Human Right’s Commission Director Marti Buscaglia saw a “Black Rifles Matter” sticker on the back of a truck in her commission’s parking lot. It offended her so much she left her business card with a note on the back. ‘Please do not park this truck with that offensive sticker in this parking lot.’
She even took a picture and posted it on the Commission’s official Facebook page.
The Truck’s owner, Brenton Linegar, runs a plumbing and heating business. He took his observations of her objction to Facebook as well.
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The Commission deleted the update on their Facebook page and promptly issued an apology. They then voted 5-2 to suspend Muscaglai, and she is required to write an apology letter to Brenton Linegar.
Thanks, but that’s not enough.
Danger Will Robinson
On its face, we have an individual who exercised political power (she used not one but two Human Rights Commission Business cards, one form someone in the Department of Corrections) to intimidate a law-abiding citizen. To limit his access to a publicly funded space.
Buscaglia thinks she is right to have done this.
Where the hell did she get that idea? College Campuses? The Liberal education monopoly? Is it the institutional fascism inherent in the mission of such bodies? Some of each, I suspect. And while her individual act is offensive to natural rights the psychology that justifies it is the real threat.
Human Rights commissions and their diversity and inclusion offspring justify their existence by perpetuating a culture of racism and intolerance. They’ve got no mandate to operate without them. The people in them are products of a worldview that believe being offended not only gives them the authority to act but it provides the state with the power to enforce their musing.
The most famous example comes from Colorado where a baker had to finance a legal fight all the way to the US Supreme Court before that branch of Government agreed that the Commission discriminated against him deliberately. With bias and animus. Which despite that ruling they repeated.
Alaska’s Governor Responds
After the March 14th event, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy office responded the next day.
“After review of a post made on the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights social media page yesterday, my office has requested the Department of Law launch an immediate investigation into the matter,” said Dunleavy. “Protecting an individual’s constitutional rights, including the 1st amendment, is of the utmost importance to this administration.”
The end result of that investigation is the vote to suspend and a review of the Commission’s Facebook posting Policy. But the people so-motivated to abuse it are still there. The body that empowers them to formulate abuse remains. And the engine that creates current and future occupants of these offices (colleges and Universities) strive to create enough Marti Buscaglia to tip the scales.
The Left is committed to reaching that point. And history tells us that they will. Do we have five years, ten, or just two? And how do we convey this threat to enough people to make the case that the Bill of Rights, which exists to constrain such infringements, is no longer enough?
Do most Americans even know that much?
Marti Buscaglia’s first amendment rights deserve protection. But any official use directed at private citizens needs to carry the weight of meaningful consequence. Or this sort of thing will never end.
| The Epoch Times
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