Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Stories like this make me wonder about 2012 being the end for us..ok really though wtf is wrong with people?
ReplyDeleteTo kill others as a suicide bomber seeking to strike a blow at the Great Satan is, I think, very wrong-headed, but at least I can comprehend that, if that's how you read the action, then the action makes sense. To kill someone to save $10 on a fake Christmas tree represents a far greater depravity.
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