Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Obsession
I have now been accused twice of being "obsessed" with Terri Schindler's plight, and I'm wondering how often this word is now cropping up on other pro-life blogs and websites. My only answer to these people is "of course I'm obsessed, how can I not be?"
How can I not be "obsessed" with saving a life? How many of these people who think I'm "obsessed" would stop and try to help someone on the side of the road who was obviously in need of help? (I did, a few weeks ago--the only car to stop, by the way, this "obsessed" woman--and the person who was sitting in their own car unmoving turned out to be a diabetic deeply in need of help. She'd have died there if I hadn't been "obsessed" with helping others). They'll tell you that every single one of them would have stopped--which makes me wonder why every car that passed by was filled with Republicans and conservatives with not one leftist in the bunch. Give me a break...
How many of these people so eager to call me "obsessed" would go out of their way to save a beached whale or a rainforest, yet are now either silent about a human being's death or else screaming that it's all politics (after trotting out yet another of their fake documents), or screaming that it's not our place to determine God's will? They would go to prison to save a bunny rabbit, but still hate George Bush so much that they are goose-stepping their way down a path that leads in only one direction.
This isn't about politics, so please spare me any further attempts to turn this whole thing into an issue on Iraq. Jesse Jackson and Joseph Lieberman have at least proven that they are man enough to rise above the supposed "political" side of this and cast their votes heavily on the side of life. Or did the left not notice Reverend Jackson comforting the Schindlers, praying with them, vowing to take their fight as far as he can today?
As for Iraq--it's a war. Period. The soldiers who went weren't drafted into the services, they joined deliberately. They knew the risks. It's a war wherein a truly evil man was torn from power, and that power was restored to the Iraqi people, who held their first election since the '50s. It hasn't become the feared "quagmire" of Vietnam, and perhaps this is what's really upsetting the left--not enough lives have been lost in the past two years to satisfy their trumpeting claims that it would become a quagmire...
Again, yes, I am "obsessed," and proud of it. Why, I wonder, are the left so obsessed themselves with this issue? Because they are, they worry it like a broken tooth. Why are they so obsessed with killing this one woman? I'll tell you why--because they know that if they lose this one, if she lives, then they will have lost footing in the killing of unborn children. They will have lost footing in the drive to legalize "assisted suicide" in every State. They want her to die because they are a cult and a culture of death. It'll be the Pope's death they demand next, for he's being fed now through a tube. And after that, after they bring down the hated Catholic leader (whom they hate nearly as much as they hate the Bush family), they'll start on "assisted suicide" for Alzheimer's patients. And after that, to quote any evil genius in any B movie you care to name, "after that, the world! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
How can I not be "obsessed" with saving a life? How many of these people who think I'm "obsessed" would stop and try to help someone on the side of the road who was obviously in need of help? (I did, a few weeks ago--the only car to stop, by the way, this "obsessed" woman--and the person who was sitting in their own car unmoving turned out to be a diabetic deeply in need of help. She'd have died there if I hadn't been "obsessed" with helping others). They'll tell you that every single one of them would have stopped--which makes me wonder why every car that passed by was filled with Republicans and conservatives with not one leftist in the bunch. Give me a break...
How many of these people so eager to call me "obsessed" would go out of their way to save a beached whale or a rainforest, yet are now either silent about a human being's death or else screaming that it's all politics (after trotting out yet another of their fake documents), or screaming that it's not our place to determine God's will? They would go to prison to save a bunny rabbit, but still hate George Bush so much that they are goose-stepping their way down a path that leads in only one direction.
This isn't about politics, so please spare me any further attempts to turn this whole thing into an issue on Iraq. Jesse Jackson and Joseph Lieberman have at least proven that they are man enough to rise above the supposed "political" side of this and cast their votes heavily on the side of life. Or did the left not notice Reverend Jackson comforting the Schindlers, praying with them, vowing to take their fight as far as he can today?
As for Iraq--it's a war. Period. The soldiers who went weren't drafted into the services, they joined deliberately. They knew the risks. It's a war wherein a truly evil man was torn from power, and that power was restored to the Iraqi people, who held their first election since the '50s. It hasn't become the feared "quagmire" of Vietnam, and perhaps this is what's really upsetting the left--not enough lives have been lost in the past two years to satisfy their trumpeting claims that it would become a quagmire...
Again, yes, I am "obsessed," and proud of it. Why, I wonder, are the left so obsessed themselves with this issue? Because they are, they worry it like a broken tooth. Why are they so obsessed with killing this one woman? I'll tell you why--because they know that if they lose this one, if she lives, then they will have lost footing in the killing of unborn children. They will have lost footing in the drive to legalize "assisted suicide" in every State. They want her to die because they are a cult and a culture of death. It'll be the Pope's death they demand next, for he's being fed now through a tube. And after that, after they bring down the hated Catholic leader (whom they hate nearly as much as they hate the Bush family), they'll start on "assisted suicide" for Alzheimer's patients. And after that, to quote any evil genius in any B movie you care to name, "after that, the world! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
