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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.

A moment of crisis

Posted: October 17, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

Marine Sgt. Steve Russell was on guard duty. It was Sunday, a day of rest.

As he gazed out of the compound’s gates in Beirut, he saw a truck turn and head for the Marine outpost.

Then a wave of flames swept across the truck’s bumper, sending tons of explosives in a suicide attack.

Amazingly, Russell survived. But the explosion killed 241 military personnel—almost all of them Marines, who had come as part of a peacekeeping mission after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It was the largest loss of life among the Marines since Iwo Jima in World War II.

A seminal event in the chaos of the Middle East, the bombing 40 years ago still provides some insight into what led to today’s events.

As an investigative journalist for ABC’s 20/20, I spent several months back then in an attempt to piece together who was behind the attack and why.

Here are the reports:

Here’s what we found:

–Iran financed the attack on the Marines to humiliate the U.S. government and its presence in Lebanon, particularly when the Reagan administration pushed for Arab countries to make peace with Israel.

–Syria, a longtime ally of the Islamic Republic and enemy of the United States and Israel, provided the logistical support for the operation.

–Islamic Jihad, a front organization with ties to Hezbollah, provided the manpower in Lebanon. Heading the operation was Imad Mughniyeh, one of the Middle East’s prolific terrorists and bomb makers. As a chief strategist of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia group, he deployed truck bombs and improvised explosive devices throughout the region, including the war in Iraq.

–The Reagan administration failed to recognize the danger the Marines faced in Beirut. For example, the guards protecting the compound were under strict orders to keep their guns without any rounds in the chamber to protect against civilian casualties. Moreover, the American military command failed to inform the Marines about the possibility of an imminent attack—information received a few days before the explosion.

–The Reagan administration largely ignored the attack’s impact on the Marines for two reasons. First, only days after the attack, the United States invaded Grenada to rescue American medical students. Second, a significant divide existed within the administration between those who wanted retaliation against the terrorists and those who argued that the government had no definitive proof of whether Iran and Syria were involved.

What can we learn about today’s issues from the past?

First, a clear connection has existed for decades among Iran, Syria, and the Palestinians. You don’t need a smoking gun to know that a link exists between the trio. Syria cannot play as prominent a role today because of its ongoing civil war.

Second, Hezbollah has become a powerful influence in the region, particularly as the leading party in the Lebanese government and an ally of Iran. Moreover, Hezbollah provides aid and assistance to Hamas, the main instigator of the attacks on Israel.

Third, Shia Muslims, the smaller of the two main branches of Islam, control a vast swath of the Middle East, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. That’s a significant shift from the balance of power in the past 40 years when Sunni Muslims controlled much of the territory. That’s why Saudi Arabia leaders, who are from the dominant Sunni tribe, have started to talk with their longtime enemies from Iran.

Fourth, it’s important to note that the Sunni-Shia détente also includes the Palestinian leadership, which is primarily Sunni. Moreover, it’s important to note that the Palestinian political groups, which historically made no differentiation among Sunnis, Shia, and Christians, have created ties with distinctly religious regimes.  

Lastly, the United States has a history of putting itself in harm’s way in the Middle East, wagering that a show of military strength will somehow frighten its adversaries. So, too, has shuttle diplomacy played a role in the U.S. strategy.

Let’s take a good, hard look at how many failures the United States has had in the Middle East over the past four decades. Only the first Gulf War stands as a victory.

It may be time to sit this one out.                                                                  

Today’s elitist college students are good at standardized tests, but they can’t figure out good and evil

Posted: October 15, 2023 by John Ruberry in education, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics, war
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By John Ruberry

Sherman McCoy, the Yale-educated lead character of Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities–and an old money WASP–saw himself as a “Master of the Universe.”

But as the Book of Proverbs says, “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”

At America’s elite universities, such as Yale and the rest of the Ivy League, as well as NYU, Stanford, and some others, there are thousands of students who see themselves as Masters of the Universe. In reality, they have the right family connections, and they are very good at taking standardized tests, such as the SAT. Or, instead of being old money types like McCoy, they check the right woke boxes. 

Ryna Workman, who is non-binary (box one), Black (box two), and a leftist (box three), in her (Workman prefers they/them pronouns) role as president of the NYU Student Bar Association president, wrote a hateful anti-Israeli statement about the October 7 attacks that, among other things, said that the Jewish state “bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.” Among those murdered were babies. The Nazi’s Einsatzgruppen also indiscriminately killed babies–and many others–during the Holocaust.

People calling their political enemies Nazis is as old as the Nazi movement and almost always it’s an overstated charge–but calling Hamas members Nazis is accurate. 

Fortunately, there has been some pushback. Winston and Strawn, an elite Chicago law firm where Jim Thompson, Illinois’ longest-serving governor–and a Republican–once served as CEO, repealed its job offer to Workman. 

Good.

After former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, who had previously served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, decried the dozens of Harvard student groups siding with Hamas over Israel in a statement, some of those organizations retracted their support. 

Summers, on X, said, “In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today.” 

These so-called Masters of the Universe are playing with half a deck of cards, one filled with jokers, not the harmless harlequin types, but evil clowns of the Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix ilk. 

In the words that Dan Bongino uses so often, “They are stupid smart people.” These young elitists don’t know the difference between good and evil.

So many of them are the evil Jokers of the Universe.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

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