Monday, June 20, 2005
The Senate Apologizes for Lynchings
The Senate, last week, in a move to bring even more glory on itself and/or for no other reason than it is made up of a bunch of knuckle-heads issued a resolution apologizing for not making it a Federal crime to lynch a person. The same senate that each time a anti-lynching bill came before it would use the holy tactic of the filibuster to prevent it from ever voting on the bill. The same Senate that has the former Kleagle of the KKK as one of the Democratic elder statesmen.
The only thing that made this stupid move even more despicable was listening to some of the rhetoric about the bill. The same week that Dick Durbin (D-IL) bemoans American soldiers as being on a level with Hitler and Pol-Pot, they have the gumption to play this propagandistic token of high-thinking BS.
Sitting at my place here in Gettysburg, where thousands of men gave their lives in an effort to protect a Government dedicated to the concept that all men were created equal, I got to read the words of John Lewis (D-GA). He states that the US government has never apologized for the lynchings. HE says that the US government has never apologized for slavery or ever gone on the record condemning slavery. This idiot needs to make a trip an hour north of Washington and visit us here. This Dipwad needs to read the Constitution that he promised to protect and defend and read the little bit in there about slavery being outlawed. This Jag-off needs to quit hanging out with old Senator Sheets Byrd, who has the distinction of being the only senator to vote against both blacks appointed to the Supreme Court.
This is what passes for politics today. When they should be working on important issues like the war, the courts, and finding ways to cut the waste in the system, they are apologizing for something that none of them ( with the possible exception of Byrd) had anything to do with. One of the principles at the founding was that a person could not be held responsible for the acts of another. I wish the idiots in DC remembered that and would stop apologizing for things they had nothing to do with.
The only thing that made this stupid move even more despicable was listening to some of the rhetoric about the bill. The same week that Dick Durbin (D-IL) bemoans American soldiers as being on a level with Hitler and Pol-Pot, they have the gumption to play this propagandistic token of high-thinking BS.
Sitting at my place here in Gettysburg, where thousands of men gave their lives in an effort to protect a Government dedicated to the concept that all men were created equal, I got to read the words of John Lewis (D-GA). He states that the US government has never apologized for the lynchings. HE says that the US government has never apologized for slavery or ever gone on the record condemning slavery. This idiot needs to make a trip an hour north of Washington and visit us here. This Dipwad needs to read the Constitution that he promised to protect and defend and read the little bit in there about slavery being outlawed. This Jag-off needs to quit hanging out with old Senator Sheets Byrd, who has the distinction of being the only senator to vote against both blacks appointed to the Supreme Court.
This is what passes for politics today. When they should be working on important issues like the war, the courts, and finding ways to cut the waste in the system, they are apologizing for something that none of them ( with the possible exception of Byrd) had anything to do with. One of the principles at the founding was that a person could not be held responsible for the acts of another. I wish the idiots in DC remembered that and would stop apologizing for things they had nothing to do with.
