The Truth About Statue Destruction

It’s not about ending racism (a utopian idea that will end up murderous if I ever heard one) it is about far more than that.

It is about an exercise of power. These mobs can do whatever they want and those we’ve entrusted and empowered to maintain law and order will do nothing to stop them.

It is about destroying the fundamental ideals America was founded on. Life, Liberty, property, representative government of the people, and the pursuit of happiness. These mobs have killed people, beaten, bullied, and intimidated people into silence. They have destroyed property and stolen the ability for the people to have a voice in what happens in their community. They have extinguished the pursuit of happiness with every business they burn, every car they destroy and every life they mangle or destroy.

It is about division and chaos. Those directing the mobs want people divided and they know the media WILL cover for them. They will never be held to account by either elected officials, law enforcement, mainstream media, or social media. In fact elected officials, mainstream media and the heads of social media will actively silence, bully, blame, attack and arrest those who speak up.

After all these riots are mostly peaceful anyway, right? They are just ‘protesters’ who tore down that statue. But it is extremists who stand in front of their business with a gun to protect it when the cops have been ordered to allow looting to happen. The extremists are the ones who want to go back to work or church.

Normally I am not for government intervention but I do believe there is a proper role and place for government. This proper role is outlined in the Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

It is not the duty of our government to solve our problems for us, it is not the duty of government to care for us, and government is not our Mother nor Father nor God. The chief duty of government is to protect the rights of the people.

A mob pulling down whatever statue offends them at the time is not a right that is protected. It is not a protest, it is not free speech.

It is vandalism.

It is the destruction of peace.

It is a rejection of the idea that you or I get to be part of making the decisions within our communities.

The mob simply decides for you.

If this statue, this house, this institution, this person, this group of people are bad in the eyes of the mob, then the mob will come and destroy it and if the elected official is sympathetic to them they simply refuse to apply the law.

It is illegal for elected officials to decide which laws to enforce and which to ignore, it is immoral for elected officials to decide who the laws apply to and whom they do not.

That is not the rule of law. That is a return to aristocracy. A return to legislation without representation. There was no law passed that said the statue of Thomas Jefferson in Portland was to be removed. Did the people in that community want the statue removed? Maybe they did, but that choice was stolen from them.

Even if you agree with the removal of that statue you must disagree with the method in which it was done. The ends do not justify the means, because once they do anything becomes acceptable. As the Roman historian Tacitus once said “Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.”

If you allow the mob to decide for you this time, simply because you agree with their objective or are sympathetic to their cause, they will begin to make decisions for you all the time. You might be able to buy off the mob for a time, after all you have the right sign in your yard and you say all the things they tell you to say.

You hate all the right things and all the right people in order to signal your virtue as a ‘good person.’ But a moment will come when you slip. Maybe you misspeak, a total slip of the tongue. You figure, I’m a good person, people will understand it was an accident.

 

They don’t.

You apologize.

It is only taken as an admission of your guilt.

Next thing you know you have been fired from your job. The mob you once cheered shows up at your front door. They yell at and shove your children as they try to come home after school. The windows of your car are smashed in. Maybe a fire starts, who set it, after all the mob is mostly peaceful as they cheer the flames.

Where are the police you think, the fire department? I’m a good person, why are they doing this to me? Why won’t anyone help me?

It is then you realize those same questions must have gone through the mind of the good police officers who wanted to protect and serve their community with honor. You turn and see the person who set the fire only to recognize a second later that you are looking in a mirror.

These people taking over entire city blocks in Seattle are not there for a summer of love. The mob pulling down statues are not seeking to heal a divided country or help a hurt community. The media is not seeking the truth but providing cover.

They are not all part of some grand conspiracy. They are simply followers of an ideology of division. An ideology bent on pitting one group against another in their unrelenting quest for the only thing they believe that matters in the world.

Power.

Kids as Political Weapons

Lately we have seen kids all over the news. They have appeared on CNN, took part in a 2 minutes of hate style (from Orwell’s 1984) town hall where they called a representative from the NRA (Dana Loesch) a murderer and likened a US senator (Marco Rubio) to a school shooter.

Of course these are the same group of kids over and over again, and they have the same agenda as the mainstream media. They want to capitalize on the victimhood of these kids to make the public feel sympathy for their cause: Gun Control.

It is a clever tactic, because who is going to argue with a kid who has been traumatized, you just end up looking like a bully who does not care about school shootings. Yet this weaponization of school kids goes too far.

There are times when the adults need to stand up, put the kids in time out and tell them they need to be quiet and let the adults talk. Kids are not possessed of any special expertise or experience except in the realm of being kids.

Inexperienced and Short Sighted

The world is a complex place. So complex that adults cannot even understand the whole of it. Children, having less time and living less life, have no clue how the world works due to this complexity and lack of experience.

There is a reason we do not allow children to vote, drink, go to war, smoke, or enter into legal contracts. They have a hard time understanding the long term ramifications of these actions not only on their own life but on the community as well.

This is why we should not take advice from children on how to act. Sometime children are able to state things clearly and honestly but this is the exception, not the rule.

Kids, go back to class, put in the time and work and come back when you actually know what you are talking about. Do not attempt to lecture me or anyone else on morality or what is right and what should be done.

You are an inexperienced, uneducated child who has lived under the protection of your parents and those who came before you. Grow up, stop whining, and show a little respect for the system they built that allows you to grow up in relative safety and security.

The system is not perfect by any means, but all things considered it is a better system then what is found in most of the world. If it were as truly awful as you think or have been told then why do people risk life, limb, and liberty in an attempt to come here?

The Western World is a light of civilization in a dark world, a little gratitude for the benefits you gain by being born into this system would go a long way.

State Sanctioned Truancy

When these protests and walk outs are planned it is usually with the consent of the teachers and administrators of the school. We are paying the state to educate our children and instead they give the kids signs with slogans on them and tell them to march in the street.

Most kids will see this as a chance to skip class, hang out with friends and feel good about their virtue signaling. If you ask teenagers what would they rather do, math, history, and science or go out on the town, hang out with your friends, and fight for ‘change’ and make the world a ‘better’ place, all without getting into trouble and at the encouragement of their teachers, which do you think they are going to pick?

Not to mention the fact that these protests are probably not going to change anything other than missing out on a day of school. We are living in a world where you need to fill out a permission slip in triplicate and pay a fee to send your kid to a museum but no such precautions are taken to allow your children to run around the street of town shouting at people and getting in the way of traffic.

Publicly Funded Revolution

I personally do not have children, but I do pay property taxes. A good portion of those property taxes goes to these schools, which is fine with me because there can be a public benefit to educating children.

I know I personally do not want my money going to fund these sort of protests. Do you really want to pay teachers and administrators to, at best, sit on their hands and do nothing or, at worst, push their own political agenda?

I want kids to be educated and taught TO think, not WHAT to think. There is a benefit to educating the public, but there is only harm in indoctrinating the public.

Child Soldiers

It is clear that these children are being weaponized to push a political agenda. Kids should not be a political tool to use against your political opponents regardless of which party you belong to. Some lines should not be crossed.

These children are human beings, impressionable minds looking to figure out the world. As such, they have no place in the adult world of politics. To be clear, I am not saying do not talk to your children about these things but do not put them in front of a camera and tell them what to say in order to push an agenda.

Teachers, parents, and the media are all failing these kids in this regard. Instead of teaching these children how to look at a problem and work to solve it on their own, they are teaching children that it is okay to use manipulation of other people’s emotions in order to get what you want.

They are also being taught that if that person does not immediately give it to you than they are an enemy of yours that truly does not care for you and is worthy of your hatred and scorn. Sometimes no is one of the most loving statements you can make to a person.

Children are our future, do not squander that future by playing political games with them. Let them learn and grow and work out small things on their own before you tell them they need to go out and be an activist dead set on fixing the world. Chances are, due to their inexperience and lack of maturity, they will only make a complex problem worse.

How CNN Made Smoking Weed, Drinking and Partying Uncool

 

CNN the fake news capital of the world. A network who attempts to morally brow beat the rest of the American people for being racist, sexist, etc.

Yet these outrages only apply to those who are not CNN, at least according to the CNN New Year’s Eve live broadcast.

I like Boobs

In 2017 CNN host Brooke Baldwin, in an interview with Clay Travis and Keith Reed, went off about how offended she was that Travis said “I am a first amendment absolutist; I believe in only two things completely, the first amendment and boobs.”

Not willing to pass up the opportunity for a good virtue signal Brooke Baldwin acts as if she is outraged and shocked.

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Yet on New Year’s Eve, only three months later Baldwin, during a national live broadcast said to co-anchor Don Lemon “My balls are bigger than your balls.”

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Of course this is a joke referring to the ball necklaces both hosts are wearing, just like the boob comment from Clay Travis was a joke. Yet Baldwin is outraged by one and not the other.

This is just proof that all the virtue signaling done by these Progressive types is meaningless and two faced. It has nothing to do with standards, morals and principles and everything to do with an agenda of power.

Yet not all is lost. Clay Travis, watching CNN offers $10K to anyone who will go down and say “I love boobs” live on air with Brooke Baldwin and Don Lemon. One couple took him up on the offer.

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Pot Bus and Kush Kaye

Marijuana is now legal in several states including Colorado. CNN decided to send a reporter out to Colorado to cover the Puff, Pass, and Paint event on New Year’s Eve.

You can see the reporter, Randi Kaye or Kush Kaye as she calls herself, on a pot bus heading to the event. During her interview she produces a gas mask fitted with a bong on the end and has one of the bus goers demonstrate its use.

They return to Kush Kaye later in the night while she is at the event. She is holding a joint to the camera while laughing and waving it around as she explains what is happening around her.

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My Takeaway

I personally do not care if people want to smoke pot. That is their choice and if it is legal and they are of age than go ahead. I also do not have a problem with people cracking jokes and partying.

Yet the drunkenness on display by Don Lemon and Brooke Baldwin and the level of hypocrisy is cringe inducing. Smoking pot, partying, and drinking were cool things to do, when you were in your twenties. Sure it is fun occasionally and if that is what people are into, more power to them.

Yet seeing Don Lemon, Brooke Baldwin, and Randi Kaye of CNN (people who like to morally grandstand and virtue signal every chance they get) debauch themselves in this manner just highlights the fact that the new counterculture is responsibility and morality.

The CNN New Year’s Eve live broadcast was like watching your parents trying to be ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ or like watching that person who is obnoxiously drunk at the party making a fool of themselves without realizing it. At the end it just made those things less ‘cool’ than they seemed before.

In the end I do not have a problem with these actions, we all like to have a little fun now and then, and instead it is the hypocrisy I take issue with.

CNN, in one night, did more damage to the culture of partying and pot smoking than any conservative group could do in a decade. Welcome to 2018, it is going to be a good year.

Activism and the False Mask of Compassion

This year we have seen a lot of protest. These protests do not spring out of the ground like some would have you believe. Instead they are organized by activists with an agenda. Some activists are well meaning but many use this good nature as a shield for their hate.

False Claims of Representation

This is a slight of hand that does not get challenged. An activist will claim they are representing a group of people, usually by saying I am standing up for the rights of this group of people.
The second way this happens is when a member of a group of people claims they are speaking for the group. For example, I am bald so if I say ‘as a bald man’ I am subtly claiming to speak as a representative for all bald men.

Always challenge activists on this claim, just because you say you are speaking for a group of people does not mean they all agree with you. A lot of the ‘communities’ these activists are claiming to speak for are in fact not communities at all. Instead they are people the activist has grouped together based on one characteristic or another.

You should remind these activists that these groups they are claiming to speak for (People of Color, LGBTQ, etc) do not all think alike. They are not all the same and believing that they are is racist (sexist etc). Unless a group of them got together and voted to have you speak for them, then you cannot legitimately claim to speak for them.

Even if a group did you can only claim to speak for that group of people that voted for you, not the whole category of people represented by that group. It is up to each individual to speak for themselves, which is why freedom of speech is so important.

Hiding Hate Behind Compassion

If you watch people you can tell a lot about what they are really up to. An activist that organizes a food drive for needy families, probably really has compassion for the poor. An activist who Occupies Wall Street, probably cares less about the poor and instead just hates the rich.

Marxism and Communism attract these hate activists in large numbers. That is due to the deep down underlying hatred imbedded in the Marxist doctrine. It sounds great when someone hands you a set of beliefs that say all that hate, nihilism and frustration you are feeling, it is right and you are justified in violently overthrowing those who are doing better than you.

The activist will use compassion as a justification for their hatred of a certain group of people. One of the best examples of this is the 3rd wave feminist ideas of ‘toxic masculinity’ and ‘male privilege.’ Neither one of these concepts promotes women, instead it seeks to tear down men.

I suggest everyone try to examine their motivations behind their own actions. If you find you are doing something just to spite a group or person you do not agree with, perhaps you should find a more productive use of your time. Activists lack this introspection, blinded by both their anger/hate and their misguided belief that they are caring accepting people. If you do not think that compassion can be used as a weapon just watch a momma bear with her cubs.

Virtue Signaling is Not Actual Virtue

Today we see politicians, celebrities, universities professors and activists virtue signaling nonstop. Virtue signaling is “the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one’s good character or the moral correctness of one’s position on a particular issue.”
It seems they seek to demonstrate their good nature as opposed to actually do the hard work of being good. Virtue signaling is more about the appearance and recognition gained as opposed to actually being virtuous.

You can see this in the cases coming out in Hollywood and against male feminists. People publicly signalling they are champions of women all while using that perception as a method to lure women into abusive situations. They hide their nefarious motives behind the mask of compassion.

Compassion can be a good thing when it motivates you to help someone in need. Yet all too often activists claim compassion to justify their anger and hate against people they perceive as evil. They make those whom they are claiming to feel compassion for as victims and those they hate as oppressors to justify any actions they take. Preferring to appear virtuous instead of doing the consistent hard work of being virtuous. Appearance matters more than substance to those who virtue signal. The hate activist dons the false mask of virtue, wholly believing the lies they are telling themselves and the world.