Conservative Donnybrook

I found this amusing opinion piece in my local newpaper (or, as Mike would put it the LGN - local Gannett newspaper, since he cannot bring himself to even name it). To sum it up short and sweet, Rudy is a Yankees fan (or so he says). But, when asked by a group of New Hampshire voters who he was rooting for in the recently completed World Series, he said that since he’s an American League guy, he was rooting for the Red Sox. This, if you are not a sports fan, is heresy. Yankees hate Red Sox; Red Sox hate Yankees. Cats hate Dogs; Dogs think Cats are yummy. This is the natural course of things, and Rudy has upset the delicate balance of the universe.

But, the story reveals that this latest statement is also a flip-flop. “On top of all this, Rudy seems to have flip-flopped. Last July, The Providence Journal asked Giuliani what he’d do if the devil made pulling for the Red Sox a condition for his election as president. ‘Probably that’s a deal I could not make,’ he said. Then.”

I ask this: If Rudy will flip-flop in order to commit sports heresy to pander for votes, can he be trusted? The answer is patently obvious.

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On September 2, Mary and Josue Anaya gave birth to their tenth child, Joel. Six weeks later under the guise of Nebraska state law Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputies came to take their Joel away for a violation of state law. In Nebraska, state law dictates that all newborns undergo a mandatory blood test, usually within forty-eight hours of being born, to screen for rare diseases that can have fatal effects if not detected early enough. There are no exceptions to this requirement, religious or otherwise.

Mr. and Mrs. Anaya had refused to have young Joel subjected to the blood test based on religious convictions. Rather than allow the Anaya’s the freedom to exercise a reasonable religious belief (Joel had otherwise been examined by doctors and found to be healthy), Nebraska officials swooped in and took the six-month old baby away from his parents and placed him in foster care until the results of the mandatory test came back. After five days of being deprived of their child the couple finally had Joel returned to them after he tested negative for any diseases. During the five day span, while Joel was still nursing, Mrs. Anaya had only limited contact with her son. Continue Reading »

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All during this week, the online version of the Daily Telegraph will be publishing its list of the Top 100 Conservatives and Top 100 Liberals. So far, they have published 61-100. If Justice Anthony Kennedy isn’t on both lists, it will be a scandal.

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Thomas, a recent commenter on awb’s latest post, said:

Something truly scary exists within this mess of school laws: namely, the slippery slope of authoritarian nature of school itself.

Would any true advocate of real freedom and liberty ever support a law forcing groups of people to all do the same thing at the same time? Where else in American society does such a law exist? Yet, school is based on such lack of personal freedom — for all students, and even more so for their teachers!

So, the core of this mess is the authoritarian nature of “school” — where students are forced day-long to all do the same thing at the same time (as they are being “trained” to become adults within a free society — hah, absolutely crazy).

If students had any real freedom, they could easily have their own “moments of silence” — with no one caring, nor noticing even!

The real solution here is for the students to resist the authoritarian regime they are confined within — in order to learn real “lessons of life”, as they prepare and practice civil disobediance, as needed, in order to insist on their own religious freedoms.

Free people do not seek or ask permission to be free — instead, they learn to act (in order to best declare, claim and exercise their freedoms)!

Wimps await permission to be free — no law will ever deliver real freedom to people unwilling to be free (either within classrooms, or outside in our “real world”).

Make sense?

To answer the question posed at the end, I understand where you are coming from, I just don’t agree with it very much. Here’s why: Continue Reading »

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