Letter: Local censors and sensitivities triggered

Posted 2/28/19

Thank God the guardians of local civility, the Censor Twins , have come forward in two Letters to the Nasty Editor to inform everyone and the Phoenix what constitutes acceptable public discourse.

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Letter: Local censors and sensitivities triggered

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Thank God the guardians of local civility, the Censor Twins, have come forward in two Letters to the Nasty Editor to inform everyone and the Phoenix what constitutes acceptable public discourse.

I’m thankful too.  I had been thinking for myself.  Now I’ve joined the hive.

Thanks to them I know which words and imagery to find triggering, offensive and unfit to print. Now I can aid them in their attempt to rid Bristol of the tyranny of free speech they find distasteful by simply calling it “racist.”

What a time and effort saver that is. No need to analyze or even think about what someone says or writes, just look to be offended and scream racism or other such agitprop.

Without having to think about anything anymore, we can dedicate more time to being offended about more things.

Then, our new-found moral superiority will empower us to call people we don’t know racists. We can also castigate and malign the local press in an attempt to bend them to our will to deny the free speech of others with whom we disagree or find offensive. This is genius.

The letter that made blood squirt from the Censor Twins eyes is in no way as harsh as the realities involving the border, abortion factories and many state legislatures.

People can interpret or misinterpret whatever they’d like; to me, it was a take on ‘A Modest Proposal.’ You’ve gotta’ be pretty full of yourself to call for the silencing of a voice you don’t like in this country.

That letter exposed hypocrisy. Politicians, academics, media and Hollywood types run around screaming a border wall is immoral and unnecessary. While at the same time, they are not only fine with snipping little spines, suctioning out the content of little skulls and harvesting little organs for resale, they want to expand abortion law.

Laws dehumanizing the child in utero are escalating in numerous states.

In New York, you can be incarcerated for up to one year for selling a baby rabbit prior to it being eight weeks old, but you can now abort a viable, healthy child up to the day of delivery.  New York has removed legal protection of the unborn, thus designating it essentially a non-human entity. If a child is killed in utero by some assailant, that assailant cannot be charged for the in utero death.

Little Rhody is thinking of expanding abortion law, too. The Governor has signaled she will support legislation legalizing all abortions during any part of the pregnancy, for any reason. She would also agree to lift the ban on partial birth abortion.

Getting back to the immoral and unnecessary, if your neighbors or your own government don’t respect your borders, you don’t have borders.  If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.

A generous welfare state afforded to illegal aliens on a large scale is unsustainable. A welfare state with open borders is suicide. Our political, intellectual and media types know this, and yearn for it.                                          

George P. Cooper
Bristol

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