Saturday, June 7, 2014

Abnormal is the New Normal in Ammosexual America


"We now have the perfect formula for horror: cut mental health funding, cut education in the arts and everything else that builds empathy and the human spirit, worship a military industrial imperial 'culture' of violence sold as 'defense,' desensitize our young men with violent porn, abandon all gun regulation, accept irony and cynicism as entertainment and 'higher education' and then teach unstable young men to shoot and to glorify violence all round."
"We’re getting so cynical that we probably won’t even care or notice when there is a mass killing a week or a day, instead of 'only' once a month or so. Shoot-the-toddler video games anyone?" — Frank Schaeffer
By the way, Schaeffer wrote that before the American mass shootings were weekly, as they are now. Daily mass murder is coming right up.

“That didn’t take long,” Juan Cole noted. “The Georgia GOP rushed into law an ‘open carry’ provision in April allowing people to tote around guns in bars and churches (apparently these are felt to be complementary institutions in Georgia) and schools (these are apparently felt to be full of expendable if short people in Georgia).
“Then the national GOP and Fox Cable News (the ‘Josef Goebbels Commemorative Propaganda Division of the American Right Wing’) backed Cliven Bundy in his ‘sovereign citizen’ claims that he doesn’t have to pay federal grazing fees.
“So on Saturday a sovereign citizen and former Transportation Department employee (who made his money from the Federal government he hates) showed up outside a Georgia courthouse armed to the teeth with automatic weapons and other munitions and with the clear intent of taking hostages inside the courthouse.  He was open carrying, you see, and standing up against big government.  Or rather standing overtop it with a gun to its head.
“This was a clear act of terrorism, but since it was committed by a white person, no one brought the word up.”

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