August 16, 2010
The GZ Mosque and Liberal Chess Strategy
The most essential tactic in the game of chess is to move in such a way that you give your opponent the impression you’re heading for one conquest, while you’re actually setting up your pieces to quickly use a different and more effective conquest. Liberals do this all the time with politics and the GZ (Ground Zero) Mosque is yet another example.
The First Amendment is pretty clear about the limitation placed on the government in regard to religion. That hasn’t stopped them from virtually dictating the censorship of Christianity from almost every aspect of public life, where they can pretend to claim an interest. But they are still hampered by the idea that they can’t restrict religion, unless they have a compelling interest—thus the idea of “overall offense”. If a precedence can be established that any building or action that causes a “significance” offense can be blocked by the government, then they can use that to create offense at any (and most likely all) public religious acts by Christians that they were restrained from doing before. That’s why the focus seems to keep shifting back to the idea of the government using their authority to stop the GZ Mosque. That’s exactly what the Liberals want, all the while claiming they don’t.
The real solution is public pressure on the Muslims, who are trying to provoke people by placing a Mosque there, as well as the property owners that are still in the process of selling the land to the Muslim group.
Obama, mayor Bloomberg and NY governor Paterson are all taking the same stance, that freedom of religion would prevent the government from interfering, but they stop there, knowing full well that the power of public opinion could easily end the atrocity. But Democrats don’t want people to think like that. They want us to cry that if the government doesn’t currently have the authority to end such an atrocious act, then we should change the rules and give the government the power.
Republicans and all Conservatives need to focus on the only realistic approach to the problem, and work through means other than the government to prevent Muslims from gloating over the atrocity they committed. We did it with Kelo (the shopping center the evicted the people to build was never built, because public opinion was too strong against it) and we can do it here.
Posted by Danny Carlton at 3:23 PM
July 19, 2010
Oh, by the way…
For now I’m posting mostly at my new Facebook page: Danny Carlton’s News & Commentary. It’s easier than blogging, and fits my limited schedule much better.
Posted by Danny Carlton at 9:31 PM
June 24, 2010
Thursday’s Links
Philadelphia Inquirer: A federal jury Wednesday decided that Philadelphia violated the Boy Scouts' First Amendment rights by using the organization's anti-gay policy as a reason to evict them from their city-owned offices near Logan Square.
Omitted from the article (and most MSM coverage): The land was unused until the city of Philadelphia asked the Boy Scouts in 1929 to take it over, develop it. The agreement was that the Boy Scouts would only be charged for maintaining the property. All improvements, buildings etc, were done and built at Boy Scouts' expense over the years. The city earns money from leasing the space in the building bought and paid for by the Boy Scouts.
WorldNetDaily: Majority Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today blocked one avenue of inquiry into the White House's attempt to secure victory for two incumbent Senate candidates by offering a job to their chief opponent in exchange for exiting the race....
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee had filed a resolution that sought information about the role the Justice Department may have played in the offers to Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., and Andrew Romanoff, the former speaker of the Colorado House....
Federal officials are barred from offering anything of value, such as a job, in exchange for a partisan political decision, such as bowing out of a campaign for office.
FoxNews: Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials...
“Every night we’re getting beaten like a pinata at a birthday party by drug, alien smugglers," a second federal agent told Fox News by e-mail. "The danger is out there, with all the weapons being found coming northbound…. someone needs to know about this!”
The agents blame part of their plight on new policies from Washington, claiming it has put a majority of the U.S. agents on the border itself. One agent compared it to a short-yardage defense in football, explaining that once the smugglers and drug-runners break through the front line, they're home free.
USA Today: This is news because while SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan banned the military from Harvard, she gleefully accepted money from Saudi Arabia.
Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.
The men, who are between 30 and 40 years old, and three of the women, who are under the age of 30, were sentenced to an unspecified number of lashes and one or two year prison terms each....
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam that prohibits unrelated men and women from mingling.
YouTube: Florida Senator George LeMieux on Obama’s inaction…
Wall Street Journal: Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill.
Posted by Danny Carlton at 7:15 AM
June 22, 2010
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Tuesday’s Links
Live Science: Massive grasshopper swarms expected this summer. Apparently, God doesn’t like Obama either.
Ontario Globe and Mail: Drunk idiot sues designated driver for not stopping her from jumping from moving vehicle. If she wins, most people will then refuse to act as designated drivers, causing untold thousands of deaths.
AP via NYT: Consumers get sued for giving companies bad reviews online.
Financial Times: Google abandons Windows OS on employee computers. This could be a PR move since Google is supposed to come out with their own OS soon.
Frontpage Magazine: World Regrets Deaths of Jihadists, Vilifies Israel.
Reuters via Yahoo News: Thunder and Lightening stop Obama’s Memorial Day speech. When God heckles…
Posted by Danny Carlton at 7:35 AM
May 29, 2010
Saturday’s Links
London Daily Mail: Pedophile postman used Facebook to groom up to 1,000 children for sex.
After creating at least eight fake 'profiles', Michael Williams targeted youngsters he met on his post round, on school runs as a taxi driver, and in his role as secretary of a football club....
Many victims were tricked into performing sex acts on a webcam but he convinced others to meet him in parks, on beaches and at his home, where he abused them.
WorldNetDaily: Alaska becomes eighth state to pass Firearms Freedom Act.
London Telegraph: Barack Obama declares War on Terror is over. Someone, apparently, forgot to tell the terrorists.
New York Times: Arizona’s anti-immigration law—the gift that keeps on giving. Trashy, no-talent musicians vow to boycott Arizona.
London Telegraph: Bottled water carries more bacteria than tap.
Posted by Danny Carlton at 8:21 AM
May 27, 2010
Thursday’s Links
CBS News: Seven Republicans calling for Special Prosecutor over accusation Obama attempted to bribe Congressman into not running against Senate supporter.
LifeNews: Obama may have illegally spent $10 million promoting abortion in Kenya. Exporting Margaret Sanger genocide plans.
Israel National News: Could US trained PA military turn their guns on Israel?
WorldNetDaily: A Florida congressman plans to offer an amendment to the 2011 Defense Authorization bill that would require House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to fly coach – just as she requires of other Congress members.
ACLJ: A 7th grade student was suspended by school officials for wearing a Rosary to school. A school district spokesperson told a local newspaper that the rosary beads "could be an identifier of gangs" and needed to be removed "for safety reasons."
Israel National News: Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened Tuesday that his guerrilla army would sink all vessels sailing into Israel's waters in any future war.
Ass. Press: Inter-racial marriage up, but not up as much as before. The Ass. Press note that the biggest decline is among Asians and Hispanics, yet still blathers on for four or five paragraphs about how it’s somehow white people’s fault.
BBC News: Bad news. Your computer implant may have a virus. (warning video auto-starts)
Posted by Danny Carlton at 8:07 AM
May 26, 2010
Wednesday’s Links
WorldNetDaily: Sestak scandal could be an impeachable offense. (Congressman Joe Sestak, D-Pa., claims that he had been offered a job by the Obama administration in exchange for a decision to drop out of a senatorial primary against longtime Obama supporter Sen. Arlen Specter.)
NewYorkPost: Census Workers claims she was hired and fired numerous times by the Census Bureau and each time she was hired back, the Census Bureau reported the creation of a new job to the Labor Department.
Associated Press: Obama wants to raise taxes to pay for oil cleanup, that the company responsible has already agreed to pay for.
WorldNetDaily: Judicial Watch files lawsuit demanding an explanation for the federal government's decision to allow militia-type men with nightsticks to get away with intimidating voters at a polling station.
YouTube: University of Arizona commencement speakers gets roundly booed for criticizing Arizona’s new illegal immigration law.
Rasmussen Reports: 63% favor repeal of Obama’s Socialist Health Insurance Takeover.
BldgBlog: They should call this The Obama Door: a facade, put in place for supposedly esthetical reasons, that does nothing, leads nowhere, yet continues to soak up taxpayer money.
Facebook: The Palins get a creepy, peeping-tom as a neighbor. – Liberal, hack “journalist” Joe McGinnis.
Posted by Danny Carlton at 7:32 AM
May 25, 2010
The Best of JL: Legally Insane
Here's an idea! Let's make a law that's really strict, draconian and with some severe penalties for violating it. But, we'll let law enforcement only selectively enforce it. And we'll give a little wink and nod when judges ignore the sentencing requirement and give only a fraction of the penalty written into the law for those few the law is actually enforced on. Isn't that a great idea? Doing this would allow us to "scare" criminals by the mere threat of such a law, while then allowing us to constantly show compassion in only selectively enforcing it and partially implementing it.
But there'd be a problem. Some people actually believe laws should be obeyed, and in order to make such a law strict enough it would have to criminalize what would normally be acceptable behavior. A lot of people wouldn't have a problem with such a law, because they believe law, and morality for that matter, is something that should be an individual choice based of the convenience of the moment. But others, stubbornly hold on to the concept of a moral absolute, and the principle that a civilized society should have reasonable laws accompanied by reasonable enforcement. Under our proposed law, these people would find life very burdensome, because they would try to obey a law never actually intended to be obeyed.
Yes, eventually criminals would figure the law out, and adjust their response according to the actual consequence rather than the actual law, but we'd simply then make the law even more draconian to scare them even more. Maybe we could target a few people at random who've somehow violated the law (intentionally or unintentionally) punish them with lengthy, expensive trials, followed by lengthy prison sentences and outrageous fines, make a big deal about it in the press, throw parties for the law enforcement officers that brought down the scapegoats, er wanton criminals, toss out promotions to the "good guys" and scare the real bad guys into maybe not doing the thing we actually wanted them to not do in the first place. Sort of. Maybe. It should work. Right?
Welcome to American Legal Philosophy 101.
What I've described is actually how much of our laws are written. We've got all the immigration laws, yet they're rarely enforced. We let repeat criminals stay in the country, while deporting people who grew up here, never being told they weren't US citizens. Making scapegoats out of the innocent in hopes it might frighten they guilty, which we don't prosecute. We don't guard our borders, then the media accuses those that try on their own of being racists. We make laws requiring stricter sentencing on those who use guns when committing a crime, then selectively apply the new sentencing guidelines to railroad the few law enforcement officers who actually assumed they were supposed to do their jobs.
The pervasive attitude that laws are suggestions has created a climate of quasi-anarchy. We have speed limits, but they aren't very seriously enforced. Most speed limits, therefore are placed at least 10mph slower than what they reasonably should be placed at, in hopes that it would slow drivers down in the absence of any realistic enforcement.
What's ironic is that the real victims in all this are those who actually try to abide by the law, but these are laws that become increasingly ridiculous as the words of the law-- rather than the enforcement-- is used to deter criminals.
Originally posted at http://jacklewis.net/weblog/archives/2008/03/legally_insane.php
Posted by Danny Carlton at 7:49 AM
