When Liberals don’t act like Liberals
From dictionary.com:
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant
There are other definitions of liberal, but I chose these three because of the subjects I am going to be addressing in this article.
As you can see by those definitions above, liberals portray themselves as tolerant,and caring of the rights of others, they are also free of bigotry and hatred, they are all-inclusive.
But liberals don’t always act like liberals.
Before I write about when liberals abandon their beliefs, I would like to touch upon some of those beliefs.
Liberals believe in all abortions. They believe that no-one has the right to tell a woman what she can and can’t do to her body. Nobody can make that choice for her, even if the father wants the baby.
Liberals believe in gay marriage. Gay people deserve the same rights as straight people. It doesn’t matter that marriage isn’t a right, it’s a priviledge. Liberals believe you can’t legislate morality, therefore gays deserve the right to be married. This, like abortion to some extent, is a lifestyle choice so we cannot infringe on their civil rights.
Liberals believe in multi-culturism. Why should people who immigrate here have to learn english? We must embrace THEIR culture, they don’t have to embrace ours. Ballots must be printed in several languages so that people who don’t speak english can still vote. This has managed to divide the country, not bring it together. They have seperated Americans into groups and classes, they have labeled everybody. African-Americans,Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, gay-Americans,straight-Americans, and on and on. No longer are we just Americans.
Liberals believe in a welfare state that does not require able bodied people to look for work. They are allowed to collect welfare and social security benefits because the system is unchecked. In this sense they are socialists. Working families are taxed and the money is given to healthy available workers so they can live off the government. There is no incentive to leave the welfare system, it pays too well. Why should we judge them?
Which brings us to the next topic, BIG GOVERNMENT. Liberals believe that the answer to most problems is more government. They believe that government is better at solving problems than the Average American. The more government programs the better.
Liberals believe in rehabilitation instead of punishment. They believe violent repeat criminals and socio-paths are just misunderstood,and can be rehabilitated,returned to society and co-habitate. They are soft on crime because we need to learn why they committed these crimes, not punish them.
These are just a few liberal beliefs, now lets talk about when liberals aren’t liberals. Here are a few instances.
The first is their tolerance, or lack thereof, of conservatives. Liberals are tolerant of all types of people and behavior patterns. But not if you have a different view than they do. If you are conservative they don’t want to even consider the differences in your ideas. If you are a conservative, you are wrong, plain and simple. You are a bigot and close-minded. There are those labels again. Liberals don’t even want to debate you on your ideas because it is so clear to them that you are wrong they consider it a waste of their time. Some of them cheered when Ronald Reagan died. They cheered when Jerry Falwell died. They were saddened when the alleged assassination attempt on Dick Cheney in the middle east failed.
This doesn’t sound like tolerance to me.This goes directly against the three definitions of a liberal that I put forth. To me it seems as if they are bigots to conservative ideas. They are conservo-phobes.
Secondly, they don’t display liberal beliefs when it comes to actions they don’t agree with. Let’s take the banning of smoking in bars and restaurants. Liberals use the argument that second hand smoke is as dangerous as smoking itself to get smoking banned from restaurants and bars. Here in New Hampshire, 75% of restaurants and bars had already voluntarily gone smoke free. That wasn’t good enough for the liberals, so they got smoking banned in all restaurants and bars. This was not a second hand smoke agrument as it was portrayed. People who are bothered by second hand smoke could have gone to three out of any four restaurants and bars and enjoyed being smoke free. They didn’t have to go somewhere that allowed smoking if they didn’t want to. This is simply a case of liberals telling everone else what and where you can put something in your body. When it comes to abortion there are no restrictions on a womans body, but with smoking you can tell someone what they can put in their body. This goes directly against the three definitions of a liberal I put forth.
And speaking of putting things in your body, the next item on the hit-list, trans-fats. Because trans-fats are not good for you liberals are beginning to ban them across the nation. They are taking away your choice whether to eat foods that have trans-fats or not eat them. They believe because they are smarter than you they should tell you what you can and can’t eat. They are babysitting you, making sure you eat right. This doesn’t sound like a liberal idea, it sounds like a restrictionist idea. The list goes on and on with this subject, seatbelts, and hemets when riding motorcycles, to name a couple more.
So, as you can see liberals are liberals when it comes to some social, political, and behavioral issues. At least when it’s convenient for them, but when it comes to issues they don’t agree with they are intolerant, the exact opposite of the definition of liberalism. That is when liberals don’t act like liberals.
And lets not forget about political correctness, this is a liberal assault on free speech. We are told we can’t say certain things that may be offensive to others. They are trying to eliminate language that they don’t agree with. That is also directly against all three of the definitions of liberals that I put forth.
There you have it, an example of how liberals are intolerant of people who don’t think like them, act like them, or even speak like them. By definition, this is not liberal behavior.
I submit that there are not many true liberals, but rather many selective-liberals.
Really nothing has changed with the leaders, but this poll was conducted after the debate.
Giuliani appears to be slipping, and Romney’s lead over McCain is growing.
In the the aftermath of this week’s presidential debates in New Hampshire, Clinton and Romney come out on top in a new Mason-Dixon poll of likely primary voters there. Among likely Democratic primary voters, Clinton leads Obama, 26%-21%, with Edwards at 18%, Richardson at 9%, and Biden at 6%; no other Democratic presidential contender gets more than 1%.
Among likely GOP primary voters, Romney leads McCain, 27%-16%, followed by Giuliani at 15%, Fred Thompson at 12%, and Huckabee at 5%.
The Mason-Dixon poll — which was given exclusively to NBC and MSNBC — was taken June 4-7, 2007, and the Dem field has a margin of error of +/- 4.9%, and the GOP field has a margin of error of +/- 5.3%.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick(D) Tries to Postpone Gay Marriage vote Until he has the Votes his way
As was reported at New England Republican, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick is trying to trample over the state constitution by delaying a vote by the constitutional convention to put gay marriage on the ballet.
You can read my previous post here, first he was offering jobs to people on the committee who wanted to send the issue to the ballet so that he could replace them with people who would vote against it, now he is trying to delay the vote until he can persuade people to vote his way.
Gov. Deval Patrick said he’ll ask lawmakers to postpone next week’s scheduled vote on a proposed constitutional amendment barring gay marriage if he doesn’t think there are enough votes to kill the measure.
“We want a vote that goes the right way, that keeps us off the ballot,” Patrick said Thursday after attending an evening fundraiser for MassEquality, an advocacy group that opposes the amendment. “If we need more time, we’ll ask for more time.
We want a vote that goes the right way.
So, he is willing to have a vote, but only if it goes the way he wants it to. Now that is democracy for you, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what the majority says, only what the governor wants. The state constitution requires a vote on whether to send this to the ballet or not, by delaying it he is depriving the citizens of their constitutional rights.
But of course the dissenters must be bigots.
“There are still great passions and great fear and great intolerance on the other side,” he said.
An easy cop out for pandering to the very vocal gay lobby.
The bottom line here is that the citizens went through the proper procedure to get a gay marriage ban amendment vote on the ballet and the governor is using unconstitutional means to deny them.
You can read the whole article here.
You can read part 1 here.
You can read part 2 here.
The latest in this case is that federal agents have seized the dental office owned by New Hampshire tax protester Elaine Brown. Not that this will have any effect on her as she has been barricaded in her house with her husband Ed since January. This seems to be a procedural move.
Dozens of heavily armed state and local police officers joined federal agents and the U.S. Department of the Treasury yesterday in an effort to seize convicted tax resister Dr. Elaine Brown’s former dental office on Glen Road in West Lebanon.
Nearby in Plainfield, where Ed and Elaine Brown have been holed up in their concrete castle since their January court trial, state police carrying assault rifles blocked off Stage Road about three miles from the Brown residence.
Federal agents still hope to resolve this peacefully, and are hoping the Browns will surrender.
“We do not wish to have a violent encounter with them, or in any way, shape or form hurt either one of them,” Monier said.
You can read the whole article here.
New Hampshire, Welcome to the Broadbase tax
An editorial from the New Hampshire Union Leader
DID HOUSE Finance Committee Chairman Marjorie Smith ever really want a constitutional amendment to solve the education funding crisis? Apparently not.
Smith had taken the language from a House Republican amendment, altered it, and then demanded that Republicans support it. In a meeting on Wednesday she told House GOP leaders that, although they were only a few words away from agreeing to an amendment all could support, she would not change one word in her proposed amendment.
Suddenly, after weeks in which she had led the other side to believe she was committed to reaching an agreement, she announced that it was her way or the highway. Then she blamed Republicans for not agreeing to her terms.
Poor Gov. John Lynch was working behind the scenes to get both sides to agree on something. But even he, the man to whom Democrats owe their legislative majority, could not persuade even half of House Democrats to back an amendment that might have restored legislative authority over education funding while still keeping the courts heavily involved in the process.
Their refusal to vote for an amendment that would have forestalled future lawsuits, despite heavy lobbying by the governor, shows that the Democrats voters elected to the House last fall are committed to using the Claremont rulings to bring about a sales or income tax. Gov. Lynch’s pledge not to support either rings hollow now that his own party is leading him down the path to a broadbased tax.
House Republicans voted against Smith’s amendment thinking they would have a chance to vote for an amended version. But upon the motion of Republican Andy Peterson of Peterborough, Democrats voted to end debate on the issue and prevent it from being considered for the remainder of the legislative session. Marjorie Smith, supposed champion of a compromise amendment, voted for ending debate and voted against reconsidering that vote. She and the Democrats killed all hope of passing an amendment knowing that the Supreme Court’s deadline for finding a solution is only 23 days away.
The only good to come of this is that now New Hampshire voters know for sure where the state Democratic Party stands. It stands for creating a state sales or income tax to pay for pubilc schools.
So long, New Hampshire Advantage. It was nice knowing you.
Now it’s up to Governor Lynch to make sure no new taxes come our way. Well, no new broadbased tax anyway, the governor has already raised our taxes with the latest budget. Of course he calls them fees, but what’s the difference.
We have already seen he is not a leader or he would have been able to get his amendment passed. During the election he talked about his leadership, about how he was able to bring Democrats and Republicans together on issues. In reality, the Republicans were able to keep his true liberal agenda down. But by the Republicans doing this (they had no choice, they were doing the right thing) governor Lynch was able to do a masterful job of spinning it to look like he was a moderate. Truth be told, he is and always has been a liberal and now, with Democrat majorities in all branches of state government, New Hampshire is going to PAY FOR IT.
Way to go New Hampshire voters, way to go.
I have written about this before, two New Hampshire tax protesters are holed up in their home and say it’s either freedom or body-bags for them.
Plainfield – Federal authorities indicated Thursday they will not raid the home of two convicted tax evaders but would serve a warrant.
Dozens of heavily armed state police and federal agents have assembled near the rural Sullivan County home of tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown.
The U.S. Marshals Service issued a brief statement after neighbors reported armed police and at least one armored vehicle near Ed and Elaine Brown’s fortified compound early Thursday morning.
Federal authorities still insist they will not invade the Brown’s residence, but they are going to serve a warrant to them. They have barricaded themselves in their house since January, when they were convicted of tax evasion. They insist the federal tax is not required, there is no law for it.
About 50 state troopers, some armed with high-powered rifles, along with a vehicle from the explosives unit gathered this morning in Plainfield, a small town where Edward and Elaine Brown have holed up in their home since being convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms.
The Browns have been aware of increased police activity all morning. In an audio file posted on a blog this morning, he said a silent aircraft at about 5,000 feet in the air flew over his home overnight.
And, he said, at about 7:45 a.m. this morning a fvisiting riend took his dog out for a walk but never returned. The dog, he said, came running up the driveway about an hour later.
He also said a neighbor called at 8:45 a.m. to let him know about 2 1/2 dozen state troopers were “coming down (Route) 12A heading in this direction.”
There is no way this can end well, there is only so long they can play the waiting game.
You can read the latest on the story here.
Immigration Reform Bill Appears to be Dead
Thank God if this is true. This bill would have had disastrous results if passed. I still can’t understand what the president was thinking. Anytime you are on the same side as Ted Kennedy you are in trouble. He must be trying to forge his legacy, but what kind of legacy would this have given him? He has done nothing with this bill but drive away most of the remaining supporters he had. Futher driving away his supporters was this:
“His comments last week were not helpful,” Lott added, alluding to Bush’s remark – repeated twice last week – that those who deride the bill as amnesty are trying to frighten Americans.
President Bush has been leading a legitimate and noble war on terror, but then we leave the borders open and allow anyone to walk into this country?
Mitt Romney was right at the debate last Tuesday, we don’t need new immigration laws, we just need to enforce the laws we already have and the public agrees.
A FOX News poll finds that Americans think it would be better to enforce current immigration laws instead of an overhaul.
A 58 percent majority says the United States needs to enforce the current laws, while 34 percent think the country’s immigration laws need to be completely overhauled.
If we are not willing to enforce the current laws, why should we believe the new laws will be enforced?
If this bill is dead it goes to show you what can happen when conservatives band together and let their voices be heard. We can affect change. We always see protesters on television voicing their opinions. These protesters are almost always liberals. They make noise and are heard. This time conservatives let their voices be heard and hopefully it has paid off.
OTTAWA–The Green party wants Canadian drivers to pay an extra 12 cents a litre at the gas pumps as the price of averting environmental “catastrophe.”Leader Elizabeth May is boasting that her party is the only one politically brave enough to call for carbon taxes that would discourage automobile use and finance other tax cuts that would allow consumers to make smarter environmental choices.
There is another example of the true driving factor in the global warming hoax-taxes.
The environmental challenge is similar to the space race about 50 years ago in which then-president John F. Kennedy said the United States would put a man on the moon, May said.
“He couldn’t prove it when he said it. He could mobilize the resources, fix the political will, and engage the public’s spirit and imagination in a bold, collective venture,” she said. “Surely we can do the same thing for purposes of survival.”
I thought that the science was setteled and the debate was over? That’s what they keep telling us,isn’t it? This person just admitted they couldn’t prove global warming, but they want to tax you anyway.
While this example is from Canada, it it only a matter of time before it spreads over here.
Disturbing News on the Immigration Bill
The Senate defeated an amendment by Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, that would have barred large numbers of illegal immigrants from taking advantage of the proposed legalization program.The measure would have excluded anyone who used false documents, ignored deportation orders or committed other crimes from gaining legal status.
This is just great. On top of the fact they are criminals for the way they got into the country, they will be rewarded with legal status even if they committed forgery, identity theft and who knows what other crimes.
“This amendment would exclude hundreds of thousands from benefits in this bill” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who help negotiate the measure.
Did Sen. Kennedy just admit that there are hundreds of thousands of criminals that he plans on rewarding? I think he did.
If you came here illegally you can:
steal a social security number and falsely claim benefits even though you never put into the system-and still gain legal status
obtain false documents to show you are here legally- and still gain legal status
ignore deportation orders- and still gain legal status
Only God knows what other crimes you can commit and still gain legal status.
What’s wrong with this picture? As a parent I have seen other parents try to stop a child from throwing a tantrum by offering candy to the child. This is rewarding bad behavior. By telling the child if he/she throws a tantrum they will get candy, you teach the child to throw a tantrum to be rewarded. It’s a learned behavior.
By telling an illegal it’s okay to come here illegally, you will still gain legal status you are rewarding bad behavior. You are only enticing more of them to cross the border illegally.
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