Posted by
Brian Norton on Sunday, January 25, 2009 6:59:43 PM
Founded in the land of the milky hottub, San Francisco, Craigslist will allow one to post all sorts of perversions as long as they are politically correct. Want to post x-rated businesses? No problemo. Want a quickie in the town you are going to on business, or advertise your availability for such at a mutually, ahem..., pleasurable price? Hey, CL welcomes your post. Want to buy or sell those devil spawned things called firearms? No Way Jose! As a matter of fact, a rabble of semi-literate nazi posting police will flag your post in less time that it takes to say "Pelosi and the Fairness Doctrine", which is not as odd at it sounds as I suspect they are the same type of people. I tried to sell my Glock and had it flagged about 5 times so I put an invitation into my ad to contact me and express the concerns they had with my post of a legal item for sale. Somebody actually was brave enough to send me a reply:
YOUR GUN will continue to be flaged and flaged as long
as you violate this PLEASE READ for you to post your add you had to
argee to this by accepting the term so me and other are ready to flag
all we want (spelling and syntax as in original email)
The PLEASE READ referred to is the CL list of things they deem acceptable to post (see above partial list) and thus gives all the nazi wanker wannabees carte blanche to say hasta la vista to my ads. (Does including three different language phrases in one sentence qualify one as multicultural? If so I take it all back.)
So, I replied to the semantically and spell-checking impaired CL censor as follows:
Hi
I am glad you had enough courage to at least write a reply. CL
guidelines are subject to challenge, but you are right, you can keep
flagging (which is,by the way, spelled with two "g's") and I will keep
re-posting until it is sold. You would not happen to be a liberal
democrat, would you, one of those who preach tolerance and diversity,
unless it happens to conflict with your beliefs? You will note
that in my jurisdiction (per the CL statement) my gun is perfectly
legal to be sold so I am completely within my rights to advertise it, and
if pressed I could probably file suit against Craigslist to force them to change their posting regulations as violating both the Commerce Clause, and the First Amendment prohibitions against infringing on free speech.
The Supreme Court held in Heller that the Second Amendment
explicitly protects the right of an individual to keep and bear arms,
therefore any laws or policies that materially impede the ability of an
individual to use, own or purchase a legal firearm in a open market ipso
facto (by the fact of it) can be found to infringe on the right to
keep (own, and how can one own if one cannot freely buy?) and bear
arms. These types of laws and policies are therefore unconstitutional.
As a matter of fact, one of the Court decisions most near and dear to liberals, Griswald vs. Connecticut,
(the precursor to Roe vs Wade) found that couples had a right to
purchase contraceptives in an open and free manner, not because
contraceptives were the issue, but because reproductive rights (the more fundamental right)
could not be fully exercised in the absence of easy access to
contraceptives. If my item for sale is legal, I have a right to
advertise it, especially as the item in question is in a protected
constitutional class (firearms). If you disagree with me, please run
your reply through a spellchecker first, it makes it look more
professional. Thank you for your time and reply! Brian
And I never thought I would get to use Griswald to beat a liberal with, wonders never cease:-)
Does anyone think I will get an intelligent reply? I don't either, but I DO think it is important to take the time to make principled stands on small things, or there will be no ground left to fight on for conservative principles that must be defended.
Between Sharia appeasement policies, gay right's thought police, and the general liberal demagoguery that passes for political discourse, there are very few areas of American conservative life not under a brutal assault. We can survive this era, as we survived the Clintons (wait..., we still haven't finished with the Clintons, but that is the subject of another post) but we have to take up the fight instead of being appeasement weenies who live only for re-election. Speaking of about 85% of Republican Congress there, and being optimistic at that. The tree of Liberty must occasionally be fed by the blood of tyrants, idiots, traitors, liberal Democrats and RINO's (but I repeat myself), if it is to flourish. Let's start the metaphorical blood flowing!