Posted by
Tim on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:35:50 AM
Well, folks, 2008 is here, and we have our first homicide in the Philadelphia area. As the authorities begin to tally up the homicides for this year - as they do every year - we will be sure to get a slanted, yet running tally of murders as they escalate.
Here's the big problem: the very first homicide in Philadelphia was a stabbing of a fifty-five year old man. Although the press for this will only last until about noon, the murder will be counted in all homicides - as it should. When the politicians begin crying for gun control, they'll use this stabbing, as well as all other methods of homicide in their total tally of how dangerous firearms are to public safety. The media will push these homicides (and the need for more gun control) droning the unthinking public into agreement.
We have checks and balances in government, why not in the media? They are permitted to spoon feed the public whatever they please, which usually translates into liberal policies. We all know that firearms are not the leading weapon in homicides. If we research even deeper, we find that legally owned firearms account for only a minute number of gun-related homicides. But the media doesn't tell anyone that. Another example of media ignorance/will to destroy liberty: We also know that there never was a debate for Anthropogenic Global Warming, yet we are told about a "consensus" and that "the debate is over." Fortunately, more and more is being said against it. Let's just hope that our representatives listen to the scientific logic before they start handing our money over to the UN so that this foreign dictatorship can support countries who promote genocide. The media wants us to feel sorry for how terrorists are interrogated - but do not tell anyone that terrorists view the Geneva convention and the US Constitution in total disdain.
It's up to us to stand up and educate the public regarding the other side of the story. The only problem here is that the media tends to paint dissenters as immoral or ignorant - in the same way the old church used to stifle opposing points of view by painting them as "heretics" or "demon possessed."
I'm a gun-owner, but I'm certainly not the "trigger happy" yokel which the media likes to portray. I disbelieve in AGW because, not only do I remember the Global Cooling scare of the '70s, but also that I know history, and that the climate is supposed to go up and down - not to mention the fact that man is responsible for only 0.28% of ALL greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Regarding terrorist interrogations, well, I kind of prefer bolt cutters to knuckles myself - whatever it takes to get the information in order to save AMERICAN lives. (Boy, I'll probably "get it" for that one.)