Why Do Liberals Call Opposition "Trolling?" - Kind of Scary!
Written by Paul M Walker
Monday, 09 June 2008 20:24
The more I inject myself into the political world, the more I feel the need to expand the places where I debate the issues. I like to stop by conservative websites as well as many different liberal websites, just so I can get a feel for how everyone feels and what different thoughts and opinions are out there.
There's something that has come to bother me though over the course of the past few months though in my bouncing around from site to site. When it comes to conservative websites, there's usually a certain amount of civility when it comes to debating the issues and when it comes to telling someone of a different opinion they're wrong. Most conservative sites will tell liberal or non-conservative posters that they feel differently and use some sort of evidence usually to back it up. Even if they don't have evidence, they'll agree to disagree and simply respect the others position. Now there are always the bad fish that will do a bit of name calling and get huffy in their posts, but for the most part there's a certain amount of civility that remains intact.
This is just the opposite reaction that is received on liberal websites, especially ones like the "Daily Kos." Liberals always find a need to say that anyone who offers any opposing opinion a troll. They say that you're a republican troll or conservative troll if you come in and say something different than what they like to hear. The name calling is consistent and any retaliation they have usually has something to do with George Bush and something he did wrong. It rarely addresses the point that you made directly and focuses more on using opposing smart ass quips that appear more childish than anything. I've found the same reaction on multiple different websites that I have posted on and it's almost disheartening when you really get down to it all. Why is it so hard just to get a reasonable and civil response from the people associated with and patrons of these websites?
I think the thing that really bugs me about all of this uncivil discourse has a lot to do with those people out there who are always trying to silence anything they don't like. The political correct crowd has tried for years to silence opposition in the way that things are said and/or done. We even have crimes in this country today that are designated as "hate crimes." We are literally punishing people for crimes that commit based on thoughts that they had. You may or may not find these types of "hate crimes" offensive, but it's an inherent right to have the opinion of someone you have for whatever reason you wish to have such an opinion. The fact of the matter is, murder is murder, rape is rape, and robbery is robbery. The motive doesn't change the crime except for the degree of the crime. If a person kills a person just because they see them and they're a different skin color, then we'd call that pre-meditated murder. They saw a person, decided to kill them for that reason, and then proceeded to kill them. It's called first degree murder. There's no rhyme or reason to actually call it by legal terms a "hate crime."
Many of you may probably think that it's not a big deal to punish someone for a "hate crime" on those terms, but when you do think of it as in the realm of actual thought, it should open your eyes a bit more. Look at people like Al Gore who shut down people who oppose the notion of man-made global warming. He refuses to actually debate the issues, says there's nothing to debate, and then proceeds to say that those who oppose him and his ideas are the same as those who said the earth was flat. Look at those who wish to shut down political talk radio with legislation like the "fairness doctrine" in which the FCC would decide if the topics being discussed were acceptable by their standards. Many current democrat politicians including Dick Durbin and John Kerry have both said it should be instated. There again, trying to simply shut down the opposition by legislating it off of the air. Is there any more of a blatant attack on the first amendment?
The first amendment gives you the right to say what you wish to say and express it in any way you wish to. The thing that many people cannot understand is the fact that you do not have a right to not be offended. You do not have a right to stop someone else from saying what they want to say even if you do not like it. You have the right to oppose that, just as they have the right to oppose you. They can be racist, sexist, elitist, etc. There's nothing you can do about it and there's nothing they can do to you if you are that same way as well. It's the beauty o the first amendment. You have the right to offend and the right to be offended. You just don't have a right to stop someone from being offensive or expressing an opinion that differs from your own.
The scary part of it all is, is that there are plenty of people out there, especially those on the far left that will continue to do everything in their power to make sure opposition does not have a voice and that voice is shut down. I myself have been banned from a few websites just because I expressed a different opinion. I was always civil and just stated something different. I was called a troll and removed because of it. It's their site and their choice to do so in that situation. The problem being is that isn't where they want to stop. They're in government and they're in positions of power. That is very scary if you ask me.
Without the first amendment we have nothing. Never forget that and always welcome opposition to your thoughts. It's their right just as much as yours. Destroy them with the facts and you'll always win the debate. They're more likely to simply call you a troll and then find themselves being the ones hiding underneath the bridge. Who's really the troll now?
Maxine Waters Lets The Cat Out of The Bag on The Liberal Game Plan!
Written by Paul M Walker
Sunday, 25 May 2008 19:48
On my weekly political radio show (Nuclear Fallout) this past friday I touched on the subject of Congresswoman Maxine Waters threatening to nationalize the oil industry here in America. Below is the audio clip from the show, or you can read the transcript/watch the actual video of Maxine Waters attacking the oil executives below as well. This should be a regular feature that will be posted to the site each week for those of you who miss the main topic of discussion on the show. Your questions are comments are always welcome on these topics. You can discuss them in our forums or by dropping me an e-mail opinion off of our contacts page.
Partial Transcript
Another California member of the house of reps has spoken up yet again and put her foot in her mouth. Play this video clip below and be sure you're sitting back in your chair for this one, it's pretty scary.
So who does Maxine Waters (35th District of California) think she is? Could this have just been a simple threat to prove a point? Or was this an actual slip of the tongue on what these liberals really want to do? I’m personally leaning towards the latter part of that here.
There seems to be this great mission out there today on the far left to socialize America and turn her into a style of government where the productive people pay for those who are less productive in the interest of how Barack Obama would say “fairness.” I find it very scary my friends that this woman can stand up there during this committee and speak like this to companies and corporations in this country. –
She wants to nationalize our oil companies? What will be next? Will she want to nationalize the electronics & computer industries so the government can decide what type of computer you can have? Will she want to nationalize the restaurant industry and tell every restaurant that they can only serve certain types of food? We already know that these liberals want to nationalize our healthcare industry and complete wreck the best healthcare system in the world.
The sad part here is, where is the outcry? Where are the American people in standing up to call for a woman like this to immediately be thrown out of office? – Oh, I’ll tell you exactly where they are. They are sitting at home completely clueless because of a media that bows at the alter of these politicians and whatever they say. A media that has lost the trust of the American people, so even if it does get reported they don’t see it because of all the agenda based garbage that you find on your tv screen and in your newspaper each and every day. This will probably just be another incident here like the incandescent light bulbs that most people have no idea have been banned by 2012, thanks to a lack of reporting by the main stream media.
Yet, I digress.
Things like this should not be said on capital hill. Things like this show a complete lack of respect to American business and the complete disregard for the capitalist economic structure we have. I know these people want to play the role of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and seize ultimate power. I know they can’t stand the fact that we have such a great way of life and want to take it away. The question here though, is are we going to let them? Or are we going to stand up for our liberty and freedom. Are we going to stand up here for America and put liberal nut cases like Maxine Waters out of office in this years election.
This is a partial transcript of Nuclear Fallout on May 23, 2008. For the complete audio portion, please refer to the top of the article.
So What Can We Talk About When it Comes to Barack Obama?
Written by Paul M Walker
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:32
The more of a political junkie that I become, the more I realize that there are plenty of politicians out there who will piss, bitch, and moan about every little thing you criticize them on. Now maybe I could understand this if it were just whining and complaining by a mediocre politician about piddly little things, but we are talking about Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama and his ability to complain about everything. Well, his campaign does a lot of the complaining for him as well so he doesn't always have to get his hands dirty.
The latest thing Obama has started criticizing people for is attack ads directed toward his wife Michelle Obama which are being put out by the Tennessee GOP (click here to view the ad). The ad concentrates on Michelle Obama's comments on how for the first time in her adult life, she's proud of her country. It continues by showing a series of Americans who are stating why they are and have been proud to be an American. This is not the first time Michelle Obama has been criticized for these comments or others either. Talk radio and the media have played these comments along with the ones where she says it's not worth it to go to college and that people should do public service instead of looking into corporate jobs. How she feels that America is a "down right mean country in 2008," and depending on who's doing the reporting it's spun to be either a bad thing or that she's being taken our of context by other sources. Barack Obama's response to this ad and any future ads is "lay off my wife," as you can see from the video posted at the top of this article.
This is something that is added to a long list of items that we are no longer allowed to criticize Barack Obama on without being called a racist, being accused of demagoguery, or just trying to stray from the issues. No matter what you seem to criticize this man who is running for president on, you are told by him or his campaign that those things are not allowed. The sad part about all of this is the fact that the main stream media is going along with it. If the Obama campaign says it's wrong, the media says its wrong. Even more so on top of that even some GOP elites will tell you it's wrong to criticize Obama on what people, even a good majority of democrats feel are legitimate and questionable issues about a man that we know very little about.
So far we have been told that we cannot criticize Barack Obama on the following issues:
his ears, his mother, his father, his pastor (J. Wright), his voting record, his religion, his race, the appeasement issue, his color, his lack of color, his friends and questionable associations (William Ayers and Tony Resco), his education, his middle name, his experience, his income, the flag lapel pin issue, and now even his wife is off limits.
Now maybe some of those seem just plain silly. Maybe certain things should not be an issue like race, flag pin, mother, father, etc. but Obama himself is the one that actually injected most of these issues into the campaign himself in the first place. The minute anyone else starts to bring up any of these issues though and talks about that, they are called racist and mean spirited.
My main problem that really made me want to write about this today is Michelle Obama. Now I could understand Barack's reaction to criticism of Michelle if she was just staying at home and keeping her nose out of the campaign. The problem is that she's not doing that. Michelle Obama is a front and center piece of Obama's campaign that is out there trying to sell the Obama brand to the American people just as hard as anyone else in the campaign is. She's out there saying questionable things in the process that the American people have deemed worthy of criticism. If Barack or even Michelle want the criticism to stop, then all they have to do is stop putting her up in front of the podium. Stop injecting her constantly in the campaign, and if you do keep her campaigning, she needs to learn to watch the things that she says. Criticism comes only where criticism is due. The more she's in there, the more of her past that will be dug up (including her scary college thesis) and the more she's going to be the one that's being challenged on things that she says.
I think one of the local talk radio hosts here Chris Baker got it right the other day when he said that Obaam is simply turning into a little "whiny bitch." It's just that simple. The man is running for the office of the President of the United States of America. If you can't take the heat in this fight for the most important job in our country, then you need to get out of the race. If you can't do anything beyond whining and complaining, then you need to get out of this race. If you can't take a position other than saying "George Bush" as your answer to every question, then you need to get out of this race.
All of the things people point out are issues. The American people as a whole care about one's content of character and where they came from. The American people care to know if your race and/or color plays a role in your decision making process. The American people care to know if you agree with those you are associated with who have terrorist ties or antipathy toward America. The American people care to know more things about you, other than the fact you know how to say the word "change" two-hundred times per speech you give. The American people will listen to you if you talk to them. The American people will give you their full attention if you speak to them honestly and clearly about who you are and what you stand for. The real question here though for you Barack Obama, is: Do you want the American people to know who you are and what you really are about? It it's yes, then please tell us. If the answer is no, then we should all be a little frightened of you.
There is a plague among men. A disease that has been with us since the dawn of time. It's something that has killed millions of men, millions of women, and even millions of children throughout history. Something that most recently has now killed over four thousand of our very own. This everlasting scourge men know as war.
Many have been forced into the slavery of fighting for a ruler. Many more played the roles of martyr's for the greater good of their cause. Millions throughout all of history have fought to gain power and to conquer the lands of the world. Our men have volunteered and fought for the liberty of others, putting themselves second to those they wish to keep as well as set free.
So what is my point? What do two simple paragraphs mean? It means as men we are bound by our nature and on our knees to what that nature puts in front of us. It means that we will always have wars that need to be fought. Whether we agree with the politics of them or not. Those who volunteer their lives to fight for not only our nation and our freedom, but the freedom of others deserve our respect. They deserve our gratitude and most of all they deserve our love.
I see many stories every day of people who are against these men and women who choose to fight for this country. People who are against these soldier who put their own lives at risk to fight for something that they believe in. And even if they don't believe in the war they are fighting, they still fight because of a love for their country and the people of this great land.
It saddens me whenever I see people vandalizing and destroying a military recruiting station. These people are cowards. They are degenerate scum who do not deserve the life and the liberty that has been given to them by the men of the past and the men of today who fight for their freedom. The military is not the enemy in this war. The soldiers are not the ones to blame for the battles that are taking place. They are simply following an oath to obey the orders of the President of the United States, and to fight against all enemies foreign and domestic. Demonstrating out against our men in women in uniform is a sad and pathetic act.
We are five years into a war that many of us do not agree with. Many of us do agree with the battle that has to be fought though as well. Whether or not the reasons are to your liking, and whether or not you agree with those in power at this point in time, there is one thing you must always do. That is support our troops. Support those who choose to fight. Support those who fight so you don't have to. Pray for them and wish them your best. Pray for their families and if you see the wife of a soldier or know one, thank her. If you know a mother of a soldier, give her your blessing. If you know of a family who has lost a soldier, thank them for their sacrifice and reassure them that their soldier was fighting for God and country.
We know not what will happen in the coming years, but there's one thing that we do know for sure. None of us like war, and none of us want to see our men and women die. This plague that we witness in our daily lives is a part of our history forever, always has been, and always will be. Thank those who are willing to sacrifice themselves for this great nation, and pray that we don't make it to four thousand more.
Shut Down by Sean Hannity Himself on a Possible Obama Assassination.
Written by Paul M Walker
Sunday, 16 March 2008 02:11
Aparantly the subject of assassination is a touchy subject to some in the media. It's something that can't be openly discussed, even if it's done in a tasteful and not hate filled manner. It's something that is brought up many times in an election cycle such as this one, when we have so many different types of candidates than usual.
I had recently made a post on the Sean Hannity website forums regarding the possibility of Barack Obama being assassinated in the context of how people from different political backgrounds feel about the issue. The post was as follows:
A bunch of my friends are Obama supporters. Each of them have their reasons and each of them feel different ways about him on different issues.
A couple of them from the get go though, have said that if Obama is elected, he will be killed. There's no question in their mind that this will happen.
Personally, I have been disregarding this thought. I think about it and what they tell me and everything and I think about how some people are, but I really didn't think he would be shot down/killed under normal circumstances. After the past few days though? I'm convinced.
While it would be great for America to have a black president, it won't be great for America to have a president who has ties to a part of the black community that truely believes they have no hope in life. A part of the community that is led by a hate filled preacher who talks about how bad America is.
I think more people knowing about Obama's background now is going to hurt him extensively and almost assuradly get him killed if he is elected as president. There are too many people who are going to be freaking out by this guy and too many nuts out there who will be willing to do the deed.
When I was talking with one of my friends earlier today, he even said "when important people die, it inspires people."
Now my friend leans a bit liberal on certain issues, but I wonder how many other people think this way. He's got a solid head on his shoulder and is a well educated individual in the Navy as well. To make a statement like that, almost makes me wonder if a lot of people think it's going to happen that way and that it will inspire and send a message to us all?
I don't know. I just feel that with the more we learn about the racial implications in his past, the more likely it is for sure he will be killed. I'd hope for it not to happen, but when it comes down to it, I have to bring myself back to reality.
After this forum post was posted, there was a good discussion going on and while there were some that didn't like the idea of it being talked about, most realized there was nothing dangerous per say in the way it was being talked about. I was under the impression that people could be mature and discuss the issue, but that assumption was wrong.
I came back to the Hannity.com website tonight to find a ban and a message stating that Sean Hannity himself had requested the ban and the removal of the thread. After some skepticism and some research, I have come to find out that it was Sean Hannity's actual radio producer Boyce who initiated the ban and it had come directly from Hannity himself.
