The Celebration of life...that is american life

[Thinkerman]

Well what can i say hypocracy hypocracy and more hypocracy, and not accidental but deliberate, tactical, strategic thinking on the part of these most sinsiter and evil agencies. And the shout Terrorism all the time???

 

Just read the article to see what has got this naomad renating

 

(YellowTimes.org) – President Bush has declared National Sanctity of

Human Life Day.

 

I should be forgiven for greeting the news with cynicism, but at least

they included the word "national" in the title.

 

The list of examples demonstrating how life is regarded by Americans

with considerably less than sanctity outside their national borders is

painfully long. There is eloquent testimony in the flesh of tens of

thousands of innocent peasants ripped by metal shards of American

landmines and cluster bombs in a dozen far-off lands.

 

There is America's wanton disregard of Israel's brutal rule over the

Palestinians; its years of wanton disregard of South Africa's brutal

apartheid government; and its years of wanton disregard of official

murder and torture in Chile, in Iran, and in a dozen other lands with

governments bestowed by America's hysterical, witch-hunting

interventions.

 

But even that word "national" must be qualified. Within the sacred

precincts of the temple to freedom and human rights itself, there

seems to be some elasticity in the definition of sanctity of life. I'm

sure the fetuses no one wants -- including the anti-abortion fanatics

whose motto might well be, "We jus' helps 'em get born, what happens

after is private 'n' personal!" -- are covered by the joyous national

celebration. I think likely, too, sperm hurt by condoms and stem cells

are included, but just what else is being celebrated remains

mysterious.

 

The governor of Illinois seemed to understand the meaning of the

words "sanctity of life" when he commuted the sentences of more than a

hundred and fifty people agonizingly awaiting execution. His decision

came after overwhelming evidence that the death penalty was

administered with about the predictability of a flip of a coin.

 

The President never suffered qualms like that during his term as

governor of Texas. The Texas lethal-injection assembly line rattled

right along with the highest recorded productivity in the nation, and

Mr. Bush was so sure justice was being served that he was moved on

more than one occasion to joke about those waiting to die.

 

I wonder how America's love affair with guns fits in with the sanctity

of life? There's supposed to be about two hundred million of them,

many of them handguns whose only purpose is killing people. Obtaining

a handgun in many parts of America is far easier than getting a pair

of eyeglasses.

 

There's the little matter of the murder rate in America, the highest

in the advanced world, and there's the infant mortality rate, also the

highest in the advanced world. If there is some way of interpreting

the documented brutality of American police forces as life embracing,

it escapes me.

 

Now we learn from a UPI story that, for the first time in its

murderous history, Israel's intelligence agency Mossad has been

granted permission by an American government to use the land of the

free as one of its human-hunting grounds. Potential victims must

qualify for that elusive category "terrorists." As determined by whom?

I guess it's petty of me to ask such a question when Americans are

busy celebrating the sanctity of life.

 

Just a few days ago, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Russian

officials announcing a new approach to the Chechens described as "the

Israeli way," meaning they intend to start cold-bloodedly

assassinating Chechens who are deemed terrorists. No objections were

heard from the sanctity-of-life President.

 

Bush's CIA recently blew up a car filled with people in Yemen after

its arbitrary determination they were terrorists. It's wonderful the

way these humanistic values are spreading around the planet. As I've

remarked before, that word "terrorist" is taking on exactly the

meaning of Stalin's "wreckers," a word he uttered each time he wanted

to signal comrades that it was time to round up a new batch of

victims. Only now the vicious game is going global.

 

I wonder if Israel's new hunting privileges in America might be

extended to other groups? Perhaps licenses could be sold for hefty

fees or auctioned to the highest bidders. Americans could watch

Russians and Chechens, Spaniards and Basques, Irish and English,

Mexicans and aboriginal people, Pakistanis and Indians, Turks and

Kurds, various Afghan tribes, or Muslim and non-Muslim Nigerians all

hunting each other down in their streets. Now there's an idea for

celebrating the second anniversary of National Sanctity of Life Day.

 

Americans should be proud of the inspiring example they set for the

world. Happy National Sanctity of Human Life Day, America!

 

[John Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil

company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history.

He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason,

and concern for human decency. He is a member of no political party

and takes exception to what has been called America's "culture of

complaint" with its habit of reducing every important issue to an

unproductive argument between two simplistically defined groups. John

regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a

poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country

embarked on the pointless murder of something like three million

Vietnamese in their own land because they happened to embrace the

wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of

calling the peaceable kingdom.]

[Snow the informer]

are obsession with guns? i guessthat means somalians are obsessed with primitive clan war fare and fiefdoms along with corrupted 4-life goverments? who are u to call us violent when somalia doesnt even need a gov to act ignorant? why go to the almight former British Empire if u are willing to critisize our "good will ambasotoring"? typical somalian refugee bullshit. u guys cant get enough of it all can u?

[Gabbal]

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