When Ann Coulter mentioned the fact that the liberal organizations have paraded victims about to advance their agenda, insisting those victims are above criticism, she only scratched the surface. In my writings about my Libertarian philosophies, I have found that liberals are just as hostile towards attacks on any of their pet programs. They will attack with venom and force anytime these pet programs are even QUESTIONED, and the character of the individual will be called into question. They will even, in some cases, abuse authority to harass and persecute those who DARE question them.

Can you think of even a single conservative issue where simply questioning the issue would lead to you being followed, placed under surveillance, and otherwise investigated as well as being outright accused of horrible actions? I can't speak to other areas, but I CAN tell you that as an activist against CPS, I have had all of those things happen to me. Because of my mere questioning of CPS, I am constantly watched at the library and in the community by our marshall, and even the merest slipup is likely to precipitate a call to CPS and another useless investigation. Why people will stand for this while real cases of abuse go without scrutiny is beyond me, but the simple fact is, if you live in the state of Texas, your tax dollars are being used to harass me and my family because we dared ask questions and challenge authority, and we did so with documentation and facts. In fact, because some of the money originates from the FEDERAL government, if you pay federal taxes, you are also paying for our harassment. How does that make you feel? Add to that the fact that several individuals (including the alter ego of one of our regulars) went so far as to outright accuse me of supporting abuse...because I simply asked questions and demanded that CPS follow the law.

The same can be said of education. When you dare question the efficacy of our educational system, you are branded as being anti-education, despite the fact that the money we spend on education, if spent in the private sector, would go much further. While our teachers aren't as underpaid as some would have you believe, they certainly aren't feeding off of the pork that is the governmental education system, so, where, precisely, is the money (approximately $10,000 per student nationally, once the BS has been washed off of the numbers...and this does not count infrastructure such as buildings, etc.) going? That's a very good question. But to even ask it, you need to be willing to risk being branded as one who hates our children and has no interest in our future.

Going down the list of liberal agendas, we'll move onto affirmative action. Touch this sacred cow, and be labelled a racist. If you hold public office, expect photoshop-edited copies of your image with a hitler mustache and a swastika adorning the pics. The same is true of immigration.

Protest abortion on demand or federal funding of abortion, and you're a misogynist, making women slaves to the male patriarchy, despite the fact that the majority of those pregnancies were initiated at least partly by the action of the woman.

Defend the second amendment and you're killing our children by placing guns in their hands, despite the fact that the majority of the homocides involving these children involve cases where the law has already been violated to obtain these guns.

Demand "truth in sentencing" laws, or laws otherwise tough on crime, and you're accused of perpetuating a system of oppression by further victimizing these individuals already victimized by society with your harsh treatment.

I'm reminded of my joke back in my more liberal days about fund raising for the March of Dimes. I commented that my job would be easy, as all I had to do was use guilt ("it's for the babies. What? You don't like BABIES?"). What I called a joke has now become standard operating procedures for the left. And the tactic is as appalling as it is entirely dishonest.

Ironically, this same left will portray itself as the DEFENDERS of free speech. They'll place Michael Newdow on a public square to shout about the oppression of a church who dares display a cross, but they'll condemn the response of the minister who demands that Newdow is a fascist pig that should be ignored. They'll place Jesse Jackson on a stage demanding reparations while booing Bill Cosby off the same stage for demanding responsibility. They will promote freedom of religion for Wiccans while denying the same to conservative Christians. They will exercise the most severe and harshest forms of intolerance all while demanding tolerance from the right.

It's time someone stood up to these schoolyard bullies and their nazi tactics. While they make movies about the tactics of individuals such as Joseph McCarthy, they will, in fact, employ the very same tactics to protect their images. And while the right ultimately condemned McCarthy's tactics, if not his intent, the left shows no signs of condemning either.