Replies

In the Reuters report about a mother accused of drowning her children in Calif. Bay on 10-20-5, Reuters quotes San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as saying, "It makes you, frankly, sick to your stomach to think you live in a society where things like this could have happened." In other words, OURS is a society "where things like this could have happened." Of course, Mayor Newsom doesn’t explain how society has anything to do with a schizophrenic woman who has gone off her medicine murdering her children in a psychotic fit. But if society is to blame, it has long been noted that San Francisco society is a step (or two) apart from mainstream American society, and, since the mother was a resident of San Francisco, it would be San Francisco society that Mayor Newsom should be sick about. But then there is the question - which apparently hasn't occurred to the honorable Mayor Newsom - exactly what kind of society might there be in which a schizophrenic woman who has gone off her medicine can't murder her children in a psychotic fit? One thing for sure, it certainly isn't a free society.

Perhaps Lucia Newman of CNN has a suggestion for the answer. In her report about preparations for hurricane Wilma she describes how, "On every block, there's a person assigned to take a census on who is being evacuated to which shelter, with special attention paid to the elderly and pregnant women." It sounds pretty good for hurricane preparations, but what she fails to mention is that that person takes that same census every day - in fact all day every day - whether there's a hurricane or not, and if you live on his block, he had better know where you are and what you're doing at all times. It’s called population control. While Newman mentions that there is “total, political and economic control”, she fails to mention that there is also total (and absolute) population control. So maybe in that society a schizophrenic woman who has gone off her medicine can't murder her children in a psychotic fit. Maybe. And maybe not. But maybe at least that society would be more to Mayor Newsom's liking. Oh yes. Lucia Newman was reporting from Havana, Cuba.

"Ours" is a society that allows over a million babies per year get butchered.

But I'm sure Newsom is "pro-choice," and the irony would be completely lost on him.

I thought this action was a pro-choice issue for a mother in progressive California. Sarc

Oh yes. Lucia Newman was reporting from Havana, Cuba.

Very nicely put.

"It makes you, frankly, sick to your stomach to think you live in a society where things like this could have happened."

This guy doesn't get around his own city much, does he?

since the mother was a resident of San Francisco - not true she was a resident of Oakland

i call these suck holes BLAMEs... BLaim AMerica for Everything.