Posted on 04/08/2014 7:40:23 AM PDT by SJackson
In 31 years of broadcasting, and 40 years of writing, I have never advocated a boycott of a product.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, when the left attempted to destroy Chick-Fil-A for its owner’s views on same-sex marriage, I suggested on my radio show that the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, stand in front of a Chick-Fil-A restaurant while enjoying some Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. In that way, I argued, he could show one of the great moral differences between the right and the left. Though Ben and Jerry are leftists, we conservatives do not believe that company owners’ views should matter to consumers. We believe that products should speak for themselves. If the ice cream is good, despite whatever repugnance we might feel regarding the views of the makers of that ice cream, we will still purchase it.
The left does not see things that way. The left is out to crush individuals and companies with whom it differs. This is especially so today on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Perhaps the most dramatic example of this took place last week. The governing board of the widely used browser, Firefox, forced the company’s CEO, Brendan Eich, to resign. The Firefox board had learned that in 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 campaign in California. Proposition 8 amended the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In classic Communist fashion, gay rights organizations demanded that Eich publicly recant. When Eich did not, gay rights and other leftist organizations called for a boycott of Firefox. Firefox immediately forced Eich out.
All these years, the left, after coining the term “McCarthyism” in order to disparage the right, had fooled most people into believing that it is the right that suppresses liberty. The truth, of course, has been the opposite. Worldwide, with the exception of Nazi Germany (which was a uniquely race-based totalitarianism, neither left nor right — while it rejected Marxist class-based struggle, it supported socialism (“Nazism” was short for National Socialism), every genocidal totalitarian regime of the 20th century was leftist. And domestically, too, the left has much less interest in liberty than in forcing people to act in accord with its values. A totalitarian streak is part of the left’s DNA. How you think matters and what you do away outside of work matters: More than 20 states prohibit judges from being leaders in the Boy Scouts — because the left deems the Boy Scouts homophobic.
During the McCarthy era, the left (and not only the left) screamed when people were falsely charged with supporting Stalin and Communism, one of the greatest evils in human history. But the left also screamed when people who really did aid and abet Stalin were dismissed from their jobs. In other words, for those on the left who celebrate Eich’s ouster, it was evil to deprive a man who supported Stalin of a job, but it is right to fire a man who supports the man-woman definition of marriage. Such is the left’s moral compass.
It is important to further note that gay employees at Firefox acknowledge that Eich never discriminated against gays, whether in employment, benefits or any other way. But that doesn’t matter to the left because a totalitarian streak is part of the left’s DNA.
As Princeton Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George warned on my radio show, today the left fires employees for opposition to same-sex marriage. Tomorrow it will fire employees who are pro-life (“anti-woman”). And next it will be employees who support Israel (an “apartheid state”).
The reason to boycott Firefox is not that it is run by leftists. Nor is the reason to support the man-woman definition of marriage. It is solely in order to preserve liberty in the land of liberty. If Firefox doesn’t recant and rehire Eich as CEO, McCarthyism will have returned far more pervasively and perniciously than in its first incarnation. The message the gay left (such as the Orwellian-named Human Rights Campaign) and the left in general wish to send is that Americans who are in positions of power at any company should be forced to resign if they hold a position that the left strongly opposes.
And right now that position is opposition to same-sex marriage.
Think about that. In the United States of America today, the belief that marriage should remain defined as the union of a man and woman is portrayed as so vile by the left that anyone who holds it is unfit for employment.
A handful of those on the gay (and straight) left have spoken out against the forced resignation of Eich. If their words are to mean anything, they must join in the call to boycott Firefox. Otherwise, their protestations are meaningless, made solely to preserve their moral credibility.
The battle over Firefox is the most important battle in America at this particular moment. If you use Firefox, uninstall it. Instead use Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari, or try Pale Moon for Windows, which is based on the Firefox engine and will import all of your bookmarks. For mobile devices, you can try Puffin.
America can have liberty or it can have Firefox. Right now, it cannot have both.
> Chrome
Please.
All Google products are phishing expeditions masquerading as something else. Every keystroke you make in Chrome or Android or Google search gets radioed home to the Chrome mother ship and sold to advertisers. They have also been cooperating with Barry’s NSA gestapo.
Opera is the better choice for a browser.
No, but thanks for the suggestion.
Iceweasel!!!
Someone should adopt the task of one of those charts that tick off what one has and another hasn't.
I liked IE because I could right click and set a desk top icon .... Chrome does too, but it sets the folder as well on the desktop ....
My bank is not supported by opera
It’s hard to explain but Rush was always a big Apple fan.
He said
“I would love to just be able to get to one of these guys and say, ‘Now, I want you to do something. The way you see these guys propping up Samsung and Google and Android and the way these guys are ripping Apple to shreds, would you try to see that in the mainstream media? Would you open your eyes and see what’s going on in the mainstream media? Would you try to open your eyes and see that in the mainstream media, the Republican Party is Apple, and the Democrat Party is Samsung, Google, and Android.”
RE: Ben and Jerry’s. I agree. Buying their product funds leftist purposes. I don’t ever purchase it. There is a difference between what the left does and what we do. I do like the idea he had for Romney to show that our side doesn’t act to put opponents out of business like the left. We as individuals can make decisions to buy or not buy from certain companies. We can even suggest to our friends that they do not either. What we don’t do is a wholesale attack to destroy them because of political opposition.
Safari.
Why not just hit "Save" ( [Ctrl] [S] ) and save it as an html, or "Save As" to save it as an html file with images or an mht file? Personally, I am not fond of pdf files and a plain vanilla html file can be viewed with any browser.
——It’s hard to explain but Rush was always a big Apple fan——
I don’t think so....... they give him free stuff ahead of time and products to carefully give away to deserving callers.
He gives them free advertising.
He started on apple, the relation grew and it is now too hard to swap to microsoft.
I have an idea...why not just fork firefox? There are other forks out there but who is to say they are any better than Mozilla? But if we have our own fork, then we know for sure it won’t be bound by their stupidity.
Did it two days ago. Now, Pale Moon... and it is actually faster.
We should when their political opposition is trying to destroy everything that makes America ‘America’. I see no point in tying our hands behind our back and allowing the left to do what they do without blowback.
They consider it a war.
Ah I see there’s a 64 bit version. And they didn’t make the stupid UI decisions that Firefox adopted in order to copy Chrome
http://www.palemoon.org/layout-differences.shtml
Yeah I always knew Rush was a fan of Apple products as he talks about them quite often. I still don’t understand his logic though. Who are these “guys” propping up Samsung, Google and Android? I’d think the opposite is more true that Samsung = Republicans and Apple = Democrats.
“Chrome”
I installed a flash player update a few weeks ago and that process left me with Chrome installed. I was not happy about that as I saw no way to tell it to not install Chrome.
However, I’ve used Chrome some and like it. It’s faster than IE for one thing.
At work a year ago I had to use Firefox for awhile and I liked that product also.
I don’t know if Samsung = Republicans but Apple is definitely Democrats
Exactly. And Chrome is fronted by that OTHER libtard “friend of liberty” Google. /s
What to do? Suggestions??
I'm giving opera a try again. I've tried it a few times in the past and just never really could warm up to it. Looks like they have an adblock plugin. Now all I need is to locate my other extensions... Gonna miss my greasemonkey scripts.
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