Showing posts with label Free Speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Speech. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Trump and Hitler

Is this America's future?

Do you want to know what the definition of a moron is? It's someone who compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

It's become fashionable these days for folks to equate anyone they dislike with Nazi Germany's mass murdering dictator who instigated World War II that resulted in the deaths of over 60 million people. Those 60 million included six million Jews and four million others who perished in the fuhrer's death camps.

Donald Trump may be a polarizing figure to many, especially to those on the secular left who despise wealthy people, and to those on the extreme right who are looking for another Ronald Reagan to save America from the secular left. But he's not Adolf Hitler.

Hitler wasn't some con artist who fooled the German people by pretending to be someone he wasn't while he campaigned for the Reichstag in the early 1930s. He was a radical leftist and an atheist who feigned Christianity for political purposes in order to win the support of Germany's predominantly Lutheran and Roman Catholic population. 

If the fuhrer faked his Christianity, then it sounds like I just contradicted myself. Indeed, I stated that Hitler didn't pretend to be someone he wasn't. And he didn't. All you have to do is read his infamous autobiography, Mein Kampf to discover who Hitler really was. He didn't hide anything about himself, nor his contempt for the Jews who he considered vermin. 

Mein Kampf was published in 1925, eight years before Hitler became the chancellor of Germany. The German people had eight years to find out all they needed to know about him and his dangerous worldview. But they chose not to, and the rest as they say, is history.

Donald Trump has authored 16 books. They're largely about becoming successful and acquiring wealth. None of them foment anti-Semitism or call for the systematic annihilation of undesirable races. And none of them call for elderly, infirm, handicapped or mentally deficient people to be euthanized in order to conserve natural resources. Remember what Hitler called those folks? He called them "useless eaters."  

Why do people compare Trump to Hitler? Because their ideas are bankrupt and they can't win honest debates in the public forum. And they know that. Thus, they resort to fascist techniques such as character assassination and violent demonstrations that prevent their opponents from speaking at private and public events.

That happened in Chicago recently (March 11) when the usual assortment of riffraff (Marxists, union goons, communists, street gang thugs, Black Panthers, college punks wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags, La Raza clowns etc.) showed up to force the shut down of a scheduled Trump speech at the UIC Pavilion. 

The protest was as phony as a $3 bill. And if you watched it, you saw it before in venues such as Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore. If you looked at the "protesters", you may have recognized some of the same faces that were on the streets of Ferguson and Baltimore. The Chicago protest largely consisted of professional agitators who were bused and flown into the city by radical leftist groups such as Moveon.org to stir up trouble.

One of those cretins was a La Raza agitator named Alicia Valeanzela who offered this brilliant pearl of wisdom: He's (Trump) a f***ing bigot. He's an a**hole. If Valeanzela represents the future of America, then America's destined to become a third world outhouse. 

The growing extremism and violence that's being embraced by younger people underscores an ancient prophecy concerning the end times recorded by the apostle Paul who said this: 
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
If you don't like Donald Trump, then don't vote for him. If you don't like his ideas, then don't listen to him or go to his rallies. But this is America. And we have something called the First Amendment that guarantees the right of free speech.

And that means that everyone has the right to voice their opinions whether you like them or not. If you don't like them, then you can either ignore them or move to a country that regulates speech. Try that and see how you like it.

Monday, March 2, 2015

The Road to Fascism

Another freedom gone

Many folks believe that the FCC's recent decision to regulate the internet was just about creating another revenue stream for the U.S. government. Certainly, that's true. But money wasn't the government's only objective.

The U.S. government wants to regulate the internet the way it regulates public utility companies. And it wants to establish policies that will make it practically impossible for conservative websites and bloggers to expose its agendas.

Though the FCC vehemently denies this, that was the proverbial Trojan Horse in its 3-2 decision. How can we be sure that restricting free speech was one of the main goals in the FCC's decision? Because the decision was praised by Barack Obama who's become the ultimate enemy of conservatives in America. And if Obama praises something, then you know it's bad for those who embrace freedom and limited government.

Here's what he said: "Earlier today (Thursday, Feb. 26), the FCC voted to protect a free and open Internet -- the kind of Internet that allows entrepreneurs to thrive and debates over duck-sized horses and horse-sized ducks to persist. This would not have happened without the activism and engagement of millions of Americans like you. And that was a direct result of communities like reddit. (Reddit.com) So to all the redditors who participated in this movement, I have a simple message: Thank you."  

Entrepreneurs certainly won't thrive under government regulations. They'll be stifled while small startup companies with marginal capital will be crushed. The internet will be controlled by giant monoliths such as Comcast, Time Warner and Cox. And these companies will be subordinate to the authority of the U.S. government.

The government will decide what folks can publish and what they can't. For example, a Christian website that attempts to publish scripture verses that are considered offensive to Muslims or gays will either be blocked from publishing the material; fined or even removed from the internet. 

And certainly, anyone who attempts to expose government corruption will be thwarted and condemned. For now, the government, i.e. Obama administration, has had to rely on its media lackeys to protect it from scrutiny. But in the future, that won't be necessary if the government succeeds in regulating the internet.

It will probably take several years for that to happen. There will be the inevitable court battles that will challenge the legality of a government-regulated internet. Given the tortoise-like pace of the U.S. judicial system, these challenges could take years. But eventually, the government will win out because it always does. Unlike its challengers, it has the time and it has the money. 

Though the internet has a lot of garbage, it also has a lot of serious investigative journalists who've been able to expose the type of political and financial corruption that the big white elephant newspapers and TV networks no longer cover because they've gotten too cozy with the White House and Wall Street. 

Anyone who's been around long enough remembers how a small website at the time named the Drudge Report revealed the sordid sexual affair President Bill Clinton had with an intern named Monica Lewinsky during the 1990s. Though Clinton's philandering was legendary, no traditional media outlet wanted to write about it. Only Drudge did and the rest is history. 

Lewinsky said this: "Thanks to the internet and a website that at the time was scarcely known outside of Washington D.C. but a website we all know today: the Drudge Report, within 24 hours I became a public figure, not just in the United States but around the entire globe. As far as major news stories were concerned this was the very first time that the traditional media was usurped by the internet."

Had the internet been under the control of the federal government in the 1990s, it's possible that the Lewinsky affair would have gone unreported and Bill Clinton would've avoided an embarrassing scandal that led to his impeachment. But that was then and this is now.

And the future promises to be even dimmer because a world government is coming that will possess the power to regulate and control everything from the internet to speech to freedom of movement to who lives and who doesn't on planet earth. The apostle John revealed this concerning the coming dreaded Antichrist and his world government: "And he was given power to make war against the saints (Christians) and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation." (Revelation 13:7)

Thus, the road to fascism--like hell--is usually paved with good intentions. A government controlled internet? That's a very bad idea.