We last left the pure stream of consciousness that is the Saxony Line with IBM's claim that mind control is possible and the potential dangers that brings if it falls into the wrong hands. We also discussed the ramifications of thinking about the president of the United States and our smartphones dialing him up only to receive a knock at the door by the Secret Service. This thought mystified and terrified us. Now, we are scared even more by the Secret Service after learning that they monitor social media for negative comments.
A failed city council candidate in Carson, California was approached by the Secret Service for remarks that he made on his Facebook page, calling for the monkey president to be assassinated. The Secret Service came aknocking for this. At first, I was scared by the Secret Service and wondered aloud if they were monitoring me for my incendiary comments. Then I had a simultaneous dawning of two important facts. First, I am not a racist and have never posted anything close to this type of vile on any webposting or personal journal. Second, I have a very limited audience whom I wish to thank for checking in on my ramblings. Even if I were to make a stupid comment (unlikely given my intellect) only a small handful of people would notice.
But the thing that scared me the most were the comments on this article. Many rightly condemned the man for his remarks. Unfortunately, many who condemned the remarks did so in hypocritically inflammatory language. The moral high ground was lost in red-neck cracker remarks. More disturbing was those who defended the man and his remarks on the grounds that we need not be so politically correct. While political correctness has stymied positive intellectual debate in recent years, referring to any human being in a derogatory way based on the color of his skin is not merely being politically incorrect. It is being closed-minded and racist. Racism has no place in the modern world. This has nothing to do with cultural relativism, only with decency and the mantra to treat others how you wish to be treated. Humanity is a broken lot. Further dividing us by skin color is something we do not need. Tamper down the rhetoric folks. At the end of the day, we're all human.
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