Our political system
is riddled with loud mouth idiots, power hungry fundamentalists,
crooks and liars. Sometimes we dismiss them as harmless fools, but I
don't. I see them in a position to create legislation which the
majority of us disagree with, but will be obliged to follow or suffer
the consequences. I see them in their greed for power being
influenced by institutions to create and pass legislation that is
against the general good but suits the particular institution. Then
there those others, the real raving lunatics and you have to ask
yourself, how did this dangerous idiot get into this position of
power. The frightening thing is that out there there are people who
want this type of dangerous lunacy. One of the more dangerous lunatic
politician is a Mr. Larry Pittman, North Carolina Republican, a
staunch anti-abortionist who favours public hanging for abortionists.
This is a short extract from Care2
---Pittman expressed this view in an email to every member of the North Carolina General Assembly. From Pittman’s email: “We need to make the death penalty a real deterrent again by actually carrying it out. Every appeal that can be made should have to be made at one time, not in a serial manner,” Pittman wrote in the email. “If murderers (and I would include abortionists, rapists, and kidnappers, as well) are actually executed, it will at least have the deterrent effect upon them. For my money, we should go back to public hangings, which would be more of a deterrent to others, as well.”
Well, there you have it, legislative power in the hands of a raving dangerous fundamentalist right here, doing his thing at the heart of our political system. While our media reports on every Arab fundamentalist who attempts to curtail women's rights, calling for everything from having him banned to imprisoned, and with rightful indignation, shouts outrage at public executions in other countries. We in the West continually preach human rights to the rest of the world, where do the Larry Pittman's of this world fit in that preaching?
