Lux Lucet

It’s been a while since I’ve written a Week In Review. Too long for my taste. I’ve been a political/economic/world events junkie for as long as I can remember, and I really do enjoy reading and writing about the events of the day.

So, let’s get on with the business at hand…

Fake News Alert!

The latest elite attack on internet free speech began its public phase in this past fall. This author first became aware of it from a comment made by Barak Obama at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh in October.

The president lamented the “wild-wild-west-of-information” in the age of the internet and longed for the good old days when there were three networks that everyone trusted.

In the eyes of the president, all those deplorable bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers have ruined what the news. “There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world.”

So, according to Obama, we need a Ministry of Truth…all for our own good, of course. And this isn’t censorship. No, not at all. It’s a truthiness test that being called for, which is obviously quite different from censorship.

As it turns out, Obama’s comments were just the opening salvo in the elites’ war on internet free speech.

Hillary Clinton’s shocking defeat (shocking, at least to leftist Kool-Aid drinkers in the press) seemed to galvanize the Deep State into taking action against what they now deemed “fake news.”

According to this meme, Russian hackers were responsible for leaking all those Wikileaks emails that were so embarrassing to the Clinton campaign. But beyond the Russian hackers, the bigger problem, so we’re told, was all the dupes in the alternate media who picked up on and amplified the material by commenting on it constantly throughout the campaign.

I must admit, I’ve watched this whole farce unfold with a combination of curiosity, delight and horror.

Curiosity, because it’s amazing to watch the Deep State’s attempt to thought shape the public. The primary source for the fake news meme was a story in the Washington Post by Craig Timberg. Timberg cited a group called PropOrNot that tagged about 200 websites as reliably echoing Russian propaganda.

Yet for all their sturm und drang, those pushing the Russian-hackers-did-it line have yet to offer anything like real proof that Russia was the source of the Democratic email troves released by Wikileaks during the course of the presidential campaign.

Delight, because the ridiculous thrashing about the mainstream media, what I consider the mouthpiece of the Deep State, tells you that they got burned big-time by Wikileaks. And it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

Horror, because, well, the ongoing assault on free speech reminds me a bit of Star Wars. Even as the Death Star was exploding, you just knew that wasn’t the end of the story. The Empire would never take the loss of their shiny new toy lying down. And they didn’t disappoint. The Empire Strikes Back was all about showing the rebels who’s boss, once and for all.

And just as Darth Vader was out for blood, so too the Deep State is out to punish those who blew up their version of the Death Star, Hillary Rodham Clinton. For the first time in my life, the establishment lost control of the news narrative to a rag-tag bunch of amateur bloggers and independent news organizations.

This simply cannot be allowed to stand. And thus the ongoing war on those who would tell the truth by those who wish to conceal it.

The real fake news is the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN etc. who have for years served as the propaganda arm of the Deep State. Their business model is failing and, Lord willing, will continue to fail. And that is something to bring cheer as the new year approaches.

A Man, His Husband, and Ivanka Trump

I was half watching the news last night, when a story came on about a man who was thrown off a Jet Blue flight for making angry comments to Ivanka Trump.

As the news caster rolled through the story, suddenly something stood out to me. “Did he just say a ‘man and his husband,’ ” I asked? Well, the short answer to that question is, “yes, he did.”

According to the Daily Mail,

Dan Goldstein [a Brooklyn lawyer] and his Hillary supporter husband Matthew Lasner were thrown off of the JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco on Thursday when they accosted the future first daughter and started shouting.

While holding a child in his arms Goldstein, 35, began screaming: ‘Why is she on our flight. She should be flying private.’

Anytime a report involves a man and his husband, you know things are going off the deep end. Such a sentence ought not even to exist in the fist place. But these are the times we live in.

Worth noting too, is that one of the men had a child held in his arms, the innocent victim of a perverted legal system.

Some libertarians argue that the way you solve the gay marriage issue is to remove the state from marriage altogether. They hold the position that the state has no place in licensing marriage.

From what I understand, the state is involved in marriage due to its role in enforcing contracts, the terms of which are themselves legal and moral. Suppose I have you work on my car but fail to pay you once the work is completed. You would have recourse to take me to court to recover the payment.

On the other hand, courts have no right to enforce contracts, the terms of which are themselves immoral and illegal. For example, were I to hire a hit man, I would have no legally enforceable claim if the hit man didn’t do his job. I contracted with someone to commit murder. That’s not something the state has any business supporting.

It seems to me that the same situation applies to marriage issues. The state does have a role in enforcing marriage contracts that are lawful and moral. It has no business enforcing contracts, the terms of which involve sodomy.

What is worse, by upholding same-sex marriage, the courts have created a whole new class of victims, the children that are involved in such “marriages.”