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Everyone has the right to life, except for the ones we choose to kill

Date: Jan 12th, 2006 Submitted by: flipflop
The potential nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. shuffles along. Alito has come under fire for anti-abortion comments he made in the 1980s while he was a Reagan administration lawyer, noting in a 1985 memo that "[the U.S. government] should make clear that we disagree with Roe v. Wade". Interestingly, in an appeals-court case that was overturned by the Supreme Court last year, Alito upheld a decision handed down in a 17-year-old Pennsylvania death-penalty case.

This is right-wing American irony at its finest. Everyone has the right to life, except for the ones we choose to kill. Bush and his "family values" platform have long been opposed to abortion, stem-cell research and anything they consider is against the right to life. This, from the man who oversaw 152 executions while he was governor of Texas, some of which were of the mentally handicapped.

Coming soon: Jack Kevorkian sentenced to death for assisting with someone's suicide.

click to view Alito memo - [PDF 1.7MB]
(quote on pg10)

Why blame us when there's a scapegoat to be found?

Date: Dec 19th, 2005 Submitted by: flipflop
So, Bolivia has a new president, Evo Morales. He's the country's first indigenous leader and he's a socialist. He also just cut his own salary - and his entire cabinet's - by 50% so that more staff can be hired for the education and health sectors. I don't see many western leaders following suit. But the most troubling news by far for the Americans is that he is a coca grower.

The U.S. have been pressuring the Bolivian government for years to raze their coca crops, offering such things as military aid as a bargaining chip. Despite the fact that coca is used for medicine, altitude sickness, is a major cash crop and is of significant cultural importance, the Americans have a drug problem, so Bolivia needs to get rid of their crops.

I would love the Bolivian government to say, "We have a problem with alchoholism" and demand that the U.S. government burn down their Jack Daniels distillery...