"No More Baby Parts."

If the "mainstream media" is to be believed, Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter, Robert Dear, said "No more baby parts," when he was finally taken into custody after his violent rampage.  But, why, whatever could he have meant by that, do you suppose? Maybe he was just down to the clinic to borrow a cup of baby parts and found they were all out?  Maybe he was building a Frankenstein-esque creature and got peeved at the glut of juvenile bits on the market? Maybe he was misheard and was unhappy with "A. B. parts."

As Sherlock Holmes might have said, if he were prone to using my vernacular, if every other possibility is so fucking stupid and fanciful that you'd have to be a lying bastard to propose them, you should consider the evidence staring you in the face.

And it might just sound a little self-serving if one admits that Dear was a domestic terrorist, as Gov. Mike Huckabee has, but then plays victim by saying it especially harms the pro-life folks. Does this make the anti-abortion people really look bad? Do they need much help, there? And the knee-slapper is, this is the guy who was going to use the US military to forcibly close health clinics. It's "domestic terrorism" if you are a DIY-type. If you're president, you do what you want!

Failed tech-CEO Carly Fiorina takes a slightly different tack--it's just "typical left-wing tactics" to blame anti-abortion rhetoric for violent actions.  How dare we connect those dots in chronological order! This was the candidate, mind you, who imagined a scenario that wasn't even in the highly-edited videos who had to go on to produce one yet more lurid. Which we are not supposed to find incendiary or deceitful in the least, mind you.

Now, a handful of people are just looking at this guy's criminal records and immediately dismissing him as a lunatic. Mental illness is a spectrum, charges against this miscreant were regularly dismissed, and the things he was accused of weren't necessarily out of bounds for people who are considered perfectly sane. Being antisocial or even sociopathic doesn't exclude this person from having political views. People have made note of the fact that Colorado Springs is the headquarters for Focus on the Family. The founding member, Dr. James Dobson, justified both wife-beating and animal abuse.  (Not that I'm saying Dear was influenced by Focus on the Family, at all, at all--after all, he wasn't originally from Colorado Springs. He was from North Carolina. Where Eric Rudolph was found holed up. And there's some folks to this day who consider Rudolph a folk hero. )

Focus on the Family won't be Topped by any old Robertson--

Oooh.

Yeah.

Just supposing that the problem with Haiti didn't have anything to do with colonialism, slavery, racism, corporate opportunism, IMF loans, deforestation, political upheaval, and a series of hurricanes followed by a big, freaking earthquake, well yeah--um, Satan....that's a plausible reason for all the ....

Well, no. That's stupid.

It's stupid because if you look at history, you can see how the poverty is a human tragedy. And if some uppity white Christian bigot has an issue with voudon or dark-skinned island people, that is just ignorant. These are resilient people who have had to eat a lot of crap, and right now they are going through a fuck of a lot. Their country isn't evil. It could have been a lush island paradise, but the users and the people abusers and the takers and the money-makers got in.

Oh, Focus on the Family, if you're feeling the evil--well, maybe predator-Christians would know. So sorry the Haitians don't have much to give right now in exchange for the FOTF interest but their desperation and their souls--but if you kick them while they are down....maybe you can feel better about your smug, comfortable form of Christianity. The kind where kicking people where they are down, or weaker or smaller, is just SOP. They deserve their problems through some hang-up you never knew about. You are just better folks than them.

You have things. They need things. And your God probably ordained it.

Feel good about it? Hopeful that they will find your version of God after some care-package? Will stop being all needy and foreign?

I still entirely approve of FOTF giving anything they can. Tents, food, money, wet-wipes--since clean water is scarce. Just not their sense of superiority and better-people pity. The Haitians have God--the island is very Catholic, for instance. They need material things to live. And what they have is being materially-disadvantaged--it's not evil. But it is evil to think your brother should live that way.