… at least this time.
Trijicon has decided to stop including encoded Bible references in the serial numbers of the products they sell to the United States Military. This decision was made by Trijicon itself, and does not appear to be precipitated by anything other than the mindnumbingly idiotic outrage of a small band of bigoted, intolerant “liberals“.
Unfortunately, one particular moronic liberal’s reaction to the news is as stupid as it is predictable:
Trijicon will remove Bible verses from its government rifle sights. I mean, duh. You get a government contract, you modify your product.
No, you inveterate thimblewit, you sell them the gorramed product they bought. I have not yet confirmed this, but I have no reason to believe that the “ZOMGEVILJESUSCODES” were not on the Trijicon products that the military tested, considered, accepted, and purchased. As such, the military decided to adopt products that had tiny-assed, abbreviated references to Bible verses on them – tiny-assed, abbreviated references that occur on all Trijicon products.
After the military accepted the products in question, Trijicon was actually contractually bound to provide the military exactly what the military ordered, which means damned good optics with the bloody tiny-assed, abbreviated Biblical references included. This change in the product specifications no doubt required military approval to implement, and a resulting amendment to their contract.
The inability for some imbeciles to understand this very simple concept continues to astound me, just as much as it did when the news broke. Trijicon was doing what Trijicon has done for almost 30 years now, and the military bought their product regardless. If the knee-jerk bigots up in arms over this incident wanted to be in any way intellectually honest with themselves or everyone else, they would be beating on the doors of the military procurement offices, rather than a private company that can do as it bloody well pleases.
Gorramed idiots, all of them. All I know is that my next major optic purchase, whenever that may be, will be from the folks with the yellow triangle.
Eh, I didn’t give a shit about this story before, I don’t give a shit about it now.
That being said, in the instance of such a non-issue story, and involvement with the US Government, I never like hearing the Government winning.
Bahhh, SO I guess I DO give a fuck….SHIT!
I think this is a story we should care about. I haven’t posted on it because so many others (like here) have done a great job.
It is really simple in my mind.
Is there any law that says a company can not put abbreviations and numbers on their product if the government buys it?
The pro-ignorance/anti-freedom liberals are pushing false information and distortions of the Constitution in order to restrict the rights of those they disagree with.
If they continue (and they will) and they are allowed to succeed, then it will be our rights up next using more distortions.
Fight them where we can find them or else we will soon be surrounded.
Weer’d: My wife was in kind of the same boat… her reaction to the initial news break was, “Wait, why is this an issue?” and then as the news progressed, her comments basically boiled down to, “Why the hell are people having such a problem with this?” Honestly, I do not understand why it is such an inordinately stupid issue either, and when you get right down to it, I do not really care what a private enterprise does with their products… I was just venting about the idiocy of the intolerant bigots who precipitated this stupidity.
In this case, though, it was not really the government that won – the only official statement I have seen from the military basically boiled down to, “If they work, we do not care.” In this case, religionists won, and exposed their discriminatory nature while doing so.
Bob S.: At least you did not use the e-word…
I agree completely, though. By definition, a private corporation cannot violate the First Amendment. If the military purchasing these products violated some internal edict (one that I am not familiar with), then the military is at fault for accepting and purchasing a product that they were not supposed to. I simply do not comprehend why this is such a difficult concept for some people.
Or, rather, I do comprehend why they are pretending it is such a difficult concept – it gives them the leverage they need to, as you say, undermine individual’s rights wherever they possibly can. The fact that a firearm accessory company was their target this time around is probably just icing on the cake for them.
Actually I find it interesting that the leftists took so long to find this, given their seeming penchant for removing all mentions of things religious (excepting those they approve of, of course) from all places.
That is something I have been wondering at myself… The inscriptions have been on the optics for the 20+ years that Trijicon has been making sights for the military, and from what I understand, it was more-or-less an “open secret” the entire time.
So why now? Why make such an issue out of it? Where is the profit in this, short of being complete and utter dicks to a private provider of outstanding products to the American military?