On flagburning and supporting the Stupid Party
Over the past few weeks, I've been getting a steady stream of mailings from various Democratic senators, begging for money to fund their re-election campaigns against the thugs that the Evil Party are putting up to run against them. A couple of them (Bill Nelson (S-Fl) and Debbie Stabenow (S-Mi)) have been very persistant, sending repeated mailings to remind me that this quarterly funding cycle is almost ended, and they need money from me so they can get matching funds from the few organizations that haven't yet been kneecapped by the Evil Party.
Most of these begging-for-dollars letters have been dealt with by the simple expedient of ignoring them, but Mr. Nelsom and Ms. Stabenow happened to send me their little whining for dollars memos recently enough so their names were still familiar when I read, in The Hill, that they were planning on voting for the Graven Images Amendment. And they want me to contribute to their re-election campaign? Oh hahahaha!
But, just in case they were all misquoted, I replied to their fundraising letters with a little note:
I'd be more willing to contribute money to your campaign if I didn't read articles that started with:
Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who face potentially difficult reelection campaigns next year, plan to break ranks with a majority of their fellow Democrats next month to support a constitutional amendment banning desecration of the U.S. flag.
If (Stupid Party Senator) is in favor of discarding the First Amendment, they will not receive any support from my household. Please clarify their position on the Graven Images amendment.
I fully expect I'll either get blown off or will get back some boilerplate about the sanctity of the flag (I'm a lot more worried about the sanctity of the bill of rights, thank you very much, and amendments that attempt to abrogate the bill of rights make a mockery of that flag, unless these senators want to have the United States emulate the flag "protection" that Nazi Germany implemented.) In either case, they will damn themselves by their (in)action. When it comes to defending freedom of speech, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! And if the constitution is rewritten so that freedom of speech only exists when you are doing something that the ruling party agrees with, freedom of speech will be dead. And these senators think I'll give them money so they can more effectively put bullets into freedom of speech, they've got another think coming.
This is every bit as stupid as the self-proclaimed "moderate 7" seizing defeat from the hands of victory by letting the Coward in Chief appoint those five incompetent judges just when the Stupid Party had backed the Evil Party up against the wall and was ready to hand them a narrow, but satisfying, defeat. And unlike another five incompetent judges (which can be taken out of power by a nice round of "impeach them all; G-d will know his own" when the Evil Party is driven from power), an evil constitutional amendment can send rot deeply into the fabric of the United States.
Stupid Party senators who will vote to strip me of my rights as a United States citizen are not likely to get one damn penny from me. I learned my lesson with John Kerry, who got a lot of money from me in the presidental campaign, only to betray me twice (once by not contesting the 10,000 happy coincidences in Ohio, et alii, and secondly by stabbing his state in the back while campaigning in Louisiana.) From now on, when it comes to a choice between craven cowardice and blatant evil, I'll choose none of the above. And if a Democratic Party candidate wants my support, they'd better choose none of the above as well.