Yes, I know. I haven't posted in a while. I've had people ask me to write, but I have been hesitant to. The reason is simple ... words are being used against people in so many ways. They are being twisted and manipulated so that the writer is demonized. But at this point, I can no longer hold my tongue.
There are so many things. Confederate monuments, antifa, nazis, Free Speech, and especially, Hurricane Harvey.
So here we go. I can't remember if I actually published the post I wrote about the Confederate flag ... I don't think I did. I grew up on the Far Left Coast in California. The Civil War was so foreign to me in history. I didn't pay much attention to it, after all, it happened sooooooo many years ago, right? Fast forward many years, and I find myself in Virginia, Confederate headquarters. I had driven down Monument Blvd so many times. The hotel where my mother-in-law worked had a HUGE picture of the hotel when it was bombed out from the Civil War. I read about the Daughters of Confederate Soldiers (wait ... didn't that war happen too long ago for their to be daughters still alive??) ... and all I could think of was ... What in the world is up with these people and their fixation on the Civil War??!! It happened, it's over, move on. Then slowly, as time went by, I was exposed to a lot of Civil War history. I had never liked history, but this stuff was interesting. I starting taking the kids around to various war sites, and learning history in a way that made it come alive. The real turning point for me was when I took the kids to Tredegar Iron Works and OH BOY! Were my eyes totally opened. It showed me how my liberal public school education in elementary school was total and complete garbage! When liberals teach history, they do it with an agenda, not to convey facts and lessons that can be learned from it. It blew my mind that the economic reasons for keeping slaves ... and the DEMOCRATS were the ones in favor of it! It was the REPUBLICANS who actually freed the slaves (and were the ones to vote for civil rights but let's not jump ahead here). I had learned it BACKWARDS! I started to appreciate what the war meant to the people here, and why it was still important to them. These Confederate statues that are all over are not monuments to slave owners ... they are monuments to freedom fighters. They are monuments to people who were willing to fight and even give up their lives for what they believed in. If anyone thinks that any person is 100% good and pure, then you are just a moron. It's not possible, only Hashem is perfect. What is going on now is that people are taking today's standards, and applying them to these men. How unfair! Would anyone want to be judged by standards that are not common now? What if 100 years from now everyone has to shave their heads, and the generations look back at us and say how horrible we are for not shaving our heads. (OK, dumb example, but I want to get to my real point.)
Enter the nazis and antifa (I won't capitalize either one of them!). I don't know exactly what happened, because I wasn't there. But I have come to learn that Free Speech is ONLY free if people are allowed to say things you personally disagree with. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that those horrible, vile, disgusting Westboro Baptist "Church" are allowed to say the most horrific things, at funerals of the very soldiers who fought for their right to say those things .. well then, if the nazis and KKK have a permit and they want to march and say vile things, they can. I don't have to agree with them. I don't have to want them to show up at my front door. As long as they aren't saying, Let's go kill Inmemoryofyossi (or anyone specific), then their speech IS protected speech. Is it hateful? Yes. But it IS allowed. We all know you can't scream "FIRE" (or "WOLF" if you go to a movie with Nancy Pelosi) in a crowded movie theater. The reason is that it will endanger people. That is not protected speech. So I agree with nazis, KKK, and white supremacists? I don't even have to answer it, because if you have read my blog or know me at all, you will know how I feel about them. Can they say it? Yes.
Now we come to antifa ... "Anti" fascists ... who are using fascist tactics to get what they want. Ironic, no? Too bad they don't see that! Typical liberal thought process ...
Which now leads to the whole point of this post ... Hurricane Harvey ... a disaster of epic proportions. Remember when the earthquake happened in Haiti, and people around the world were overflowing with aide and help? Remember the tsunami on Christmas where again, aide was showered down on them (no pun intended). When bad things happen, we usually see the good inside people come out. Everyone feels so bad, and they WANT to help. What happened in Texas is just mind-numbing! So many people who lost everything. And what do we hear from the "tolerant" Left? People on twitter saying they are happy it happened in Red state! It serves them right! They are glad the people are suffering!
Sorry. I am speechless!!!!!! These are not things normal humans think! This line of thinking is more like an animal who takes joy because they will gain from it ... and yet, these liberals are not gaining anything except watching fellow human beings suffer. And they are taking such pleasure from it. "Charitable Humans" tweets out such vile disgusting tweets that I can't even repeat them! They refuse to give help, because Texas is a Red State. I'm sorry, but I am just shocked! I didn't see the hurricane destroy ONLY the Trump supporters homes! L'havdil .. just like the nazis didn't differentiate between observant and non-observant Jews ... it didn't matter to them ... a little bit of Jewish blood makes you Jewish ... l'havdil, the same thing here ... the storm didn't pick and choose who it was going to affect. Trump voters AND Hillary voters both are affected. And the rescue workers ... they didn't ask people who they voted for before deciding if they were worth saving or not.
I've said it so many times ... Liberal tolerance is going to kill us all. I wish they would stop loving and start working on their values and morals, because they are totally and completely void of any. How anyone can wish death and destruction on ANYONE, and claim it's OK because they are a conservative is just reprehensible.
