Sicilianthing

Progressives and the anti-liberty crowd have decided that if one opens a business he checks his own rights at the door. As such, the business owner is compelled by the state to serve anyone and everyone that the state has determined have special rights — but can exclude currently out of favor segments like Christians, Holocaust deniers, 9/11 t***hers, v*****e skeptics, Donald Trump supporters and so forth.

Anyone who feels "offended" or has a "personal t***h" they demand others recognize and bow to can "cancel" almost any business or get anyone fired.

To most Americans, whether one has rights depends upon whose ox is being gored. But liberty, freedom of choice and freedom of association are all concepts of natural law. The state cannot require one protected class be granted "rights" without taking rights from someone else.

Progressives would have you believe that allowing business owners to operate in a discriminatory fashion would lead to wholesale discrimination against certain classes. To prevent such wholesale discrimination, progressives created laws — not the least of which is the 14th Amendment — to force businesses to operate in a manner contrary to their owner's beliefs or conscience, a clear violation of the 1st Amendment's "free exercise" and "freedom of assembly" clauses and state religious liberty laws.

Jim Crow is the cudgel progressives love pull out to beat about the head and shoulders of liberty lovers and supporters of laissez-faire capitalism. But Jim Crow laws were not societal or free market constructs. Instead, they were rooted in statism and efforts by r****t progressives to restrict the free market from the period beginning in the early 1890s into the 1920s.

In his review of David W. Southern's The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917, Reason's Damon Root wrote:

[T]he Progressive Era was also a time of vicious, state-sponsored r****m. In fact, from the standpoint of African-American history, the Progressive Era qualifies as arguably the single worst period since Emancipation. The wholesale disfranchisement of Southern black v**ers occurred during these years, as did the rise and triumph of Jim Crow. Furthermore, as the Westminster College historian David W. Southern notes in his recent book, The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917, the very worst of it — disfranchisement, segregation, race baiting, lynching — ‘went hand-in-hand with the most advanced forms of southern progressivism.' R****m was the norm, not the exception, among the very crusaders romanticized by today's activist left...

Take the Supreme Court's notorious decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), a case that has rightly come to symbolize the South's Jim Crow regime. In Plessy, the Court considered a Louisiana statute forbidding railroads from selling first-class tickets to b****s, a clear violation of economic liberty. In its 7-1 ruling, the Court upheld segregation in public accommodations so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided for each race, setting off an orgy of legislation throughout the old Confederacy. South Carolina, for example, segregated trains two years after Plessy. Streetcars followed in 1905, train depots and restaurants in 1906, textile plants in 1915-16, circuses in 1917, pool halls in 1924, and beaches in 1934.

No doubt many of those businesses would have excluded or mistreated black customers wh**ever the law. But in a market free from Jim Crow regulations, other businesses would have welcomed b****s, or at least black dollars, forcing r****t enterprises to bear the full cost of excluding or mistreating all those potential paying customers. (This was one of the chief reasons the segregationists pushed for those laws in the first place.) The state, in the eloquent words of the historian C. Vann Woodward, granted "free rein and the majesty of the law to mass aggressions that might otherwise have been curbed, blunted, or deflected."

Life in a free country is about being free to make choices, choices based on your own criteria rather than one mandated by the state. There are plenty of remedies

Don't like fried chicken? Stay out of KFC.

Don't like pizza? Avoid Pizza Hut.

Don't care for seafood? Red Lobster isn't the only restaurant in town.

Denny's gave you lousy service? Stay away... and tell your friends.

Don't like how Walmart compensates its workers? Buy your cheap Chinese junk from Target or the local mom-and-pop store — and your groceries from Publix or Kroger.

Don't like it that Chick-fil-A's president supports traditional marriage? Buy your chicken sandwich from Burger King. They've gone all in on "gay p***e."

Don't like how Starbucks treats black customers or gun owners? Get your coffee from Joe Muggs.

Don't like Muslims? Stay out of the Middle East, mosques, Louis Farrakhan rallies and U.S. prisons — and Deerbornistan, Michigan. Don't like Jews? Stay out of Israel, New York, Massachusetts, California, synagogues anywhere and jewelry stores.

Don't like kids? Avoid daycares, schools and playgrounds... or get a job at Planned Parenthood.

Don't like b****s? Move to Montana, Vermont or Idaho. There aren't many there.

Don't like w****s? Move to Detroit; Jackson, Mississippi; Miami Gardens, Florida; Birmingham, Alabama; Baltimore; or Memphis, Tennessee. You will see some, but they'll be the minority.

That's discrimination. It's also called liberty, freedom of choice and, in the concept of natural law, freedom of association as guaranteed in the 1st Amendment.

What is not freedom is when the state compels you to serve, associate with or accommodate those you don't want to, regardless of the reason. That's called s***ery and tyranny. Ens***ed people have no rights.

The problem is that people are trying to see and understand the American system as free enterprise. In fact, it has been socialist for a hundred years, operating under the umbrella of an increasingly totalitarian and coercive system that brooks no dissent from its doctrine of promoting ever more degenerate behavior.

This is a most sensational testimony of the power of naming government systems something that they are not and imposing it on the public mind and psyche by a long process of "public education" and highly sophisticated and organized propaganda on a worldwide basis.

Socialism in America today is seen as desirable, especially by these younger people, because people blame "capitalism" for their problems, never realizing that the former capitalist free-market economy of the United States has been operating under national socialism for a century now. Oh no, it's never described as such. There are only code words used to deceive. Things may not be nice just because they have a pretty face.

The only escape from tyranny is mental freedom — a t***sition from the unconscious to the conscious mind. Mental freedom precedes physical freedom. Mental freedom is not a figment of idealism or philosophy. It delivers peace of mind and unlimited prosperity to the individual right under the nose of oppressive government.

To escape oppressive government is to escape the thought system into which we are born.

Yours for the t***h,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®

Unintended Consequences

Simple Rule: If you own a business that serves the general public, then you serve ALL of the general public.

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

There has never been as great a scumbag as Trump. He is a pathological liar, con man , sexual predator, and serial adulterer, s******nist, and so much more! The more I read your posts, the more I think you are an extreme right wing crazy.

Gatsby

You just described slick willie to a "T", just more of your BS "projection".

Like Peter Pan, you just refuse to GROW UP!

Sicilianthing

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I’m in business and Tell customers to go EFF OFF all the time !

I decide who and when I serve or provide a service to.

Pull your head out for once in your miserable life !

Sicilianthing

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I’ll place bets you’ve done all of that too in your sick n twisted life !

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

***The more I read your posts, the more I think you are an extreme right wing crazy.
>>>The more I read your posts, the more I think you are an extreme left wing crazy.

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

***Like Peter Pan, you just refuse to GROW UP!
>>>He is into cartoon characters

Big Kahuna

Progressives have "no standing" as any Supreme Court that is non biased should rule.

Big Kahuna

The more I read insane l*****t regressive comments like yours the more I think Gitmo should welcome you with open arms. Waterboarding could be an option also.

Big Kahuna

You mean "rapist" bill Clinton, and that could be proven by many of his accusers who never got to tell the whole story about that sexual predator scumbag.

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Where is your restaurant? I would love to be refused service. I can use the mega bucks I would win in the law suite. According to the law, you do not have the right to refuse service to any customer unless there is a damned good reason. The only way you can refuse service is to make your roach farm a private club.

Sicilianthing

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SCOTUS is cooked, aiding n abetting the treason and deep state... only a couple or so can be allowed to walk.

Sicilianthing

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I’m not in the food business salt, now get lost and go walk off a Cliff somewhere, good riddance.