At a point, the higher good of making sure that nobody else becomes a victim like especially Georges Wolinski did outweighs the freedom of speech. Did Georges Wolinski really survive the German part of Holocaust only to become a Holocaust victim 70 years later and get his grave spit on by "Charlie Hebdo"? Did Georges Wolinski become a martyr only for evildoers whom will use any excuse to use "Charlie Hebdo" as an excuse once again?
"The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness. A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?"
Even wise words can become foolish in the mouths of fools:
"A fool hath no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.....[and a] fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth....is his ruin, and his lips are the snare of his soul."
Arguing with fools is foolish. Those who emulate Mohammed and follow Early Islam look for anything to do evil like Mohammed did:
"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him."Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes."
How else can I say that sometimes holding your tongue is better but that holding your tongue is sometimes appropriately answering a fool according to his folly?
As far as the SCOTUS being the final arbiters of the law, the SCOTUS ruled in favor of inherently-illegal doctrines such as "Ferguson v. Plessy" and, before that, "Sanford v. Scott". The former was not overturned until 1955 (when "Brown" was fully cleared for implementation), and "Scott" en de facto was never overturned until Jim Crow ended, despite that the end of the Civil War ended it en de jure.
DOMA was in force from the Clinton Administration until just relatively recently in the Obama Administration.
Legalizing same-sex marriage risks religious freedom within certain contexts. For example, why should an Orthodox rabbi be sued by a couple whom he refuses to marry when he believes that the Flood came because of same-sex marriage in part (which the Talmud does state)?
By the way, speaking of rabbis, one'd think that Orthodox rabbis such as Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs would be helpful during this time of Anti-Jewish and Anti-Christian intolerance—although he's not at all tolerant of either Jewish Christians or gentile ones, or any Orthodox Jew whom even tolerates Christians (despite how Christianity as Noahidism is viewed).
How can certain loved ones of mine be against the decision of "Charlie Hebdo" to cease their portrayals of Muhammad, and how can they state that "Charlie Hebdo" is "caving in" to the Islamists? After all, they are attempting to ensure that I will not speak out against certain
other Anti Semites and racists.
My problem, then, is not with my loved ones' disagreement with the magazine: my problem is that they are doing to me exactly what they oppose that "Charlie Hebdo"'s editors are doing to themselves. How can they complain about, for example, the following re the Islamists when they complain about me fighting against particular groups whom support groups like "Charlie"'s enemies?
“We have drawn Muhammad to defend the principle that one can draw whatever they want. It is a bit strange though: we are expected to exercise a freedom of expression that no one dares to.”
I'm at a loss for words when they support "Je suis Charlie" at the same time that they tell me "Don't provoke crazies" and "Don't stir up the hornets' nest." While I'm not "Charlie", I'm certainly:
Nicole
Juive (i.e., Je suis Juive; or "אני יהודית.")
Intent on not caving in to the Anti Semites
Meanwhile, God willing, I'll (so to speak) come back up from the underground eventually.
Just because I don't respond to
or engage with everything doesn't mean that I don't have a view on it. Maybe,
e.g., I could just be letting you look stupid after a certain point in a
conversation. Don't think that you've won the argument because maybe you haven't.
In fact, you might've lost it so badly and I'm trying to save you for
embarrassment even, even while I'm letting you look stupid enough.
And one last word toEmily [Entry Two here],
by the way: my mistake was giving you a chance to understand my comment. You
twisted my comments about Non-Orthodox Jews who care about Shavu'ot intolashon-hara, and I should've
reported and/or blocked you right there and then. By the way, I'd take
"Katz" out of your name--you are nokohenet-tzedek and
do not deserve a name that means "Kohen-Tzedek". You walk in
the ways of theLevi'im-rahim, notTzadok.And you give the priesthood
to "rabbis"like
Jason--how dare you! If you keep that up, you will be cursed as was Uzziah and Jeroboam--and more so
because you are akohen who
gave the priesthood to Non Kohanim.
I hope that I was clear enough
to you and the other revisionists, Anti Messianics, Anti
Semites and/or Self Haters, and others about whom I'm thinking. By the way,
don't comment on this entry--I will not publish your comments or any comments
of those in your circle. As I stated, I should have blocked you last time and
will block you this time to save you for embarrassment even--you
embarrassed yourself last time by twisting mylashon-tovintolashon-hara.
Also, forgiving doesn't mean forgetting.
Entry Two
"Emily Katz Boling
·Please remove the tweet you posted with a
link to our conversation. It has my name on it and I would not like that on
Twitter and then you proceed to talk badly about me and my boyfriend (who has
done nothing) on there.
Thank you
"
I'm not removing anything. You commented on something that I
shared publicly (e.g., on the article itself, and as I would've shared in
general on Facebook had I looked at the privacy settings more closely--and
"Friends of Friends" is public enough, anyway); you're held to
account publicly. After you slandered me when I exemplified UMBC JSU/Hillel as
a Non-Orthodox community that cares about Shavu'ot, I owe you no favors.
Besides, I removed Frank as well. I don't keep non-friends'
boyfriends as friends. Besides, what does that say about him that he's dating
you--someone who would slander someone just because he or she is Messianic? If
Frank has a problem with it, he can come to me. You're his girlfriend, not his
mother; and he's old and mature enough to talk to me (I can only hope,
anyway.).
Let me tell you something else, Emily. What I said and what you
said is in replay all over again. Don't lie about me, and you won't be held to
account for doing so:
As a Messianic Jew, I
find two of the comments really problematic:
1) "The event it
commemorates—God giving the Torah to the Jews at Mount
Sinai—is arguably the most pivotal in the narrative of the Jewish
people. But from the treatment it receives next to its more popular siblings—at
least within non-Orthodox American communities—you wouldn’t know it." I
care about Shavu'ot, and even admire what people like UtahSoccerMom do. Also,
the Kosher Korner at UMBC (which is Non Messianic and has mainly Non-Messianic
patrons, mostly those who go to the JSU/Hillel events headed up by a
Reconstructionist) is closed beyond the Shavu'ot holiday (May 13-May 19,
although Karaites and Messianics like me celebrate Shavu'ot on only the 19th).
2) "Hanukkah is
so visible that conservative talk radio hosts think it threatens
Christmas." I have never heard talk-radio hosts say that. They're more
worried about the Atheists and Agnostics who threaten the legality of Christmas
and Hanukkah celebrations within the United States.
When it comes to theological significance, the late-spring
festival of Shavuot is no slouch: The event it commemorates—God giving the
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And to message me on my public-figure Facebook page when I blocked
you. How dare you! I want nothing to do with you, and I made that I want
nothing to do with you quite clear. Besides, people like you are part of why
UMBC JSU/Hillel involvement and Jewish communal life in general at UMBC is
declinining. People who try to walk in Tanakh can and should not stand those
who deliberately have walked off of thederech-Yehovah
v'Tanakh, and persecute those who do walkb'haderech-Yehovah
v'Tanakh. People are quickly figuring out that people like you, like Jason,
and like others are those kinds of people who do all kinds ofchullil-Yehovah b'HaShem-Yehovah--thus
breaking the third of theAseret
HaD'varimin particular.
You clearly didn't learn from when Becca persecuted me. You'll
learn this time: I am not a doormat; I am not one about who you may speaklashon-hara, and I am one who
is not coming back to UMBC JSU/Hillel or even the Kosher Korner--after all, I'd
hate to run into you there.
My mistake for ever speaking any lashon-tovabout UMBC JSU/Hillel or even the
Kosher Korner--after all, you and your ilk do nothing but twist what I say intolashon-hara, every bit for
which you deserve to be called out. I also guarantee that if you keep treating
me and others as you have treated me and them (and I rightly group you in with
certain people), you will drive people all the more away from the UMBC
JSU/Hillel and Kosher Korner to the point at which there'll no longer be an
UMBC JSU/Hillel and Kosher Korner. After all, people won't want to try to
derive benefit from them if all they'll get is Hell for doing so.
Besides, as I said, Emily contacted me on my public page and commented regarding my public tweets. Her name will be known; to respond to her using Tanakh is not hate speech, and she will not hurt me and (as I'm sure that she has) others and get away with it--especially since she has a name which means "kohan tzedek", and I guarantee you that she is ironically not. She will not violate my First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to stand up to her; and she clearly needs lessons in both Tanakhand the Constitution, so I'm going to repost the entries with the original links to Tanakh pirkei and the constitutional amendments (and the relevant articles of the Fourteetnth Amendment) with my emphasis:
"Congress shall makeno law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; orabridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceablyto assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."I dealt with her on the original post itself several times, and she and whoever is supporting her didn't like that. Guess what; you're part of the government of UMBC JSU and Hillel, whether de facto or de jure, and you will get called out if you bully someone by perverting his or her lashon tov about UMBC JSU/Hillel into lashon hara.UMBC JSU/Hillel is an organization at UMBC, a public/government school; and it has the Fourteenth Amendment, which encompasses the Bill of Rights, apply to it. The Fourteenth Amendment thus applies to the government/public-school organization government that UMBC/JSU Hillel has.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage othersretained by the people." She may not quash my First Amendment Rights of criticizing her in light of her perversion of my lashon tov and in a religious context as hate speech or personal attacks on her or our shared ethnicity. As I said and demonstarted (including with a link to Ezekiel 48), she is a so-called "Katz" who is of "the Levites [who] went astray" and did not do tzedek when she twisted my lashon tov into lashon hara. As a Jew (and one who is a Levite) myself, anyway, I have the right and even a mitzvah to correct another Jew (let alone another Levite) if he or she (in this case, she) has gone astray (even if, and though, she ranks above me).
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws....The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Again, UMBC JSU/Hillel is an organization at UMBC, a public/government school; and it has the Fourteenth Amendment, which encompasses the Bill of Rights, apply to it. The Fourteenth Amendment thus applies to the government/public-school organization government that UMBC/JSU Hillel has.
So, Emily, anyone who joined her in falsely reporting my response to her as hate speech, and Facebook could all be easily sued; especially since she first bullied me, then reported my response on my own blog which is protected under the Constitution and various case lawsas hate speech.However, Messianic Jews are not to sue anybody; so I will (luckily for Emily) treated her as she deserves and sue her, let alone anyone who joined her or Facebook.
I will, nonetheless, repost the entries--and that is that.
In other words, I'm seriously done with allowing people to use freedom of speech, thought, etc. as a license to abuse and persecute me on my own social media forums.
Per my last blog entry, I had a total idiot find my blog with an example of the 1st Amendment gone absolutely awry this 4th of July. Please use your freedom like alcohol: responsibly. Alcohol and freedom of speech have health benefits, and libertarians and anarchists are like alcoholics: they don't know when to stop. By the way, I expose even my audience when they're total idiots unless they can prove their idiotic claims.
If you care to read my last entry, you will see that someone from Virginia Beach engaged in (unless provable beyond a reasonable doubt) heinous libel, slander, and perhaps even criminal mischief. To allege that even a public figure is involved in illicit activity without proof crosses the line of what one can legally say about public figures.
Whoever Virginia Beach is, as far as I know, they're lucky that I don't have the power to trace their IP address and report them for alleged criminal mischief. In conclusion, don't ever make a claim that even a public figure is involved in heinous and criminal activity unless you can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. Otherwise, like Virginia Beach, you're like a libertarian with free speech comparable to an alcoholic with alcohol: you don't know when to stop and you're going too far.
Who the Hell would? Let's not carried away here. Toby Keith verbally abuses children and may be an adulterer, but this claim without substantial and beyond-a-reasonable-doubt proof is going too far:
Meanwhile, Happy July 4th and use your freedom of speech responsibly, please. By the way, Virginia Beach and others, you will be exposed for ridiculous (unless provable) claims like that Toby Keith is a criminal.
The only comments that I've ever removed on my YouTube videos, for example, involve pedophilia and a Social Security number. Otherwise, I keep even the most-vile and -hateful comments on my YouTube videos even if I mark them as spam. Now I grant that I report inappropriate and unfair comments (such as racism, lies, etc.) on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube; and I report and block who I need to report and block, but I only mark their comments as "Spam" on my YouTube videos at maximum, so that people can see the comments at their own behest (Unfortunately, I can't merely mark comments as "Spam" on Blogger-- I either have to publish or delete them-- I can't publish and "Spam"-designate them.). As for Facebook, where I can I'll remove or hide certain comments (such as Antimissionarism and other lies); otherwise, even if you disagree with me fairly and respectfully, your comments stay.
In conclusion, imperfect-but-trying-to-be-nice people allow free and fair speech as much as possible; and I can only hope that Krystal Keith (unlike quite a few of her supporters) allow free speech, even hopefully-helpful suggestions, tips, and real constructive criticism.