Ah, the slippery slope

[khaosworks]

Sprechen Sie Englisch, Herr Gropenführer? By Mr. Terence Chua, Pissed Off And Loving It.

(thanks to mactavish for bringing it to my attention)

In an AP article, "San Francisco Honors Same-Sex Newlyweds", the Supreme Commandant of Stalag Kalifornia, Der Gropenführer Arnold Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying:

"In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex. Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs, I mean you can't do that," Schwarzenegger said Sunday on NBC.

I normally don't make fun of the way other people speak English, but I will in this case because I am a very, very small and petty man when it comes to numb-nuts like Schwarzenegger.

"In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex." Well, fuck me.

As an encore, Arnold, why don't you for Great Justice, take off every Zig? You've been in the US how many years? There are New York cabbies just fresh off the last refugee plane from Baghdad just a step up from saying, "my hovercraft is full of eels," that speak better than you do. Repeat after me - a, an, the. A, an, the. Articles are your friends.

And of course, gay marriage is the same as a semi-automatic weapon spraying HORRIBLE FIERY DEATH and a drug fiend doped up on some primo horse. Fuckin' A, man - didn't you notice all those arms and drugs dealers standing on the steps of City Hall handing out ammo and vials of crack after the first couples got married the other day? All over the country, cities are just chomping at the bit to issue those drug dealing licenses. Mayors are just screaming to each other, "San Francisco did it, boys! The door's wide open!"

It. Simply. Boggles. The. Mind.

Can we recall this guy too?

Comments

Re: Civil Rights

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Well, this is true. At the same time, chief executives are the ones who direct their chief enforcement officers on whom to go after and what to go after. This is why, for example, the IRS is much more likely to audit a poor person now than a rich person; or why certain Blue Laws still on the books aren't ever enforced anymore; or why back in the first half of the 20th Century it was very hard to convict somebody of being part of a lynching if you were in the South.

Besides, if Der Gropenfuhrer wants the laws changed so maybe he could run for President of the US - and let's face it, he's one a very tiny handful of foreigners who could possibly benefit from such a change - you have to wonder why he is against a peaceful attempt to change the laws of his state that would benefit easily half a million people if not more.

Re: Civil Rights

[jost.livejournal.com]

you have to wonder why he is against a peaceful attempt to change the laws of his state that would benefit easily half a million people if not more

I've not seen a single reference from him that suggests he is against same-sex marriages. Everything that I've seen has been that he is upset that Mayor Newsom would knowingly violate an unambiguous law that was overwhelmingly approved by the electorate of California. It's very dangerous ground to assume that people who want to see the same-sex marriage licenses stopped are against same-sex marriage. I would be one of the counterpoints to that view; wanting to see the law breaking stop and yet still supporting the removal of gender from marriage licenses. In my point of view, we have Gavin Newsom knowing exactly what the law says and yet he has, by choice, decided that he's not going to abide by that law. In my mind it's identical to him knowing the posted speed limit and choosing to speed anyway; then saying it's unjust to have such a ludicrous speed limit. Or even knowing that filing income taxes is a legal requirement and just decided to not file them. Oaths of office almost always contain a "protect and defend" clause to the laws of their respective regions and this type of action is diametrically opposed to that oath. This makes for bad ju-ju.

Oaths of office

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Ah, but they almost always include an overriding obligation to defend and protect the constitutions of the state and the nation. Which is, arguably, exactly what the mayor of San Francisco is doing.

Knowingly enforcing an unconstitutional law? Now that would be a violation of his oath of office.

Re: Oaths of office

[jost.livejournal.com]

No law is unconstitutional until a court in position to say so rules that it is. Until such a ruling occurs, the law is the law, no matter how much prognostication goes into attemping to divine what a court might say in the future.