Posted by
Beachball on Monday, October 22, 2007 10:01:50 PM
Bobby Jindal's election as governor of Louisiana has stirred some silt in the pond that is the liberal Left's vision of utopia.
Patrick Ruffini's report on Townhall.com of Jindal's victory drew this comment from Briggsy: "100 percent ban on abortions, no exceptions; strongly pro gun; strongly pro offshore drilling. Are any of these positions consistent with good government?"
Far from alone, Briggsy does well in reflecting the Left's highest priorities. While every line of reasoning somehow makes sense to its purveyor, I can't understand why Briggsy et al care one whit whether burglars, car-jackers, or would-be rapists might be shot by armed citizens or whether energy companies might gain permission to punch more holes in the Outer Continental Shelf.
Since when does the contemporary Left truly care about life? If killing a human baby in its mother's womb is acceptable, then how can anything else be objectionable?
In fact few outrages are objectionable to the Left so long as the deeds tend to aggrandize government and undermine faith in any authority greater than humankind.
Protecting the environment? To what end? Making the world cleaner and safer for humans does not seem to be the goal of the Left. Environmentalism's founding achievement more than 30 years ago was to convince the Nixon administration to ban the production and sale of the cheap, effective, benign insecticide DDT in the name of saving raptor chicks. With that act the United States also blocked the use of U.S. foreign aid to finance DDT purchases by developing nations that needed it. Rachel Carson's disciples have been quite content ever since, but soon thereafter deaths skyrocketed outside the United States from mosquito-borne malaria. The World Health Organization says the disease now kills a million humans every year. These unfortunate persons are just as dead as gangbangers who get plugged by armed convenience store clerks. Only difference: malaria deaths in the thatched huts of the Third World occur beyond the old media's radius of interest. More important, they don't accrue to the political power of the magnates of the environmentalism industry. If death by malaria is of no concern why should death by gunshot wound be any different?
Offshore drilling? Who cares? According to the Left, conditions on Earth may be, must be, surely are replicated in billions and billions of instances throughout the universe; plants and animals arose from random, spontaneous chemical processes: humans have no creator and life no purpose. No God, no unwanted pregnancies, no worries. Go ye, therefore, and drill!
Global warming? So what? If the planet is going to suffocate in a blanket of overheated carbon dioxide, then why not use the time remaining to fornicate all the more feverishly? Digitize the debauchery and finance our cosmetic surgeries by selling live coverage of the copulation to cell phone subscribers? Particularly profitable premium rates could apply to scenes involving pre-teen heretofore virgin females, who could get their birth control pills from the junior high school nurse and would of course be consenting participants disinclined to ever marry, vote Republican, take Communion, eat meat, or submit in any way to white, European male-dominant cultural oppression.
My own sarcasm aside, yes, no abortions, no exceptions does in fact make for good government. Life is sacred, a gift of our creator, whether or not we believe the creator to be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and whether or not we chose to attribute our statutory laws against murder to the true author of "thou shall not kill."
Life deserves to be nurtured, especially human life. Human life deserves to be nurtured above all other forms of life. It deserves to be nurtured from the moment of conception onward. And once born, human life deserves to be protected: by consuming energy to warm and cool our homes, cook our food and propel our cars, trains, planes and aircraft carriers; by the responsible use of chemicals to grow food, produce useful, convenient material goods and ward off disease and injury; and by use of deadly force when absolutely necessary to stop evil-doers, who by selfishly threatening the lives of others willingly jeopardize their right to life and liberty.
Yes, God lives, evil exists, and Bobby Jindal has it about right.
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