1. Let’s start with an Ethics Alarms project…I’d like to see as many people as possible to post this story on Facebook: “Facebook Suspends Ron Paul Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship.” I did, just to see if Facebook would suspend me. After all, it banned Ethics Alarms for two years because I dared to question whether it was fair to regard Fred Astaire’s use of dark make-up to portray Bill Robinson in a “Top Hat”number as racist. Ron Paul did nothing except share an article he wrote criticizing Twitter and Facebook for banning President Donald Trump from their platforms. Paul wrote in part,“The justifications given for the silencing of wide swaths of public opinion made no sense and the process was anything but transparent. Nowhere in President Trump’s two ‘offending’ Tweets, for example, was a call for violence expressed explicitly or implicitly. It was a classic example of sentence first, verdict later.”
Yup. That makes sense. It makes more sense than a lot of what Paul says. There is no possible justification for what Facebook did. (So far, I haven’t been “deplatformed.” I just checked.)
What’s going on here?
2. Race-baiting at its worst. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)—yes, the same guy the expressed concern that U.S. troops on Guam might cause it to “tip over”—told a nodding Al Sharpton that he has “no doubt” that the Trump supporters who raided the U.S. Capitol would have “lynched” black lawmakers like him had not police prevented it. He really said this. He may even believe it. He is part of the Democratic House majority. Does anyone in that majority have the integity to tell him he’s an irresponsible fool, or is this the accepted narrative: that Americans who don’t trust the election results want to kill African Americans? That’s funny: it’s a lot like the idea behind the riots the Democrats and mainstream media were justifying over the summer,
But it’s not just Johnson, though he’s special.
During an online video conference with her San Francisco constituents, The Hill reported that Nancy Pelosi said,
“When that assault was taking place on the Capitol, 3,865 people in our country died of the coronavirus, many of them people of color because of the injustice of it all. The next day, on Thursday, 4,000 people died of the coronavirus. Why? Because decisions were made at the highest level, months before in the Oval Office, of denial, distortion, delay, calling it a ‘hoax.” I thought it was going to be an epiphany for those who were in opposition of our democracy to see the light. Instead, it was. an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country, led by this President, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy. That’s what this is about.”
Is the woman stupid, or evil? The “hoax” canard has even been abandoned my the media: the President said the “hoax” was what Pelosi said in that quote, that the pandemic deaths were due to unspecified mistakes by the President, After all this time, the Big Lie that Trump’s election was all due to white supremacy is still alive and well.
3. Because polls about Trump have been so reliable…a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released today had the gall to expect us to believe its findings that roughly 48% of respondents agreed that Congress should begin impeachment proceedings to remove Trump from office, compared to 44% who disagreed. Also today, Rasmussen announced that Trump’s approval rating rose 2% after the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
4. . How humiliating. Now Europe is lecturing the United States about the importance of free speech.
5. I know we knew this, but Patriots coach Bill Bellichick is an asshole. The Patriots head coach and established ethic corrupter announced that he was rejecting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as just another gratuitous insult to the President. “Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients,” Belichick said.”Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award. Above all, I am an American citizen with great reverence for our nation’s values, freedom and democracy.”
No you aren’t, you grandstanding ass. If you were, you would know that the award comes from the Office of the Presidency, which represents the United States of America. Snubbing the honor disrespects both, and is more than just another virtue-signalling cheap shot to suck up to Massachusetts Trump-haters.
The bright side is that Bellichick was a terrible choice for the honor, and was selected by Trump because the two men share dead ethics alarms.
Maybe they just never read your arguments.
Somehow, that just doesn’t resonate as ethical to me…
Belichick can’t afford to lose his locker room after a 7-9 season.
Look at what happened to Drew Brees.
Exactly. This was a business decision made, likely in agreement with owner Robert Kraft, to avoid unnecessarily shining a negative spotlight on the team and finding themselves in the media crosshairs.
On a related note.
http://apnews.com/article/congress-storming-black-lives-matter-22983dc91d16bf949efbb60cdda4495d
I missed the paragraph where they dismissed all the charges against the BLM protesters, but can’t wait to charge more from the January 6th affair.
It’s got to be in there somewhere…
2. In 1983, Susan Rosenberg and other members of a communist terrorist group, called M19, planted a bomb outside the US Senate chamber to assassinate Republican senators. The subsequent explosion caused over a million dollars in damage to the U.S. Capitol building.
In 2001, Susan Rosenberg was pardoned by Bill Clinton, at the urging of Jerry Nadler. Susan Rosenberg is now a board member of Black Lives Matter, and teaches women’s studies at CUNY’s Hunter College in Manhattan.
Is anyone on the left outraged about that? Do any leftists think that it is wrong for communists to commit violence? Is anyone on the left trying to cancel her? Get her fired from her job? Persecute her and from the public square of Twitter, Facebook or other social media? No. They are excusing it.
Snopes did a “fact-check” on this, and claims that it is only partly true because “ In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of “terrorism,” it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of “domestic terrorism.””
As we should all clearly see, when leftists blow up the Capitol, it’s not really domestic terrorism. “Domestic terrorism” is only “domestic terrorism” when non-leftists commit terrorism. Violence is only violence when people on the right commit violence, or say things that make people upset. A riot is only a riot when people on the right gather in large groups and cause trouble. If the left gathers in large groups and burns down a city, or blows up a building, or murders someone, that is simply social justice. If the left fights with police and breaks into a government building, sets it on fire, and blockades the police in to burn to death, it is speaking truth to power. If the right gathers in a large group, fights with police, and break into a government building to take asinine selfies and wander around aimlessly because they are too unaccustomed to perpetrating crimes to understand how it works, it is insurrection, it is domestic terrorism, it is racism.
The idea that “violence in the Capitol building is unprecedented” is bunk. The hysteria flowing from media, Big Tech and politicians is transparent propaganda. None of the people preaching hysterically about how horrible the riot at the Capitol was care one whit about violence or riots or the sanctity of the constitution or anything else they are piously screeching about.
No one on the left, not the media, not Big Tech, and certainly not the politicians, have any moral authority on anything related to violence, protests, riots, or domestic terrorism. The insipid, cowardly, patently stupid, arrogant way they have spent the last few days preaching blatant hypocrisy like it is the gospel makes me nauseous. The way the republicans have spent the last few days bent over with their lips glued to the leftists’ backsides is mind-bogglingly revolting. There are not two parties in this country, there is only one, and it is nothing but a seething mass of lies, condescension, arrogance, stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, propaganda and narcissism.
Excellent. I will circulate. And get suspended.
Slight correction here. She was not pardoned by Clinton, her sentence was commuted from 58 years to the 16 she actually served. Beyond that, bullseye, and I think we are about to see just what kind of double standard there is as “armed protests” sweep all 50 state capitals. Unfortunately, once you set the precedent that the way to get what you want is to take to the streets, rough people up, and break stuff, eventually the other side is going to take it up as well, and the far right, once it gets going, has many more competent destroyers than the left. Fear three things, they say: the sea in a storm, the night without a moon, and the anger of a gentle man. I say fear three men: the scarred man where men are handsome, the old man where men die young, and the silent man who once had a lot to say.
Which begs the question as to why they set this precedent in the first place.
I pulled the pardon from a New York Post article. I looked in some other places after reading your comment and see it says her sentence was commuted. I would correct it but there is no edits.
“Journalism” at its finest. Got to love that careful attention to detail by the NY Post.
More about rioting from Jeff Jacoby
http://view.email.bostonglobe.com/?qs=2130d66eb806776927956fa2028798a0fb730b299df97b4206575e26932a0b46564527aa6a0e23023523db37abd496a4a9af1ef018222d352be4ad7449d53efc10bedc1cc6111d2f4cb0cfc2b548989599ee03ec11ce0772
(shrug) Take away the jury box, the ballot box and the soapbox, and people will turn to the cartridge box. That’s what’s happening now. This is the Indians in Jersey City organizing to fight back physically after one too many of their own found himself surrounded by white guys who said “Hindu! Hindu! We are the dotbusters!” Smack! Wham! Shove! Push start! This is the Protestants in Belfast organizing the Ulster Defence League after one too many IRA bombings. This is also the Minutemen standing on the bridge at Concord, saying enough is enough and this is too much, and firing the shot heard ’round the world. It’s also Pierre Beauregard firing on his old instructor at Fort Sumter. It’s also Abbie Hoffman ranting on the Mall and the Berrigan brothers destroying records. When people are getting ignored, or pushed aside, or told to be quiet, or told they don’t matter, or their interests don’t count, they will turn to violence to get attention. That goes double when other people get away with violence and even get encouraged to do it without consequences.
God, Maura Healey is awful.
I wonder if she regrets her words.
Probably not. She wouldn’t unless the protestors came knocking at her door.
Did anyone read The Blaze article on the European leaders lecturing us on free speech? Turns out that they’re not opposed to suppressing free speech, only opposed to big tech companies doing it. They see it as the government’s role.
Oh, I did. That’s why being lectured by them is so nauseating. They don’t understand what’s wrong with government free speech suppression, but they can see what the Democratic Party’s alliance is doing.
In the 1950’s, Democrats saw nothing wrong with businesses denying service to blacks. “It is a private business, they can do what they want”. Companies denied jobs to people. Real estate companies refused to process home sales based on race the same way. Isn’t this the same cry today? Finally, white Republicans saw that this was wrong and helped the Civil Rights movement show America that it is fundamentally wrong for private businesses to discriminate against people based on race. This has been expanded to include a multitude of other conditions. Political affiliation or beliefs on social issues were not included, however. Why not? I think it is because no one ever thought that it could happen. No one thought that Democrats would become so powerful that they would use the tactics they successfully used against blacks to try to subjugate all of America.
As for the Realtors, they are at it again. If you want to be a Realtor now, you have to abide by their ‘Hate Speech’ ruling in your professional and private life. No more bivocational Christian ministers working as Realtors. No more Republicans working as Realtors. Next week, expect the AMA to apply this to physicans. Then it will be applied to nurses, teachers, etc.
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/08/new-ban-on-harassing-speech-or-hate-speech-anywhere-any-time-by-national-association-of-realtors/
A good friend provided this as perspective on this week’s impeachment frenzy:
Re: No. 2; Racists are Racists.
Well, Rep. Johnson is a nasty human being. But, did we see Harri . . . erm . . . Biden’s pick to head the DOJ civil rights division? His choice is Kristen Clarke. Yes, she is impressive. What do we know about the Right Honorable Kristen Clarke? She penned a letter to the editors of the Harvard Crimson in 1994, in which she made a series of assertions regarding Black superiority, including the following: “Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities–something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.” Even the Harvard Crimson editors were unhappy and encouraged her to withdraw the statements. Here is their statement:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1994/11/4/clarke-should-retract-statements-pbtbwo-years/
Did she recant? Nope. She doubled down. Biden agrees with her and has nominated her for appointment to the DOJ civil rights division. Check it out:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-kristen-clarke-doj-civil-rights-division
That is some unity, eh?
jvb
I guess those of us who a Caucasian are Untermensch. You know where this leads.
Re. 5. I’m glad he turned the medal down. I was dreading seeing a photo of him in the Oval Office in his awful sawed off hoodie getting a medal draped around his neck. A very successful guy in a terrible, terrible business.