A Propaganda Against the Constitution

I am going to do something different today than I had planned to do. I need to get something off of my chest. It is something that I think is important, and it does relate to propaganda. In fact, it is my fight against an effective propaganda campaign that has been on-going for the past twenty years. I've noticed a trend that has magnified itself over the past few weeks, and frankly, it angers me.

We all know that Californians voted against gay marriage earlier this month when they struck down Proposition 8. Now, and I want to be abundantly clear here, I am not making a statement of whether or not I'm for or against this right. That is not the point of my rant, so I want to make sure that you understand this. However, what bothers me is that the people voted, and at least for another year or two, this law should stand. Over the past few weeks, though, politicians and gay rights advocates have fought back and are taking this into the court system. The mayor of San Francisco has basically said the public should not be making these decisions -- that laws should be decided by those who are more capable of making them. And they are going to get the law overturned. Since when did this become a country of the elite? Since when was the law of the land not the law of the people? Californians, as citizens of their state, spoke up and declared that they did not see this as a right California should grant. And whether or not you or I agree with this vote, it should stand because it was a statement of that citizenry. But that doesn't matter anymore, does it? We live in a time when the minority of the land wields more power than the majority. We live in a time where the public has to bow down to the whims of some social elite who oversees the "best interest" of the "ignorant" public. We live in a time when minority opinions trump the majority.

Perhaps this violation of our system wouldn't have bothered me as much if it had not been coupled with the E-Harmony lawsuit that was just settled. E-Harmony, a private company, has just been forced to include match-making services for gay couples. The owners of E-Harmony, who are Christian couple, had to face closure of their business or violate their belief-system and settle on a losing case. How is it that a private company can be forced by the court system to offer any service? I do not, for the life of me, understand how this can be legal. At no point did E-Harmony discriminate against gay people. They just did not offer a dedicated service for them. No equal rights laws were violated. I would understand it so much more if this was a service offered by the government. But a private company? Come on! What's next? Are we going to force WalMart to have a Big and Tall department in every store just because bigger people want to buy their clothes there? No! You need Big and Tall, you go to another store! That is what capitalism is all about. Do you believe that gay match-making companies will now be forced to offer straight-people match-making? Government has no right dictating this, and I want everyone to think of the ramifications. If you own a business, beware.

Add to this the fact that the Fairness Doctrine is about to be reinstated, and you have a mini-coup. The Fairness Doctrine is the government's way of denying free speech, and it is targeted at dissenting opinion. There is not an expert of free speech in this country who doesn't admit that it is targeting conservative radio. And the fact of the matter is, they are going to shut down conservative talk shows without doing a single thing to equalize opinions on the major networks and print media. That's not my opinion; it is the opinion of most authorities on this subject. So, what we are going to end up with is a press that has no checks and balances. We will hear one side of the story, and only one side of the story. There will be no dissenting opinion.

If I am neither conservative nor liberal, why do these things make me angry? Because, no matter what you believe, you should all stand up for the Constitution. We should be given the right to say whatever we want to say and in any venue. No one has to agree with us, but it is our right to voice our opinions. If we have an ignorant opinion, then let the people judge us and not listen anymore. The people of the land should be given the right to decide which laws they want to abide by without having an elite intelligentsia tell them how to live. That is the philosophy that this country was founded upon. Private companies should be able to offer the services that they want to offer without being forced to meet every demand they are confronted with. That is their right as a merchant.

Disregarding political views, because both Republican and Democratic parties are part of this problem, and disregarding lean, because both conservatives and liberals are part of this problem, it is evident that we are seeing a change in this country for the worst. I am not here to make a moral statement about gay rights or conservative radio. I am not here to give opinion as to whether or not companies should do one thing or another. It doesn't matter if I believed gays should have the right to marry. And it doesn't matter if I think E-Harmony really should offer services it doesn't offer. And it doesn't matter if I do not like Rush Limbaugh. What matters, though, is the Constitution, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and freedom to run your business your own way. If Californians made a mistake, let it be overturned during the next election. If E-Harmony made a mistake, let their business fail. If conservative talk shows say extreme things, let their ratings shut them down, but don't ever let government violate the most sacred institution we have, our constitution.

We are at a delicate point in this country. We have turned full-circle from the basic elements that drove our ancestors to rebel against monarchy. These rights, these freedoms, the Constitution, were created because our founding fathers could no longer tolerate suppression and elite rule. The very things that they defined as important to a Republic are now being overturned. Call it what you may, but there is no doubt in my mind that we are, right now, nothing more than a puppet democracy -- a democracy on paper, but not in practice. And as a student of propaganda for a long time, I will tell you that I see the wave of Socialism approaching, and it is coming in the form of a Tsunami.

Do you want direct comparisons? Educate yourself by looking at how the Nazis took power in Germany. They were not the conservative party, mind you. They were the liberal party. Take a look at the French and Spanish Socialist parties. Take a look at Marxism. We are much closer to any of these in practice than we are with the principles this country was founded upon.

Again, this is not a commentary about specific issues, but it is a warning about implementation of these issues and bullying. I would be saying the same thing if these issues revolved around gun-rights and liquor laws. The fact is, we cannot allow decisions to be made that violate the very thing that makes America great!