Wednesday, September 14, 2005

What IS Private?

The right to privacy. The left side of the brain says privacy means the right to have an abortion, no questions thank you very much. The right side of the brain says stay out of my mailboxes and don't tap my phone or ask to see my medical records, and we're good to go. The learned press is so cozy to the loony, pardon, left way of thinking, that they simply assume when John Roberts agrees to a right of privacy then it's Katie bar the door and plug in the vacuum.

And this is what drives conservative, hell, ENGLISH speaking people to distraction. We want the news. We don't want the language or the law or our intelligence insulted because a newspaper has a left-wing agenda. Privacy is a simple word. Privacy has never been construed to mean that you can shoot someone in the sanctity of your own home and it's all well and good because, hey, my home, my castle, right?

Of course not. And the government says we cannot take crystal meth or marijuana or cocaine or a host of other medicinal and/or herbal extracts, in the bedroom, the living room or even the panic room. We cannot put certain things into our body, case closed, and it has nothing to do with privacy at all. A woman can't start a baby factory and sell a child once every year to black-market sheiks from tippytongamomo, twice if she's lucky and has twins, from the privacy of her living quarters because there are OTHER laws that supersede privacy.

And the VAST majority of the country agrees with this. Personal choices, decisions, and a lifestyle free from government intervention? Yes, of course, but not all inclusive. We cannot own slaves at home simply because hey, it's my crib dude, and fought a great war to determine that. And I know I'm getting silly and stretching this beyond credulity but that's precisely what we're hearing from the lefty side and I don't see the Times or the Washington Post rushing to embrace far right wing ideologies. They shouldn't. Just as they shouldn't bastardize the language AND the law by embracing far left wing ideologies.

They do and it irks me. The media equates privacy with abortion, and were the "law" to change anytime soon, they'd rail against such an intrusion into a woman's "right" to kill an unborn child. Report the news, and let everyone make up their own minds based upon the evidence at hand.

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