According to the criminal complaint filed Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “Give Peace A Chance” that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany.
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The world has gone INSANE!!!
I’m about to make an entry about this whole big old messed up stupid political situation.
God, my Mum told me it was coming a few years ago, a new kind of fascism, based on bad science (and Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit” show last Friday showed that other older people agree with Mum, including many skeptics and scientists), bad thinking, a lack of reasoning, and plain old stupidity.
This T-Shirt incident is a sure sign of that. I guess these people have never read the Constitution.
I wonder.. you know. The leftists, perhaps it was the hard line leftists, made learning about the Constitution less of a requirement in American schools. I don’t know why the leftists would have made it that way, but all I know is that no time whatsoever is spent on it, and the values it encompasses, in public schools today.
I wonder, also, if perhaps this is turning around to bite the leftists on their ass. It’s biting all of us, of course, but I do think that lack of hard education is what’s causing these moronic incidents. And I do lay the blame for our shoddy educational system right at the leftist’s feet.
Just a quickie observation, with nothing to back it up but a vague reliance on things I’ve read over the years, including D’Souza’s “Illiberal Education”.
I’ll shut up now and post in my own journal ;>
Re: The world has gone INSANE!!!
Oops.. I also have to add:
Though I understand the values of free speech, I absolutely do, and I think that good, reasoned debate is what keeps us all free, I have to say that the mall, as a private entity, had the right to kick out whoever the hell they felt like.
If I remember my political views at all (I haven’t thought much about them lately, to be honest), I remember that freedom goes both ways. If someone comes into my private home with clothing I find to be just horrid, I am allowed to tell them to get the hell out. I feel that private corporate owned places should be allowed the same thing. (Reserve the right to refuse.. blah blah..)
And someone will come in screaming.. “But what if they kicked out a black person?”
My response would be, “So what?”
Horrors. I am a racist, right?
No, I’m a believer in private property and privacy rights. The place that kicks out a black person for being black should then be boycotted by other private individuals, and the owner of the business would lose profit, thereby making him rethink. That’s what freedom is all about.
Nowadays, I’m sure that a very horrible thing for me to be thinking, and I should be shot. But it’s what I think.. that people should have freedom, and that includes people running businesses on property they pay for.
But I understand that this is the real world, and people are stupid, and racist, and assholes. In MY little dream world, they’re not. And that leads me to my own journal entry, which I’m getting to right now, so I swear, I’m shutting up. ;>