Imperial
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
We have a law student intern in my office. She’s taking Constitutional Law – Liberties, taught by a leftist female law professor who expects students to analyze abortion cases by finding the flaw in the conservative reasoning since, obviously, abortion is a constitutionally protected right and any attempt to infringe it is horrific. The whole notion of “original intent” is just a code word for slavery over women’s bodies.
So . . . we believe it’s self-evident that God gave you the right to life, but not until you’re born? God has a waiting period that only Harry Blackman could divine? Until the waiting period ends, society can unilaterally decide you have no rights and can be killed at whim, same as a pre-war Black, a Nazi Jew, a Soviet Kulak?
I suppose that reasoning is consistent with the President’s assertion that he has the power to order the execution of American citizens without trial on mere suspicion of terrorism. But it’s not exactly comforting. I sure hope Liberals in the government don’t decide to unilaterally revoke the rights of Christians or Conservatives. It would suck to be a refugee from my own country.
Joe Doakes
I think whole parts of this country are going to be refugees from “our own country” before this is done.
February 19th, 2014 at 8:02 am
We are getting there. National Review just did a summary of some of the cases where the gov’t is attacking small businessmen/women who refused to particapate in gay marriage ceremonies. To be clear, these aren’t cases where the business owners refused to serve a Gay-American in their stores. Its where the gov’t said they had to activity particapte in an action. The actual ceremony.
And what you talk about above. Gets to the Christian concept of natural law. If you are an atheist who believes in everything and nothing, you can pass laws that do anything. Christians believe in natural law. A law higher than what man can do. Hence why we will never believe in killing someone even if the law says we can. It was natural law that lead a Prussian Catholic to try to kill Hitler in July of 1944.
February 19th, 2014 at 8:05 am
To clarify a conflicting statement above………Von Stauffenberg believed it was his duty to kill the head of Nazi Germany because said head was engaging in mass murder. That natural law lead him to try to stop an Athiest leader who felt it fine to engage in genocide.
February 19th, 2014 at 9:11 am
I always that Von Stauffenberg made his attempt on the fuhrer’s life because he thought Hitler was destroying Germany (and its army!) more than because Hitler killed foreigners.
If Von Stauffenberg had made the attempt while Germany was winning the war I would be more impressed.
February 19th, 2014 at 11:03 am
That is a point many have made….why wait until the war was lost? If the plotters were real heros, they would have done it years earlier.
One point…….if they would have succeeded earlier and then the war effort collapsed, Russia could have taken over all of Germany. Buy July 1944, if the Germans would go into full retreat, now the western allies were in France and could have occupied much of Germany instead of just the Russians.