Posted on 01/30/2002 5:28:14 AM PST by AUgrad
:) ttt
Logic is somewhere in this decision I'm sure, just where it is I don't think anyone can convince me. If a six month baby is born before it's due date doctors will spend millions attempting to keep the child alive when their fellow doctors are killing them.
It's fundamental to all totalitarian states that whatever is not forbidden is mandatory.
Great article. Actually Sobran is being too nice. The Court's malevolent plot to unleash the anarchy of mass abortion killing was absolutely premeditated. The whole grisly business began with outright lies and it has been propped up with deceit ever since, and they all know it. A majority of that Court has for a long time been comprised of some very evil, brutal, vicious people. They like to to be seen as humble servants of law and justice, but they are just the opposite. They have caused unimaginable pain and terror to untold millions, and so they too will experience what they brought upon others when they are brought before the bar of the Supreme Judge of the Universe, where there is no more appeal, and they will face His terrifying and righteous wrath and indignation. < /rant >
May God have mercy on their souls, and may God have mercy on our souls.
Cordially,
When the shoe fits, kick 'em in the teeth with it.
Excuse me while I go and vomit.
On another thread I commented that many otherwise well-meaning conservatives call themselves "Libertarian" because they have been hoodwinked into boarding a train conducted by scheming and evil people far more clever than they, the destination of which is a tyranny far different from what they ever imagined.
Roe v. Wade was just the first stop on the journey.
Here it is again--that paradox of power and "liberation". Askel5 touched upon this gordian paradox on another thread concerning some apparently "insignificant" alteration of sodomy statues in Virginia.
Those of us who are tempermentally "libertarian" have to face up to this mystery. The use of the State to "liberate" an afflicted minority--or a lurking penumbra--is always a disaster in the long run. Of course, America being what it is, the "long run" is a much shorter time in coming than in most places on the planet. The State is further engorged with the solemn reponsibilty of shielding the oppressed from the instincts of the majority. The next thing you know statutes designed to fight organized crimeare gleefully used to fight organized resistance. All in the name of liberation
This paradox pops up in almost every confrontation on the so-called "conservative" side. It is a particular pickle for intelligent, strong women, because--oddly enough--without a self-confindent patriarchy wielding discreet power--intelligent, strong women cannot flourish. Another paradox!!!
And no Alexander around when we really need him.
Anyway, for the most part, libertarians seem content to remain safely ensconsed in infancy where no paradox looms to mock the turgid prose of John and Dagney and Howard and Dominique.....
It sounds Orwellian to me. Animal Farm, I believe.
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