Cheria Law

One of my very first-month-friends in University (before the economic, racial, religious, club and varsity lines all took hold) had a penchant for calling me a racist and eating my brownie sundae if I wasn't paying close enough attention on Monday nights at John Harvard's half priced aps. It frustrated beyond anything that I was the socio-cultural-political stereotype of the white caucasion male, and that was fine because I wasn't a victim; but if I commented that she, just her alone, was a very good dancer I was a racist... That she had a right to be here because she was black, and that my ridiculous statement that entrance to the University should be merit-based was racist... I didn't know the agenda in the states where everything about being white is wrong... I didn't know it was time to step aside on account of moral historical principle... I was from Canada... I liked to think of myself within the multicultural paradigm of Brian Mulrony. I thought I was the one being marginalized... We butted heads, Cheria and I... And met somewhere in the middle after 4 years of college.
Cut one monsters head off and 3 more grow in it's place. Now the rest of my adult life will be defined along the lines of political correctness... women's rights, gay marriage, religious tolerance... (Nothing against any of them, but they are monsters) and the newest thing to wake me up in 2009 is to hear about Sharia law. A unilateral system intolerant of anyone elses views or standpoints now appealing to political correctness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n53-3QnhxZk

Precedence is power my friend. It worked for black slaves, it worked for women, it's working for gay rights (is that the right PC word?), and it's working believe it or not for radical Islam. This UN proposal urges every country in the UN to criminalize any form of derogatory speech directed at religion, most notable Islam. The full effects of this law were seen not too long ago in Canada when Macleans was accused of defaming Islam for an article that largely quoted things that radical Islam leaders said of their own faith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z--_v44bqcE&feature=related

We've come full circle on the whole 'sticks and stones will break my bones but names can never hurt me' thing. We don't care about physical intimidation, taking away people's rights, and killings in the name of religion, but call them out on it in a paper and get taken to court? And this is an issue that is not suddenly going to go away anytime soon if you look at the demographics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

But the dark side of granting political correctness this kind of power is what happens when the demographics reach a certain tipping point. And that is that political correctness goes out the window.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fbXvq_ZIbw&feature=fvst

Nigeria is the latest country to enstate Sharia Law in the north of the country, and is pushing its agenda to make the whole nation Muslim. France has just pushed its Muslim population over 20%, about the time (most experts say) when the first big impact on freedom of speech and action are felt in a country. We'll find out what happens there. Control is not always a bad thing. Control murderers, control thieves, control annoying people that read over my shoulder on buses... the very best thing of Sharia law is the fear of punishment demands control... but control everything and suddenly we are the very definition of totalinarianism. Total Control. 1984 control... and with the technology available to us at present... it's scary...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkEYoKC-kA&feature=related

And it's our inability to take a stance that allows it to happen. Just as everything about slavery was wrong, everything about Western Imperialism is wrong. Not only should whites hate themselves about racism, but the US should hate itself as well about expansionism. And I'm the first person to cry out against the terrible things the West has done, and is doing, but is this the answer? Should we roll over and die in shame and let a similar totalitarian regime, that looks surprisingly like the Vatican before the Great Reformation, take control of the world? It took us almost 2000 years of totalitarian dark ages to remember Rome. Will it take another 2000 year totalitarian rule to remember the United States?