Blaer.
It means "light breeze" in Icelandic, and it's what a mother in Iceland has been calling her daughter for the past fifteen years. The problem? The government of Iceland didn't approve the name so, for her entire life, young Blaer has been identified as stulka or "girl" on all official documents. Now she's suing the Icelandic government for the right to legally use her name. What does this have to do with America? Why is this an omen? Here's why.
In the article on this story I was struck by a sentence which described Icelanders as being "comfortable with a firm state role" (emphasis added) in their lives and therefore not inclined to question the government's right to control what they can name their children. That is exactly the kind of submissive populace that Obama and the secular progressives want to create in America. They want and need a people "comfortable with a firm state role" because they believe state control is fundamental to realizing their version of a compassionate and just society.
Americans need to become comfortable with the government telling them what guns they can own, what light bulbs they can use, what kind of cars they can drive, even what size soda they can buy in a restaurant. Such comfort will make it easier for secular progressives and their president to concentrate more and more power in government, especially the federal government. As Americans become more submissive to and dependent upon the state, looking to it for their sustenance, they will give their votes to the party doling out the goodies, ensuring it permanent political power. And that's the end game; creating permanent power for the Democratic party and making America a one party dictatorship. All for the common good, of course.
But now there's little Blaer, daring to oppose the statist do-gooders in her tiny country. She's "prepared to take her case all the way to [Iceland's] Supreme Court" to protect her "basic human right" to have the name her mother, not the state, chose for her. A name she likes as much as she likes freedom. Her court case is an omen for America but also an inspiration. If a teenage girl can fight to keep the state at bay, so can we. So can anyone. Thank you, Blaer.
Are you listening, America?
Friday, January 04, 2013
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
The Year of No Fear
It's here. 2013.
Today, Tuesday, January 1st begins a new year for the world and, for us Americans, the start of the second term for the Obama regime, and a regime it is.
In the final days of 2012 the Obama Supreme Court ruled against the religious freedom of the Green family, owners of the crafts store Hobby Lobby (and the office supply store Mardel's). The Greens, devout, pro-life Christians, sought a religious exemption to Obamacare's HHS mandate which requires businesses to pay for contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs, in their employee insurance packages. They also sought an injunction against the enforcement of the mandate pending their court fight. Obama Supreme Court judge Sotomayor refused, meaning Hobby Lobby has to comply with the mandate or face millions of dollars in fines. The Greens are standing their ground even though it could put them out of business. They are committed to their faith. I greatly admire the Green family but they are only the beginning of the Obama regime's assault on our constitutional freedoms. Gun owners are next.
In the wake of the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school Obama and his leftist cohorts are gearing up to go after our Second Amendment rights. Of course, they're claiming they just want "common sense" gun control to "protect the children", but we know what that really means. Obama's victory in the presidential election last November has emboldened him and we can expect him to start revealing just how far left he really is. We conservatives have to man up and stop him.
For far too long we conservatives have been afraid, yes, afraid to stand up for our values and beliefs to the fullest. We have lived in abject terror of being branded racist, sexist, extremist, bigoted, intolerant, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, etc. by the left. Those words have been their most potent weapons against us, wielded from their pulpits in academia, media, and entertainment. The result has been that we conservatives have too often censored ourselves, modified our beliefs, hemmed and hawed, or did nothing when the times screamed for our action. NO MORE!!!!
We are in a new year, 2013. It will be the year of no fear. There is too much at stake for us to be controlled by fear. Yes, leftists will continue to war against us with all the ferocity that they always have, counting on our fear to paralyze us at crucial moments. That must not happen. The Obama regime is poised to transform our beloved nation into a government dominated, socialist, welfare state. That will be the death of America. We cannot let that happen! Courage must now be the blood that flows through our veins. Courage and cunning and absolute faith that we are RIGHT. Nothing else, nothing less will save our great Republic. Lock and load, conservatives; it's time to fight!
Happy New Year. NO FEAR!!!!
Today, Tuesday, January 1st begins a new year for the world and, for us Americans, the start of the second term for the Obama regime, and a regime it is.
In the final days of 2012 the Obama Supreme Court ruled against the religious freedom of the Green family, owners of the crafts store Hobby Lobby (and the office supply store Mardel's). The Greens, devout, pro-life Christians, sought a religious exemption to Obamacare's HHS mandate which requires businesses to pay for contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs, in their employee insurance packages. They also sought an injunction against the enforcement of the mandate pending their court fight. Obama Supreme Court judge Sotomayor refused, meaning Hobby Lobby has to comply with the mandate or face millions of dollars in fines. The Greens are standing their ground even though it could put them out of business. They are committed to their faith. I greatly admire the Green family but they are only the beginning of the Obama regime's assault on our constitutional freedoms. Gun owners are next.
In the wake of the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school Obama and his leftist cohorts are gearing up to go after our Second Amendment rights. Of course, they're claiming they just want "common sense" gun control to "protect the children", but we know what that really means. Obama's victory in the presidential election last November has emboldened him and we can expect him to start revealing just how far left he really is. We conservatives have to man up and stop him.
For far too long we conservatives have been afraid, yes, afraid to stand up for our values and beliefs to the fullest. We have lived in abject terror of being branded racist, sexist, extremist, bigoted, intolerant, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, etc. by the left. Those words have been their most potent weapons against us, wielded from their pulpits in academia, media, and entertainment. The result has been that we conservatives have too often censored ourselves, modified our beliefs, hemmed and hawed, or did nothing when the times screamed for our action. NO MORE!!!!
We are in a new year, 2013. It will be the year of no fear. There is too much at stake for us to be controlled by fear. Yes, leftists will continue to war against us with all the ferocity that they always have, counting on our fear to paralyze us at crucial moments. That must not happen. The Obama regime is poised to transform our beloved nation into a government dominated, socialist, welfare state. That will be the death of America. We cannot let that happen! Courage must now be the blood that flows through our veins. Courage and cunning and absolute faith that we are RIGHT. Nothing else, nothing less will save our great Republic. Lock and load, conservatives; it's time to fight!
Happy New Year. NO FEAR!!!!
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