Posted by
Tzimisce on Monday, August 20, 2007 12:48:26 PM
On a July 5th broadcast, Michael Savage while talking about a bunch of protesters going on hunger strike: "I would say, let them fast until they starve to death."
Naturally this has started a firestorm in blue areas - most noteably San Francisco, a city that is considering passing city ordinances to use Tax Payer money to help illegals pay for green cards and the citizenship forms. Activists quickly latched on to protest Savage for his "racist comments".
How on earth is what Savage said "racist"? And is this really the way get political change in America today? It used to be that you'd have to explain yourself and try to talk a majority in to agreeing with you. But in the modern day, you win at politics by acting like a bratty child who's going to hold their breath till they get their way? No wonder terrorists have so many of us by the gonads. They tell us they're going to kill us if we do X. When we do X, we think it's our fault.
But avoiding responsibility is the staple of the left. How many times have we been lectured by libs that murderers aren't responsible for killing people (especially minority killers): society is.
Throwing a puerile temper tantrum isn't the way to institute change in our government. If you get involved in politics at all, you're also going to have to eventually face the realization that you're not going to win.
These people aren't going to starve to death and we all know it. "Hunger Strike" means they will only eat one meal a day. And from the pictures of most protesters I've seen, a great many of them could stand to lose some extra pounds anyway.
Furthermore, it is prudent to ask what San Francisco's city council did about Bill Maher. Have they considered dumping "Politically Incorrect" since Maher suggested that Chenney should have been killed in a terrorist strike? That's kind of hateful don't you think?
I know that a lot of the fringe Kossacks and posters at the Huffington Post are from San Francisco - how many of them chuckled when Tony Snow had a resurgance of cancer? So anger amongst some of these people is very selective.
I also have to ask if the opposite is true: am I off the hook because of action of these protesters? If I read news about immigrants getting away with it and get mad, can I burn a cross on the lawn of illegals and get away with it? Can I dress up in bed sheets with my friends and make threats against them? Is that my fault or the activists?
I don't think there is a lib in the world that would say "yes" - even the ones that believe in free speech would say something about silencing me.
If the left cares so much about people who are willingly starving themselves to force their agenda on people, I would suggest that Michael Savage fans should institute a hunger strike themselves. Be interesting to see the reaction to that in San Francisco.