Category: Justice and Righteousness

02/5/17

Our greatest power is in our values

Freedom from Fear and Want / Freedom of Speech and Religion

Our values, our American values, the very values that for so long have been an inspiration to the world—despite being so often betrayed by our own actions—are being deliberately attacked by the highest officers in our government and the political party to which they belong. For them our defining values as a republic and as a people are not our true and greatest strength in the world; they are contemptible weaknesses to be spit upon, slandered, reviled, and ended.

They are dangerously wrong, sacrificing our honor and endangering both our lives and those of others.

But the world is watching, and no matter how the coming months unfold, that is the single most important reason to be out in the streets.

11/16/15

Varieties of stepping up

“Hell yeah, I would. No look, you gotta, you gotta step up, man.

—Jeb Bush, 9 Nov 2015, in response to the question whether he’d kill Hitler as a baby, if he could

Not to be ragging on Jeb Bush, because (despite an earlier post) for the most part, I just don’t give him no nevermind at all. But these remarks really struck me, for two reasons.

First, because he’s willing to say—while campaigning for president of our country—that he would commit infanticide, if he knew in advance the child’s future life history and found it sufficiently objectionable.

Second, because he did not say, while campaigning for president of our country, “If I could go back in time to when Hitler was a baby? I’d kidnap him so I could raise him in a loving, nurturing home where he’d have the chance to mature into a loving, caring person himself, instead of a genocidal monster.”

Apparently, murder is the only solution to the problem he could come up with, or it’s the only one he thought Republican voters would want to hear.