Posted on 01/29/2015 3:34:15 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
The first amendment is dead; long live the reign of sensitivity. Ben Shapiro explores how Americans have forfeited their fundamental rights in the name of political correctness. See the video and transcript....
TRANSCRIPT:
Millions of people from all over the world held candlelight vigils in honor of the French magazineCharlie Hebdo after an Islamic terror attack on its staff. But in reality, those of us in the United States – yes, even those of us who tweeted #JeSuisCharlie – gave up our First Amendment rights long ago. We gave them up in the name political correctness, and in the name of being “non-offensive.”
The First Amendment is dead. Long live the Reign of Sensitivity.
Freedom of speech. We should be able to say what we want without fear of government reprisal. Well, unless we make a YouTube video about the life of Mohammed. Then…
VIDEO: Obama from UN: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
And it didn’t. The guy who made that video ended up in jail. And the people at Charlie Hebdo ended up dead. So everything worked out fine.
How about freedom of the press? Well, we now have Democrats attempting to define who is a member of the press, so that they can reject press rights for bloggers. And, of course, the Obama administration has allegedly tapped a journalist’s computer, tapped the phone of another journalist’s parents, and prosecuted a whole slew of journalists for refusing to cooperate with the government.
Not so much. If you’re a baker in Colorado and you have the temerity to tell a gay couple that your religious scruples won’t let you participate or profit off of a homosexual wedding, the government will fine you. Plus, the government commissioner will call you a Nazi:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/12/colorado-cake-case-pits-religion-against-tolerance/
I would also like to reiterate what we said in the last meeting [on Mr. Phillips]. Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust… I mean, we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination.
Actually, we can list hundreds of situations where government’s refusal to grant freedom of religion ended not just in discrimination, but murder. The Nazis, it turned out, didn’t justify the Holocaust with reference to the Bible. They did it with reference to how evil religion was. The Nazis even had a special badge for Bible students – in their concentration camps.
Freedom from government-established religion was designed to stop government from encroaching on free exercise – the idea was that if you had an established church, that would end in discrimination against other churches. But we do have an established church: the church of secularism. And it is discriminating.
About the only part of the First Amendment left standing is our freedom to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances. But fortunately, thanks to our surrender of all our other First Amendment rights, the government always has an easy answer: no.
But at least we’re sensitive. If we all say just the things the government allows us to say, and practice religion in just the way the government wants us to practice, and report just what the government wants us to report, we’ll be fine.
DEPOPULATE socialists/totalitarians from the body politic. DISMANTLE their collectives, foreign and domestic.
It’s easy to…
live - free - republic
C’mon 2016
Shapiro is full of prunes. The few cases where the law is perverted by liberal judges do not set the pattern for the rest of us
Yeah, that’s what the baker thought.
You are free to say whatever you wish until you rub up against some gummint crusader.
Have not heard that any court overturned these decisions that shut people up.
This is not news. We have had only the false illusion of “freedom of speech” and “freedom of religion” for several decades.
> Obama from UN: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
It’s only slander if it’s a lie.
Stating that Mohamed was a pedofile, because he married a 9 year old little girl, thus is not slander.
They will get around that by changing the definition of "slander".
Old definition: Saying something false.
New definition: Saying something "hurtful".
Of course the new definition will only apply to conservatives who say anything "hurtful" as determined by the PC crowd. If you think I'm exaggerating, just look at the "hate crimes" that are on the books today.
While they aren’t compelling us to quarter troops in our homes, they are attempting to strip away the second ammendment as we all know and unreasonable searches and seizures are increasingly common place. Our AG seems to think that a citizen can be drone striked in his own home if the President deems it necessary too which clearly ignores the right of due process. and then there’s the first ammendment issues discussed by rhe author. And then there’s there’s the whole overuse of the executive action thing and the extensive use of executive agencies to bypass the legislative processes both of which completely undermine the separation of powers The list of goes on: Cops killing people over local tax offenses for example. Cameras tracking our every move; the collection and storage of personal data. This is clearly the government our forefathers warned us about.
We need another McCarthy.
Exactly.
Have you ever been a socialist? Have you ever plundered the citizens of the republic by funding socialist schemes/bureaucracies/agencies/pet projects? Have you funded anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-life, anti-individual collectives, foreign and/or domestic with monies from the citizens of the republic? Etc., etc…
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
The Law
/Bastiat
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act.
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One
/Freneau
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
/signers
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
It’s beyond the loss of our freedom of speach. We’ve lost the right to our own private convictions. We now live in a confessional state and the state religion is new-paganism.
Over turned? Hell, I’m still waiting for the mass disbarring of the oligarchy for the corruption of the English language and of our Constitution (that they all swore to uphold and honor, it being above all else)
I’m just not holding my breath...
Unfortunately, this is a problem with a 100-yr ‘in the making’ and *our* guys with no fortitude to ‘rock the boat’, let alone make a 180
I want Ben Shapiro arrested for speaking out!!
WE THE PEOPLE didn’t give up any of our rights... however the Libtards and their PRAVDA machine would like US to... and the bobbleheads go along with it...
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