Posted on 04/23/2015 8:57:46 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
Fleeing East Africa for Italy in a rickety rescue boat, 15 Christian asylum seekers were thrown to their deaths last week by fellow refugees because they weren’t praying to Allah.
We’re shocked by reports of innocents murdered for their beliefs and orange-jump-suited victims marching to their deaths because, as Americans, we’re safe from such persecution.
Our freedoms evolved in part from an infamous, hysteria-induced episode in 17th century Puritan Massachusetts where anyone suspected of witchcraft was persecuted. The Salem Witch Trials became a cautionary tale about the dangers of false accusations and contempt for due process, and an allegory for the anti-Communist “witch-hunts” led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s.
While heads don’t literally roll in America, the reputations of those refusing to Think Again often do, the result of character assassinations that corrode our civil society.
Witness the defamatory antics of Sen. Harry Reid while Senate majority leader. Like McCarthy, Reid regularly hurled false accusations at adversaries, including his 2012 election-year claim that Mitt Romney “hasn’t paid taxes for 10 years.” Asked recently if he regretted his charge, the man entrusted with leading the world’s greatest deliberative body crowed, “Romney didn’t win, did he?”
Accused of having “no sense of decency,” McCarthy’s recklessness was eventually halted and the Senate later censured him. However,
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Well-meaning voters too busy with the chaos of work and family don't understand how they're peeled off to vote for the side they don't agree with because of tactics like this.
Nonsense. If Americans continue to make stupid choices, we will suffer the consequences.
No we are not, Melanie. That's your first mistake........................
Not even in part. Why should I read as authoritative anything written by someone so ignorant of authentic history. Our freedoms did not evolve. We were born with our freedoms and incrementally acknowledged that fact under law. Can anyone cite for me a single recognition of natural rights sourced out of the colonial puritans by the Virginians, by Jefferson or Madison?
This lazy "well, you know what I mean" bull is staggering in its presumption.
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