I have something I want to say to the victims of Newtown or any other shooting, I don’t care if it’s here in Minneapolis or anyplace else: Just because a bad thing happened to you doesn’t mean that you get to put a king in charge of my life. I’m sorry that you suffered a tragedy, but you know what? Deal with it, and don’t force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss. I’m sick and tired of seeing these victims trotted out, given rides on Air Force One, hauled into the Senate well, and everyone is … terrified of these victims. I would stand in front of them and tell them, ‘Go to hell'
This is what happens when you come out of the bubble. You get smacked squarely in the head with your bullshit.
Several things amaze me about this very illustrative incident. We have the usual adolescent temper tantrum that is all too familiar. This stomp down the hallway precedes the equally familiar DARVO, a truly despicable practice which seems to happen when the mouth foamer knows that he or she is completely wrong.
But the element that really stuns me is just how much of a fucking coward the Bob Davies' are of the world. If he truly has the courage of his convictions, he should go to Newtown and say those things in front of the victim's families. That goes for anyone else out there who hides behind a mic or a blog who thinks that victim's families or frightened children are being used as props or "human shields."
Go say that shit right to their face, fuckos. If you can't muster the sack to do it, then you obviously don't believe what you are saying and just being an immature ass hat.
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Voice in your head - an argument with a person that doesn't hold that position here on your blog but you want someone to either defend or be tarred by association.
Who here has ever said that M? Who?
You may not have held that position, juris, but others who post here have held that position or the other ones I point out.
He's certainly an ass with that last bit, but it seems fairly probable from the article that his apology was directed by the company or he had the choice of quitting or being fired. Fair enough for putting it that way. He may well "have the sack" as you put it to go say exactly that to the families, but corporate legal department has muzzled him as a condition of continued employment, which is why there's no reply. I can't imagine any corporate lawyer advising the company to do anything else.
However, he's exactly right that the families' emotional pain isn't a claim on other people's rights. Their feelings are valid, and they're free to campaign for whatever they want to. But their loss and their pain is not a "Club of Absolute Moral Authority" to be used to silence any opposition. Like you and others try to do. Misinterpret this as you will. As you always do.
And as far as "blaming the victim", that really is the voices in your head. Where the fuck did he say anything like that? And where the fuck has anybody on this blog said that? I notice you didn't (couldn't?) respond to juris with an example of a commenter on your blog saying that. If you do post one, what the odds that what you post as an example is out of context or that your reading comprehension is/was as totally fucked (as usual)?
And where the fuck has anybody on this blog said that?
Which is precisely what prompted the voices in [M]'s head response.
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