Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: Monday was the three-year anniversary 5
Monday was the three-year anniversary of President Obama's cruise missile and cluster-bomb attack on al-Majala in Southern Yemen that ended the lives of 14 women and 21 children: one more child than was killed by the Newtown gunman. In the US, that mass slaughter received not even a small fraction of the attention commanded by Newtown, and prompted almost no objections.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/19/newtown-drones-children-deaths
Considering that we kill millions every year (Score:1)
of our unborn, I really don't understand the outrage against these child killers. Aren't they really the heroes of the Malthusian Atheists, ridding the world of breeders?
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[...] of our unborn, I really don't understand the outrage against these child killers. Aren't they really the heroes of the Malthusian Atheists, ridding the world of breeders?
If you want to avert an abortion, you could (conceivably, and in many situations) compensate a woman in exchange for carrying the fetus to term so you can eventually adopt her baby. Can you please tell me a way to stop my government's judicial/extrajudicial executions* and war crimes with such ease?
* I participated in the successful petition to end the judicial execution of people in my state, but that was hardly as fast and simple as the solution I gave you.
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But this is hijacking the thread. The point here is that Presidents of any stripe have a penchant for "waging war on the wink". What to do?
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I thought the entire point of the Malthusians was to *discourage* bringing babies to term, because the world is far too overpopulated already. Especially, it seems, babies of the wrong sort, which seems to be the point of Planned Parenthood's teen outreach program, going out nationwide to any school that has an overabundance of melanin.
Having said that, yes, that's the obvious way to fight back- it is high time we started paying women to be mothers.
But sacrifice isn't a part of the capitalistic mindset. W
During a period of political confusion... (Score:2)
I was beginning to think that the Democrats maybe weren't so bad, and maybe I should reconsider my stance of refusing to vote for them. Then I was in a bookstore, and saw Madeline Albrights lich-like grimace on a book cover, and I remembered.