We Are Our Own Worst Enemy

Today AHF will launch its offensive on “Measure B” better known as the condom law.

They made very sure to point out that the program will not cost the taxpayers anything which is a direct assault on the FSC campaign strategy that it is a waste of government resources and taxpayer dollars.

The Libertarians among us don’t feel that this is anything that government should be involved in anyway but unfortunately that is a minority view and is way too late for a condom optional stance to take hold.

There are those who see it as a first amendment issue, that it is a restraint on freedom of expression but the government and the courts have routinely held that this can be curtailed in the workplace.  That it isn’t infringing on any freedom because in the privacy of your own home you have the freedom to not use condoms for sex or not use a hardhat or safety goggles when doing construction work.

I would like to think that the first amendment is the supreme law here and that no law may supersede it, but the courts have not seen it that way and I wouldn’t bet on the law being struck down as unconstitutional.

As I said before I don’t think the industry has a prayer of defeating the measure, it the old scenario of two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.  The public has been conditioned by the government and the media to believe that condoms = “safe sex” and voters are going to go the safe route according to the only poll I have seen that polled likely voters.

The biggest blow of course came in the form of Mister Marcus pulling a Marc Wallice and forging his tests while he was known to be positive for Syphilis.  Would he have done the same thing if it were HIV?  Most people think he would have, disregard for human life is disregard for human life, no matter how he may try to justify it, he is no better than Marc Wallice.

That isn’t to say that Diane Duke, Fabian Thylmann and the rest of the FSC aren’t taking aim squarely at their own feet.  Being outed as trying to bribe Derrick Burts to lie makes them look pretty sleazy….Sure there’s no doubt that Derrick is being paid by AHF for his participation and he should be, I wouldn’t deny him that.  It will take a lot of his time and money.  But they are paying him for the truth, The FSC/Fabian bribed him to lie.  That doesn’t reflect well on them and it was a boneheaded idea to begin with, it destroys credibility at a time it is most needed.

Fabian Thylmann is going to spend millions of dollars to try to defeat this measure and an additional large amount to try to circumvent it in the event that it passes.  Too bad nobody wanted to spend any money when it would have made a difference.

For many years I have been saying that if we can’t manage to control ourselves government will do it for us.  Those chickens are now coming home to roost.