Viet-Justice

According to Bill O’ Reilly the following will happen if gays are allowed to marry.

O’REILLY: So you can see the debate over gay marriage is now a full fledge national battle. As talking points said last night the election of Barack Obama has emboldened secular progressives who feel it is their time. Gay marriage just the beginning. Other cultural war issues will also be in display very shortly. These include limiting gun possession, legalizing narcotics, unrestricted abortion and the revocation of the Patriot Act.

I’m not too crazy over limiting gun possession because guns are a form of population control.  But legalizing narcotics is great since the War on Drugs is a total failure and overdosing on narcotics is an effective form of population control.  Attempting to mug people for your next fix ties population control nicely into the right to own a gun.

It is interesting that O’Reilly ties gay marriage to unrestricted abortion.  I had no idea gay men need abortions.  Unrestricted abortion is something that the whole world needs.  With 200 million more people than there are jobs it says we need to stop reproducing and get rid of some of the people we have.

Revocation of the Patriot Act.  Well, there’s a big steaming pile of shit that just needs to go away.  Idiots like O’ Reilly claim that the Patriot Act is for national security.  What he and his supporters do not realize is that any security measure must be commisurate with what it is protecting.  The Patriot Act is a waste of time and money as well as a tool to infrienge on the liberty of US citizens.  It is not possible to reduce a risk to zero, nor does it make sense to spend a large amount of money on protecting something with a lower value than the cost of those protections.

Yes, I’ve heard the argument that we could have an entire city get nuked off the face of the earth by terrorists with a suitcase bomb. That really isn’t going to make a difference.  After 9/11 many businesses adopted guidelines to open offices and datacenters in separate geographic regions.  Many companies in New York City could have their offices destroyed tomorrow and still continue operating.  Those that chose not to implement the post 9/11 guidelines will be out of business which leaves other companies an opportunity to step in and take over their customers.  The odds of being killed in a large scale terrorist attack are very remote compared to lightning or gun shot.  Based on the numbers I can’t really justify the expense and inconvenience of keeping the Patriot Act around either.

If gay marriage is going to bring about all of the above things then we really need to fight for the rights of our gay citizens.  Even if you don’t believe in gay marriage, support the cause just to make Bill O’ Reilly cry.