Justice Sunday and Terrorism to Come

[jrieth50]

Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and various other republicans will join forces with Evangelical Christians as they host "Justice Sunday," a rally intended to display their furor with the activist judiciary that prevails in the United States. With hate-inspiring rhetoric that centers around their premise that Democrats are "against people of faith," the Republican party is leading their faithful down a pathway to violence in a way that has not been seen since the civil right's movement's segregationists. Justice Sunday is just another stepping stone on the pathway that has been under contruction for years, recently culminating in thinly veiled threats to the judiciary made by both Tom DeLay and Jeff Cornyn. At what point does the fusion of radical politics and radical religion get branded as what it is. Extremism. For your consideration:

Newsweek reports that both Justices Kennedy and Clarence Thomas have "asked Congress for money to add 11 police officers" to the Supreme Court, "including one new officer just to assess threats against the justices." The Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body for the federal judiciary, has requested $12 million for home-security systems for another 800 judges.
- A Hight Tech Lynching in Prime Time, New York Times, op.ed. 24 Apr 2005

Not altogether hard to believe when you bear in mind the people responsible for this little gathering:

Mr. Perkins's fellow producer tonight is James Dobson, the child psychologist who created Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs media behemoth most famous of late for condemning SpongeBob SquarePants for joining other cartoon characters in a gay-friendly public-service "We Are Family" video for children. Dr. Dobson sees same-sex marriage as the path to "marriage between a man and his donkey" and, in yet another perversion of civil rights history, has likened the robed justices of the Supreme Court to the robed thugs of the Ku Klux Klan. He has promised "a battle of enormous proportions from sea to shining sea" if he doesn't get the judges he wants.

The impact of the hate-mongering that is being waged by an extreme arm of the Christian religion will likely be far-reaching and violent. One need only keep in mind that Olympic bomber/anti-abortion terrorist Eric Rudolph's statements to the press read like a page out of the old right-wing manual that guys like Frist, Cornyn, and Bush are playing out of.

Abortion is murder. And when the regime in Washington legalized, sanctioned and legitimized this practice, they forfeited their legitimacy and moral authority to govern. At various times in history men and women of good conscience have had to decide when the lawfully constituted authorities have overstepped their moral bounds and forfeited their right to rule. This took place in July of 1776 when our Forefathers decided that the British Crown had violated the essential rights of Englishmen, and therefor lost its authority to govern.

You might also note that the corporate-dominated thus conservative slanted media has been just a wee bit shy of referring to their good buddy Eric Rudolph as a terrorist. Funny that.

Along with abortion, another assault upon the integrity of American society is the concerted effort to legitimize the practice of homosexuality... This effort is commonly known as the homosexual agenda. Whether it is gay marriage, homosexual adoption, hate crimes laws including gays, or the attempt to introduce a homosexual normalizing curriculum into our schools, all of these efforts should be ruthlessly opposed. The existence of our culture depends upon it. It is the duty of the state to promote the public welfare and this includes holding up values and model behaviors which tend to create a healthy society capable of reproducing itself by the natural means of the family unit. This model behavior which lies at the heart of a healthy society is the marriage between a man and a woman.

It makes one wonder whether the Frists and Dobsons of the world read statements such as those made by terrorists such as Rudolph and nod in agreement. Though naturally never 'sanctioning' violence against these people and the 'activist judges' that 'legitimize' their abhorrent behavior, they have no problem churning the pool of fear and hatred that is slowly finding its way to the surface in this country. Who will answer when one day, some otherwise 'good' Christian man or woman, previously indistinguishable from men like Frist, Dobson, and Cornyn comes to a chilling conclusion that might sound something like this?

For many years I thought long and hard on these issues and then in 1996 I decided to act.
- Eric Rudolph, anti-abortion, anti-gay TERRORIST, 1996 Olympic Bomber

- www.greedoverpatriotism.com

[chicagojoe]

1. Like I've always said,

if the "Christian Soldiers" want to march AGAINST America, I hope they bring plenty of body bags for themselves, because they will need MANY. Whether people like it or not, I wholeheartedly support the swift destruction of ANYONE who attacks the US, internally or externally. For example, there should have been some sort of extremely violent retaliation within 48 hours of the 9/11 attacks.
And please, no bullshit about "we don't know who the enemy is", because it is known exactly who the enemy was.

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[Dover]

I think we should show Frist and goons what a REAL rally is like.

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3. I think we should show Frist and goons what a REAL rally is like.