The Tyranny of the Minority - ENOUGH is ENOUGH

The TYRANNY of the MINORITY has been a subject that has not been brought to the attention of the general public enough. Part of that is that is runs counter to the "Diversity First" crowd who are the prime extollers of the POLITICALLY CONNECTEDNESS that is the off shoot of the left-over hippie view point that "everybody wins, we don't want to keep score, all are special, blah, blah blah". This is the opposite of what makes America great. The idea that competitiveness is good and we reward excellence is how it should be, not the Politically Connectedness of these idiots -

They want to "dumb down" the world so that all are the same when obviously, all are NOT the same and we should reward the best. The Olympics is a great example as the competitors come from around the world, strive to be the best and no one gives points for being PC. They reward the best and 2nd place can be a matter of hundredths of a second but still, there is the GOLD Medal for the BEST, and silver & bronze for those who come in 2nd & third.

Basically, the ideas/concepts/point-of-view these feckless idiots constantly spout via the media is grossly out of touch with what the MAJORITY of our citizenry see as right/just/proper, etc. Unfortunately, they have the media as their cheerleaders - Just like POTUS did in 2008....that gives them a powerful platform to grind out their tripe each & every day....UGH!!

The news story that a California boy was made to take an American Flag off his bicycle after two months of riding to school that way was due to a local school administrator inflicting her PC view that the FLAG (OUR FLAG) was a symbol that could anger local Hispanics to violence. That is was insensitive to others to display the US Flag.....WTF?? Are you freakin' kidding me ???

How out of whack do things have to get before we finally say enough is enough?

The majority are losing freedom after freedom and tradition after tradition to a wimpy, nameless, minority that hides behind groups like the ACLU and dumps shame on its opposition through words like ‘diversity’ and ‘fairness.’ But there is nothing diverse about a politically correct landscape, and the methods used to try to create one are clearly anything but fair.

I was born as a 2nd generation Irish American Male...My grandparents came to America from the Old Sod and did not demand "equality" as they knew that to become AMERICAN was to adapt themselves to AMERICA not visa-versa...These fools who spout this stupidity think that AMERICA must adapt to THEM....Take a look at FRANCE and other countries in Europe - see how well that is working out for them....RIOTS driven by an emboldened group of immigrants and others in France shut down their country for a few weeks....British Troops endured protests by a MUSLIM minority upon returning home to parade....Are you REALLY interested in seeing this kind of CRAP here at home???

Enclosed is an article by A.W.R Hawkins, a guy who puts the debate into proper perspective. I was born as a White Male and I should not suffer from the Tyranny of the Minority just because others were not. Our Country has many people, and we are diverse BUT the minority have no superior standing on anything regardless of any issues that occurred in our past. You cannot correct a wrong with another wrongs as all learned, " Two wrongs don't make a right". Too bad the PC Crowd and their cheerleaders in the media missed that fundamental lesson.

The Tyranny of the Minority
by A.W.R. Hawkins - Humanevents.com
Posted 11/02/2010 ET

When the Founding Fathers created this nation, they designated it a republic rather than a democracy. They did so because a republic is fixed and tends toward stability over time, whereas a democracy, which is always in flux, is prone to violent dissolution at any moment. In fact, many of them referred to democracy as “mob rule,” and wanted to avoid it like the plague for fear that it could provide a faction the opportunity to access to the levers of political power and change the course of the nation for the worse in a relatively short period of time.

Although we have all but abolished the Constitution the Founders left us and moved closer to a democracy with each passing generation, we have still managed to remain a republic foundationally. Yet somewhere along the way, between 1776 and now, we opened the door to a rabid political correctness that has actually nurtured the very faction-like atmosphere which tends to undo a republic.

But it’s not the kind of faction our Founders feared: not one where a majority of voters unite for a cause and force their will upon the citizenry as a whole. Instead, it’s a perverted use of the court system and groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that allow a person to claim that he’s been offended and then to levy the charge against those who gave offense in order to control their actions.

In other words, we’re not dealing with the tyranny of the majority, but the tyranny of the minority.

We have lost nativity scenes in cities across America because one citizen of one city doesn’t like Christmas. We have lost freedom of religious expression in our public school system because a student here or there is bothered when people pray. We have lost crosses on many of our war memorials because atheists want to shield their children from religious exposure. And we are poised to lose even more freedoms if we don’t stop this scourge before it sweeps across our land and our intellectual landscape completely.

As I am writing this, citizens in King, North Carolina are protesting the removal of a Christian flag from a war memorial in that city: a flag that was removed by order of the King City Council after one veteran who saw duty in Afghanistan filed a complaint with the ACLU.

In today’s usual cryptic fashion, the name of the offended party has not been released to the public, a withholding that reflects a degree of secrecy that could lead some to believe that the offended soldier is a Muslim, an atheist, or a figment of the ACLU’s imagination. Whatever the case may be, the complaint from this ghostlike citizen in King has proven sufficient to have a flag removed that had been proudly flying over the memorial for more than six years.

And in Oxford, Mississippi, where the Ole Miss Rebels have enjoyed the rich tradition of having a mascot named “Colonel Reb” roaming the football sidelines since 1979, politically correct tendencies led them to do away with the southern icon this season and to replace him with a black bear. That’s right: the new mascot is a black bear in a southern gentlemen’s suit, and his name is the “Rebel Black Bear.”

How out of whack do things have to get before we finally say enough is enough?

The majority are losing freedom after freedom and tradition after tradition to a wimpy, nameless, minority that hides behind groups like the ACLU and dumps shame on its opposition through words like ‘diversity’ and ‘fairness.’ But there is nothing diverse about a politically correct landscape, and the methods used to try to create one are clearly anything but fair.

Our Founders were wise enough to know that a tendency toward unchecked factions would devastate the country they sought to leave to posterity. Surely we must be brave enough to take their fears into account and fight against the one person here or the two people there who are actively using the court system to rip us away from our moorings.

The tyranny of the minority is tyrannical indeed.


HUMAN EVENTS columnist A.W.R. Hawkins holds a Ph.D. in U.S. Military History from Texas Tech University. He will be a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal during the summer of 2010.