Some old thoghts

                                Who Says That It’s Free Speech?      

 The other day while listening to the radio I heard a story reported on the news that really offended me as an American. It was reported that a college professor had made the statement that he hoped the coming war with Iraq would turn out to be like a thousand Mogadishu’s. For those of you who pay little or no attention to these matters Mogadishu is the incident that the movie Black Hawk down was about, and yes that tragic story was true. If you remember there were fourteen American soldiers killed in that action. You may also recall that it was President Clinton’s administration that hung our boys out to die.

 Well, I have to tell you that my first reaction was one of disgust. To think that this Pinko Commie was stating to us that he hoped not only for fourteen thousand of our boys to die but that he also hoped it would be credited to the George Bush’s administration.

 The next thing that angered me was the fact that this Pinko was a professor at a college spewing his Communist anti American ideas to the next generation of our countries leaders. This might go a long way to explain how students from Harvard and M.I.T. could be so ignorant of our countries history to suppose that we were going to attack another country to steal their oil. While they marched to close down the city streets in Boston chanting and carrying signs stating No Blood For Oil! However, that’s another issue.

  The thing that really irked me was the instant claim of the media that this jerk was protected by the first amendment of free speech. He had every right to say what ever he wanted no matter how wrong or distasteful it may be. Well, this is America and no matter how much this creep bothered me we do have that right. The fact is that our forefathers and many generations of Americans have fought for that right. So why was I so upset by this whole incident and all of the anti American so called peace marches?

Then I heard a conservative radio talk show host make this simple statement, can you imagine what would happen to a conservative professor if he stood up and said the he hoped that fourteen thousand queers would die. The hatred and out cry for his head would be just as instant, and those leading the charge would be the very same media that came to the defense of the pinko professor.

Ladies and gentlemen this is not a matter of free speech at all. This is an issue of political correctness! This is what had been bothering me all along. I don’t remember anywhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights where political correctness is protected.

 Now I am not a professor, nor do I have any degrees in political science or the sort. I am just a citizen but it strikes me that political correctness is not a freedom or right as a citizen. As a matter of fact political correctness is a new phenomenon in this country. I would go so far as to say that political correctness showed its ugly head during the Reagan years, but got its wings during the Clinton era.

Let me ask you this. What is political correctness? Where did it come from? And why are we forced to live our lives according to it? I mean if it is not a right that our founders thought worthy to include in the beginning, and it has never been added to our constitution by an amendment then why are we bound by it? Why are some protected by it, yet others totally destroyed by it? And why do we just accept it as a fact of life? Do your self a favor and go to your local bookstore and grab one of those politically correct books. You know the ones that joke about it and just flip through it and ask yourself who made these rules? Who was it that deemed these things correct or not?  Just because someone says something is right or wrong doesn’t make it so.

 I remember a story that broke in our papers a few years ago about a white male college student who was being disturbed by some female students making quite a commotion out side his window. When he yelled out the window for them to shut up he called them sweat hogs. Well, one of them was a large black girl and so he was charged with using hate speech. The school had even considered throwing him out. Now I’m white (following PC why am I not a Dutch American?) and I weigh over three hundred pounds. Do any of you suppose that if a black girl (not PC should be African American) called me a sweat hog that she would be charged with hate speech and have her life destroyed? Why wasn’t this pinko professor who called for fourteen thousand American soldiers to die (sounds like hate speech to me) charged with hate speech? I hope that you can see the danger in Political Correctness being used as our standard and not Free Speech.

I asked earlier where political correctness came from? Now let me ask you some more questions. Where did it start and what was its purpose? Who were the people who made the decisions on what was ok and what wasn’t? What did they use for their standard? What political party do they represent? What Religious background were they, if any? Who do they represent and why? Don’t you think that it would be important to know the answers to these questions since so much of today’s society is controlled by it?

 It is my contention that you can’t answer any of these questions, because unlike our founding fathers these people did not follow the political process that our Constitution set up. These people did not write a bill, or collect signatures to get it on a ballot. Their signatures don’t appear on any documents. They do not stand up and let themselves be held accountable for their actions. It was never voted on in the House or Senate. Or signed into law by a President, and without trials or hearings or any kind of legal process Political Correctness has replaced free speech in this country and wields its power to protect or destroy at will and no one even questions it!

 I think that it is high time someone stood up and challenged Political Correctness for the insidious virus that it is to our rights and freedom.  A Citizen