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The Right To Be An Ass With an Evil Opinion & Hate in Your Heart as Long as You Leave People Alone

Posted: October 24, 2023 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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Ben Rumson: It’s where people can someday look civilization straight in the eye and spit. and you don’t have to please anybody and you don’t have to love thy neighbor, you leave the bastard alone!

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.

I Can’t Do Better Than Noa Tishby on This:

Posted: October 23, 2023 by datechguy in culture, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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Watch the Whole Thing: (via Citizen Free Press)

Frankly I’m half shocked that youtube hasn’t banned it.

Pro-Terror Folks Pull Down Posters of Kidnapped Kids, London Police Say: “Hold My Beer” Apparently Reality is to Blame

Posted: October 22, 2023 by datechguy in culture, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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Screwtape: No doubt he must very soon realise that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends is based. I don’t think that matters much provided that you can persuade him to postpone any open acknowledgment of the fact, and this, with the aid of shame, pride, modesty and vanity, will be easy to do

C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters #10

There have been plenty of stories about supposed “anti-racism” protestors taking down pictures of hostages taken by Hamas at colleges and in cities in order to support the “big lie” that exists on camps and elsewhere concerning Hamas’ attack. All of these things are disgraceful.

In response to this a non-profit called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” decided to run giant electric billboards on trucks so they couldn’t be taken down and run said convoy though London to make sure people couldn’t pretend that it wasn’t happening.

That’s when the London Police looked at all those people who’ve been taking down those signs and said “Hold My Beer”.

However, the convoy was stopped on Wednesday by anti-Israel protesters who began heckling and intimidating them. When police officers came, they asked the CAA convoy to shut off its billboards and leave the area.

“The officers told our drivers to turn off their billboard and stop showing the faces of children kidnapped by a proscribed terrorist organization, apparently because their sympathizers on British streets might attack us for showing them,” CAA executive director Gideon Falter said in a video posted to the organization’s X/Twitter page after the encounter. “Before we set out, we had worried that these billboards might attract attention from Hamas sympathizers. We never imagined that it would be the police who would stop us from showing the faces of children kidnapped by a terrorist group banned by the UK government.”

You see if dozens or hundreds or even thousands of Hamas supporters in London attack a convoy of trucks bearing the images of Jewish children being held hostage by Hamas then this would force England in general and the City of London in particular to acknowledge publicly a reality that everyone privately knows but wants to suppress.

I suspect this is why the news that there has apparently already been at least one terror attack in London over Gaza is currently being suppressed:

An asylum seeker bent on avenging deaths in Gaza has carried out a suspected terrorist attack in Britain, The Telegraph can disclose.

The public has not been told that the man, who came to the UK in 2020, told police he had done it for “Palestine”.

MPs said on Friday night that the public had a right to know, amid warnings that demonstrations this weekend could encourage so-called lone-wolf terrorist attacks. 

What’s that reality? That a significant portion of Muslim population they have allowed to come to England legally, illegally and/or as asylum’s seekers are a bunch of unassimilated anti-Semitic thugs who have become too large to effectively control without force and in a generation likely won’t be controllable even with force

The powers that be in England has decided that their own wealth and power depend of postponing the inevitable confrontation this truth will produce at all costs and if that cost means conceding to them the rights of Englishmen today that’s fine with them.

My opinion? The time to have that confrontation is NOW when you still are likely to win it. In one generation you will only have a chance of winning it and within two generations the issue will no longer be in doubt and on that day the English people will regret their lack of a 2nd amendment right.

I Know There Are Are Many More Important Things In the World…

Posted: October 20, 2023 by datechguy in baseball

….but I’m sorry if you have a two run lead in the ninth inning of game five in the final game of a playoff series at your home park and your closer has started the inning with a hit then a walk to lead off the 9th there is absolutely NO way I am leaving him in to face a Hall of Fame caliber player who is 2nd all time in home runs in the playoffs.

In fact the moment the bench clearing incident that put runners on 1st and 2nd with nobody out in the top of the 9th takes places I’m getting a 2nd pitcher warming just in case because of the delay.

And if I didn’t do it then on the theory that with runners on 1st & 2nd and no out and with runners on 1st and 3rd with one out I’m likely to score to put the game out of reach I damn well will get someone up as soon as my guys fail to score.

I know Leclerc is the best they had in the barn but once you saw him put on the person in the 8 & 9th spot to start the inning you have to get him the hell out of there.

I’m sorry that’s just really bad managing.

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