Comments on: Safe Haven

By: syn

syn — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:28:58 +0000

During my conversion after 9/11, I came across some words which I use to remind me why I will never give in to the emotional blackmailers, no matter how heavy-handed. Many are familiar with these words worth repeating:

“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.” (Reagan 1967)

Or, as some Ukrainian friends from former USSR like to say “If America falls there will be no free place in the world to run too.”

I do hope lawyers and law professors prick up their ears and recognize that ‘fairness’ has nothing to do with ‘justice’, and defending irrational concepts based on esthetical ‘feel-good’ words undermines the value of meaning and reason.

By: Pothus

Pothus — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:13:36 +0000

Mwalimu Daudi, I could not have expressed what you said any better. America has fallen under the spell of Politically Correctness, that feelings matter more than actual fact, and that we live in a “global community”. American’s are constantly bombarded by the LLL, sound bites and 24 hours of Britney Spears. What once was a great country will soon decay from within and be swallowed whole by those who propose to “care for the children”. Socialism is alive and well and she wears a pantsuit.

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:19:59 +0000

Those who argue that free speech is one of our country’s greatest strengths don’t seem to realize that in reality it is a double-edged sword. You cannot have a free country without free speech, but free speech can be used to destroy a free country. The irony is that when that happens, free speech is the first thing to go.

I don’t think that there is any kind of fail-safe solution to this dilemma. The best that we can do is to warn people that democracy is a far more fragile institution than they have been led to believe. Believe it or not – what we see in Russia, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe can happen here. As one sage remarked – falling into a totalitarian hellhole is a lot easier than climbing out again. Beware of politicians promising “fairness doctrines”, “campaign finance reform”, speech codes to eliminate “racism and homophobia”, good weather through “control of greenhouse gasses”, and vast expansions of nanny-state government in the name of “the poor”.