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ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE: "HERE BE DRAGONS"
Original Content | 6/27/2013 | by Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 06/27/2013 4:20:30 PM PDT by Lazamataz

In the maps of old, when an area was unexplored and presumed dangerous, a mapmaker might pen the phrase "Here Be Dragons". This warned the explorer that possessed the map that the area had not been tamed, or often, even explored, and that there were uncharted dangers in that area.

The Supreme Court of the United States has struck the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) down. While individuals may have feelings one way or another about this decision, what should trouble everyone on both sides is the report that the majority of the Court has called the minority "enemies of the human race."

As Anthony Scalia wrote, "But to defend traditional marriage is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions. To hurl such accusations so casually demeans this institution.... It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race."

This is the most henious, troubling verbiage we have ever seen emenate from the Supreme Court. It smacks of dehumanization of the opposition. When any tyranny wants to eliminate or exterminate the opposition, it must start by dehumanizing them. So if a group of people who hold a given ideology are "enemies of the human race", then they clearly -- in the eyes of the people who so declare -- are not human. An enemy of the human race cannot BE human.

When the dehumanization of your opposition has penetrated your soul, you become capable of any act of violence, any act of oppression. History is riddled with examples of this sort of speech. What invariably follows are pograms and mass-executions, tortures and oppressions, and denials of basic liberties. That our very highest Court has engaged in this sort of verbal assault should make everyone -- regardless of their political persuasion -- quite alarmed.

We do not want to travel into this uncharted area. America has had its' flirtations with depredation of an entire race, nationality, or ideology... but never have we engaged in wholesale slaughter, and we have great regrets for the times we have oppressed an entire class of people. We should not want to embark on another oppression.

We are a divided nation, this much is certain. However, for either side to start speaking of the other as "enemies of the human race" starts us down a path to tyrannical terror and bloodshed of a Biblical scale. I recommend our side, conservatives, not engage in this sort of behavior, and I would ask that our opposition do the same.

Otherwise, as our forebearers once wrote: "Here Be Dragons".


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To: headsonpikes

LOL.
You’re right.
The tittie bar has a take-out-window for drinks: adult beverages.


141 posted on 06/27/2013 9:33:52 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx
I'm with ya darlin’...lets meet in Shreveport!
142 posted on 06/27/2013 9:35:55 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: onyx
The tittie bar has a take-out-window for drinks

Damn!! That sounds like a real high class one compared to the one we have in town :)

143 posted on 06/27/2013 9:39:06 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: NYTexan

LOL.

OKay!
ANYTIME!


144 posted on 06/27/2013 9:42:50 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: The Cajun

ROTFLOL.
This one sells real nice frozen Margarita’s to go, too!


145 posted on 06/27/2013 9:43:37 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

“The tittie bar has a take-out-window for drinks: adult beverages.”

I have to drive 45 minutes just to get to a place where the gas station closed at 9PM, 3 hours after everything else was shut down; I have to drive another hour to get to a town with an A&W take-out-window. We’re talking maybe 8 hours to drive to a town with a tittie bar.

If you go to such an establishment, I’d appreciate a report.


146 posted on 06/27/2013 9:43:46 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: headsonpikes

ROTFL.
I have actually bought lottery tickets at that place.
There’s not much to report, if you get my drift.


147 posted on 06/27/2013 9:45:09 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx
Well the one good thing about the one in town, if you don't have a gun before ya go in, they'll let you rent one at the door.
148 posted on 06/27/2013 9:47:19 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: Lazamataz
"...but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God."
- John 16:2
149 posted on 06/27/2013 10:02:28 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: onyx

If it is a bet I’d place dough on it being a fact.

;<)


150 posted on 06/27/2013 10:09:27 PM PDT by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Lazamataz

This, for the advancement of homosexuals who never contribute to the human race,
from mass murderers who legalize abortion.


151 posted on 06/27/2013 11:25:00 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Lazamataz

Hey Laz, you’re in good company. Mark Steyn calls out this move as “profoundly disturbing” in his latest post at National Review.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3036538/posts


152 posted on 06/28/2013 1:05:24 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lazamataz

153 posted on 06/28/2013 1:13:46 AM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: FreedomPoster

I didn’t see where Steyn called this ‘profoundly disturbing’. Can you check that link?


154 posted on 06/28/2013 3:18:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
This, for the advancement of homosexuals who never contribute to the human race,

I won't go that far. Plenty of homosexuals have been of service to our human condition -- from the arts, to mathematics, to engineering -- but plenty have been very detrimental. The Nazi leadership, for example, were largely made up of homosexuals.

from mass murderers who legalize abortion.

There is simply no excuse for this mass slaughter.

155 posted on 06/28/2013 3:21:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: Lazamataz

I linked to the FR page which is only an excerpt. That phrase is at the end of the full version at NR.


156 posted on 06/28/2013 3:21:54 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Prospero

Excellent quote. Thank you.


157 posted on 06/28/2013 3:22:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: FreedomPoster
Ah... I must have only looked at the first page of a multipage editorial.

Speaking of that, I try to keep my editorials very brief, but packed with content. I hope I succeed.

158 posted on 06/28/2013 3:23:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: LUV W

what???


159 posted on 06/28/2013 3:23:58 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: onyx
I have actually bought lottery tickets at that place. There’s not much to report, if you get my drift.

Oh, but I disagree. It's a tittie bar; ergo, LazamaHeaven. :)

160 posted on 06/28/2013 3:24:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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