by Datechguy | December 26th, 2012
ReadabilityTo those on the left who still understand right and wrong...
…let me explain, in a way you can comprehend, why this article in the Journal News crosses a big line.
On this 2nd day of Christmas lets pretend just for a moment that this map of legal Gun Owners in New York was not a map of Gun Owners and permit owners in the NY Area being published by a liberal NY paper titled: The gun owner next door: What you don’t know about the weapons in your neighborhood.
Let’s instead pretend it is a list of the names and addresses of all the people who work at planned parenthood or train people in abortion in the New York area published by a Christian organization titled: The killers next door, what you don’t know about the abortionists in your neighborhood.
What would your reaction be? What would the media be saying? How would you see it as anything other than a threat to a group of people doing a legal activity that “protects women”?
And let’s go further: What would you say if any kind violence took place at any of those locations? Would you be calling the radio stations? Would you be writing angry letters to the paper? Would you be demanding action against advertisers?
As for the media I submit and suggest that there would be no other story nor would anybody allow any other kind of story until the paper apologized and the reporter fired.
And that’s not even getting into the realm of boycotts and the use of such an action as part of a reoccurring theme of the “violent right” whenever such a topic came up in every round table for years.
Pause just a moment and think. If you have anything resembling a moral base you can see what is wrong here and understand why this map has generated so much buzz and anger among defenders of the 2nd Amendment (deleted comments not withstanding, when I saw this article there were thousands of comments, post-Christmas there are now hundreds).
If you don’t understand it, if you still see nothing wrong, then you might be the subject of my next post…
…let me explain, in a way you can comprehend, why this article in the Journal News crosses a big line.
On this 2nd day of Christmas lets pretend just for a moment that this map of legal Gun Owners in New York was not a map of Gun Owners and permit owners in the NY Area being published by a liberal NY paper titled: The gun owner next door: What you don’t know about the weapons in your neighborhood.
Let’s instead pretend it is a list of the names and addresses of all the people who work at planned parenthood or train people in abortion in the New York area published by a Christian organization titled: The killers next door, what you don’t know about the abortionists in your neighborhood.
What would your reaction be? What would the media be saying? How would you see it as anything other than a threat to a group of people doing a legal activity that “protects women”?
And let’s go further: What would you say if any kind violence took place at any of those locations? Would you be calling the radio stations? Would you be writing angry letters to the paper? Would you be demanding action against advertisers?
As for the media I submit and suggest that there would be no other story nor would anybody allow any other kind of story until the paper apologized and the reporter fired.
And that’s not even getting into the realm of boycotts and the use of such an action as part of a reoccurring theme of the “violent right” whenever such a topic came up in every round table for years.
Pause just a moment and think. If you have anything resembling a moral base you can see what is wrong here and understand why this map has generated so much buzz and anger among defenders of the 2nd Amendment (deleted comments not withstanding, when I saw this article there were thousands of comments, post-Christmas there are now hundreds).
If you don’t understand it, if you still see nothing wrong, then you might be the subject of my next post…
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The blogoshpere certainly can be ironic. Several bloggers are posting names, photos, addresses, and google map home property images of the Journal News owners, editors, journalists, etc. In at least one case they are even posting the photos of their children (taken from facebook pages). Certainly the paper’s owners and editors invited this response due to their obtuse dedication to ideology, while abandoning any semblance of professional standards within their business.
However, all parties in this are wrong. Neither the majority of the employees or any of the children had anything to do with the decision to publish gun owners’ information. I also fear we have a new standard: if anyone holds opinions counter to your own, terrorize them on the internet through unknown surrogates. This is evil, even if done in retaliation.
Thank you, Gannett News for opening another Pandora’s Box.
Those on the left can certainly distinguish right from wrong. Trouble is, leftists claim that wrong is right, and that right is wrong.
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Interesting that you bring up another political issue (abortion). Here in California, the group that worked against Prop. 8, the gay marriage issue, published the names, addresses and employers of donors to the initiative. (BTW Pro Prop. 8 means against gay marriage). There were boycotts and several people lost their jobs. Others were threatened with violence as we have come to expect from progressives/Alinskites.
We should expect that the liberal side will expand their use of this tactic over the next few years, and the media will not hold them responsible for the violence, deaths and damage that occurs.