That’s not surprising.  Canada and Great Britain have jettisoned free speech for Political Correctness.  Mark Steyn was actually prosecuted for committing the heinous offense of writing his opinions in public.    Of course they would take threats to free excerisice of speech more seriously; they know what it is to lose it.  You may say “well that will never happen here.”  But  if you had told the British people 10 years ago that people would soon face arrest for insulting soccer players on the internet they would have scoffed and said how ridiculous.  And yet:  http://www.kenilworthweeklynews.co.uk/news/national/footballer-twitter-abuse-probed-1-3692538

If Steyn and O’Sullivan sound paranoid about free speech, I say look around.  It isn’t paranoia to notice the left is out to get you.

The internet is abuzz with discussion of the “new” racial tensions.  While strolling through the articles I came across this test for racism.  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/featuredtask.html  I took it because I was curious about the test itself.  I found out I am not a racist, which I already knew.   Actually the exact words are:

Your data suggest little to no difference in implicit preference between White People and Black People.

This didn’t surprise me, I know who I am and what I believe.  I am immune to white guilt because I know I am not a racist.  I often wonder about those “tolerant” liberals who make every political decision based on race.  What goes on in their bleeding, liberal hearts that gives them so much guilt.

As far as my own neutral about race heart.  Let me tell you about the time I deliberately, carefully  profiled a group of black males, and felt relieved and even safer.

I was in Detroit for the 1997 Skate America competition.  I would have gone to the back of the moon to see Michelle Kwan debut her Lyra Angelica Program.  Usually I traveled around the city with my skating buds, but for some reason I was all alone on the city’s People Mover, taking a 25 min. route around the city to the arena.  I was in a city with a lot of crime all by myself, and yes feeling a bit nervous about that.  There was no one but me on the train when three black males, each taller than my own 5’4″self, came aboard and I felt relieved.

Why?  Because the group was two teenage boys, and their dad.  They were carrying shopping bags and looked like a Norman Rockwell painting “back to school shopping with dad.”  They were one of Burke’s “little platoons.”  All I knew about these men was their skin color was different than mine, and their family status was the opposite of the one I had growing up.  Two teenage boys under the supervision of an involved father and a father living up to his responsibilities, that is as safe as you can get in America.  I had no reason to fear any of these black males.  Furthermore I was sure the presence of the rather large dad, would act as an impediment should any thug, white or black, board the train.

Crime in America is not a matter of color but lack of fathers.  Growing up without a father, watching many fatherless, white boys become criminals, I learned at a very young age, what it has taken social scientists decades to find out.  Every study ever done shows that lacking a father is the greatest predictor to whether a child will turn to crime.  If either of the two teenagers on that train with me had ever thought of joining a gang I am sure their father put a stop to it ASAP!   That’s why I never thought for a moment that any of those black males would harm me.

Being free of all the liberal platitudes about one family type being equal to other family types, I am free to make judgments based on experience.  It is upbringing and nurturing that makes a child a public threat, not skin color.  In refusing to admit that illegitimacy is a plague on our society, liberals, who always cause what they claim to condemn, force everyone to make judgments based on other factors, like the color of one’s skin.

Ahah you say what if it had just been the two teenage black boys without an adult supervisor, then would you have been scared.  Probably not, they were neatly dressed, polite and quiet.  Loud, rowdy teenagers, dressed in the sloppy, oversized clothing of our day alarm me, whether they are white, black or purple.

I never spoke to the three men in Detroit though they were on the train as long as I.  In fact when they came aboard they deliberately sat as far away from me as they could.  I was a tiny, white woman in a silk sweater riding around downtown Detroit.  The dad probably thought I was looking for drugs and he didn’t want his sons around me.  If the dad profiled me as trouble, I don’t mind.  He was doing his job.  That’s why I knew I had nothing to fear.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290276/were-all-catholics-now-david-french

You can not attack the Liberty of one citizen without attacking the Liberty of all.  A fact those who call themselves “liberal” conveniently forget whenever a fellow citizen dares to commit the liberal heresy of standing by ancient traditions and institutions.  An attack on the Freedom of Conscience of Catholics is an attack on all of our Freedoms.  I stand today side by side with Catholic Americans whose Free Exercise of Religion is also my own.   Furthermore I demand that Congress impeach Sec. Sebelius for violating the First Amendment.

“There’s always a risk when you fund innovation, but if we abandoned going to the moon when a spacecraft exploded … where would we be today?”

She has an excellent point.  If the government had given up after Apollo 1, today we would have no moon base, no permanent space station and in fact no manned space program at all.  Now wouldn’t that be terrible?

Everytime you think liberal arguments can’t get stupider; they find a way.