Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

May 17, 2012

Bye, Bye American Pie

This entry is brought on by a video I just watched, you can skip to it, below, if you are bored already.  The video is not about the film "The Dictator" but the ultimate point is the same.


The political class knows how to subvert law, tradition, and culture by pandering to fears, anger, and greed. All they need do is control what makes it on TV;  before that is was newspapers and magazines, which are dying quickly, today, in import.  


The GOP votes for the NDAA, etc. How did we become so stupid?  


My Congressman, Chis Gibson, calls himself a conservative and votes out habeas corpus and the ban against troops having authority to act within the country and arrest me for, according to the FBI, promoting the Constitution. That his notion is stupid will not prevent me from disappearing. There being no habeas corpus, no Court can hear my case and screw it up.


This is not being conservative, it is profoundly ignorant and Chris is well schooled, but that means little in our nation. He is well schooled in the establishment. He udnerstands war and big government. Still, he thinks he is a conservative because that seems to mean trusting government and having a nice family, a definition common in NAZI Germany. 


I hear the House of Representatives just passed a bill to protect women from abuse. This sounds great, but under what Constitution do they act? There is no authority for a nanny government, but that is not the point.  I do not even have to look that one up. The point is that the drones think, "How nice," as they give away their freedom while they change the channel to watch American Idol. They will vote by pulling a lever on some low-grade comprehension of their political party.


We have these stupid bills every day now as the system is being overwhelmed from within by the Marxists. This is their model. It is much harder to undo vicious laws than to pass them. Judges are bureaucrats, lawsuits expensive, and the government will destroy anyone who attacks its authority. 


Look at Congress in 1913 - founders of the Federal Reserve and the Income Tax.  See where that one set of light-weights got us. 


BBC VIDEO


The English have criminal law against saying bad words. I would suggest this sounds bizarre, but expect in modern America some may think it is a nice law. When I was young, no one accepted legalized gambling, role models from Hollywood, homosexual (you will see why I can't say 'gay' below) marriage, and divorce was a terrible thing to happen, the rate being almost non-existant. See how incrementalism works?


A British boy was put in jail for calling a horse "gay." 


Now, PAY ATTENTION: "gay" was picked up as a soft word two generations ago as a substitute for a word no one liked, but the formerly soft word is now a good word, but the boy used it in its modern teen sense of "stupid" which should not be permitted, as, in the minds of the older dolts, it once was a soft word for homosexuals back to when that term creeped people out.  


So, the logic is if you call a horse "gay," you are saying is it "stupid," but because years ago "gay" became used for "homosexual" and that word was a negative time used by some mean people, so to prevent time travelers from calling a horse gay and meaning it should be shunned as homosexual, the boy should go to jail.  Or, now that I think of it, the more likely reason is that a time-traveler may misinterpret the boy and discriminate against the horse or nod in understanding. 


In any event, the state of mind of the user is irrelevant and we all need to be held to a secret standard of people on committees which is for the common good.


You can see why you should never attempt to communicate or be funny. So, use "curious" for anything stupid, got it?  Gay is OK to say if you are gay but the rest of us should say "gay, in the pre-1960 sense" or, in the alternative, say nothing.


So, I need to revise the first paragraph: How did we be come so curious?


Each of us has to resist the boon of a government doing something that sounds great, like telling us we can't use incandescent bulbs. The result of this touchy-feely directive is


1. We give up power to the government where none exists.
2. We condone the usurpation of power.
3. We reject the rule of law by making it the rule edicts.  Students are actually taught the Constitution is a living document that should not mean what it says.
4. We destroy local government and local input. This remove us from considering any control possible.


This observation is not hyperbole and the sooner we understand, the sooner we may be able to begin dismantling the monsters.  If readers think it is hyperbole, then they are already dumbed down into submission.



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