Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

I am a hateful man

It would seem that I am a hateful man. I've been told that the political positions I take are foul and obscene. Maybe that's so.

For example, I believe that the federal government should be restricted to only providing those services which are explicitly authorized by the Constitution. That's obviously a hateful position, because it would deprive people of their right to have free health care at the expense of others. It's a hateful position because it means that senior citizens will no longer have their prescription drugs paid for, and they will no longer be coddled and cared for through federal programs like Medicare. Even worse, they will be deprived of an essential part of their income and left to eat dog food.

What a hateful, ugly man I am.

It's plain that my positions are hateful. After all, I expect people to be paid based upon their accomplishments rather than their seniority or their intentions. It's hateful to expect teachers, who work so hard to have to actually demonstrate their expertise and teach children so that they can meet an established standard.

I expect children to meet a standard before advancing to the next grade level in their education rather than promoting them to help their self-esteem. What a hateful, ugly attitude.

I don't want children to be promoted to the next grade level even though they've failed to do any work during the school year or failed to learn the subjects that they're being taught. What a hateful way to think. After all, if we don't "socially promote" children then their school district cannot continue to receive federal money to support their "education". I'm so hateful because I would not reward failure.

In fact, by even believing that it's possible to fail at something I am hateful.

I'm hateful because I don't believe that the federal government should be involved in education at all. After all, how can our children and the children of guest workers who simply didn't bother to enter the country in a "sanctioned" way receive a good education if the federal government doesn't pad the budgets of their school districts?

I'm a vile and ugly person because I believe that since the state's laws do not allow public employees to strike that teachers should be prosecuted when they do. I'm foul minded because I think that teachers that are paid more highly than other teachers in the state don't need yet another raise. It's just plain wrong of me to think that they're greedy when they strike to obtain it.

I'm hateful because I don't believe in the equality of outcomes. It's wrong-headed of me to believe that the only way you can have equal outcomes is to punish those that do better than others. I prefer equal opportunities where possible. It's apparently hateful to think that people should be allowed to fail and suffer the consequences of their failure while others succeed and reap the benefits. Why can't I see that the successful never actually earned those benefits and must have cheated the failures out of them?

I'm hateful because I believe that when a man or a woman work hard and then pass on the rewards of their labors to their children it's unfair to those children that didn't win "life's lottery".

I'm hateful because I don't think that the federal government should give people money for having children and not working. I really should "think of the children" more. After all, the government is there to coddle us from cradle to grave and how can I be so judgmental about people that refuse to work and are simply taking advantage of the system?

It's hateful of me to argue against mass transit systems in western Washington. What gives me the right to insist that the transit authorities spend my tax moneys wisely? What gives me the right to complain that ridership is so low on what light rail we do have that we're subsidizing the riders to the tune of thousands of dollars each annually? Who the HELL am I to complain that transit authorities wasted the money that was allotted to build light rail and then come back year after year to ask for more.

What is it with me anyway? What makes me think that repairing roads and adding lanes will do anything to help congestion anyway? How can I be so selfish as to want to drive my own car because the buses don't run on a schedule that gets me to work when I need to be there and still brings me home in the evening? How is it that I get outraged when I can walk five miles faster than I could take the bus to the same destination?

What gives me the right to be angry when transportation officials raise taxes and fees to pay for a monorail, then do it again without laying a single foot of track, then do it again and spend massive amounts of money for television advertising telling us how good it will be when the monorail is built, still without laying a foot of track? And how could I possibly be outraged that once the monorail project is finally voted down I find out that they'll be collecting the taxes for the foreseeable future anyway?

Why oh why do I call it injustice when a couple works hard to establish a business and livelihood only to have their property condemned and taken from them so that the monorail can be built only to have it sold to someone else because they can't afford to pay for it a second time?

After all, those are counter-productive, hateful attitudes on my part. I'm simply not with the program. We should all dutifully file into the queue like sheep to the slaughter and pack ourselves into busses and trains next to aromatic welfare recipients. How dare I be so judgmental about the wine-soaked aura of the man urinating on the sidewalk in front of that convenience store?

And why the hell aren't I more charitable? Why don't I carry cash to give to the people that walk up to me on the streets asking for a few bucks or some spare change? Why should it matter to me that that woman on the corner panhandling will walk a few blocks at the end of the day and get into her nice BMW and drive to her $300,000.00 house? What business is it of mine that she "earns" $85,000.00 per year claiming to be a homeless victim of the oppressive administration?

I deserve to have my hard earned money taken away from me and used to pay "reparations" to a hyphenated "Amerikan" whose ancestors never suffered under slavery, while mine came to this country after slavery had ended. After all, I owe that man reparations. Somewhere my ancestors mistreated his, even though it must have happened when mine were in Germany or Denmark or Norway, and his were in Africa.

I should be hauled off to Nuremberg now to face my trial for being a global warming denier, or for believing that the environment in the United States today is cleaner and healthier than it has been in over a hundred of years, not just because people care, but because we have technology that helps to make it cleaner.

Because I don't kowtow to the environmentalists every whim I'm somehow evil, even though I pick up the coffee cups (excuse me, latte cups) of "nature lovers" who dispose of them in the bushes in our state forests. I have never thrown garbage from my car, but I've watched people with tree-hugger bumper stickers throw burning cigarettes, fast food wrappers and entire bags of garbage out their car windows. How foul of me to accuse these environmentalists of hypocrisy.

I'm such a vile and hateful man that I don't want non-citizens to vote. I'm such a foul minded person that I get outraged when felons vote in violation of state law. I deserve to be cursed and reviled when I object to the failure of our elected officials to fulfill their duties. I should be horse-whipped when I expect the state prosecutor to go after people that violate our election laws. After all, insisting on accountability in the elections process is unfair to the disadvantaged, the intellectually challenged, and the fundamentally dishonest people that should have their votes counted two, three or even more times.

Oops, there I go again, using judgmental language, calling people fundamentally dishonest. I should have used a more politically correct term like ethically challenged. Oh wait, that ones no good either, because ethics depend on the situation and there is no higher moral authority.

It was the vilest thing that I ever did to vote for George W. Bush and the evil, twisted man he chose as his running mate. No wait, that was the second vilest thing I did. The vilest one was voting for them a second time four years later.

I'm a foul minded person deserving of contempt because I believe that the law means what it says, and that words should not be twisted to mean their opposites. After all, we have incontrovertible proof that George W. Bush pushed the supreme court into stealing that first election, because Al Gore won the popular vote! This despite the fact that the constitution gives no weight to the popular vote. Oh there I go again, interpreting the words of the constitution and its amendments literally instead of accepting that it's a living breathing document that means whatever some judge wants it to mean at the moment, especially if it results in a departure from the way things have been in this country for 230+ years. Silly me.

I caused the collapse of the world trade center on September 11th, 2001. It was me. After all, my support for Israel and for American imperialism outraged Osama Bin Laden so much that he paid ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN to Photoshop some video of planes flying into the side of the twin towers. I made him so angry that he did it just hours before Dick Cheney pushed the plunger on the detonator to bring the buildings down in a controlled demolition. The very fact that I believed the lie that it was Mohammed Atta and 18 other terrorists that flew those planes and attacked our country proves that I need to take my tin-foil hat off. After all, I'm a confused, obsessed conspiracy nut now aren't I?

I'm also a foul liar. How else could I spread the mistruths about the Iraq war. How else could I claim that George W. Bush wasn't a liar, that Joseph Wilson was and that Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator that used weapons of mass destruction against his enemies, and even against his own people? How else could I spread the lies that nearly every ranking Democrat is on record three years before George W. Bush came to power claiming that Iraq was an imminent threat, that regime change was required, and that that should be the policy of the United States?

This is only the barest surface of the crimes against humanity that I am guilty of. A full cataloging of them would take more room than this post can allow.

I'm a hateful person.

I'm a conservative.

And I'm unrepentant.

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Paul Hughes responded with: fateful man

I always enjoy reading whacked out shit like this. You are one self-righteous, morally superior, funny guy. Keep it coming. Eventually you'll run out of moral high ground and run off a cliff. Oh ya, Canada really sucks. No reason for you to ever come up here.

Bullwinkle responded with:

Me too.

Perri Nelson responded with:

Never fear Paul, I ran out of the moral high ground a long time ago. I know that I'm a sinner, and I don't say that with my tongue in cheek either. As for Canada, I don't honestly believe that it sucks. I've been there on occasion and really enjoyed it. Every now and then I go to Campbell River and stay at Painters Lodge to spend a weekend salmon fishing. I don't have any plans to emigrate there though. I happen to enjoy being a citizen of the United States, and honestly believe that it is the greatest country on God's green earth.

David responded with:

What? You trying to conflate Vonnegut and Orwell and play Harrison Bergeron in 1984? *heh* Better, just stay the course, Perri. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (with no apologies to Dylan Thomas at all, at all :-)).

Angel responded with:

oooooo yea Perri!...with that kinda hate..u should run for Pres!..smack some sense into that Usleless corrupt Congress of ours eh!:)

Butch responded with:

'Guess I'm a hateful person as well...

ablur responded with:

I never realized I radiated with so much hate. No wonder I have problems with liberals.