Political Correctness is a Dangerous Weapon


In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Sat. July 27, 2013

Political Correctness can have ugly consequences, says AMC in The Media, Press Release by Dan Weber. Editors/reporters may contact John Grimaldi at 917-846-8485 or jpgrimaldi@verizon.net to set up a call. [AMC is a vibrant and conservative alternative to those organizations, such as AARP, that dominate the choices for mature Americans who want a say in the future of the nation...]

Bohemia, NY, July 26 - Police will be unable to provide eye witness descriptions of perpetrators under a proposed New York City law that seeks to limit profiling of suspects. "It's an overreach that would give criminals the edge and put innocent citizens at risk, all in the name of Political Correctness," according to Dan Weber, president of Mature Americans Citizens.

The law would allow the cops to describe the clothes the suspect might have worn in the commission of a crime, but that's about it. It would leave them open to lawsuits if they say whether the individual was male or female, estimate how old he or she is, indicate whether the individual is white, African-American or Hispanic or point out any physical disability such as a limp, Weber explained.

"It's Political Correctness gone amok, pure and simple," he stated. "Whether the proposal is enacted or not, the mere fact that it is being propose indicated the extreme measures modern day social engineers are willing to go to turn our world upside down."

He said that what he called "Liberal Ideologues" have as their ultimate goal the creation of a utopian society in which they can dictate what is right and what is wrong. "They use political correctness as a tactic for achieving their objective, tapping our sense of fair play to justify their ends."

Big gulp soft drink bans, requiring distillers to provide nutritional information on bottles of scotch, vodka or Rye and using the term " a person of interest" instead of saying the "suspect" in a criminal investigation are just a few of the ways PC activists get their foot in the door, Weber explained.

"The proposed profiling law in New York City is among their next steps. As in the case of Army Major Nidal Hassan, who is charged with murdering 13 innocent GIs and severely wounding 32 others in Ft. Hood, Texas in 2009. Eyewitness said that Hassan shouted clarion call while indiscriminately firing his weapon. His co-workers had warned his superiors that he was a ticking time bomb long before the tragic event but they didn't do anything about it. Among the reasons cited: fear that they might be accused of profiling him as a potentially dangerous extremist."

The authorities even sought to describe the even as "workplace violence"* instead of an act of terror, Weber noted. "The incident reveals the ugly consequences of mincing works for the sake of political correctness, he said.

P.S. I am personally fed up living in the American Obama Twilight Zone since 2009.
George H. Kubeck, *The Nidal military report was forced to lie to the American people because of Obama's political correctness. How many more lying reports have we received since 2009.

A Conversation on the Big Divide - 4


In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Let's share several excerpts that may help both sides:

1) Andrew Breitbart, Righteous Indignation, p. 7

"For decades the left understood the importance of education, art and messaging. Oprah Winfrey gets it. David Geffen gets it. President Barack Obama gets it. Even Corey Feldman gets it.

"But the right doesn't. For decades the right felt the Pentagon and the political class and the politician class and simple common sense could win the day. They were wrong.

"The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn't have to. In the 21st century the media is everything [the unelected media] The left wins because it controlled the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media."

2) The Mindszenty Report, July 2013 - A Papal Paradox - Pope Francis and Liberation Theology, p. 4:

" To his credit Pope Francis never joined his fellow Latin American Jesuits who supported liberation theology. In fact he admonished the to stay out of political issues and certainly not take up the liberationist theology. According to Jesuit Father Alejandro, Cardinal Bergoglio could not support the struggle for justice through arms, through violence, because it is against what we are doing ads Christians.

"The lesson lost on the Jesuit liberationists was the fact that Pope Francis's position segues perfectly with those of both of his immediate predecessors, John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, whom the opposed. While Pope Francis ma be a paradoxical figure who bears many complex attitudes to his papal stage, one thing is certain: he will always choose the side of Christ and the Church."

3)"In the year 1274 great evils threatened the world. The Church was assailed by fierce enemies from within and without. So great was the danger that Pope, Gregory X, who then resigned, calling a council of Bishops in Lyons to determine on the best means of saving society from the ruin that menaced it.

Among the many means proposed, the pope and the bishops what they considered the easiest and most efficacious of all, viz. the frequent repetition of the Holy Name of Jesus.

The Holy Father then begged the Bishops of the world and their priests to call on the Name of Jesus and to urge their peoples to place all their confidence in this all-powerful Name repeating it constantly and with boundless trust."

(Chapter 3, The Wonders of the Holy Name, Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, O.P.)

George H. Kubeck,

P.S. Update: Catholic Georgetown University caves to HHS mandate.

A CONVERSATION ON THE BIG DIVIDE - 3

A Conversation on the Big Divide - 3

In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Monday, July 22, 2013

On the one side besides Sister Carol Keehan, we have:

1) "Grant Gallicho at liberal Commonweal magazine wrote, "I've written a few times before, it seems to me that Catholic employers can comply with the mandate without running afoul of Catholic moral teaching." [ Sadly, I subscribe to this magazine, on and off, to figure out the mentality of these CINO Persons.]

2) "Michael Sean Winters wrote approvingly of Sr. Keehan's comments at the dissenting National Catholic Reporter. He writes that Archbishop William Lori's refusal to say the Obama Care Mandate may force Catholic hospitals [not] to close has harried the health care industry and left Sr. Keehan and company scrambling for relief."

"The law firm litigating the suits against the mandate may be working pro bono, but in so far as they are restricting bishops from reassuring Catholic institutions - to say nothing of Catholic people - that our ministries will not close, they are exacting a price too high to pay," Winters wrote, "I do not discern a widespread assault on religious freedom in this country, nor do most Americans." [What America is this guy living in?]

On the other side we have:

A) "Adam Cassandra, communication manager of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews.com, "Nothing in the final HHS Mandate rules changes the fact that Catholics in the U.S. will be required to violate their conscientious objection to immoral practices and services in violation of Our First Amendment Rights."

"The so-called accommodation is entirely insufficient in protecting religious employers and organizations, and as the CHA points out, it doesn't cover Catholics in for-profit industries." he continued. "Not one Catholic individual should be forces by the government to violate our religious beliefs, and I would expect any organization that represents Catholics to feel the same way."

B) "Ironically, the National Association of Evangelicals is closer to the Catholic bishops' view than the Catholic Health Association, headed by Sister Keehan.

"The final rule still leaves many religious employers unprotected," said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), this week. "The government should not compel any of its citizens to violate their consciences."

D) "Eric Rassbach, deputy general counsel of the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, said, "Our Constitution and laws require them to protect religious exercise, but they [Obama] really don't want to, so they are trying every trick in the book to avoid doing so. But we will keep suing until the courts make HHS comply with its obligations."

George H. Kubeck - ref. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-health-association - su...

A Conversation on the Big Divide - 2

A Conversation on the Big Divide - 2

In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Saturday, July 20, 2013

Both sides need to listen to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who wrote and spoke in 1983 - July 18th meditation, Co-Workers of the Truth. The reader decides whose side Pope Benedict is on.

"To faith belong the readiness to suffer but also the courage to do battle. Granted, we have no lack of people who tell us: Faith should be both protest and resistance against the power of the world.

"But if we look more closely, what such groups really want is, for the most part, an activator, a loudspeaker, for their slogans, for the slogans of their party.

"But it is a totally different matter when the Church opposes the real powers of this age; when the Church condemns the disintegration of marriage, the destruction of the family, the killing of the unborn children, the distortion of the Faith.

"Then suddenly, a Jesus is held up to her who was apparently all mercy, who condoned everything and never harmed anyone. The saying was coined: "One cannot be a Christian at the cost of one's humanity", and people understood it primarily in reference to themselves.

"Being a Christian may perhaps be a pleasant luxury, but must not cost anything.The real Jesus was very different. Certainly he uttered words of great and healing mildness and compassion. But he also uttered quit different words:

"I have not come to bring peace but a sword" (Mt 10:34). He opposed the convenient lie, the easy-going injustice. He exalted the superiority of truth over that merely comfortable getting-along-together that leads ultimately to the power of injustice, to the dominion of the lie.

"For such words, which are written large and shining in history, which established the opposition of truth to the indolence and degradation of humanity, for such words Jesus went to the Cross, a Jesus who merely condoned would not have been crucified."

George H. Kubeck

A Conversation on the Big Divide -1

In pursuit of the truth, cinops be gone, Thursday, July 18, 2013

Ref. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-health-association-su

Participants will include Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Andrew Breitbart, Sister Carol Keehan, Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop Charles Chaput and others.

The Issue: Michael Warsaw, "The final rule issued June 28 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has our legal team and me scratching our heads - because nothing has changed. This HHS rule would still force EWTN [and National Catholic Register] and other Catholic agencies to cover in our health care packages contraception, sterilization and abortion inducing drugs, though the government assured us we wouldn't have to violate our moral stance to supply health care to our employees. The final rule is sorely inadequate.

On one side we have "Sister Carol Keehan, CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the U.S.

She issued a four-page statement on Monday night saying the group's concerns had been met and its members could now participate in the law in good conscience.

On the other side we have Cardinal Timothy Dolan and U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops which said its analysis "has not discovered any new change that eliminates the need to continue defending our rights in Congress and the courts.

On the one side supporters we have liberal and dissenting Catholics in Commonweal and National Catholic Reporter magazines.

On there other side we have Archbishop Charles Chaput who told an audience, "The worst enemies of religious freedom aren't out there among the critics who hate Christ or the Gospel or the Church, or all three. The worst enemies are in here, with us - all of us, clergy, religious and lay - when we live our faith with tepidness, cheap compromises, fear, routine, and hypocrisy."

"It is not the first time faithful Catholics and the CHA have been at loggerheads, Cardinal Francis George, the president of the USCCB, said in 2010 that Sister Keehan was to blame for Obamacare...

George H. Kubeck

"Tragic Day for Marriage and our Nation"

In pursuit of the truth, cinops be gone, Tuesday, July 2, 2013

CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN, PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE CORDINLEONE OF SAN FRANCISCO

"Today is a tragic day for marriage for marriage and our nation. The Supreme Court has dealt a profound injustice to the American people by striking down in part the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The Court got it wrong. The federal government ought to respect the truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, even where states fail to do so.

 

"The preservation of liberty and justice requires that all laws, federal and state, respect the truth, including the truth about marriage. It is also unfortunate that the Court did not take the opportunity to uphold California's Proposition 8 but instead decided not to rule on the matter. The common good of all, especially our children, depends upon a society that strives to uphold the truth of marriage.

 

"Now is the time to redouble our efforts to this truth. These decisions are part of a public debate of great consequence. The future of marriage and the well-being or our society hangs in the balance.

Marriage is the only institution that brings together a man and woman for life, providing any child who comes from their union wit a secure foundation of a mother and a father.

 

"Our culture has taken for granted for far too long what human nature, experience, common sense, and God's wise design all confirm: the difference between a man and a woman matters, and the difference, and the difference between a mom and a dad matters.  While the culture has failed in many ways to marriage-strengthening, this is no reason to give up. Now is the time to strengthen marriage, not redefine it.

 

"When Jesus taught about the meaning of marriage - the lifelong union of husband and wife - he pointed back to the "beginning" of God's creation of the human person as male and female (se Matthew 19). In the face of the customs and laws of his time, Jesus taught an unpopular truth that everyone could understand. The truth of marriage endures, and we will continue to boldly proclaim it with confidence and charity.

 

"Now that the Supreme Court has issued its decisions, with renewed purpose we call all upon all of our leaders and the people of this good nation to stand steadfastly together in promoting and defending the unique meaning of marriage: one man, one woman, for life. We also ask for prayers as the Court's decisions are reviewed and their implications further clarified.  

 

GEORGE H. KUBECK

 

HOW WOULD ST. THOMAS MORE, ST. DOMINIC AND ST. THOMAS AQUINAS RESOLVE THIS MATTER?

This is not a Happy Fourth of July

In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - July 3rd, 2013

 

For our nation this is not a Happy Fourth of July. There are serious consequences to recent Supreme Court decisions and the death culture overwhelming our society. False causes are on the move. However,  "We recognize our duty - to defend innocent life - to uphold natural marriage - to maintain religious freedom. It is a duty, so help us God, we will fulfill."

 

In America, political correctness has evolved into the promotion of a culture of death values which I will list in other letters. Political correctness has become a two-faced monster promoting the philosophy of secular progressivism, a false national secular religion which is also unconstitutional. 

 

Sadly, if you want to change the definition of marriage, it follows that you can change the  definition of everything; the 10 commandments, truth, common sense and natural law.

 

Today's meditation in Benedict XVI's book "Co-Workers of the Truth" hits the nail on the head.

 

"In his Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul found himself confronted with precisely this question. The Apostle's answer to the metaphysical and moral cynicism of a decadent society ruled only by the law of power is astounding. He asserts that in reality they know about God: "... What can be known about God is plain to them" (Rom 1:19)

 

"He supports his statement by pointing out that "Ever since the  creation of the world his [God's] eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made" (" (Rom 1:20). Paul concludes from this that they are therefore "without excuse" (ibid.)

 

"The truth was available to them - demands such as the worship of God and the giving of thanks (Rom 1:21) The moral corruption of society is for is for Paul but the logical consequence and the exact mirror-image of its fundamental  perversion.

 

"When we place our own will, our own pride, our own comfort above the demands of truth, it is inevitable that everything will fall ultimately into decay. God, to whom worship is due, will no longer be worshipped: instead, images, appearances, the prevailing point of view will hold humanity in thrall.

 

"What is contrary to nature will become the norm; the individual who lives contrary to truth, lives contrary to nature.  His ingenuity will no longer be at the service of what is good, but will be used instead to devise original and artful forms of wickedness.

 

"The relationship between husband and wife, between parents and children, will be dissolved and the source of life will consequently be thwarted. It will no longer be life that has dominion, but death; a civilization of death will be established (Rom 1:21-32)." GEORGE H. KUBECK

This is not a Happy Fourth of July - 2

This is not a Happy Fourth of July - 2

In pursuit of the truth - cinops  be gone - Thursday, July 4th, 2013

 

Where do  I start? Obama and the Chicago Brotherhood is to America what Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood was to Egypt. Nothing more and nothing less of an unbelievable Obama mindset.

 

1.) The Tidings, May 17, 2012 and Helen Alvare at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held May 9, in Washington. "As our leader (Pope Francis) is fearless, let us be fearless leaderless."

 

"The prime issue she raised in her talk was "that our government is today endorsing a view of intimate human relationships we might call "Sexual expressionism." That is, it is championing as cherished right, any consensual sexual act, with an emphasis on those (acts) divorced intrinsically or technologically from having kids, and even often divorced from forming any lasting relationships!" I did not become an American citizen to be an Obama European.

 

2.) Orange County Register, Mark Steyn, Surveillance, The Ability to Know everything, except right and wrong, Sunday, June 9th, 2013.

 

"Small Business/Self-Employed Division reassuring Congress that systems had now been put in place to prevent them succumbing to the urge to put on Spock ears and moob-hugging blue polyester for the purpose of staring in a "Star Trek" government training video. The small business/self-employed division had boldly gone where No IRS man had gone before - to a conference in Anaheim, where they were put up in $3,500-a-night hotel rooms and entertained by a man who was paid $27,500 to fly in and paint onstage a portrait of Bono."

 

3.) Orange County Register, Victor Davis Hanson, Government Infected With Deception: Team Obama most untruthful crew since Nixon, et al.

"Truth is the lifeblood of democracy. Without honesty, the foundations of consensual government crumble. If the Internal Revenue Service acts unlawfully, our voluntary system of citizens computing their own taxes implodes. Yet Lois Lerner, one of the IRS' top officials, would not answer simple questions about her agency's conduct during congressional testimony, instead pleading the Fifth Amendment."

 

4.) Orange County Register, Mark Landsbaum, Bigger Government means smaller citizens, Liberty contracts as federal authority expands. Saturday, June 8, 2013

"We lost track of where we left off counting the reasons for small, limited government. It may have been at No. 421. Let's pick up the count at No. 422. A small, limited government wouldn't do what the IRS did to the nonprofit Freedom Watch organization and its donors, which government bureaucrats said was acting too political.... [In our present day culture, the IRS must be replace.]

 

George H. Kubeck, "One Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."