ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE: "HERE BE DRAGONS"

Original Content | 6/27/2013 | by Laz A. Mataz

[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".

[humblegunner]

And they will kill you for that.

They might at that.

But it'll take them far more resources per unit than they are willing to expend.

It'll take them far more logistic expertise than they possess or control.

This is not bravado, it be proven fact.

Bring it.

[luvie]

I would SO go for a trip to CA! Nutty natives and all! We might even have to have a FReep and stir ‘em up a bit! LOL!

[TheOldLady]

Oh, nothing.

[luvie]

Remember...we’re the ones with the guns. They have their books and feeeeeeeeeeeelings!

[onyx]

YES!

[Zeneta]

I’m with you my friend.

The incremental changes necessary to get from point A, today, to point B, civil war/armed resistance will have to be extraordinary.

This could not happen all at once and in this country, even in the state we are in, unless a third factor where introduced.

FEAR !!!

Not fear of them, but fear of not having any food to eat.

Preppers aside.

0’Bama and big Gov’t will need to become the new “American Gangster”.

They will feed you if you shut up and stay in line.

[Jim Robinson]

Finally got here a few minutes ago. Great place. Great program!

[Zeneta]

In addition, you and I both know that even well armed conservatives will get in line for food.

[Lazamataz]

There is a cleansing coming, and it will be Old Testament in both nature and scale. And there is nothing any human can do to prevent it.

True.

But God can.

[Lazamataz]

Thank you!

[Lazamataz]

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

No question that Friedrich was right. We must ALSO take care not to become that which we fight. We must take the most care of all, for we are morally right, and we must remain that way in our deeds.

[Eaker]

Who the hell came up with the idea of a donut as a spare anyway?

A cop?

[Lazamataz]

Thanks for posting.

....and thank you for reading.

[Lazamataz]

We are already enemies of “nature” and the passion of their hatred is completely unhinged. Now we become enemies of “the human race ?” Insane.

....and VERY, VERY dangerous.

[Lazamataz]

A judge who accuses his fellow judges in such a way is no longer fit to be a judge and should be removed from authority over the laws that govern us. To accuse in such a way from such a high position is to at once declare his opinion is superior to the laws. Such an judge should be removed from adjudication over the laws he so clearly abrogates in favor of his opinion.

I am, without reservation, in complete agreement.

[Lazamataz]

Scalia is correct about this. It is astounding the carnage people are capable of once they’ve established their opponents are not human. They choose to be...for want of a better word, “inhumane."

Scalia simply told us that the canary just died, and we are all in the coal mine.

[Lazamataz]

They will regret declaring their opponents to be enemies. One can disagree with opponents, and still respect each other and our right to disagree; one can only fight enemies, until one or the other prevails.

You are correct. Good observation.

[Lazamataz]

So that’s you next to him at the shoot? You look familiar.

humblegunner is familiar. A little TOO familiar, if you ask me. I felt a hand under the table.

=:^o

[Lazamataz]

Charles, it wasn’t either of the two most recent additions, it was Kennedy.

[Lazamataz]

I wonder if Scalia chose these words--hostes humani generis--intentionally.

I expect he did. It was a brilliant masterstroke to refer back to Roman times and the oppression of Christians.

It gives good context.