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Edited on Thu Aug-13-09 10:48 AM by Wetzelbill
This was a poll on Facebook today. Really, is this what we've become? Advocating or, at the very least, suggesting that murdering somebody who is gay might actually make society better?
This is the other side. Fear. Chaos. Incitement. Violence. It may not be everybody over there, but its more than enough to cause concern for all of us. Who is next? Are we going to have another disturbed person walk into another church to kill "liberals"? Another sick loner out there ready to shoot a cop because he's scared his guns will be taken away? Or will somebody go off and open fire on a group of women because he's angry about not having sex for almost twenty years? Will somebody think that the shooting at the Tel Aviv gay community center was a good idea and try to emulate it here? And on and on and on.
Who is next?
It could be anybody. When one side only knows how to create fear and chaos and anger, this is what happens.
At a recent event held by my congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, somebody brought a gun and accidently dropped it on the floor. She said he wasn't waving it around or threatening anybody with it, but there are people out there who would. Just how far does an already incensed and fearful person, who isn't even sure what they are mad at in the first place, have to go before they do something crazy and stupid? Maybe not very far.
There are people out there who don't believe the president is even an American. Some don't even know that Hawaii is a U.S. state. They believe Obama will implement death panels and put a mandate on who lives or dies. They think that the health care bill will mandate sex changes. They don't even grasp anything as simple as Medicare being a government program. They yell "socialist" without even knowing what it means. I wonder how many of these people would kill or hurt somebody on the basis of one of these ridiculous beliefs?
It's a sad pathetic state of affairs. We should be better than this. Our country should be better.
But it's not.
I remember when I rode bulls I used to watch bull riding tapes, and one announcer would always say something like "It's not if you get hurt riding bulls, it's when and how bad." That's how I feel about the fear and anger and division that's being stoked up in our country for purely political reasons.
It's not if somebody else is going to get hurt because of all this incitement, it's when and how bad.
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