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To: areafiftyone
What a courageous and heroic family. Those children now know more about how our government really works than any high school civics teacher.
117 posted on 03/23/2005 1:13:53 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
"What a courageous and heroic family. Those children now know more about how our government really works than any high school civics teacher.

Right on.

When I was a kid my mom would drag me to Chavez grape boycotts, she gave me a sign that said something about children suffering because non-union workers were picking grapes. While THAT may have been somewhat exploitive (they were HER words, not mine) it was great lesson to me in morality and politics. I have always been an activist of one kind or another.

There are a lot of armchair blowhards on both sides here. But being willing to stand up for what you believe sets these people a world apart, and God Bless them. Protesting for what you believe, and being willing to risk arrest is a demonstration of true compassion, indeed.

Watching these people come out for something they believe so strongly, a clear moral issue, and symbolism of having children arrested for bring the woman a glass of water is moving.

The photograph of young Gabriel Keys is so powerful that it should be on the cover of every newspaper in the country tomorrow - but since it shows the religious right as the MSM doesn't want the world to see them, I expect you won't see much of this.

This story also demonstrates how the right has taken full control of the moral high ground.

248 posted on 03/23/2005 1:40:40 PM PST by Fido969
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