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ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE: "HERE BE DRAGONS"
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| 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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posted on
06/27/2013 4:20:30 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:21:45 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
To: Lazamataz
the majority of the Court has called the minority "enemies of the human race Thanks to the majority of the Court for the label. Will wear it like the Star of David.
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:24:50 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: no-to-illegals
So very close to the truth, this Star of David comment, my FRiend. The NSA has the methods required to identify the ‘ideological Jews’; namely, Conservatives. All it would require, now, is an order from Der Leader.
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:26:39 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
To: Jim Robinson
Ping to *my* ideological leader.... :)
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:27:54 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
To: Lazamataz; Jim Robinson
JR is presently cavorting with his fav lady...Sarah Palin! :)
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:29:15 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos!)
To: Lazamataz
Have no doubt Laz, not only Conservatives, Christians and our Jewish FRiends are on the list, as is Israel. History is Repeating.
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:29:42 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: Lazamataz
I oppose faggotry.
Except maybe for some really hot lebesians.
Otherwise, no way.
To: LUV W; Jim Robinson
JR is presently cavorting with his fav lady...Sarah Palin! :)WOW! My favorite, too. JR, if you get the chance, direct Sarah to this editorial. Bet she'd like it! :)
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:30:57 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
To: humblegunner
Except maybe for some really hot lebesians. It ain't like in the movies.
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:31:30 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Lazamataz
No doubt you’d hit THAT! ;)
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:31:46 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos!)
To: Lazamataz
Just for you Laz. Here be dragons...
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:31:57 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: humblegunner
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:32:00 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
To: LUV W
No doubt youd hit THAT! ;)Sarah Palin? No, I wouldn't. Her husband can kick my a&&!
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:33:09 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:33:37 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos!)
To: Lazamataz
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. Asking our opposition not to characterize us as "enemies of the human race" is like asking water to flow uphill.
You can ask, but it ain't gonna happen.
It is their plan to have most of us in the ovens, and the rest in chains.
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.
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:35:31 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:36:20 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: 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
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:36:56 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: LUV W; Jim Robinson
Ahem. Mr. Robinson does not "cavort". :) As is clear in this pic, he is a gentleman and she is a lady.
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posted on
06/27/2013 4:40:00 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Lazamataz
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