STOP COMPLAINING!
HOW LIBERALS PAVED THE WAY FOR THE ASHCROFT
CIVIL RIGHTS ASSAULT
John Loeffler
December 5, 2003
NewsWithViews.com
This week's letter from the ACLU appeared in the
business mail, alarmed at the assault Attorney General John Ashcroft is
waging on civil rights and hinting that if I kick some money into the
pot they could prosecute an effective defense to this clear and present
danger. Sigh. Give 'em enough time and they'll eventually catch on, sort
of.
Strange times do indeed make for strange
bedfellows and while I have consistently attributed credit to liberals
for clearly identifying the current civil rights crisis, my liberal
friends just don't seem to understand that their policies of the last
three decades carefully laid the groundwork for such a situation to
arise.
Three decades ago liberalism went off the rails,
embraced a philosophy of relative, constantly-changing values as it
morphed into an eclectic party of self-contradicting special interests.
And so it's always amusing when liberals talk about the "rule of
law," because the core belief of most liberals is that no values
(or laws) are absolute and no one should push their values on anyone
else unless of course they're liberal values (a party of contradictions
Indeed, liberals have always preached the rule
of law when in power but when forced to abide by laws they themselves
find unpalatable, they consistently find some way to torture laws and
the judiciary into getting around it or simply assume a glassy
transcendent look and say, "oh but we have a higher moral purpose
and are not obliged to obey immoral laws." Heaven forbid one of
their conservative adversaries should ever say such a thing, such as
Judge Roy Moore.
So in complaining about the civil rights abuses
of the current administration, consider dear liberal that when you
bludgeoned the Second Amendment to death by creating so many laws and
regulations it is difficult to exercise the right to bear arms, you
proved that a right enshrined in the Bill of Rights could be destroyed
without actually repealing it. Thus you opened the door for other
amendments to suffer a similar fate. So stop complaining about
violations of freedom of speech, or habeas corpus, or speedy trial, or
privacy, etc. You made it all possible to legislate them out of
existence.
When you ignored the Tenth Amendment and
systematically forged a bloated, sprawling, out-of-control government to
manage virtually everything in our lives in the name of helping the
little guy or the environment, you made it possible for that same
government to snoop on everything we are, control everything we do and
take everything we own to do it. So stop complaining when that
government invades your life.
When you seated activist judges in the courts,
who cavalierly ignored laws that existed and contrived laws where there
were none just to forward liberal agendas, you made it possible for
successive judges of other philosophical persuasions to do the same
thing, while ignoring your rights and rationalizing their way around
legal protections, especially those protecting you. So stop complaining
about rights violations.
When you said it was acceptable for President
Clinton to commit perjury, you simultaneously gave consent for President
Bush to lie about the war in Iraq. So stop complaining if he did it.
When liberals taught school children that the
Constitution was the product "of long-dead white slave
owners," you laid the foundation for its unimportance and abolition
in the minds of youth. So stop complaining when someone else doesn't
want to honor your rights written down by those very same long-dead
racist slave owners.
When you said the Constitution was a
"living breathing document," you destroyed the foundation that
it means what it says and enabled successive administrations to ignore
it. So stop complaining when it doesn't live and breathe the way you
want it to. You created that monster in the first place.
When you ignored the Fourth Amendment and
created civil forfeiture laws in the name of the War on Drugs, which
created a stream of free booty for government agencies while doing
little to stop the drug flow, you made it possible for your property to
be seized for any frivilous reason. So stop complaining when they take
your possessions on being accused as an enemy of the state.
When you inverted the first amendment from
freedom of religion to freedom from religion, you forgot that freedom of
speech is part of the same amendment. So stop complaining when someone
inverts your right to express yourself.
When you created so many laws, regulations,
fines and penalties, you made it possible for all of us to be guilty
when we have to be, for dissenters and whistleblowers to be harassed by
an inhuman machine with endless resources to do so. So stop complaining
when these laws and regulations backfire and devour you and they are
chewing up liberals as well. Did you think this machine would only eat
conservatives?
When President Clinton said it was wrong to
criticize our government, by agreeing to this outrageous statement or
failing to object, you lost the right to criticize our government's
actions in Iraq or anywhere else for that matter. So stop complaining
about what they're doing.
When President Clinton illegally used 800 FBI
files to get "dirt" on his enemies, you gave consent for
conservative presidents to do the same to you. So stop complaining when
government invades your privacy.
When liberal-controlled colleges actively
suppressed the free speech rights of conservatives and libertarians on
college campuses in the name of tolerance and diversity, which was
neither tolerant nor diverse from anything that didn't agree with it,
you set the stage for people to ignore your free speech rights. So stop
complaining when they tell you to shut up.
I have consistently argued to both liberals and
conservatives that we must have a level playing field in civil rights
and that the Constitution must be strictly constructed in this area.
Otherwise everyone's rights are endangered because they can simply be
defined away as the current political need requires.
Unfortunately this concept of a level field and
strict constructionism is a particularly hard sell to liberals with a
philosophically incoherent belief system, comprised of floating,
non-absolute, frequently-contradicting values that can be morphed into
getting what they want at any given moment to satisfy any political
agenda.
Thus, my liberal friends, if you are upset by
the current administration, you must realize you set the stage for the
current problem by torturing and ignoring law until you got what you
wanted. It was a monster you promised could be kept under control but
you failed do it. So stop complaining if John Ashcroft and George Bush
want to play with the monster for a while. When it's tired of playing
with them, it will eat us all alive in the end anyway.
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2003 John Loeffler - All Rights Reserved
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