Would be, well, idiocy, if this quote from Germany is anything to go on:
“This is a rare event,” said Alla Samkova, 68, a native Muscovite who has been living in Berlin for 45 years. “In the end it doesn’t matter what he says; it only matters that he’s here.”
That is all there is to Obama - the fact that he’s Obama.
November might well end up with all kinds of surprises.
4 comments July 25th, 2008
From Canada:
In response to a series of controversies over abortion debates on Canadian campuses, the student government of York University in Toronto has tabled an outright ban on student clubs that are opposed to abortion.
Gilary Massa, vice-president external of the York Federation of Students, said student clubs will be free to discuss abortion in student space, as long as they do it “within a pro-choice realm,” and that all clubs will be investigated to ensure compliance.
“You have to recognize that a woman has a choice over her own body,” Ms. Massa said. “We think that these pro-life, these anti-choice groups, they’re sexist in nature … The way that they speak about women who decide to have abortions is demoralizing. They call them murderers, all of them do … Is this an issue of free speech? No, this is an issue of women’s rights.”
You can say whatever you want, as long as what you say is in accordance with liberal views - thing is, Massa would probably stoutly assert that her action is anti-fascist in nature because in liberal-land only fascists are pro-life.
And liberals still get outraged when I point out that liberalism, fascism, communism and Nazism share the same basic mindset…
HAT TIP: NRO’s The Corner
10 comments May 30th, 2008
Jonah Goldberg has caught a lot of flack over his book Liberal Facism - but this news report just shows that liberalism is very much fascist, and this is in line with Goldberg’s thesis that it really always has been, in the sense that fascism and liberalism actually advocate the same sorts of programs, and have the same underlying mentality:
Catholic student group at the University of Queensland has been censored and threatened with disaffiliation from the school’s student union because student union leaders believed the group’s “pro-woman” and “pro-pregnancy” campaign took a stand against abortion.
As part of a pregnancy support campaign, the Newman Society at the school displayed a poster and distributed leaflets that bore a photo of an eight-week old fetus in the womb.
According to The Australian, a disciplinary hearing run by the student union’s clubs and societies committee has banned the Newman Society from again displaying the material on a booth outside the student café. The society was placed on 12 months’ probation and must submit all future material to three officials, including the student union president, for approval.
Newman Society secretary Elise Nally, a third-year applied science student, said the union’s action was totalitarian and against free speech.
“I’d like to know what laws we’ve broken,” Nally said. “The union is acting like a dictator.”
Student union president Joshua Young, who is associated with the Liberal Party, described the reasons for the decision.
“I know the Newman Society thinks the union is being heavy handed, but the student union voted in 1993 for free, safe abortion on demand so all women have a genuine choice when faced with unwanted pregnancy,” he said.
A minority of the university’s 30,000 students voted in the 1993 referendum. According to The Australian, Young said the vote was about 1900 in favor of abortion rights, 1400 against, and 200 abstaining.
When asked if the vote precludes other views being advocated in campus debate, Young said “It does.”
15 years ago 6.3% of the students on campus voted in favor of government funded abortion on demand, and according to liberal Joshua Young, this settled the matter forever, because that is in line with liberal ideology, which is always good. If this isn’t fascist thinking, then I don’t know what is.
We see this here in the United States, too - in the demand that people nominated as Supreme Court justices declare themselves opposed to an overturn of Roe, which in spite of being an unconstitutional bastardization of the very concept of law, has now been mortised in time by liberals and acquired the status of holy writ, and it cannot be questioned…because it is in agreement with liberal thinking, which is always good. The problem here is not Young’s opposition to pro-life views, but his insistence that one cannot dissent from the group, which voted in favor of abortion on demand…
47 comments May 18th, 2008
The discussion continues…
No, not just the recent book of that title, but in actual practice:
TORONTO, FEB. 5, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Catholic Insight, a Canadian magazine known for its fidelity to Church teachings, has been targeted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for publishing articles deemed offensive to homosexuals.
The commission has been investigating the Toronto-based publication since homosexual activist Rob Wells, a member of the Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Pride Center of Edmonton, filed a nine-point complaint last February with the government agency in which he accuses the magazine of promoting “extreme hatred and contempt” against homosexuals.
Father Alphonse de Valk, the founder and editor of Catholic Insight, disagrees the accusations. “Wells took three pages of quotes out of context,” he told ZENIT.
The Basilian priest added that Catholic Insight “bases itself on the Church’s teaching and applies it to various circumstances in our time.” He noted that some of the statements that allegedly promoted hatred and contempt against homosexuals were taken from recent Vatican pronouncements.
Other types of statements published by Catholic Insight on the topic of homosexuality include political statements, medical studies, news reports and other studies. Many of the articles concerned addressed the campaign in Canada to legalize same-sex marriage, which Catholic Insight openly opposed.
“The basic view of the Church is that homosexual acts are a sin, but we love the sinner,” said Father de Valk, adding that opposing same-sex marriage is not the same as rejecting homosexuals as persons.
The priest said that homosexual activists are broadly defining opposition to homophobia as opposition to any homosexual act: “They maintain that the whole Catholic Church is homophobic.”
Demonise and then destroy; that has been a standard leftwing tactic since the left first began its baleful run through human history. The good father is right - the pro-gay groups, by and large, do maintain that the Catholic Church - and Christianity in general - are homophobic; inherently bigoted against gay people for no rational cause. While some Christians do go waaay the heck overboard on the matter, the plain facts are that Christianity holds homosexual acts to be inherently disordered, but that there is no sin inherent in homosexuality. But this bit of truth - that we welcome with love our brothers and sisters who have a deep-seated attraction towards members of the same sex - is not wanted in the ranks of the gay activists. Its impossible to hate someone, you see, who is loving you and only pointing out - rather mildly, for the most part - that gay sex is not a proper sexual relation. But you can hate a bigot who is just doing evil for the sake of evil…and thus the Church is homophobic, and Church teachings aren’t the Word of God, but a sick attempt at denying basic human rights to gay people.
This is unfolding entirely as we predicted when “hate crimes” laws were first proposed - we pointed out right at the start that while there might be an admirable goal (stopping people from being victimised for their skin color, creed, sexual orientation or what have you), the practical effect of “hate crimes” laws would be to make illegal anything anyone with a gripe claims is insulting. While the debate revolved around whether “fag!” is hate speech, the reality is that “Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. (Rom 1:24-27)” would become hate speech, just as soon as the laws were passed and someone decided to take up the matter in court.
Just as you can’t be a little bit pregnant, so you can’t be a little bit enslaved. You either are, or you aren’t. Right now the liberal fasicsts of the world are desperately trying to enslave us to their worldview - to make us the unthinking pawns in their game of utopia-building. One of the primary ways of fastening the shackles to us is to take away anything which might give us uncomfortable (for liberals) ideas, or even the desire to ask difficult questions. They on the left want a lot of serfs, not free men and women…and now, in parts of the west, they are trying to proscripe Truth; to take it away, and replace it with a series of comfortable lies. We cannot allow them to get away with it here in this last bastion of freedom, the United States of America.
184 comments February 11th, 2008
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