Wow...this is scary.

A video. posted on youtube.com shows how a group of anti-MCRI (Michigan civil rights initiative) protesters acted at a December 2005 Michigan board of canvassers meeting. They were upset that MCRI was ending up on the ballot so they decide to interrupt the meeting and flip over a table and scream at the individuals who were doing their job? Nuts. These people are going about carrying out their duty under the law.

Honestly, I have no problem with their position, everybody is entitled to their first amendment rights. However, when your speech becomes an aggressive act and even violent (i.e., flipping over a table) I think that is where you have left our first amendment behind and have started in on violating the laws.

I wish more people would realize that angry yelling does not convince anybody to consider your position. Tell me the merits of your position then let me decide how I feel and vote on the issue. It will be much more convincing.

Why do they think more laws are better?

So, in an unprecedented occurrence I will blog twice in one day. I was lightly glancing through relevant news article this evening when I happened upon this doozy of an article.

When will people learn that more laws does not mean more crime solved?

94 initiatives? Ridiculous!

We can legislate all we want but individuals already intent on breaking the law (murder, rape, B&E) will not be deterred by any number of gun laws. It will only hinder more law abiding citizens. I think enforcement is the key here. If we actually enforced our gun laws during criminal trials and stopped handing out get out of jail free cards we would see a dramatic decrease in violent crimes in our country. All without inconviencing law abiding citizens.

Bolton Calls the Ploy

The whole ploy to make America look bad has got me foaming at the mouth. Our security officers actually perform their job flawlessly and stop an individual who was acting suspect at the airport and now we are infringing on a diplomat's rights? I think not.

I am interested in knowing exactly how many diplomats buy tickets in this manner and how many, if stopped, call the press before calling diplomatic security services? .

Now they are going to admonish our country diplomatically in front of the world. I would rather we pull out our embassy than lose face to this ploy. It seems that our ambassador to the UN, John Bolton is the only government official to come out publicly with his views about the ploy. I admire this man. He is honest and straightforward; we need more people like him to keep the pressure on the UN.

If anything we should be honoring the fine people of the security services at the airport for not being afraid to stop someone they thought suspect. They have my thanks and they should have yours. We should not stand for this intimidation by Venezuela or any foreign government. It is an inconvience, yes, but if the diplomat had called security services it could have been resolved without a blow up by the press.

Imagine what would happen to a U.S. diplomat if they called the press prior to trying to resolve the issue with security services first, we would be grandstanding, posturing, and the world would look down upon us. Talk about a double standard.