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DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY
Thomas
Chandler
is the Director and
publisher of the New York Tyranny Response Team
Contents:
AN OBLIGATION TO OUR
HEIRS
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: THE 21ST
CENTURY EQUIVALENT OF RACISM, IN THE 20TH CENTURY
AN OBLIGATION TO OUR HEIRS
We are struggling against bigotry and prejudice to protect and
preserve Civil Rights for ALL Americans, to pass on to our heirs.
Freedom of
Speech, Freedom of Worship, The Right to Peaceably Assemble to Petition
the government for Redress of Grievances, The Right of the people to
Keep and Bear Arms.
If one can not recognize these Amendments to our
Bill of Rights as Civil
Rights one does not know what all of our Civil Rights are, or where to
find them codified into the foundations of our laws in the Bill of
Rights to the United States Constitution. In the case of at least the
Second Amendment ...the right of the people to keep and bear arms...
most can not recognize a Civil Right under attack, even as legislators
argue whether this Civil Right is even an individual right.
Each generation has an obligation to protect and preserve the rights,
freedoms and protections in our Bill of Rights and later Constitutional
Amendments, to pass on to their heirs as those who came before us did
for us, whether these rights were always perceived for all of us or not.
Once we were taught principles to the effect, 'Beware of belief systems
that encourage one to ridicule, despise or hold in contempt a group
of people for the actions of a small minority of that group, for such
belief systems promote bigotry and prejudice and are almost always based
on lies and exaggerations. Examine such beliefs carefully, and if they
prove to be
based on bigotry and prejudice, expose and discredit them, as well as
those who promote and exploit them, for ultimately they undermine the
rights and liberties of all.'
When we see the warning signs of beliefs that encourage one to ridicule,
despise or hold in contempt a group of people we are obligated to check
the tenets of these beliefs for lies and exaggerations that promote
bigotry, prejudice and double standards. If so we are obligated to
expose and discredit them, as well as any opportunists bigots
who exploit these bigotries and prejudices, as people unfit to hold
public office and create public policy and legislation.
We are the generation entrusted to build the foundation on which the
Civil Rights gains of our lifetime will evolve. Yet in just our
lifetime most of us have already forgotten what these rights are,
and that we can find many of them codified into the foundations of our
laws in the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution.
If we still taught and practiced the above we would have recognized the
warning signs in the vilification of Gun Owners, Veterans,
conservatives, Law Enforcement and our Military, Patriots, and people
with traditional religious values, as these trends fueled by bigotry and
prejudice started to find acceptance in our popular culture. We should
have recognized groups that had been stereotyped and made scapegoats for
the actions of a few extremists in these groups, as well we should have
recognized the bigotry and prejudice and sought out the lies and
exaggerations that create bigotry and prejudice.
Our tax dollars would not support double standards of treatment against
one group, that would be considered hate crimes if used against a
politically correct group.
Of recent we have been watching this situation evolve against
Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. Recent taxpayer
funded Christian bashing exhibitions at the Brooklyn museum, at a time
when a pre game prayer over public school P.A. systems is prohibited as
a violation of the separation of church and state, high light the double
standard problem.
Were the subject of the Christian bashing 'art work' displayed at the
Brooklyn Museum Reverend Martin Luther King, would these desecrations be
considered 'artwork' or hate crimes? Try substituting the icons of any
other major religion or politically correct group and ask the same
question, artwork or hate crime?
In 1989 Andres Serrano introduced many of us to the concept that for
taxpayers to not sponsor his 'Piss Christ', (Christ on the crucifix
immersed in urine) was to censor his free expression.
In 1992 pop culture icon Sinead O'Connor rips in half a photo of the
Pope in TV, two weeks later a pop culture crowd boos her off the stage
at a tribute to Bob Dylan when she walks on stage at Madison Square
Garden.
1999, Chris Ofili's Virgin Mary in Elephant dung on exhibit at the
Brooklyn Museum had demonstrators chanting in the streets that to not
fund his exhibit is to censor his free expression. Some of these
demonstrators ran for public office in the year 2000 and their opponents
did not even attempt to make an issue of their support of this exhibit
because public sentiment indicated to do so would be counter productive.
Those who demonstrated in opposition were generally portrayed in the
news media as extremist infringing on 'Freedom of Expression', which
must be one of the new 'Human Rights'. Those who supported the
intolerance and double standards were lauded as human rights activists.
From 1989 to 1999, from 1992 to 2000, from mainstream to extremists, how
few years for such a swing in what the public will accept.
Legislation that prohibits the State from sponsoring or supporting an
act against one group, that would be considered a hate crime against
another, seems a special need in New York state at this time. Such
legislation would codify in state law section 6 of the 1964 Civil Rights
act, that forbids the Federal Government from supporting discrimination
against minorities in violation of our 14th Amendment Civil Right of
equal protection of the laws.
The simple guideline that 'what would be a hate crime against one group
is a hate crime against all groups', is something anyone can understand.
This concept is a standard all law abiding but politically incorrect
people would benefit from, it would prohibit the
teaching of intolerance against the politically incorrect in schools and
other venues that accept government funds! In fact these venues would
have to promote 'tolerance' and work to undo the damage they have done.
The effort to bring such legislation into being is an opportunity to
raise public consciousness about how we as a people are coming to accept
such abuses without resistance or even question. This is also an
opportunity to pressure our public officials to take a stand on this
issue, and to start putting a cost to supporting this kind bigotry,
discrimination and double standards.
" Still if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win
without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure
and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to
fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for
survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is
no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as
slaves."
We borrow this from Sir Winston Churchill, but the facts remain, where
along this continuum do we leave our heirs when we pass on, if we manage
to pass on our values to them?
Do we leave them a small isolated fringe element to fight the over
whelming odds of their day, because we did not act in our day when
victory was relatively assured and easy?
Or do we pass on their birthrights to our heirs with at least the same
stature these inalienable rights had when they were entrusted to us?
Tom Chandler
Thomas
Chandler
State Director,
NY TYRANNY RESPONSE TEAM
(Respecting the Bill of Rights as a partial list of our Civil Rights.)
www.trt-ny.org
Copyright
©
2001 Thomas Chandler All Rights Reserved
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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:
THE 21ST
CENTURY EQUIVALENT OF RACISM,
IN THE 20TH CENTURY
The United States
Constitution establishes procedures for creating and ratifying
legislation, and for the public to petition our government for
redress of grievances when our Unalienable, Constitutional, Civil Rights
are abused by government or those under the influence of our laws.
We of the New York Tyranny Response Team believe in non-violent
educational demonstrations and actions to educate the public when
government ignores the Constitutional limits of governmental
powers placed on government to protect our Natural, Unalienable, and
Civil Rights, (when these limits are ignored we have a usurpation of
power that creates a state defined as Tyranny). We believe we have a
good form of government, but some rogue government employees who know
that most of us will turn a blind eye to their steady usurpation of
power at the expense of our rights and freedoms.
These government employees of ours exploit concepts such as Political
Correctness to favor or exclude favor amongst groups with an over
whelming majority of law-abiding citizens, and to impose inequity, much
as Racism did in previous centuries. These are practices that handicap
millions of people if they do not, or cannot become Politically Correct.
Constitutionalists, gun owner, conservative, Christian (Catholic in
particular), male, white, Southerner, Westerner, dweller of ‘Fly over or
blue state country’, rural, just about any harvester of natural
resources, lumber or live stock, just a few of a growing
list Politically Incorrect categories. Millions labeled for the actions
of few, increasingly handicapped by discrimination and double standards
driven by growing bigotry and prejudice.
Do you drop your religion, or sacrifice your heritage to become
politically correct? What do you do about your race, sex or sexual
orientation if they are not politically correct? Are these choices we
want to pass along as an inheritance for our heirs? A generation with
an obligation to protect and preserve the birthrights, freedoms and
protections for ALL Americans to pass on to our heirs, turns a blind
eye, as acceptance of blatant bigotry, prejudice and double standards
grows increasingly mainstream.
The bigotry, prejudice, discrimination and double standards of Political
Correctness have direct parallels in the Racism of the 20th Century.
Political Correctness is very much the Racism of the 21st Century.
To hold our renegade employees accountable, and to undo the damage they
have done, we need people to act before the elections to influence
people to vote either against the bigotry and prejudice of the 'New
Racism', or at least not vote for it at all. The abuses of Political
Correctness must become a political liability equal to the abuses of
Racism!
Once the bigotry, prejudice and double standards of Political
Correctness are equated with the bigotry, prejudice and double standards
of Racism, the promoters and exploiters of this ideology can and should
follow the path of the bigots who promoted and exploited Racism. Also
their policies and legislation based on Political Correctness should go
the way of policies and legislation based on Racism.
If we accept the obligation to protect, preserve and pass on to our
heirs the traditional rights, freedoms and protections that were
entrusted to us to exercise, and pass on, by the generations who to
preserved them for us, then the following reality must be dealt with.
On our watch many of the problems and policies of institutionalized
Racism have found a new home and become wide spread in the concept of
Political Correctness.
Both Racism and Political Correctness involve favoritism or the denial
of favor according to one’s membership in different groups of largely
law-abiding citizens.
Both Racism
and Political Correctness are based on bigotry and prejudice based on
lies and exaggerations.
Both Racism and Political Correctness involve accepting or turning a
blind eye to bigotry, prejudice and double standards codified into
public policy and law.
Both Racism and Political Correctness involve a denial of Equal
protection of the law according to one’s membership or non-membership in
minorities.
Both Racism and Political Correctness are promoted and exploited by
opportunists bigots who are unfit to hold public office, much less
create legislation and public policy.
Both Racism and Political Correctness require the institutionalized
corruption and denial of Unalienable (Intended for all mankind by the
will and wisdom of God), Constitutional, and Civil Rights, and that
these abuses are condoned by and codified into public policy.
Both Racism and Political Correctness can be defeated with common sense
education that reminds people: "Belief systems that encourage one to
ridicule, despise or hold in contempt a group of people for the actions
of a small minority of that group, promote bigotry and prejudice and are
almost always based on lies."
The tenets of belief systems that encourage one to ridicule, despise and
hold in contempt others need to be checked for accuracy, and exposed and
discredited as promoting bigotry and prejudice based on lies and
exaggerations if they qualify.
The opportunists-bigots who promote and exploit this bigotry and
prejudice should be exposed and discredited and removed from positions
of power from which they may cause abuse of the rights of others.
Any public policy based on these corrupt beliefs need to be discredited,
discontinued and efforts made to undo and any harm done by such public
policy.
Tom Chandler
Thomas
Chandler
State Director,
NY TYRANNY RESPONSE TEAM
(Respecting the Bill of Rights as a partial list of our Civil Rights.)
www.trt-ny.org
Copyright
©
2002 Thomas Chandler All Rights Reserved
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