The right to self-defense is what keeps us from having mass graves.
I wasn’t actually planning on saying more after my comment on the snow post, but since I’m already here I guess I might as well. I’ll try to get my point across better this time, it should at least be less personally confrontational. You say that “THEY are worried, frightened, terrified, panicked” and that is your first and possibly most serious mistake. Never, ever, give the slightest bit of credence or respect to the crocodile tears of professional crybullies. They are not feeling these things (if they were scared in the least, then they would not spending every day harassing and threatening anyone who they think is ICE or a Trump supporter), they are making deliberate, malicious efforts at manipulation and emotional blackmail. Liberals always do this, it is literally the only move they have other than gaslighting, and when that fails, outright violence. I do not support their claim to civil rights because I know, with absolute certainly, that they will take those rights from me and everyone else who does not kneel to lick their jackboots the very first moment they can. I know this because every last one of them tells me this, gleefully, every single day.
They have spent years telling me I deserve to suffer and die because I don’t want to wear a face diaper or subject myself or my family to dangerous and unproven fake vaccines. They have spent years telling me I deserve to suffer and die because I don’t think children should be sexually mutilated and abused. Hell, they’ve spent years telling me I deserve to suffer and die because I want to be able to own the very same guns they themselves are now rushing out to buy.
I do not offer them the protections of the Social Contract because they have repeatedly broken it in the most grotesque and reprehensible of ways, and have spent years telling me to my face that they are going to take every one of those rights away from me and mine the moment they have the power to do so.
If you allow declared enemies of civilization to treat the Social Contract as a game of “we can punch you all we want and you can’t hit back” you will be beaten to death.
— I don’t know what to write about. comment by TCK
I disagree with everything you said. I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Rights exist. We are all born with them. Every person in the world.
We are lucky to live in the United States, where many of those rights are protected by our constitution.
Those are not our Second Amendment rights. Those are our Second Amendment protected rights.
The same is true of all of our rights. Some are explicitly protected through the Bill of Rights, others are implicitly protected through the body of the Constitution and other Amendments.
TCK is wrong. Civil rights do apply to everyone.
My morals are not situational. Ally’s morals are not situational.
TCK’s seem to be situational. Rights for him but not for them.
When Dickwad was accused of sexually molesting the daughters of my best friend, I waited until I had seen enough evidence to know it was true.
When the detective asked me what I thought should happen to him, my answer was simple: After he is found guilty and sentenced, I want him placed in genpop.
Dickwad still had rights. He had a right to a jury of his peers. He had a right to face his accusers. He had the right to not incriminate himself. He had a right not to be tortured.
When he was convicted of the crimes he was accused of, he was sentenced, and his rights were removed from him.
He lost the right to vote, he lost the right to keep and bear arms, and he lost the right to move freely. And I fully expect he will lose his right to life will be removed from him before he gets out of prison.
Now I’m going to put on my administrative hat.
TCK: Feel free to leave. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
If you do stay, drop the insults. Ally put on her administrator hat and gave you the rule.
She told you that “Go fuck yourself.” is unacceptable. I echo that. “Go fuck yourself.” is unacceptable.
Her reply was thoughtful and did not attack you. She expressed her opinion clearly without attacking you.
Your reply again resorted to insults. You can’t point to a single thing in her original article or her reply that even remotely sounds like she’s being an “asshole.” You are wrong. Take a step back and read her article again and her comments without taking it personally.
Civil rights apply to everyone. You might not like it, but they do.
Do you even know what gaslighting means? Ally’s perspective is incredibly valuable to me, and I hope to the blog in general. Because she isn’t a “far-right conservative”. She’s barely right of what center used to be. Her perspective brings how the left perceives things.
She isn’t telling you this is a reality; it is how the left perceives things.
Are their fears irrational? Absolutely. If the Trump administration was disappearing people, like they claim, they wouldn’t know it was happening. If they were out of control, they would be rounding up those insurrectionists and throwing them in the oubliette, never to be seen again. That’s not happening. This means their fears are irrational.
“[Y]ears brutalizing the innocent” doesn’t seem to match with my memory. Those people up in MN didn’t brutalize the innocent. Maybe the Joe Biden puppet masters did, but not those people.
You might think “they” are guilty, you haven’t even presented enough evidence for me to consider them guilty. Regardless, people don’t lose their rights because they say nasty, evil, horrible things. They have to commit an actual crime.
If they haven’t committed a crime but what they did should be a crime, then we need to work to make it a crime.
We don’t get to say, “They committed a moral crime” anymore than they get to say it to us.
The reason they are called “civil rights” has nothing to do with social contracts. They are called that because they are “civil” cases, not criminal cases.
Criminal cases can only be initiated by the state. Civil cases can be initiated by anybody. A boundary dispute between to neighbors is a civil case.
A case about a violation of your Second Amendment protected rights is a civil case.
A very good post as well.
I don’t want an Uncivil War, you and about 75% of us dont want it, either. For the 12.5% on either end of the political/ social spectrum, go find a desolate place to fight, engage. The rest of us will address the survivors.
In the mean time, the Constitution applies to all American Citizens.