The next time Republicans spout off about being the party that values human life, consider this:
I find it pathetic that I don’t find this story the least bit shocking.
– the chaplain
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John Evo
March 11, 2011 at 2:37 pm
NO. Not shocking in the least. A Republican fighting for better health care (especially in realm of mental health) would be the “shocking” story.
Paul Sunstone
March 11, 2011 at 5:34 pm
As long as we’re deporting mentally ill people, maybe we should ship our sociopaths to Siberia. But if we did that, then who would be left to be a Republican senator?
PhillyChief
March 12, 2011 at 12:24 am
So if he’s “earned the right to say what he thinks”, then does that mean Mr. O’Brien and other GOP members think this same shit but haven’t earned the right to say it yet?
desertscope
March 12, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Of course he’s “earned the right to say what he thinks.” Because old white men otherwise have virtually no voice in American politics.
Cyc
March 13, 2011 at 5:14 am
Perhaps, though I prefer to think it means that the rest of the morons have yet to earn the right to speak at all. I can dream at least.
Though I think what this really means is the guy is so insane that they are afraid that if they openly criticize him, he will attack them. And no one wants to explain being covered in old man bites. Because then they would have to go through a round of rabies vaccinations and need to send Martin Harty’s head off to a lab for testing and that would just be too much hassle for everyone.
PhillyChief
March 12, 2011 at 12:34 am
Oh, and this is good, too.
John Evo
March 12, 2011 at 2:02 am
Well, it’s only the liberal Left Coast that would be effected!
Sarge
March 12, 2011 at 7:02 am
They say it all the time, actually. They have always said that some lives are more valuable than others since conscription started in the 1860s.
And I think that it’s getting close to the time when other “inconvenient” people will find out what the inside of places like, but not confined to, Gitmo look like.
the chaplain
March 12, 2011 at 9:07 am
Hey, Everyone! Thanks for the comments.
Is Harty a Real Republican or an embarrassing anomaly?
a) Human life is precious as long as it’s in a womb or hooked up to expensive medical equipment.
b) Human life deemed socially inconvenient will be shipped to Gitmo.
There’s the answer: fiscally responsible compassionate conservative, i.e., 21st century Republican.
Tommykey
March 12, 2011 at 10:03 am
For a brief moment, I thought it was an article in The Onion.
Sarge
March 12, 2011 at 12:37 pm
“…Human life deemed socially inconvenient will be shipped to Gitmo…” maybe if they’re lucky.
Well, think about it. Things that, if they were mentioned at all, were pointed out as object lessons…things that seperated (“good”) us from (“bad”) them, things the “commies”, “Japs”, and Nazis did were pointed out with horror by most people, were the things that made us “best”, at least when I was a kid.
Besides, none of that could happen here, we were told, we had laws, blah blah blah. Constitution, yadda yadda yadda. Accountability. (insert fart noise here)
Now, it turns out that the Japanes, nazis, and commies were all really visionaries, pragmatists who were just too far ahead of their time. Silly us. We’re just catching on.
So, we have jabronis like Yoo (he’s not the only one) who goes from corperate office to gov’t official to university campus advocating a big change in The American Way of Life (this legal/constitutional/ethical background is “quaint”, “archaic”, unworkable in the “new” paradigm of the modern state) which translates to something that Pinochette and Charles V would nod their heads in approval of.
Time for the gloves to come off, and sentiment and ruth are vices as unatural and odious as Onanism to a rampaging baptist.
And no one says, “No”. They’re entitled to their “opinion”, and hey, Yoo and Bybee actually got a chance to put it in practice.
Anyone else see Niemoller shaking his head when we think of what’s happening in our institutions?
John Evo
March 12, 2011 at 1:27 pm
I was mildly surprised that folks like Yoo didn’t end up in jail. I figured low-level hatchet men would be given up at the alter of “justice” but even THAT notion is so “quaint” that we didn’t even bother. Rummy, Cheney, Bush? Hahaha… don’t be SILLY!
desertscope
March 12, 2011 at 6:14 pm
I was mildly surprised that folks like Yoo didn’t end up in jail.
People say that to me all the time. I never realized they were talking about John Yoo.
Sarge
March 13, 2011 at 11:20 am
I get the same thing, Des. People told me a couple of weeks ago, :Saw you on the news last night”.
My parents and most who knew me in my youth expected me to be on the news, but instead of leading a band for a civic event they figured it would be with my hands cuffed behind my back, being fanned by the batons of a couple of angry cops, enroute to answer for some unspeakable crime.
I’ve been a disappointment, I guess.
Still, the law is kind of clear about that sort of thing, I would think. If you try to fight a speeding ticket using the theory that the laws governing highway safety ar “quaint” and shouldn’t apply to you because of your power and importance… well, a guy like me wouldn’t pull it off, I guess. Silly me.
But the things these people are talking about doing, even today in this non-Bush time, are disturbing to me.
More, the fact of who’s listening.
But we shouldn’t worry, because this is a christian nation, right?
desertscope
March 15, 2011 at 10:06 pm
“True dat,” as the kids might say.
D'Ma
March 12, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I may sound completely ignorant here, but aren’t the Republicans the ones who are fighting assisted suicide? If someone is in a terminal situation and able to make their own coherent decision to end their life in a dignified manner they can’t do that in the U.S. But it would be okay to send mentally ill people, who most likely aren’t capable of making an informed decision, somewhere to “die to clean up the population”?!? Maybe he should be the first to go…he sounds mentally challenged to me. If there’s going to be a genocide, let it start with the loon that thought that plan up.
Sarge
March 12, 2011 at 8:05 pm
That’s only if YOU want to do it. They put you out in the cold, it’s not murder or suicide, it’s “exposure”.
Dignity is for those who can afford it, not the man in the street.
Or, so say the Rs.
Kagehi
March 12, 2011 at 5:07 pm
I am making bets on how long it is until they repeal anti slavery laws, and declare shootings as “accidental lead poisoning”, then proclaim that lead is no longer a poison, since some company some place wants to start using it in paint again, all while claiming its going to “improve the economy and create jobs”.
Already have some idiot trying to adjust child labor laws, supposedly to prevent cops shutting down entertainment jobs, or some such, while actually gutting the state laws, right back to the point of where they where in the story Oliver.
Sarge
March 12, 2011 at 8:09 pm
That’s the good ol’ days that they’re talking about.
Where I live there are people who lived under peonage from coal and iron companies, even the railroad. It was slavery where the slave had to support himself.
The workhouse, the “company store”, and if you are of “no use”, well, too bad about you.
I’ve also noticed that most of these people claim christianity. Hate Darwin, but just love social Darwinism.
Astasia
March 20, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Ah, my good old home state.
At least he has resigned, now.
Lurker111
March 24, 2011 at 9:04 am
I swear, when I first looked at the title, “The Value of Human Life – Republican Style,” I read “The Value of Human Life – Reptilian Style.”