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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shoot1st who wrote (11095)	6/19/2014 11:03:54 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

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To: Shoot1st who wrote (11095)	6/19/2014 11:53:01 PM
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Why the Redskins Trademark Ruling Should Terrify You ................................................................................ The Federalist ^ \| June 19, 2014 \| Robert Tracinski Anyone deemed politically incorrect is now outside the protection of the law. Everyone should be terrified by the new ruling by the US Patent Office cancelling the team’s trademark. The ruling was based on a dubious argument that “redskins” is a slur against Native Americans. Well, then maybe we’d better rename the state of Oklahoma, which drew its name from Choctaw words that mean “red people.” Or maybe we should petition the US Army to decommission the attack helicopter it named after a people it defeated in 1886. Then again, forget I mentioned it. I don’t want to give anyone ideas. This name-bullying has become a kind of sport for self-aggrandizing political activists, because if you can force everyone to change the name of something—a sports team, a city, an entire race of people—it demonstrates your power. This is true even if it makes no sense and especially if it makes no sense. How much more powerful are you if you can force people to change a name for no reason other than because they’re afraid you will vilify them? This ruling happened precisely because the campaign against the Redskins has failed in the court of public opinion. The issue has become the hobby horse of a small group of lefty commentators and politicians in DC, while regular Washingtonians, the people who make up the team’s base of fans and customers, are largely indifferent. So the left resorted to one of its favorite fallbacks. If the people can’t be persuaded, use the bureaucracy—in this case, two political appointees on the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. That’s what is disturbing about this ruling. Our system of government depends on the impartial administration of the laws by the executive. In this case, executive officials declared that a private company doesn’t deserve the protection of the law: if the ruling survives an appeal in the courts, the federal government will start prosecuting violations of the team’s intellectual property rights, potentially costing it millions of dollars. This ruling isn’t a slippery slope. It’s a slope we’ve already slid down: bureaucrats in Washington are now empowered to make subjective decrees about what is offensive and what will be tolerated, based on pressure from a small clique of Washington insiders. Anyone who runs afoul of these decrees, anyone branded as regressive and politically incorrect, is declared outside the protection of the federal government. In Europe you can be arrested for racially offending someone. This is what they are trying to do here. Coming soon... 2 posted on 6/19/2014, 11:22:56 PM by bigtoona

To: Shoot1st who wrote (11095)	6/20/2014 12:41:33 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By R2O Respond to of 16547

Man says apartment complex called his US flag a ‘threat to Muslim community’ .............................................................................................................................................. khou.com E by Alice Barr / KHOU 11 News June 18, 2014 WEBSTER, Texas -- A Webster man says his apartment complex manager told him his American flag was a “threat to the Muslim community,” and that he has to take it down. But he’s not giving up without a fight. Stepping onto Duy Tran's balcony in Webster, one thing is clear: "It means a lot to me," he said. He's talking about his American flag that he proudly put up when he moved in just a few days ago. But then an apartment manager at the Lodge on El Dorado told him he had to take it down. "What really stunned me is that she said it’s a threat towards the Muslim community,” said Tran. “I’m not a threat toward anybody." We tried to ask a manager if that's exactly what was said, but she just handed us a statement, refused to answer any questions, and called an officer to escort us off the property, before we could press any further: "While the Lodge on El Dorado admires our resident's patriotism, we must enforce our property rules and guidelines. Such guidelines maintain the aesthetics of our apartment community and provide for the safety of all residents. The apartment community already proudly displays our country's flag in a safe and appropriate manner at the entrances to our community." But we saw other patriotic symbols hanging from other balconies in the complex, and Tran doesn't plan to budge. "I’m gonna leave my flag there, as an American, until she shows me proof that I don’t have the right to leave my flag there," said Tran. To Tran it's about so much more than stars and stripes. "I have friends that died for this country," he said. So he says this fight is the least he can do. We have not heard of any residents complaining about any flags at the complex, or any of the patriotic items we saw. In fact, we spoke to several neighbors who say they want Tran's flag to stay.