The sound of a jet overhead causes me to wonder . . . perhaps this is the time for El Paso's yearly festival of killing machines . . .
expressed his "disgust" about those who are erotically attracted to individuals of the same sex.
A gay pride parade, he said, was not a place to take one's children. It was not "normal".
I wonder....
Would the same politician take his children to a festival of violence? A gluttonous festival celebrating weapons which destroy, maim, ruin lives and families?
For airplanes --or military aircraft, if you prefer--are, in fact, simply tools for killing, maiming, and destroying families.
Yet, in El Paso, Texas, there is a yearly celebration of these killing machines.
And, I believe, that families attend--thousands of "normal" families....
There are many unwritten rules in the USA, rules followed by "free" people, rules willingly obeyed by "normal" people-- one of them would say, if written down:
Killing, murder, destruction is right when we do it.--And no one had better ask any questions about that!
Note:
Just to be perfectly clear.
The last sentence above does not represent my point of view. I do not belong to the "we" referred to in the rule. I believe that violence is justified only in self-defense and only when all other possibilities have been exhausted. The point of the above is to criticize those who are too willing to use violence. I am also suggesting that there is a kind of hypocrisy involved, as well as an intolerance for the sort of discussion which is appropriate in a democracy.
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