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TexasTowelie

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Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:05 PM Jul 2013

Went to Sleep in Texas; Woke Up in a Banana Republic

By Carol Morgan
Submitted on July 3, 2013 - 11:24pm

Carol Morgan is a career counselor, writer, speaker, former Democratic candidate for the Texas House and the award-winning author of Of Tapestry, Time and Tears, a historical fiction about the 1947 Partition of India.

What a difference a day makes.

On Tuesday, I went to sleep in Texas, but on Wednesday, I woke up in a Banana Republic.

Over one thousand people were denied the opportunity to testify about HB5 in the House Committee hearings on Tuesday evening, even though the special session will last thirty days. To add even more insult, anti-choice testimonies were unethically stacked together by the Texas Tea Party dominated committee. Thank you to Representative Farrar for pointing out the dishonesty. Add this offense to fake time-stamping, voter suppression, and re-drawing partisan maps. In kindergarten we called it cheating; in Texas, it’s called politics.

Last night’s hearing revealed that the author of HB5, Representative Jodie Laubenberg (remember her? the one who claimed that ER rape kits could terminate a pregnancy by “cleaning out” a victim?), didn’t even know the average price of an abortion in a state that she represents. (By the way, it's $250 but will increase to around $1200 as a result of HB5) One witness testified that Laubenberg voted to defund prenatal care funds. Really inspires confidence, doesn’t it?

It can’t get any more Banana Republic than that! O.Henry’s famous phrase in his work, Cabbages and Kings describes a politically unstable country, a citizenry consisting of a large impoverished class ruled by plutocracy of big corporations and the military.

Sounding familiar? That’s because it’s not limited to third-world countries whose chief product is bananas anymore.


More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2013-07-03/went-sleep-texas-woke-banana-republic .

Cross-posted in Texas Group.
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Went to Sleep in Texas; Woke Up in a Banana Republic (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2013 OP
well, I went to sleep in North Carolina, and woke up in Texas n/t zazen Jul 2013 #1
This sounds interesting... TexasTowelie Jul 2013 #2
I'm reading this and wonder how anyone can't see the surveillance secrecy is multitudes worse. dkf Jul 2013 #3
Funny, I think the illegal games passing laws that WILL KILL WOMEN, BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2013 #4
But it rests on the 4th amendment. dkf Jul 2013 #5
 

dkf

(37,305 posts)
3. I'm reading this and wonder how anyone can't see the surveillance secrecy is multitudes worse.
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:09 PM
Jul 2013

If we can't roll that back this seems child's play.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
4. Funny, I think the illegal games passing laws that WILL KILL WOMEN,
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:05 PM
Jul 2013

force us into unwilling pregnancy, destroy OUR real lives is worse.

Multiple states have now passed laws that WILL kill women.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023159844

 

dkf

(37,305 posts)
5. But it rests on the 4th amendment.
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:18 PM
Jul 2013

If obvious violations are okay, don't derived rights look even more vulnerable?

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