More Government Hubris and Newspeak
I realize that the word “newspeak” gets used a lot today. Many times it’s mis-used. If you want to know where it came from, realize that you can now read 1984 online for free. That’s where it started, and that’s where the Ministry of Truth spend all its time telling people lies — and repeating them often enough that they were accepted as truth. Unfortunately, much of government does that today.
How about Philadelphia City Solicitor Shelley Smith, on the kickout out of Boy Scouts:
“We’re not punishing them for not admitting homosexuals, but they can’t get free rent and violate our policy.”
So in other words, according to this government bureaucrat, it’s not called “punishment” when government uses force to make bad things happen to people when the people disobey government edicts. Okay, Mrs. Smith, would you prefer we use the term “extortion?”
And even more, how about this hubris from the very same slimy bureaucrat:
I think they think that their First Amendment right trumps our local ordinance
Wow. Just wow.
Am I the only person left on the planet that actually understand that the United States Constitution IS supposed to be the supreme law of the land? I honestly wonder if she has ever read the Constitution. Seriously. Guess what, Mrs. Smith, the First Amendment of the United States Constitution DOES TRUMP YOUR PIDDLY LOCAL ORDINANCE! You see, if it didn’t, then the Constitution would have, quite literally, no power at all. Gee, sort of like it does today, huh?
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You’re just going to love this example of government run amok that actually happened to me just last week.
I was driving back to Richmond from Raleigh on I 85, doing EXACTLY the speed limit of 65 MPH, as measured by my trusty GPS (I got a speeding ticket just last month for doing 77 in that 65 MPH zone last month, so I can’t afford more lawyers and insurance “adjustments”). Well, up behind me appears a local donut-eater, who turns on his blue light and pulls me over. I show him my GPS and inform him I know and have recorded my exact speed and track of 65MPH. He acknowledges that as fact, but proceeds to tell me that the prevailing speed in that section of highway was between 75 and 80, and I may be either the cause of a rear-ender, or a case of road rage if I didn’t go faster. What I said to him next probably could have gotten me a ticket in its own right, but we parted company (no tickets issued). I then counted, up ahead on my course, no less than SEVEN police cars manning speed traps, radar guns blazing, before I got to the Virginia state line.
During the Cold War, in 1985 if I’m not mistaken, I crossed into East Germany and East Berlin as a member of the US Air Force…… We’re starting to look eerily like what I saw on that trip….
You’re starting to understand today’s government. Fueled by literally years of liberalism, government has, quite intentionally, passed so many laws that you ARE guilty of something at all times. This is on purpose. You see, if you are ALWAYS guilty of something, then at any moment you may be jailed — whenever any bureaucrat decides they want to jail you. So our current system is designed that you live in total fear — because at any moment, you may be jailed.
Welcome to America.