This latest news on the new dimension of freedom of speech has made a serious impact on my understanding of Politically Correct evolution of our species. Up till now I have always imagined the political correctness mechanism as a kind of a noose that is getting tighter and tighter around our larynges, reducing our ability to utter certain words and/or sentences.
However, this imagery could not be farther from the glamorous reality. Here comes and eye-opener:
A jury in northeastern Colorado has ruled that a pile of dog doo left in the entrance of the office of U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., was protected political speech, acquitting a critic of the congresswoman who admitted dumping the load.
According to a report in the Greeley Tribune, a Weld County jury found Kathy Ensz, a 64-year-old retired university professor, innocent of charges for depositing, the, well, deposit.
I am not going into the political allegiance or, indeed, gender of the two heroes of this saga, both are irrelevant (I am sure) to the main thrust of this post. Main import is that of the new way of freely expressing your political platform in the framework of the PC speech.
By the way, I don’t know whether you have noticed, but the same PC envelope does not include a permission to name that material that was delivered by the professor to the doorstep of the congresswoman.
Which, if my memory of inglorious pre-PC days does not lead me astray, was called just dog shit once…
P.S. I cannot wait for a derivative of this new ruling that will allow slinging the stuff at opponents in the Congress and/or Senate sessions.
Cross-posted on SimplyJews.
Only a Southern woman is allowed to say “Oh shit! I stepped in dog poo.”
I heard that from a friend, who was talking about stepping out in her backyard, barefoot, after dark and, well, you can guess the rest of the story.
William F. Buckley Jr. once jokingly suggested that conservatives should express their disapproval of the Supreme Court’s penchant for amending the Constitution according to Earl Warren’s whim by delivering a paean to the Supreme Court; they should go to the Supreme Court building and pee on it.
As for the new definition of protected (non)speech, does that mean that if I go and fling a huge pile of horse manure at Nancy Pelosi’s feet to express my opinion of her Copperhead tendencies, I will not be arrested and fined for that? Somehow I doubt it.