We need to be certain that our behavior is always respectful of each other and even those who do not share our views.
Posted on 09/18/2004 7:49:06 PM PDT by anymouse
Barboursville resident Phil Parlock and his children became national celebrities in the world of Internet blogging and conservative talk radio on Friday.
A Bush-Cheney campaign sign yanked from the hands of 3-year-old Sophia Parlock and ripped into pieces was the focus of all the attention. The incident occurred Thursday evening at Tri-State Airport during Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards’ campaign stop.
Republican supporters all over the Internet on Friday were saying Parlock was merely a Republican exercising his First Amendment rights, set upon by Democratic thugs.
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It is.
But that's precisely your problem, here. It wasn't. Your premise is wrong.
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If the guy is using his kids as political props, in an environment where he knowingly puts them at risk to make his political points, that is inexusable and disgusting.
If the guy staged the whole thing to make his political point, then he was using his children in order to manipulate public opinion by deception. That is also inexusable and disgusting.
If he was simply naive, then his motives were not malicious toward his children or the public at large. If that was the case, he'd at least have ignorance as an excuse. There is a difference, and I am not interested in blurring the lines of distinction because his political viewpoints may more closely align with my own (I couldn't care less who is who, it's the possible deception that is the issue). Also, I am not in the group berating this fellow if he merely wound up with the wrong crowd while exercising his 1st amendment rights.
If you want to make a comparision to taking children to Jerusalem, then you might as well compare driving anywhere in a car, or going into any big city.
I don't have a premise! I was only pointing out possible scenarios where a person like this guy could be more or less innocent or guilty (naivety, seeking out troublesome crowds, and or staging trouble where there was none). Generally speaking, going into a crowd of union thugs (with kids and an opposing political message) is unwise. If no trouble brews up, it wouldn't be too hard to either a)intentionally start something, or b) get people to believe that the thugs started something. That's a red flag here and why if staged, the story *would appear credible*. IOW union thugs acting like thugs is believable, so staging something like this would seem realistic. Unlike say, going into a crowd of monks and claiming they got angry and violent toward a small child.
There will be those who will refuse to ever accept that conservatives can and will use deception to push their ideas, and some will never accept that union thugs might not always be guilty of thuggery. I prefer to steer clear of emotionally charged crowds of any stripe, because of these sort of concerns.
But that's precisely your problem, here. It wasn't. Your premise is wrong. Don't go around calling a guy like this a bad father, nor his wife a bad mother, if that's what you're doing.
Sheesh. Your imagination is inversely proportional to your reading comprehension skills. You will waste no more of my time.
And we know that in Jerusalem there are people waiting to kill that daughter or people like her. And that have -- killed daughters and children -- violently and viciously, callously.
Not so on a highway. Danger yes, but motivated killers or thugs -- no.
We need to be certain that our behavior is always respectful of each other and even those who do not share our views.
What the proper respect is to those variant views! Perverted deviance, theft, lying and thuggery is best called for what it is.
The picture and caption are posted on my office door.
Sheesh. Your imagination is
So's yours. Happy? Maybe that's exactly what you were doing. And that's why my complaint about you touched a nerve. Because if that is indeed what you believe, then you need to reconsider the events that day. Your premise is entirely wrong. You seem to think Mr. Parlock was taking his daughter to a bullfight and was prepared to throw her in the ring with the bull.
What if he wanted to show his daughter what Democrats were like?
Your liberalism is showing, troll. I seriously doubt anyone including rabid liberals would be arrested for wearing a t-shirt at a political rally. Most likely the perps were doing something illegal while wearing those t-shirts. Try to dig a little deeper into the story than reading the headlines of the Lamestream press.
lurkers/posters...see the photos of Kerry's good old days in post 21 above.
Yes, always speak truth. Never indulge in anything less.
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