Okay, just one more time about Pamela Geller. I read an Op/Ed piece this morning in the New York Daily News written by Linda Stasi titled "With Pamela Geller's Prophet Muhammad cartoon stunt in Texas, hate rears its ugly face again". Oh, you can pretty much guess what she had to say. Shame on Pamela Geller for inciting Islamic terrorists to commit murder. She got what she wanted - dead terrorists. [In my mind, that is actually the big plus. But that's just me...]. Oh, yeah, Stasi was very careful to reiterate that trying to murder people over cartoons is really, really bad, BUT [there is always the "but" with liberals], Pam was asking for it.
In the middle of her long-winded indictment of Pamela Geller, this one statement jumped out at me.
Frankly, I am confused and mighty frustrated in trying to gleen when it is that our liberal friends believe that our rights should and shouldn't be impinged and when our Bill of Rights are absolute these days. Is it just me or are they just a bit schizophrenic. If I were a bettin' man, I would think that liberals are scared witless about Islamic terrorism and will do anything to "be safe" including compromising our rights but only when it's convenient to their narrative. It just reminds me of the famous quote of Benjamin Franklin - Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
As an aside, this video by Steven Crowder for his blog Louder by Crowder should really put liberals into a major quandry. But interestingly enough, this was completely ignored in the Gay Weddings v. Religious Bakers, Florists et al. controversy -
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In the middle of her long-winded indictment of Pamela Geller, this one statement jumped out at me.
"While we have freedom of speech, we also have freedom of religion, which shouldn’t be impinged upon."It made me go "Hmmmm". I wonder what those Christian florists and bakers who refused to participate in gay wedding ceremonies would think of this? You know, the ones that are being protested against, sued and fined out of business. I wonder if all of those religious organizations and businesses that want to exercise their religious freedom right to protest their objection to being forced by the government to pay for abortificients, would be interested in knowing that Stasi thinks their rights should not be "impinged" as well. The florists, bakers, and nuns haven't tried to kill anyone. They were and are just politely trying exercised their freedom of religion as afforded to them by our Bill of Rights.
Frankly, I am confused and mighty frustrated in trying to gleen when it is that our liberal friends believe that our rights should and shouldn't be impinged and when our Bill of Rights are absolute these days. Is it just me or are they just a bit schizophrenic. If I were a bettin' man, I would think that liberals are scared witless about Islamic terrorism and will do anything to "be safe" including compromising our rights but only when it's convenient to their narrative. It just reminds me of the famous quote of Benjamin Franklin - Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
As an aside, this video by Steven Crowder for his blog Louder by Crowder should really put liberals into a major quandry. But interestingly enough, this was completely ignored in the Gay Weddings v. Religious Bakers, Florists et al. controversy -