Release the Hounds!

For devotees of the TV show, The Simpsons, the phrase “release the hounds” is comically familiar. Mr. Burns, the show’s resident curmudgeon, uses it when people trespass on his lavish estate. Liberals have much in common with Mr. Burns. They are forever “releasing the hounds.” Conservatives entering a room, whispering a thought, or bending to pray while in liberal territory offer fresh meat to crazed canines. Drat! I hear dogs in the distance, probably because I wrote the word ‘pray,’ and it was carried on the wind to some liberal. Quaking with indignation and grinding his teeth, he is removing the collar from his pit bull (yes, vicious pit bulls get to live in a liberal world, but the unborn do not).

In the lavish socialist state that is California, conservative ideas are routinely kept out by hound-like liberals. In fact, lack of free speech has been going on for so long in some areas of California, that being indoctrinated like they are, they think that everyone participating in a conversation feels just like they do on every subject. In this insular world, liberals live like baying hounds at the ready. A typical example is the recent case of vandalism on a mass transit service. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland's Respect Life Ministry placed ads throughout the metro system asking the question, “Abortion, have we gone too far?” It’s a legitimate question. Religious scholars have debated questions pertaining to life’s sanctity for centuries, if not millennia, and will continue to do so for ages after those present today are dead and gone. The myopic Left, thinking as they do that all relevant questions were posed and answered in the 1960’s, threw a tantrum over the question. Apparently, even posing questions now releases the hounds. The local paper reported that the ads were “defaced with markers, had stickers placed over them or have been torn down and ripped up…‘The defacement has taken to religious epithets, profanity, everything you can think of,’… A billboard…was torn to shreds….” Bottom line: the hounds have been out in force tearing free speech to shreds.

It’s quite obvious from this little incident that liberals dogs chew on the bone of free speech when they see fit (I like ‘liberals dogs.’ It’s so reminiscent of communism, which the Left adores, so they can hardly be offended if I use one of their own catch phrases). While conservatives have patiently let the dross that is liberal thought drown society in endless speech, liberals tremble in fear that one woman might not want an abortion if she reads a sign while taking mass transit. Clearly they don’t want women to think for themselves, and clearly they don’t believe in a woman’s right to choose, since they don’t want any woman to be educated about any choice but abortion. Liberals regularly send out ‘big dogs,’ such as Sen. Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi to attack others without mercy, but when conservatives send out a chihuahua-sized ad campaign with an alternative idea, the liberal pack throws itself into a feeding frenzy over ad paper. What to do? Free access to food for thought will not only reveal liberal weaknesses but also, like a good spaying, will abate their rabid aggression. So pour a lot more conservative free speech onto the lawn, and then, “Release the hounds!”