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Vivek Ramaswamy was absolutely correct when he spoke out against the tyranny of the minority

Posted: August 17, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Before I encountered this American Thinker article, I had not paid much attention to Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign.  After reading this article I firmly believe whoever is nominated should select him as their running mate. 

While campaigning, Vivek Ramaswamy was approached by a woman who claims to be “pansexual” asking him about his opinions regarding the “LGBTQ+ community” and “same-sex couples.” Vivek calmly and politely explained that he believes America is falling victim to the “tyranny of the minority.” Although he spoke in a polite and respectful tone, what he said is a stronger answer than Republicans normally give and one that might play very well with the silent majority overwhelmed by slogans, yelling, and the other noise that characterizes today’s political discourse.

I have been making the exact same observation for decades.  I first witnessed this back in the early 1990s, when I was a student at UMASS Amherst.  That was my first exposure  to the true political left.  It was shocking to see how a small, yet extremely vocal, minority could trample on the beliefs and wishes of so many.

Vivek begins by accurately stating that so-called transgenderism is completely at odds with homosexuality. This is an important point. Homosexuality has been around since time immemorial, whether one likes it or not. Same-sex attraction is real. However, so-called “transgenderism” is a post-modern concept that has no basis in history or biology. Nevertheless, gay men are being told they’re really women, and lesbians are being told they’re really men—and then both are being pumped full of dangerous opposite-sex hormones and given mutilating surgery to prove this lie.

Regarding same-sex couples, Vivek said he doesn’t have a negative view, which is probably the case for most conservatives. I strongly disapprove of same sex-marriage because Justice Kennedy made up an imaginary constitutional right that smashes headlong into the actual First Amendment protection for religious liberty. And Vivek, to his credit, heads straight for that problem.

I agree with all the points he made.  I have no problem with the idea of same sex marriage.  I am absolutely opposed to forcing anyone to comply with anything they are opposed to.  The Free Exercise of Religion Clause of the First Amendment protects our God-given Natural Right to believe and live our lives as we wish.

In America, he says, America is allowing a tyranny of the minority to force behaviors on people. “In the name of protecting against a tyranny of the majority…we have created a tyranny of the minority, and I think that’s wrong.” He’s absolutely correct.

Vivek continues, saying that it’s wrong to force religious people to preside over same-sex marriage ceremonies or to force women to compete against biological men or change clothes in a locker room with a man. “That’s not freedom,” he says, “that’s oppression.” Yes!

He is 100 percent correct.

Free adults, Vivek concludes, should be able to do as they will, up to a point, but they don’t get to force their behaviors on others. Those others, especially, include children, who are different from adults.

“I think a lot of frustration in the country—and if I’m being really honest, that I also share—comes from that new culture of oppression where saying those things [that is, opposing these aggressive new, leftist views] can actually get somebody punished.”

I don’t like the sentence “Free adults, Vivek concludes, should be able to do as they will, up to a point.”  He needs to add the phrase “until they hurt others or interfere with the rights of others.”  Then he would be voicing the true definition of liberty, which is the freedom to do as you wish, as long as you don’t hurt others, or interfere with the rights of others.

Today we have the Democrat Party, the Media, major corporations, Hollywood; all cramming this woke agenda down the throats of the entire nation, trying to force the vast majority of us to comply. That is the very definition of tyranny of the minority.

Cutting down 16 million trees to fight climate change is truly asinine

Posted: August 10, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Wherever large-scale green energy facilities are built forests are first cut down, grasslands are cleared, and other natural habitats are destroyed. This is all done in the name of saving the environment from climate change.

Liberals are apoplectic when a land is cleared for a single housing development, factory, or shopping center, yet they remain completely silent, and often cheer loudly, when nature is destroyed so that a green energy boondoggle can be built.  That to me makes no sense at all. 

In my town I’ve witnessed the clearing of many acres of forest so that solar farms can be built.  I was absolutely outraged at the destruction of the beautiful ecosystems that were the home of countless animals and birds.  I’ve seen the erosion and soil runoff that results.

This has been repeated over and over again all across the United States for solar and windfarms.  The same holds true in Europe.

The worst environmental carnage so far has taken place in Scotland where 16 million trees have been cleared away to build wind farms.   

Since 2000, the Scottish government has felled around 1,700 trees on a daily basis, all to make way for “green” initiatives. Leave it to the government and their leftist abettors to harp on the “destruction of the environment” then chop down literal trees to create barren wastelands—all to make room for obtrusive, industrial, inanimate behemoths that obliterate all sorts of animal populations, and create massive amounts of environmental pollution (in production, maintenance, and disposal).

According to an article by Frank Bergman and posted to Slay News yesterday, the Scottish government’s scheme of systematic deforestation was implemented to “meet the goals” of the climate agenda. Is that not one of the most ludicrous and asinine things you’ve ever heard? Or perhaps, the move is right in line with the climate agenda, because the goal isn’t environmentalism… but rather communistic destruction?

A Scottish government official has admitted that almost 16 million trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for ‘green energy’ farms.

These fools seem oblivious to the fact that trees, bushes, and other plants, absorb Carbon Dioxide.  Will the windmills and solar farms eliminate even a tiny fraction of the CO2 that these millions of trees would have absorbed?  That is extremely doubtful.

License Plate Scanners plus AI Tracking Software equals an all powerful police state plus travel restrictions

Posted: August 3, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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License plate scanners have been used by police departments across the United States for more than a decade.  I know the police department in the town I live in uses them constantly.   I here them using them on my police scanner.  They routinely stop a vehicle because the registered owner’s license is suspended, or something similar. 

License plate scanners, on their own, are a grave threat to the right to privacy of each and every American.  They are a gross violation of our most cherished constitutional rights.  Every single American has a God-given Natural Right to move as we wish, completely free of any government snooping or surveillance.  .

Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, this gross violation of privacy has become much worse, as you can see from this Breitbart article: Breitbart – Police Use AI-Powered License Plate Recognition to Track ‘Suspicious’ Travel Patterns

American law enforcement are now using AI-powered license plate recognition systems to identify “suspicious” patterns of movement by analyzing billions of license plate records. However, this new technology raises significant concerns about privacy and potential misuse.

Forbes reports that by examining billions of license plate records, AI is now assisting American law enforcement in locating “suspicious” movement patterns. This new technology raises serious concerns about privacy and potential abuse. 

When you combine the gross violation of license plate scanners and AI with this article, Breitbart – Climate of Fear: U.N. Chief Guterres Warns ‘Era of Global Boiling’ Is Here, all of the recent hysteria over the supposed hottest temperatures ever becomes more ominous.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday night rolled out some of his most apocalyptic climate rhetoric to date declaring “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

He went on to lament how “terrifying” it is seeing children “swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat.”  He said “short of a mini ice age” over coming days, some scientists estimate July 2023 would shatter records across the board.

Could it be possible that license plate scanners and AI could be used to curtail the movement of Americans to fight a made up dire climate change emergency?  Absolutely.  The hysteria over climate change is already beig used to curtail air travel in a very back handed manner: In the Name of Climate Change: Travel Restrictions and the Great Reset – American Thinker

In 2022, the 193-member nation International Civil Aviation Organizations (ICAO), a U.N.  agency, agreed to a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.  Ironically, the call to reduce the use of aviation fuel is accompanied by a boom in private air travel, as airline travel becomes more difficult.  Private jets constitute 25% of U.S.  flights and increased by 17% in the first half of 2022.  Clearly, despite purported concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, the Great Reset does not restrict travel for the elite.  The agenda obviously has more to do with politics and control than science.

This year, summer air travel was subjected to massive delays.  More than 11,000 flights were delayed or cancelled on June 25; some 8,000 on June 26; and there were 35,000 flight delays and 7,000 cancellations on July 4.  Candid airline employees confessed this had nothing to do with the weather, and that pilot and ATC understaffing was responsible for the chaos.  In late June, I found myself stuck in New York for three days with no available flight options to the West Coast.  I was also trapped in Reykjavik for four nights because of the cancellation of flights to Ilulissat, Greenland.  An Icelandair captain revealed the reason: a tower at an adjacent airport, required for potential flight diversions, was unmanned because of an ATC shortage.

The Biden Regime’s ban on portable gas generators is going to have a very negative impact on emergency communications

Posted: July 27, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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I have been an Amateur Radio Operator for over 35 years.  Emergency communication is the most important aspect of the hobby.  When all else fails there is Ham Radio.  That is because most of our equipment is portable and can operate without any infrastructure at all. All we need to establish reliable worldwide communications is wire antennas supported by trees, our radio equipment, and a way to power the equipment that does no rely on commercial power.  Portable gas powered generators are absolutely perfect for that.  

When I saw this headline, Proposed New Biden Rule Essentially Bans All Portable Gas Powered Generators Currently On The Market (thefederalistpapers.org), I was absolutely outraged because I knew that ban would be very detrimental to all emergency communications, not just ham radio.  This will cost a lot of lives.

The Biden administration is working on a new rule through the Consumer Product Safety Commission that limits the carbon monoxide emissions of products. The rule is so stringent that 95% of the current portable gas generators on the market wouldn’t meet the standard. Industry insiders have warned that this could result in a massive shortage of generators since it would take manufacturers years, not the given six months, to design compliant generators.

The only other practical alternative to portable generators are solar panels and car batteries.  I know from a lot of experience that they are no where near as reliable.

There is no valid reason for the ban.  The vast majority of individuals know generators produce carbon monoxide, which can kill you.

Ham Radio Operators will not be the only ones negatively impacted.

Portable gas generators play a crucial role in helping approximately five million households keep their lights on during power outages. If the proposed rule comes into effect, these generators could become exceedingly hard to obtain as manufacturers will be prohibited from stockpiling non-compliant generators before the rule is enacted.

This proposed rule follows closely behind a similar one by Biden-backed commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. which is aimed at banning gas stoves, a move he terms as mitigating a “hidden hazard.” This comes at a time when many parts of America are facing increased risks of power outages due to an over-reliance on green energy. The inability to meet electricity demand, especially during peak times, has already led to power blackouts in states like California.

This ban is not necessary at all.

The Portable Generator Manufacturers’ Association has already implemented voluntary standards to ensure safety from carbon monoxide emissions, requiring generators to automatically shut off when carbon monoxide concentrations reach certain levels, among other safety measures. The Biden administration, however, argues that more stringent emission caps are needed

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