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Far-right consistently supports pro-death
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Dec. 15, 2009 11:38 pm
In 1983, I was serving in a U.S. Army medical battalion. It outraged me that our government was providing billions in aid to Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan called terrorists like Osama bin Laden “freedom fighters” and “the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers” because they launched hundreds of terrorist attacks against the Soviet Union from Afghan soil.
When the far-right decries “terrorism,” take it with a grain of salt. In fact, the far-right supports terrorism 100 percent as long as it is against socialists.
Strong conservative support for terrorism backfired on 9/11. George Bush used 9/11 as an excuse to maim, murder and torture hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens who had nothing to do with 9/11.
Compare the far-right's reaction to 9/11 (3,000 deaths) with their reaction to the 24,000 U.S. deaths every year due to pollution from coal-fired power plants. Conservatives have fought all efforts to clean up this pollution.
The far-right claim to be “pro-life” is a sham. They are pro-terrorism, pro-war, pro-torture and pro-death penalty. They vote against pollution control, universal health care, family planning assistance which reduces abortions, education funding, aid for the poor.
Their sole pro-life claim is support for a legal ban on abortion. Such a ban only increases illegal back-alley abortions and death of mothers. The truth is, the far-right is consistently pro-death.
Jay Miller
Hills
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