Political Correctness Inc

What can I say about political correctness?





Not for me.

Guns

If you've read the news lately, you know that some people showed up at political rallies displaying guns - one person had an assault rifle. That is downright barbaric. It is within the law, but that does not make it morally right. The only purpose a gun in plain sight might serve is to intimidate someone. Intimidation and coercion are wrong. Thugs do that. Control freaks do that. We have (more than enough) other problems to deal with. Please.

Protests in Moscow

People in Paris might riot but Russians can only protest - if they riot they'll probably be shot on sight. Anyway, thousands showed up in a Moscow demonstration on Saturday to show their anxiety over the global economic crisis. As far as I know, nobody was hurt, though police kept a watchful eye on everybody. What good is a demonstration anyway? Will that create jobs? Are Russians allowed to own guns? I do not know. On January 19, two people were shot while walking near the Kremlin - Anastasia Baburova, a reporter for Novaya Gazeta (New Gazette), and Stanislav Markelov, a human rights attorney. Both were very young. Many thought the murders were orchestrated by conservative political fringe groups. I had recently heard a story on NPR about the Russian Orthodox Church getting cozy with the Kremlin. Is that really so? In the eyes of a lot of people, a re-uniting of church and state is probably overdue. Imagine the power that can emanate from such an entity.