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Paint Your Wagon 1969

Anyone who had read this blog over the last couple of weeks know the following:

• I say without equivocation that Hamas is a bunch of evil murderous bastards.

• I saw without equivocation that the anti-Semites marching for Hamas and supporting them are at best deluded useful idiots and at worst murderous bastards who are only held back by a land full of armed folks.
• I say without equivocation that I support the law firms that have rejected candidates who have expressed support for the murder of women and children and the beheading of babies.
• I say without equivocation that I support those who would withhold funds from schools who have defended and or expressed support for Hamas.
• I say without equivocation that I believe schools, pols and public people who express support for those bastards should be denounced.

I believe all of those things and have expressed opinions to this effect

I also believe the following

• I say without equivocation that the anti-Semites marching for Hamas have an absolute 1st amendment right to march in support of Hamas and even loudly express their antisemitism and even their disgusting support of beheading babies if they so choose.
• I say without equivocation that voters if they so choose have the absolute right to support and elect if they can people who support Hamas and loudly express their antisemitism if they so choose.
• I say without equivocation that such elected officials have the right to support policies consistent with Hamas if they so choose

All of those opinions and actions can and should have adverse consequences for said people (all of said consequences being legal) but as long as they don’t

• physically harm the people they profess to hate,
• destroy the property of those they hate
• put the people they hate in physical danger
• inhibit the rights of those they hate
• Take any such action(s) that violate local, state or federal laws.

Then as far as I’m concerned these people can believe what they want and say what they want and even hate who they want as long. People have the right to be evil assholes but we also retain the right to call them out for the assholes that they are.

Or to paraphrase Ben Rumson: They don’t have to love their neighbor, they just need to leave him the hell alone.

I suspect they won’t leave them alone and if they don’t they deserve all they get from the law or from folks using their 2nd amendment rights to protect themselves.

Update: Apparently the right to be an ass in public is not restricted to the supporters of beheading babies:

It’s all one horrific attack, and its earliest recorded instance is John 8:44 (of the Jews): “You are of your father, the Devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the Beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth because the truth is not in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

One might forgive Mr. David Mamet for completely misinterpreting Christian scripture figuring that a Jewish man of a Jewish mother whose followers where all Jewish including some members of the Jewish elite and teachers was attacking Jews as a race. He would not be the first to do so. In fact Christ requires us to forgive him for this.

That being said I submit and suggest that at a time when Jews in general and the Jewish state in particular is under attack by enemies within and without who apparently are all in on the idea of slaughtering men women and children raping Jewish women (even the dead) and beheading babies and that the allies of said killers are marching in the streets of European and American Cities and have a huge presence of Universities and that Jews in and outside of Israel are more in need of allies than ever it just might be a bad idea to insult Christianity and Christians by a public statement claiming that the Son of God’s rebuke of those who wanted to kill him was the original blood libel against the Jewish race that he was a member of. That’s seems a pretty damn stupid thing to do right now.

But that’s just me.

Have no fear even a public insult to my God is not enough for me to change my opinion on these events or the right of Israel to respond to them. It simply forces me to pray or Mr. Mamet because that’s a non-optional doctrine of Christianity.