Another Shooting, Another Straw Man

Dylann Storm Roof

The looney left is at it again, trotting out the latest straw man for us to focus our hate upon. Given the perfectly good crisis presented by a 21 year old who is the suspected shooter in a slaughter in a black church in Charleston, the left and their adherents in media, have portrayed once again that all Southerners are hate-filled racists, just waiting for an opportunity to shoot some niggers.  (Don't flinch - even our mulatto president has unflinchingly used the word this week, and a comedian in his presence used it as well.  So it's now officially okay to say nigger even if you're white).  And who - or what - is that straw man?  None other than the Confederate battle flag.  That flag, to the uninformed, politically correct, over educated castrati represents racial hate and incites white on black crime.  In reality it doesn't, but I can't educate those who have no tolerance for the truth. 

Black Crime Increase

This story, while tragic on every level, will get more ink and more broad band time than the thousands of instances of black on white crime, or black on black crime, which is rampant in this country.  Think Baltimore, Ferguson, Atlanta, New Orleans, New York, even Sanford Florida again.  These are black crimes committed by black criminal thugs.  But what gets the media's attention?  A white man shooting black people.  So where does the Confederate flag come in?  Oh, right, the suspect is a white Southerner.  That's a non sequitur, of course, but in their narrative the media and the left don't care that it isn't logical, only that it inflames passions on both sides of the issue.  

Far Deadlier Than Guns

All Americans are enraged by this lawlessness by such a small segment of our society.  And who wouldn't be?  Nevertheless one cannot in any way condone the acts that happened in that church, but one may, given recent racial violence in this country, understand how a young impressionable lad who was on anti-psychotic drugs, may feel about blacks.  He's not the first shooter who was on anti-psychotic drugs.  In fact most mass shooters are on those kinds of drugs, and nearly all are very young - in their twenties or teens.  This is a period in life when one's brain hasn't yet fully developed, and the mismatch between the limbic system and the pre-frontal cortex is at its highest. It's just part of growing up and maturing, but psychiatrists want to medicate it, resulting many times in a disastrous end.  But sadly nobody is screaming for the removal of those violence and suicide inducing chemicals from the market, nor for the prosecution of the doctors who prescribe them at ever increasing frequency.  Nope.  It's gotta be the Confederate flag that's responsible for all this hate, and it's gotta be taken down.

True!

Yep, no other issue right now is more important in our national discourse than taking down that piece of cloth everywhere and anywhere it may fly.  Not the $17 trillion national debt that will make paupers of all of us and collapse the financial system as well; not the not the millions of illegals pouring into the US bringing disease, crime and overwhelming society's systems; not the global monetary fund managers who for the first time ever have advised us to keep our money under the mattress; not the treat of "sudden nuclear jihad" from the insane rabid Islamofacists who have sworn to kill us all; not the sovereignty killing trade deals the Kenyan is pushing down our throats; not the overwhelming heavy-handed  tyranny of the federal government; and not even the betrayal of our elected officials who are sworn to uphold the Constitution but only vote to enrich themselves and their cronies.  None of this matters except the Confederate flag.  Insane.  That's why I say long may she wave as a symbol of what she has always stood for:  the freedom of the people and of the states from the ever tyrannical federal government.  It isn't now, and wasn't then, ever about race.