Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

QUESTION FOR THE LOONEYS CARRYING SIGNS...

at yesterday's protests that said "Obama Lies, Freedom Dies:"  

If FREEDOM DIED why weren't all the protesters who carried those slanderous, libelous signs about the President of the United States--why weren't they arrested on the spot?


If FREEDOM DIED, the people carrying those signs would have been arrested.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, those thousands of Americans who showed up to protest would have been stopped before their march had begun.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, the people carrying signs that said President Obama was a half-breed Muslin [sic] would have been taken away.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, the deeply stupid woman who declared that the Muslims were taking over Washington would have been carted off to an asylum.  She was not.

If FREEDOM DIED, the children posing as "men" and photographing a photo of Mr. Obama with horseshit on him would have been beaten by government officials.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, all the childish antics and hysterical blathering about the "death of freedom" would have been quashed by government men in uniforms.  They were not.

Why is this?

BECAUSE FREEDOM HAS NOT DIED.

What has died is America's ability to discuss complicated issues rationally and reasonably.  Instead we have misguided, misinformed, hysterical mobs roaming the streets in search of a demon who doesn't exist--except in their own fevered and sick paranoia.  Instead we have angry throngs heading for the "slippery, steep, and narrow verge of crag-like agony."

"In each human heart terror survives
The raven it has gorged: the loftiest fear
All that they would disdain to think were true:
Hypocrisy and custom make their minds
The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.
They dare not devise good for man's estate,
And yet they know not that they do not dare."
From "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe Shelley  







"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."--WB Yeats

10 comments:

TAO said...

Freedom DID die...it was murdered by the stupidity of the masses..and the blindness of ideology.

Dave Miller said...

And Jesus said "What you do to the least of these, you do unto me."

I can understand having a different opinion, and being upset.

But that should not be an excuse to demonize the other, whether it was Bush, or is Obama.

For the life of me, I cannot understand how people who, like myself, claim to be trying to follow Jesus, can theologically defend the type of behavior we are seeing.

Anonymous said...

the cretin holding the sign believe President Obama is an African?

At leasst the demonstrations showed us how many mouth-breathers there are out there. In a country of 300 million a few thousand ninnies don't really amount to much. Why don't they all move to Texas and secede?

Leave the rest of the sane people in peace.

(O)CT(O)PUS said...

FYI: Captain Fogg's post on the death of Chrystal Lee who is better known to us as Norma Ray. Her health insurance carrier denied her treatment for brain cancer; she just died.

Shaw Kenawe said...
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Shaw Kenawe said...

Insurance Companies:

THE REAL DEATH PANELS

It astounds me how gullible and easily led so many Americans are.

So many Americans swallowed the big lie that Palin spread about government death panels, while in truth, the insurance industry is the biggest, deadliest, and most assuredly real of all her death panel fantasies and lies.

It's painful to have to live with the tragic fact that there will always be easily duped people among us, and that we may all suffer because of them.

Joe "Truth 101" Kelly said...

These fools believe what they want to believe no matter what the facts and information say. The right knows it's lost the battle for the sane and rational. All it has left to appeal to are bigot, homophobes and idiots.

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