With the pair of SCOTUS decisions handed down yesterday I had little interest in reading any of the rightosphere blogs yesterday (and the same will likely happen today with the decisions coming down today).
Instead, after reading the decisions, I went directly to the leftosphere. I did not pass go, nor did I collect $100. Unless you count the laughing spell I had as worth a monetary figure.
The wailing and rending of garments was rife. As were the declarations of national dissolution.
Despite the fact that they were both unanimous decisions, meaning that even their Dear Leader’s handpicked “living document” technicians decided against proclaimed leftist doctrine, it was all hate for Roberts all the time. This hate even flowed over into a discussion of a Constitutional Convention to “fix the problems this bought and paid for Supreme Court is causing with decisions like these”.
Need another example?
Some dork who blogs under the moniker “Rude Pundit” lays out a plan to counter-protest pro-life clinic protesters at their churches.
I seriously doubt that that would end well for him. Part of the reason clinic protesters succeed is that there is usually only clinic staff and a few customers coming in and out in a day. These creeps want to bring a small handful of people to harangue an entire congregation.
Plus, they’ll have all of their pet-hate-speech laws to avoid bumping into. Most small town constables aren’t so obtuse as to let an opportunity to apply bogus hate-speech laws against those who proclaim the necessity of such laws.
I say bring it on.
My wife gave me a perspective I’d never have gotten on this subject.
Some of these same clinics which provide abortions also provide low-cost OBGYN services. And when these clinics are closed/chased out of town by anti-abortion folks (and really, it’s anti-abortion; the Catholic church is loosening up on condom use, and Protestants never really seemed offended at other forms of birth control like IUDs, diaphragms and Morena), they also get rid of low-cost female healthcare providers. If I were a woman, I wouldn’t be keen on the idea of someone being able to get in my face and call me “baby killer” just because I’m going in for a yearly pelvic exam.
I’m not saying laws need to be passed but your right to swing your fist, and my right to have an unpunched nose still puts us in quite close proximity. It’s analogous to the Westboro Baptist situation; on one hand we have a bunch of assholes who’re really unpolite, but on the other we can’t/we shouldn’t be passing laws restricting their freedom of speech cause in doing so it’s a damn slippery slope.
Of course, there is that nice 3rd party solution few people bring up. The Patriot Riders/Guard acted as a buffer between grieving families and the Phelp’s Phucking Phamily. Likewise, there are volunteer individuals/groups which escort patients in to abortion clinics through the harassing throngs outside. But I guess that’s not good enough of a solution for leftists, who need a government stamp, funding, and an organization for everything they want to do.