Name some names and quote some liberals. Your reliance on ‘everyone knows’ or what you are willing to bet is not persuasive. There’s a conservative state senator in Maine who favors shipping off the mentally ill to Siberia. I don’t try to tar all conservatives with that opinion.
As a gun owner and a hunter, I can tell you that what you state is an unethical and probably illegal way of going about things.
Celine Dion is a name. I’m guessing she’s also a liberal. For whatever reason, Larry King made no effort to challenge her outrageous remarks. It seems to me that her willingness to make such comments in defense of looting on national tv and not get challenged implies that her way of thinking is perhaps more widespread among bleating heart liberals than you would care to admit.
That’s a false comparison. I think you and I both know that there is a long history of liberals who blame the crimes of minorities and the disadvantaged on the system. Celine Dion was merely voicing that mentality and applying it to the looters in New Orleans. She was merely applying modern day liberalism to excuse the crimes of the looters. Now, why don’t you show me a similar ideological connection between the “right” and this nut from Maine who wants to ship off the mentally ill to Siberia.
Maybe “shoot first and ask questions later” might be the wrong choice of words. In the context of Katrina, where it is known that people are going around looting, I might yell “freeze!” first and see if they put their hands up, but if they kept coming, I would definitely defend my family to the best of my abilities up to and including, shooting. Perhaps I would try to injure and not kill.
Interesting article. One thing that I found rampant while there was the hooliganism of motorcycle gangs - the bosozoku - which would cruise around all night buzzing loudly in their souped up bikes through the streets and highways, reluctantly tolerated by the citizens and even the police. Occasionally they would get chased by the cops but they (the cops) always seemed like the keystone cops - very ineffective. I was riding my bike once - on the sidewalk - and was almost run over by a car driven by a yakuza chasing someone on a scooter. The yakuza ended up stopping and got out of his car which sat in the middle of the intersection blocking traffic. You got the sense that this particular member of the yakuza had little fear of reprisal from the local police. I wondered what would have happened to the guy in the scooter had he been caught - probably a lot worse than what the police would ever do.
As dire as all that sounds, I have to tell you that every time I’ve been to your country, I generally feel safer and more relaxed than I ever do at home. I’ve been to what I’m told are dodgy areas in Vancouver, and I saw a few semi-recovered meth addicts here and there and some young guys smoking pot on the beaches, but nothing that scared me. In Chicago, there are many neighborhoods I wouldn’t ask the marines to go into without good reason in warm weather. When I go to Sarnia, I don’t even feel like I have to lock the car doors.I fully understand where you’re coming from, so allow me to explain. I live in Canada, not the USA (although my ancestors were Americans - my first British-American ancestor married the granddaughter of the first Mennonite minister in PA; William Rittenhouse). In the USA the approach to diversity has been the creation of the social “melting pot” where cultures from around the world contribute to the “american” lifestyle. I think this way is better than what has become the Canadian approach. The Canadian approach is what we call the “cultural mosaic”. French children attend French language schools, English children attend English schools. That was about as “diverse” as things got until the 1980’s. Life was peaceful up until then. Streets were safe, even in the major cities. Schools had NO violence. Mothers stayed home to cook hot lunches for their kids. We walked to the store with REAL SILVER dimes and quarters in our pockets. Except on Sunday - all stores were CLOSED on Sunday by law under “The Lord’s Day Act”. The Holy Bible was read aloud in classrooms (and the Lord’s Prayer recited) all over the country each and every morning in both Protestant and Catholic schools.
But then, with the FLOOD of immigration from all corners of the globe, the government now bends over backwards, and spends huge sums of tax payer’s money, to accommodate just about every language and cultural tradition you can think of! Counselling and court services are provided to anyone of ANY language and culture! Now, you may think this a real Utopia, but it’s NOT. Two reasons: 1) the costs of these programs are immense. 2) Public Education has “too many cooks in the kitchen”, and so whereas once Christ was preached each morning, now it is forbidden to mention His name AT ALL. We are now at the point where HUGE SECTORS of the adult population know ALMOST NOTHING about the Gospel!
The worship of Christ has been replaced with the worship of the ONLY thing the people in the “mosaic” all value in common: MONEY. We now live in a secular materialistic nightmare of a society where people ask you “what do you do for a living?” not because they wish to know how you contribute to the well being of society, but simply so they can appraise how much MONEY you have! We have young people lost in the world of drugs, meaningless sex, abortion and gambling. In fact, whereas in the early 1970’s it was ILLEGAL to even own a lottery ticket…NOW the Ontario government actually owns and runs CASINOS! There’s talk of legalizing prostitution in some cities in the near future. And, on top of all this, the Muslims are crying out for Sharia Law Courts, to be set up at taxpayer’s expense! It’s all madness!
I guess (to put it in short) I’m a person who thinks that western governments should stroll hand-in-hand with the Church (and this WAS the case here in Canada until a few decades ago), but that the new cultural “mosaic” has DEMANDED that the secular government abandon this relationship…and so Canada is now no longer a friend of Jesus Christ.
And that’s where I’m coming from.
You are only serving to prove kenofken’s first line of his other post. I can’t believe this thread has taken such an ugly and blatant turn.
I found the part about instilling in the children from a very young age that you turn in property you found, no matter how little it’s actually worth. It’s also good that the parents and police treat it with such solemnity. Perhaps our country could gain a lot from having an attitude like that from a young age.
It took that ugly turn almost from the get-go. It’s disappointing, but it’s surprising only in the level of candor about racial theory. The upside is it’s like a living history re-enactment. It feels like I’m sitting in a British officer’s club in Rhodesia circa 1882…
You left out socialist labor unions headed by Jews, gay activists, liberal folksingers, the liberal media on television, reality shows, Hollywood, rock music, disco dancing, rap, X-rated films, pornography, entitlement programs such as student loans and Medicaid, bilingual education, the Internet and other technological gadgets, Islamic fundamentalism, atheism, illegal drugs, illegal immigration, and so on. Why not blame the whole world and be done with it!I’m SO GLAD someone else has noticed this. I believe that there are two reasons. Firstly, the Japanese are, on average, highly intelligent. Secondly, they have not (at least not yet) fallen victim to rampant “multiculturalism”. This means that they can indoctrinate their children in their public schools with a unified vision and understanding of social morality that is NEVER challenged. Students respect their teachers. Children respect their parents. Wives respect their husbands.
I think Western civilization once came very close to achieving this. When the Titanic sank back in 1912, the men stood by and helped the women and children into the lifeboats. Chilvalry was not yet dead. But in the later half of the 20th century, particularily after WWII, all this began to change. Somehow SOMEBODY sewed the seeds of social self-destruction; the “youth movement” of the 1960’s, the “generation gap”, “women’s liberation”, easy-divorce, abortion, the “me decade” of the 70’s, the “gimme decade” of the 80’s, etc. and then it all got destroyed.
Well, that’s the lens I view it all through anyway…
Its Bush’s fault.
Sarcasm, sarcasm…
Perhaps the religion of Buddhism has teachings which leave a deep imprint on people as to the value of honesty.