santos, who wasn’t even convicted of a crime yet. [1] Both sides have CLEARLY lost it.
The beauty of the American form of government was that it was rooted in natural rights. You had a right to say anything you wanted until you actually threatened someone. This was, and is, our First Amendment. [2]
But our Constitution also gives a right to a fair trial. Where a person is neither guilty nor innocent until they are declared so by a jury of their peers. [3] By Democrats voting to expell Santos, they are declaring to the world that Stalinism should set up shop right here in the United States, and THEY, not the courts, nor the rule of law, should arbitrarily determine who deserves rights, and who doesn’t.
But this madness all came to a helm in Florida, where Ron DeSantis has thus far censored educational free speech and banned student groups from protesting. Running as the “anti-Cancel-Culture” candidate, DeSantis has engaged in as much Cancel Culture as the Left. [4]
If he is doing this as governor, then how many more groups will he ban as President? Who will be safe from DeSantis’s pen and phone? But that doesn’t stop The Daily Wire [5], Fox News [6], Newsmax [7], and others from talking about him like he is the return of Jesus.
While Andy Ngo’s screenshots show how messed up the student chapter is, the chapter was not actually calling for their students to engage in acts of terrorism. At best, it was calling for them to increase HAMAS membership, if it was even doing that at all. [8] Considering the cherry-picked screenshots we will never really know for sure what they are actually advocating for students to do. But we know one thing is clear, they certainly were not calling for students to be terrorists on campus.
Now, I’d like to interject and say that I think this pro-HAMAS group has all the facts wrong. HAMAS did commit an act of terror. It killed at least a thousand people. [9] To claim anything otherwise is absurd.
But by censoring the right to free speech, it creates an ideologically vulnerable populace. If people never hear the propaganda, then they fall for it more easily. This was why Nazis in Germany were able to captivate so many. Hitler censored the opposition. People didn’t actually hear any opposition. So they ended up falling for Antisemitic, Jingoist propaganda. Most Germans didn’t even know about the mistreatment of Jews in concentration camps. They thought Hitler was simply relocating them.
Florida should have responded by, instead of simply banning protests, countering the false ideology with the facts. This creates an educated, intelligent populace that doesn’t get bamboozled into believing stupidity.
But another lesson can be learned here. The state should not dictate who is, and is not, a terrorist with a stroke of a pen and a phone. There should be concrete, publicly-agreed-to definitions that a trial by jury should convict based off of.
Our republic was founded on the idea of Natural Law, not fascism. We, in 1776, were considered the insurrectionists and the undesirables, not because we committed any acts of terror, but simply because we wanted representation in government. So, as an outflow of this, when the Framers set up the Constitution, they ultimately included a Bill of Rights to prevent what is today called fascism from ever happening again.
But, to Britain, we HAD committed acts of terror. We were insurrecting against the government. We had effectively bucked the system and formed our own militia, our own navy, and our own leadership. In their eyes we had engaged in a coup. It didn’t matter that we had a Magna Carta and other contracts saying we could do these things, the King, with his pen, said differently.
Let’s not think things are any different now. This Palestinian chapter has been active for decades [4]. They haven’t bombed schools or kidnapped people or trafficked children as sex slaves. They simply protest and talk to people, and, whether Ron likes it or not, those are rights.
You can’t just ban everyone who disagrees with you. The shoe will ALWAYS be on the other foot, and then the other side will go ahead and ban YOU. Is this the America we want? An endless swinging pendulum where two sides constantly ban, censor, and jail the other side? Does that sound like the noble American experiment to you?
Don’t let our politicians become fascist, power-hungry, ivory tower undesirables. Use your power of the ballot to vote for people that respect your rights. Then protest or speak up peacefully and donate your dollar to peaceful organizations that agree with you if you feel so led.
SOURCES:
[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/first-amendment-overview
[7] https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hamas-palestine-student/2023/10/29/id/1140154/
[8] https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1716943634149360006
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