This morning "The Blaze" reported the story of 20 year army vet and Stockton, California hospital staffer, Boots Hawks. Hawks was placed on administrative leave for questioning why he was asked to stop signing his office emails with the phrase "God bless America". I'll include a link to the story at the bottom of this post.
Most people will react to this story, as they have with so many others of it's type, by shaking their fist in the air and cursing the out of control "political correctness" culture. Then they'll go about their lives largely oblivious to the fact that another little piece of their liberty has eroded away. Political correctness goes far deeper than the offensiveness that the left claims that they're trying to end, or the silly inconvenience that it seems to most people. It's a method by the totalitarian minded elitists to control our thoughts. Speech is just an expression of thought. And if you can control someone's speech you have, at the very least, made inroads to controlling their thought process. And if you control someone's thoughts, what about them do you not control?
This is far from a new realization, but it's one that must be explored more thoroughly. The P.C. movement is picking up more and more steam, and there is less and less outcry over their transgressions. Children are being suspended from school over charges of assault because they pointed their finger at each other and said "bang". Recently a high school student was suspended for going to class in an NRA t-shirt. There are demands from an elitist minority to change the name of the Washington Redskins. Never mind that 90% of American Indians either don't care or are proud to have an NFL team named the Redskins. We have elitist dumbass Bob Costas interrupting a recent Sunday night football game to tell the Indians that they're too stupid to understand that they should be offended.
More recently we've had Obama give a speech telling the five million or so Americans who lost their health care coverage because of Obamacare that their plans were crap and they're just too stupid to realize it. Remember the 29 times he said "If you like your plan you can keep your plan, Period."? But any of you not named "Period" are out of luck. Never mind the insult of our elected "representative" telling us, the sovereigns, what we can or can not keep. Or the man who spent 100 million dollars of our money on one vacation telling us what we must or must not purchase.
And if all of this wasn't enough, they have the gall to try and ban the phrase "God bless America"? Surely it's because we're just too stupid to understand that it's government that blesses us. It's government that watches over us and sees to our needs. That's why untold millions of Americans died during the recent government shutdown. Because we're too stupid to watch out for ourselves and each other. That's why, during the shutdown, the streets were lined with people holding frozen food containers pleading for some government agency to show up and read the directions to them. Because we're too stupid to feed ourselves. That's why we have the elitist halfwits and activists telling us when we should feel insulted or offended. Because we're too stupid to think for ourselves. Oh, how did we ever survive before the all knowing elitists arrived to guide us? To ban our soft drinks? To regulate our trans fats? To make our decisions for us? To slowly smother us?
But I'll spare you the "this time they've gone too far" line. That's been used so much as to have lost all meaning. Yes, I thought of paraphrasing Ronald Reagan, "it's time to draw a line in the sand and tell our enemies that this line they must not cross". But much like Obama's Syrian "red line" it's been crossed already.
As a child I first read about the fall of the Roman Republic and marveled at the idea that one man could subvert the political system of the most powerful nation on earth. As I grew a little older I started to wonder what it was like to live through that. To watch everything you believe in turned upside down. To see ones liberties dissolve at the touch of a despot. Now I know. The long road that began with the first outcry of "That's offensive" is nearing it's end.
God bless America. Say it while you still can. And God save us from elitist idiots who think that they're God.
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