There are crazy people that do crazy things in this world
that make us all feel uncomfortable. Thank God there is Rick Santorum to act as
comic relief. He can take the sting out of any serious situation with his mind
numbing logic. Give it up for Rick. In this case there is no comic relief. He compares at one point in his speech to the
anti-abortion group Students for Life, the American Revolution to the fight to deny
safe and effective abortions to American women, and goes on to say that
anti-abortion activists are not willing to sacrifice enough for the cause.
After reading Rick’s comments to Students for Life. I
really don’t know what to say. I am dumbstruck as to the point of his speech. I
guess that he wants to say is that anti-abortion activists are not willing to
sacrifice for the cause like pro-abortion activists. What kind of sacrifice is
he looking for?
Does he want the aforementioned group of students to engage
in acts of violence? Anti-abortion activists have used terroristic tactics and bombed
clinics, thus, gone to jail for their actions. Looks like some sacrificed a
lot. I have not heard of any pro-abortion groups carrying out such tactics.
Maybe Rick wants these student to go a step further and kill
an abortion provider in their church. That murdering terrorist sacrificed his
freedom for the rest of his natural life. In Rick’s eyes this must not be a
sacrifice. Murdering a fellow human being must be okay as long as the person
doing it feels as if they are acting on behalf of the unborn.
Truly, what are the sacrifices Rick wants these young people
to make? It is not clear to me what he is after. More than that, I am extremely
disturbed by his speech. Maybe he is calling for an all-out holy war against
the pro-abortion antichrists. It sounds to me like a Christian jihad. Have the
Crusades not been over for a few hundred years? Not in the eyes of these
inflexible, intolerant Christian extremists.
His speech says all the wrong things to young people today.
It is full of hate and venom. It demonstrates the intolerance and arrogance
that spews from the mouths of Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage. It is full of lies
and deceits that all these characters play off as absolute truths, which are
never to be questioned.
Therein lies my disgust. It is playing on emotions by
twisting the truth to fit a personal belief system. Both the left and the right
do this all the time. There is no one side that has the corner on this market,
however, the right shouts louder and pushes harder, and the one time that the
left pushes back, (the Texas filibuster) the right gets all whiny about the
behaviors.
There are plenty of examples of the hypocritical stance the
right like to take in regards to the left. When a man in Florida spews lies
about our president and the congresswoman allows it to stand, I can only shake
my head stunned. Is it that she believes the lies or is it that being reelected
is so important that she perpetuated the lie through an act of omission or
commission? Your guess is as good as mine.
So, Rick, what do you really want from these children? What
actions do they need to do to prove to you they care enough? The Muslim
extremist expect children and adults to carry out act of terrorism and
sacrifice their lives. Look at Boston. Is this what you want? Do these children
need to carry out your unholy war? Are they the fodder for your extremist views
that you want to foist on the rest of society?
These republicans in power believe as you do that government
can force the general public to bend to their will. They have gerrymandered
their districts so that they are bulletproof, for now, but you are helping to
kill the republican chances of gaining any national offices. I return to my
opening question, “What are these young people to take away from your speech in
July?”
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