If the
Founding Fathers could return today to get a good look at their creation, what
would they think? We all wonder what they would think of cars, computers, and
thing like that, but what would they think of our stewardship of the rights
they so carefully laid out and risked their very lives for?
America has no doubt surpassed their wildest
dreams. For two hundred plus years, people from all over the world have come
with the clothes on their backs and what they could carry with them, very often
risking their lives for the fresh breeze of freedom and liberty. They knew that
once they became Americans they would have the right to things like justice,
the right to defend themselves, their families and their property, and perhaps
most important of all, the right to speak their mind and speak it freely.
That precious thing known as the first
amendment is first for a reason, because all other rights hinge on its
existence. But something has happened to the first amendment. It has become
infected. That infection is commonly known as political correctness. As best as
we can tell, political correctness, or PC evolved where else but on college
campuses inhabited by liberals. The idea, to not “offend” anyone. No one wants
to intentionally offend. We get why one does not hurl racial slurs and words of
that nature, but when words like, “Merry Christmas”, or anything remotely
having to do with God or Christianity enter the mix, time to call the thought
police. Then there is the established view that Christians are offensive by
virtue of their existence, but the most unpardonable offense of all seems to be
offending Muslims. It looks strangely like liberals are quite willing to change
every aspect of American life so the people who murdered 3000 Americans in one
morning on 9/11 won’t be “offended”. Are you kidding?
We have now reached the point where P.C.
kills. Literally. As the investigation into the horrific terrorist attack in
San Bernardino continues, one of the things that the mainstream media really
does not like to talk about in polite society is the fact that a neighbor
witnessed a large number of middle-eastern men coming and going from the house
where Sayed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik lived. She also noticed lots of
packages being delivered and lights on in the garage where people seemed to be
working late at night. Perhaps this might send up a few red flags to some, and
they may think once or twice about making a phone call or two to, well, someone.
Not the neighbor! Because, well, there are things worse than terrorist attacks,
that would be profiling. You guessed it! The neighbor did not want to be
accused of profiling!
So let’s review. Fourteen people might be
alive to celebrate the holidays, remember we can’t say “Christmas”, with their
families, were it not for the upholding of P.C. at all costs, and in this case,
the cost was enormous.
The cure for the virus of political
correctness is simple. Free speech, free thought, free expression, combine that
with a healthy dose of no fear and push back of this insanity. Bottom line,
this is a very small group of people that we have allowed to bully us into what
amounts to censorship.
We can only speculate what the founding
Fathers might think of what we have become. But chances are, if they were not
impressed, they would not be politically correct when they told us.
