I’m old enough to remember a time when they supposedly just wanted to regulate the economy but wanted the government to stay out of our personal lives, particularly our sex lives. All of that now seems hopelessly antique, and Kohn’s column reveals why: the power to control our economic lives contains within it the power to control everything else.
Governments have always wanted to control everything about us. There NEVER was a time when they did not. That is misplaced nostalgia.
Look at how many homosexuals were tossed in jail for buggery. Look how many young girls were driven from their communities for having children out of wedlock. Look at the internments of racial minorities during war. Look at the hopeless paternalistic attitudes that still prevail over native people. And prior to that over women.
These are horrific intrusions of government into peoples lives that all took place in the last 75 years and continue to occur today in many respects. They were easy targets and so governments stomped all over them while the rest of us watched and either did nothing or endorsed it. The fight for freedom will never, ever end.
I suspect they all know that they can call it gay “marriage” but it isn’t marriage. If it weren’t for the fascist slimeballs slamming us with this nonsense, the whole thing would be hilarious.
I always had this belief that the Law could not force a free citizen to do something against his/her will. Where did I get that from?
Robert Tracinski is right when he says, “There is a reason why this approach tends so inexorably toward totalitarianism: because practically everything human beings want to do in life has a commercial aspect.”
And: “That’s why it has been such a long time since I’ve encountered a “liberal” who is still liberal in any meaningful sense.”
Liberals have morphed into a Marxist/Leninists ideology.
It has to be one of the great con jobs of the age that the Left portray themselves as anti-establishment and freedom oriented – when in fact they revel in the slavery of growing the state – reality challenged and psychotics make good partisan leftists – people who are happy to agitate for systems which will become their own prisons.
Big Govt “You’re free to anything you want so long as you pay taxes”
Taxpayer “When I’ve paid my taxes I can’t afford to do anything”
Please release my comment held in limbo.
Iola said: “Look at how many homosexuals were tossed in jail for buggery. Look how many young girls were driven from their communities for having children out of wedlock. Look at the internments of racial minorities during war. Look at the hopeless paternalistic attitudes that still prevail over native people. And prior to that over women.”
Indeed. And now look at how the people who claimed to be against such things have seized upon the machinery of government and expanded it beyond even Hitler, Stalin and Lenin’s wildest dreams, in order to turn it on their enemies.
That would be me, by the way. Straight white Christian male, currently the new Enemy of the State.
One would think the answer obvious, SHRINK THE GOVERNMENT. Starve it. Cut taxes and watch it dissipate like a bad smell.
But no. The great Social Justice Warriors must make things right, you see. Only when all the eeeevile men have been suitably punished, suitably chastened by the Strong Arm of Justice for their racism, bigotry and homophobia, only then can we have Utopia.
That even geezers like myself were small children when “young girls were driven from their communities for having children out of wedlock” is irrelevant to the Social Justice Warriors.
It fills me with joy that today of all days we get to have this discussion. Because its Election Day in the USA today, and all forward indications are that the Social Justice Warriors are being repudiated in voting booths all over the USA. Even in their former strongholds of New York, New England and California.
As goes America, so goes Canada. If the Left falls in the USA shortly it will follow even in Toronto and Vancouver. The “cool kids” will move on to the next big thing. I hope to make that next big thing TAX CUTS and the repeal of the Intervention State so well represented by Sally Kohn.
Its time again to slay the dragon.
And here in Canada it all started with turdo la first’s plagiarized quote, “The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation”.
And as the lefties were all swooning at the beauty and brilliance of it all, they excused the faint but legible script that followed: unless of course that bedroom happens to have a firearm behind the door, or the text from Leviticus 18 or Romans 1 on the wall.
Because in 1977 the Great Turdo was busy crafting the Canadian Human Rights Commission and making the first changes to the Criminal Code that would eventually lead to the long-gun registry.
“If the Left falls in the USA shortly it will follow even in Toronto and Vancouver.”
I doubt it. Toronto, 3 years ago, announced that whites were for the first time a minority, and Vancouver, well it was announced 10 years ago that over 50% of the children born in the lower mainland enrolled in ESL courses were born actually here.
These trends portend a continued large constituency for the Left.
Cities in particular have Leftists running them.
Nationally is a different story, you may be right on that count, the Phantom.
We have not learned from communism or any other dictatorship otherwise we would see through this mannish harridan’s nonsense and tell her where to cram it.
If you can control currency, food and other resources, you can control a lot of things. But the culture war starts before that.
Oz said: “Toronto, 3 years ago, announced that whites were for the first time a minority.”
Ah yes, about that.
First, the mere existence of the Rob Ford mayoralty tells us an awful lot about the people who actually -vote- in Toronto. They are majority conservative, and never let anyone tell you they aren’t. Most of those brown immigrants to Hogtown are a hell of a lot more conservative than I am. John Tory for all his pink underwear Watermelonism is nominally a conservative, and he won over the Fords by not a wide margin. He’s looking over his shoulder even now, you may be sure. I don’t expect much in the way of positive activity from Mr. Tory, but at least he’s not an overt Commie like ChowChow.
Second, whites are a minority in the GTA for two reasons. Federal Liberal immigration policy primarily, and secondarily White Flight. Anybody with money and white skin is cashing out their suuuuuper expensive Toronto home and buying something way cheaper/bigger/nicer in the surrounding area. Because Toronto is slowly becoming Detroit, and everybody knows it.
Liberal immigration policy is one of those failed notions that are going to change with the defeat of the Intervention State, along with 50+% taxation, welfare and Affirmative Action. Everybody who’s in Canada for the Free Stuff will bolt for the exits as soon as the Free Stuff dries up. That alone will make Toronto majority White in ten years.
Because winter in Toronto is something only white people are dumb enough to put up with, unless there’s a bunch of Free Stuff to make it worthwhile. If that seems RAAAAACIST, then you haven’t talked to many immigrants.
“First, the mere existence of the Rob Ford mayoralty tells us an awful lot about the people who actually -vote- in Toronto.”
Two-in-a-row, BFD. re. Olivia Chow, the competition, being an NDP MP was a “kiss-of-death for her political career in Ontario if she wants to run for a wider area than just TO city councillor or MP.
When was the last conservative TO mayor before Ford and how does white flight help?
I disagree with the notion that VisMin immigrants are more conservative, especially at the civic level.
“Because Toronto is slowly becoming Detroit, and everybody knows it.”
You do realize that the above line argues against what you said at 3:36 and bolsters my premise instead, yes?
Wha’cha got to say about HongCouver?
A few years ago the government in Saskatchewan legislated same s*x marriage. Christian marriage commissioners were told either marry anyone who comes or quit. No option.
Consider also the controversy all summer of Trinity University law grads are not allowed to practice in many provinces, although this is going to the courts.
Move to Housten and the order by the mayor that evangelical pastors must submit their sermons for approval.
This all sounds a lot like what there was in the Soviet Union.
I run a business.
I, not the Govt or Sally F****ing Kohn or any other PISSANTE is going to tell me WHO I can do business with..Period.
But I guess that is in fact the end game of these slimy so called Liberals. Right..?? continue to regulate ad nauseum and literally drive private enterprise into the ground via the fascist boot so that all can grovel at the foot of the “benevolent” Government.
I am not able to find it, but it says somewhere in either John or Revelations that in the last days Christians will not be able to buy things or conduct commerce in any way.
Sally Kohn is one of the dumbest liberals who exists in the United States. She the standard they use to argue that Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the staff of MSNBC and CNN are the media intellectual elite. In that narrow field, they are right, er, left.
“It’s hard to argue that opposing marriage equality is a central tenet of Christianity when majorities of Christian voters support same-sex marriage.”
Fatuous argument.
I don’t care about what a majority of a group supports. Freedom of religion is a protected individual right practiced by individuals with private individual beliefs and interpretations.
All will account individually to God for their beliefs. Telling God they supported a group position contrary to His Word won’t cut it.
In Canada, Freedom of Religion is protected by the Charter and in the U.S. it is protected by the Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights.
Sally Kohn ought to know better. Kohn is a Jewish name, other spelling Kohen/Cohen, which comes from the Hebrew tribe of Levi. The Levites were the Hebrew Priest tribe of Israel.
see the Book of Leviticus
Religion is not a consensus or rule of the majority, but the Bible is the Canon for Christians.
It’s the Revelation to John Chapter 13. All people will have to take the mark of the Beast (666) and worship the Beast or they won’t be able to buy or sell anything, period.
I won’t be here when it happens, and neither will you be, if you’re a Christian.
Thanks. I figured someone would have it at their fingertips.
The English lawyer, Leo Abse, who was largely responsible for the decriminalization of homosexual conduct, noted that, because something is no longer against the law, it does not therefore become virtuous!
Back at the beginning my point was that assuming the Lefties get slaughtered in the USA tonight, as it seems they are doing, the Lefties in Canada will shortly follow them onto the dung heap of history.
My point about immigrants in Toronto is that they voted for Ford, big time, because they’re more conservative than the White people fleeing for the suburbs.
You said: “I disagree with the notion that VisMin immigrants are more conservative, especially at the civic level.” That’s because you don’t know any, would be my guess. These are families where the daughters are not allowed to wear makeup or go on dates, the sons are expected to do their duty to the family and marry well, so they can keep Grandma at their place when she’s 90. They own family businesses, they save their money like crazy, etc.
They only vote Liberal because the media have convinced them if they vote Conservative the Scary White People will kill them all. As that has become more obviously a lie over time, guys like Rob Ford have been getting the immigrant vote more and more.
The fleeing Whites become much more conservative out in the suburbs because all their neighbors are, because they have something worth protecting out there, and because they don’t live or die based on city supplied services as much. Plus they seem to relax quite a bit, since they aren’t surrounded by surly stressed out Torontonians all the time.
Toronto is becoming Detroit because of LIBERALISM, not immigrants. Same thing that made Detroit what it is today. Many of the scuzzier lowlife who make Toronto the craphole that it is will flee the place as liberal welfare policies and social justice hoorah get repealed. What will remain are the hard @sses who built a life and want to keep it.
Aka conservatives.
As Toronto pulls back from the brink of Detroitification, so the white people will move back in and jack up the housing prices again.