So I was reading this story (more) about a 16 year old kid at the RNC from some school newspaper. When he saw an AIDS group setting up to protest, he went over to take pictures of what they were doing, thinking it would be a great shot for his paper — the Secret Service grabbed him (along with the protesters), threw him in prison, and charged him with indicting a riot (a felony), as well as assault and disorderly conduct charges. His parents hope to get the charges dropped.
Ignoring for a moment how chilling it is that reporters — let alone student reporters — are being arrested like this, look carefully at the trumped up charges. Felony. That means this kid, mistakenly believed to be a reporter with anti-Republican leanings, is being threatened with joining the 3.9 million Americans that can't vote due to having a felony on their record. Interesting tactic for dealing with protesters!
Not surprising either when Bush is inside talking about all the success he's had, but in August alone there were 1,100 US combat casualties in Iraq, about two a day being fatal (more), which makes it the bloodiest month so far. In addition, “three out of four” casualties are now of the “acute case” type — or to put it in simpler terms, the amputee rate is way up.
Continuing in the religion of peace department, the death toll in Beslan (the Russian school incident which took place in a small town of 30,000 people) is looking like it's going to hit 500, almost all children (more). Putin is being accused of both bungling the incident and lying about it, but if I'm to believe the pundits on TV, it's Muslims in general that are getting a real beating — again they're making this “where is the outrage? whine (more).
Suggesting that Muslims in America or other Western Muslims have a responsibility more so than people in general to condemn the event is to suggest that they have some relation to the terrorists or are the same group, or otherwise have a direct affinity. It's not as if Christians are expected to all collectively apologize when a gay teen is beaten to death, or an abortion doctor is murdered. It's not as if Christians or even Catholics are expected to apologize every time a priest rapes a little boy.
If anything, God — in every flavor — needs to apologize to man for suggesting the idea that he exists (or at least show up, make a lot of noise and fireworks, and announce, “look you dumbasses, would you stop killing each other in my name, and just be nice to one another for a change?).
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