by Joe Siano
The signatories to the Declaration of Independence made a solemn
pledge, “for the support of this declaration …. we mutually pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” They signed on for the whole ride, wherever
that might end.
Love ‘em or hate’em, the great revolutionaries went all in. They laid their lives and liberty on the line. Their deeds and sacrifices are the stuff of legends. Mao on the Long March. Che in the mountains. Mandela in prison. Debs in prison. Truth tellers Solzhenitsyn, Assange and Snowden in exile. Gandhi’s hunger strikes. Socrates drinking the hemlock. Christ on the cross. Rosa Parks on the bus. Luther facing down the Pope. Bonhoeffer wrestling with his conscience then joining the plot to kill Hitler.
Liberty icons like Ron Paul and Murray Rothbard were marginalized and ridiculed for intellectual honesty and commitment to principle. Paul in the Republican Party, Rothbard in academia,
And then there are Milwaukee Bucks.
The Bucks boycotted their Wednesday afternoon playoff game with the Orlando Magic to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake.
We are all sick of these
senseless shootings. Libertarians abhor
the initiation of force, let alone deadly force, except in the case of
self-defense. All people of good faith
and good will want justice to be served.
What did the boycott change? Nothing. The NBA and
corporate media are already in bed with cultural Marxism.
There is little that corporate America can do except to try the shooter in the media as they did with
Richard
Jewell.
But what did the Bucks sacrifice? Absolutely nothing.
Not money. NBA players get paid millions of dollars for the regular season and a pittance for the playoffs. Even if their pay was docked, - which it wasn’t – the sum is negligible.
Not a shot for a title.
The Bucks, who may be the best team in the league, were up 3-1 in their
series with the lackluster Magic. Even
if they forfeited the game – which they didn’t – they were still a lock to win
the series.
Not reputations.
According to USA
Today – they are now Titans that will alter human conscious and the course of
history.
Immediately the entire NBA fell in line as games were postponed across the board.
Like anyone
cares. There are no fans in the stands
and TV ratings
are tanking.
Then the chickenshit MLB owners hopped on the bandwagon by postponing their games. Again. no one cares.
Baseball
ratings are in the toilet too. Again, nothing was sacrificed. If anything, Baseball may have scored brownie-points
from a fawning press.
If something historical is happening, it may be the death of
pro sports with its bloated salaries for bloated egos. Good riddance. Maybe American kids will be able to focus on
something more useful in school than crossover dribbles and pass patterns.
But let’s face it, sports stars are not typically the deepest or most original thinkers. They pickup cues from the Hollywood glitterati that populate chat and award shows.
These beautiful people come well-rehearsed with Marxist zingers and then repair to their gated homes in posh neighborhoods with private security. These showbiz line repeaters get their opinions from eco-frauds who fly in private jets, a smug self-affirming media and cocooned, tenured academics who cower in fear of well-reasoned argument. Dissenting voices are driven from the academy and off of campus.
These virtue signalers are too spineless to be called Social
Justice Warriors. They are not
warriors in any sense of the word They
take no risks. They sacrifice nothing.
The people who marched in Selma
and in Montgomery, they were warriors.
The took risks. They paid the price.
The blathering classes might be best dismissed as Social
Justice Weenies. Or just Phonies.
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