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Silliness?
Just another little play in the ongoing attempt to demonize firearms. Oh, on the surface it's innocently stupid, yet another example of bureaucracy run amok. But underlying it is something much more insidious: it's an assault on both the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. The two are intimately interconnected: you can't have one without the other.
No doubt the teacher in question is simply an ignoramus. Her individual motive is probably not to demonize guns and freedom of expression. But the sum, as they say, is greater than the parts. The long range impact of the incessant liberalization of the culture is desensitization to a slow but steady political restructuring by the so-called "progressives" in American politics.
Think I'm over-reacting? Then consider this: last night, the Democrats were forced to pull the DISCLOSE Act from the House floor. In essence, the act looked to circumvent the right to free political speech, effectively forcing large organizations to disclose all information about their backers or be prevented from advertising and advocating their viewpoints. Sounds good, right? Force the lobbyist cockroaches into the light... which is exactly how the Democrats attempted to sell it. But there's a problem: selected organizations managed to get themselves exempted from the law. In other words, the only organizations who could express political opinions were those approved to do so by the politicians. If your hair isn't standing up on end right now, you've missed the point entirely. We very narrowly dodged a bullet last night -- if you'll pardon the apropos pun.
There is a continuing assault on the right of Americans to display and discuss their political ideology and to criticize authority. "Zero tolerance" policies are one small example of the offspring such a mentality creates. If you ignore it, a few decades pass and you find that the Republic has died the death of a thousand cuts, none of which was threatening in itself.
A boy told to go home because he had toy soldiers on his hat is silly and innocuous... until you put it into a frame of reference.
Vigilance is the price of freedom. We forget that at our peril.
Christan Morales said her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures.
Morales' 8-year-old son, David, had been assigned to make a hat for the day when his second-grade class would meet their pen pals from another school. She and her son came up with an idea to add patriotic decorations to a camouflage hat.
But the school banned the hat because it ran afoul of the district's zero-tolerance weapons policy. Why? The toy soldiers were carrying tiny guns.
Just another little play in the ongoing attempt to demonize firearms. Oh, on the surface it's innocently stupid, yet another example of bureaucracy run amok. But underlying it is something much more insidious: it's an assault on both the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. The two are intimately interconnected: you can't have one without the other.
No doubt the teacher in question is simply an ignoramus. Her individual motive is probably not to demonize guns and freedom of expression. But the sum, as they say, is greater than the parts. The long range impact of the incessant liberalization of the culture is desensitization to a slow but steady political restructuring by the so-called "progressives" in American politics.
Think I'm over-reacting? Then consider this: last night, the Democrats were forced to pull the DISCLOSE Act from the House floor. In essence, the act looked to circumvent the right to free political speech, effectively forcing large organizations to disclose all information about their backers or be prevented from advertising and advocating their viewpoints. Sounds good, right? Force the lobbyist cockroaches into the light... which is exactly how the Democrats attempted to sell it. But there's a problem: selected organizations managed to get themselves exempted from the law. In other words, the only organizations who could express political opinions were those approved to do so by the politicians. If your hair isn't standing up on end right now, you've missed the point entirely. We very narrowly dodged a bullet last night -- if you'll pardon the apropos pun.
There is a continuing assault on the right of Americans to display and discuss their political ideology and to criticize authority. "Zero tolerance" policies are one small example of the offspring such a mentality creates. If you ignore it, a few decades pass and you find that the Republic has died the death of a thousand cuts, none of which was threatening in itself.
A boy told to go home because he had toy soldiers on his hat is silly and innocuous... until you put it into a frame of reference.
Vigilance is the price of freedom. We forget that at our peril.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 09:21
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