The Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution are two of the most iconic symbols of The United States of America. They are the core of what America is. The Declaration of Independence announced that we were a free and independent nation and defines our core philosophy while The Constitution lays down the supreme law of our land and how our Government was to be formed. Every Fourth of July, we celebrate the birth of our nation with barbecues and fireworks. When laws are passed that are incompatible with our Constitution, we take it to court to have that law repealed, declaring the law "Unconstitutional".
Yet, throughout our nation's history, we as individuals struggle to have our self evident truths and certain unalienable rights recognized. Throughout American history African Americans have had to fight twice for equality, and women have had to fight not only for their right to work, but to work in a harassment free environment for equal pay.
These struggles continue to this day with homosexuals, Latinos and the poor. They are constantly discriminated against and have to fight for their right to have an equal footing in this nation. Among these examples are:
-Defense of Marriage Act
-Don't Ask Don't Tell
-California's Proposition 8
-Arizona's sb1070
-US Supreme Court Decision of Citizens United v. FEC
All of these are laws designed to discriminate against certain groups and hide behind either legal or moral grounds that are incompatible with the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence. People fighting against these laws invoke it's famous words "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Yet it is often ignored.
The problem is that our founding document, The Declaration of Independence, is not a legal document. There are many court documents that address the issue, one quoted as such, "We have no jurisdiction over claims allegedly arising under the Declaration of Independence." rendering the argument powerless.
This must change.
The United States Constitution cannot abandon the principals of our self evident truths. Today, a corporation has more legal rights than an individual. The concept of this right is supposedly protected by The Constitution, yet with the recent oil spill and coal mining disaster, it's obvious that there is something fundamentally wrong with putting corporate rights above individual rights.
In light of this I suggest we work to add a new amendment to the United States Constitution: One that encompasses the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, that all people are created equal, and reinserts the individual's power over not only The Government, but the corporations who for years have used The Government to trample over the people.
It's up to us to keep the American Dream alive for all, let us do it for our future.
- An American
Thursday, June 17, 2010
To Mr. Bryan Fischer of the AFA: Bullshit...
I’d like to direct your attention to this video and then this blog… I’ll wait til you’re done.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXHLVUNFKY
Blog: http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147494882
Bryan Fischer is literally claiming that the entire Nazi party, including Adolf Hitler, was gay; and part of a vast conspiracy of hiding it, which was the main cause of the Holocaust. He then accuses Congress of not learning from this history in it’s attempt to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
I’m officially calling Bullshit.
First off, he defends his position by citing two books, one published in 2001 called “Hitler’s Secret: the Double Life of a Dictator” and one from 1995 called “The Pink Swastika” Here's the Book ( http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm ), If you don't want to read the whole thing, Here is the wiki page for it, notice the book also claims eight of the top ten serial killers in the US were homosexuals. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Swastika )
"Hitler’s Secret" doesn't have a wiki page, but when author Lothar Machtan was asked in an interview with the Washington Post about the evidence, he said:
"There is a lot of evidence like diaries, letters, and files, but the strongest evidence comes from two sources that have never been analyzed before. And they are the so-called Mend protocol, some kind of testimony of a former war comrade of Hitler, and the memoirs of Eugen Dollman, who was a very influential collaborator of Himmler and in personal touch with Hitler, as an interpreter." ( http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/author_machtan1017.htm )
"SOME kind of testimony"? Did he even read this testimony? I can't find it, but I did find this:
"Mend was convicted in 1919 of theft and false pretenses False representations of material past or present facts, known by the wrongdoer to be false, and made with the intent to defraud a victim into passing title in property to the wrongdoer. and convicted again in the 1930s of "forging documents in an attempt to obtain a veteran's disability pension."( http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Hidden+Hitler.+%28Books%3A+Heil+Mary%3A+like+we+don%27t+have+enough...-a080116752 )
As for Eugen Dollmann, I found his CIA record:
"By 1950, Dollmann, in financial difficulty, was peddling reports to Italian intelligence.... He also claimed to be able to produce previously unknown correspondence between Hitler and other European politicians, which he would sell." (http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/rg-263-report.html)
So the Only evidence comes from two unreliable sources... Bullshit.
This page has a list of Hitler's lover's - all women - and has concluded that "There is no strong evidence that supports claims he was not heterosexual." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Adolf_Hitler)
Mr. Fischer goes on for the next 2 and a half pages, spitting out this conspiracy theory and claiming that this is a secret homosexual activists don’t what you to know.
So here’s my question: After decades of discrimination which go on to this day with DADT and the Defense of Marriage Act, how come this wasn’t well known information? WWII ended 65 years ago and since then we’ve been studying the causes of these wars in hopes of preventing it from ever happening again. How come we all think that The Holocaust and WWII was caused by Nationalism, bigotry, Europe’s initial appeasement to Nazi Germany once they began to grow, rather than a bunch of closet homosexuals?
I’ll tell you why, because the latter is Bullshit.
I also love this quote from Mr. Fischer, “Nazi Germany became the horror that is was because it rejected both Christianity and it’s clear teaching about human sexuality.” Completely disregarding the fact that Hitler was a Christian:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter... In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders....As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
- Adolf Hitler ( http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm )
On a side note, it’s funny how whenever conservatives try to demonize anything they are against, they immediately compare it to Hitler. Hitler was gay, Hitler was an atheist, Hitler was progressive, Hitler had one testicle, Hitler supported universal health care, Obama is Hitler, etc. Really guys, it’s getting old.
Besides the past, Mr. Fisher has also ignored the present. Here is a list of countries that currently allow homosexuals to serve in the military:
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bermuda
Brazil
Canada
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Romania
Russia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Now, let’s look back at Mr. Fischer’s Bullshit quote ”Gays in the military is an experiment that has been tried and found disastrously and tragically wanting.” Really? Please explain this list…
And do I really need to point out the Bullshit about pedophilia being a homosexual problem, rather than a problem of The Catholic Church requiring celibacy from their priests and then leaving them alone with little kids, and not prosecuting them when accusations arise? I believe the Pope still has some explaining to do.
If Mr. Fischer was truly realistic about learning from the past, he would address how discrimination has affected the world. He would look to the lessons of The Civil War or The Civil Rights Movement. He would ask himself, ‘Why did our founding fathers decide not to impose a national religion?’ He would look back and read about the horrors of persecution, rapes, beatings, lynching, ethnic cleansing, wars, slavery, and genocide, all in the name of intolerance. More importantly, he would say that these are the real mistakes that no sane culture should ever make again.
Mr. Fischer’s willful ignorance of these FACTS and lack of credible evidence (which I was able to discredit via Google?!?!) is why my official response to his accusation that Homosexuality gave us Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, is “Bullshit”.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXHLVUNFKY
Blog: http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147494882
Bryan Fischer is literally claiming that the entire Nazi party, including Adolf Hitler, was gay; and part of a vast conspiracy of hiding it, which was the main cause of the Holocaust. He then accuses Congress of not learning from this history in it’s attempt to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
I’m officially calling Bullshit.
First off, he defends his position by citing two books, one published in 2001 called “Hitler’s Secret: the Double Life of a Dictator” and one from 1995 called “The Pink Swastika” Here's the Book ( http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm ), If you don't want to read the whole thing, Here is the wiki page for it, notice the book also claims eight of the top ten serial killers in the US were homosexuals. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Swastika )
"Hitler’s Secret" doesn't have a wiki page, but when author Lothar Machtan was asked in an interview with the Washington Post about the evidence, he said:
"There is a lot of evidence like diaries, letters, and files, but the strongest evidence comes from two sources that have never been analyzed before. And they are the so-called Mend protocol, some kind of testimony of a former war comrade of Hitler, and the memoirs of Eugen Dollman, who was a very influential collaborator of Himmler and in personal touch with Hitler, as an interpreter." ( http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/author_machtan1017.htm )
"SOME kind of testimony"? Did he even read this testimony? I can't find it, but I did find this:
"Mend was convicted in 1919 of theft and false pretenses False representations of material past or present facts, known by the wrongdoer to be false, and made with the intent to defraud a victim into passing title in property to the wrongdoer. and convicted again in the 1930s of "forging documents in an attempt to obtain a veteran's disability pension."( http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Hidden+Hitler.+%28Books%3A+Heil+Mary%3A+like+we+don%27t+have+enough...-a080116752 )
As for Eugen Dollmann, I found his CIA record:
"By 1950, Dollmann, in financial difficulty, was peddling reports to Italian intelligence.... He also claimed to be able to produce previously unknown correspondence between Hitler and other European politicians, which he would sell." (http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/rg-263-report.html)
So the Only evidence comes from two unreliable sources... Bullshit.
This page has a list of Hitler's lover's - all women - and has concluded that "There is no strong evidence that supports claims he was not heterosexual." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Adolf_Hitler)
Mr. Fischer goes on for the next 2 and a half pages, spitting out this conspiracy theory and claiming that this is a secret homosexual activists don’t what you to know.
So here’s my question: After decades of discrimination which go on to this day with DADT and the Defense of Marriage Act, how come this wasn’t well known information? WWII ended 65 years ago and since then we’ve been studying the causes of these wars in hopes of preventing it from ever happening again. How come we all think that The Holocaust and WWII was caused by Nationalism, bigotry, Europe’s initial appeasement to Nazi Germany once they began to grow, rather than a bunch of closet homosexuals?
I’ll tell you why, because the latter is Bullshit.
I also love this quote from Mr. Fischer, “Nazi Germany became the horror that is was because it rejected both Christianity and it’s clear teaching about human sexuality.” Completely disregarding the fact that Hitler was a Christian:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter... In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders....As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
- Adolf Hitler ( http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm )
On a side note, it’s funny how whenever conservatives try to demonize anything they are against, they immediately compare it to Hitler. Hitler was gay, Hitler was an atheist, Hitler was progressive, Hitler had one testicle, Hitler supported universal health care, Obama is Hitler, etc. Really guys, it’s getting old.
Besides the past, Mr. Fisher has also ignored the present. Here is a list of countries that currently allow homosexuals to serve in the military:
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bermuda
Brazil
Canada
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Romania
Russia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Now, let’s look back at Mr. Fischer’s Bullshit quote ”Gays in the military is an experiment that has been tried and found disastrously and tragically wanting.” Really? Please explain this list…
And do I really need to point out the Bullshit about pedophilia being a homosexual problem, rather than a problem of The Catholic Church requiring celibacy from their priests and then leaving them alone with little kids, and not prosecuting them when accusations arise? I believe the Pope still has some explaining to do.
If Mr. Fischer was truly realistic about learning from the past, he would address how discrimination has affected the world. He would look to the lessons of The Civil War or The Civil Rights Movement. He would ask himself, ‘Why did our founding fathers decide not to impose a national religion?’ He would look back and read about the horrors of persecution, rapes, beatings, lynching, ethnic cleansing, wars, slavery, and genocide, all in the name of intolerance. More importantly, he would say that these are the real mistakes that no sane culture should ever make again.
Mr. Fischer’s willful ignorance of these FACTS and lack of credible evidence (which I was able to discredit via Google?!?!) is why my official response to his accusation that Homosexuality gave us Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, is “Bullshit”.
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