Independence Day: Count your freedoms

Directing his prayers for freedom to cash in on The Church of the Marketplace, the “Christian” conservative votes in his worship of Divine King Georges, Beauty-queen Sarahs and self-appointed goddesses.

In Michele Bachmann, the Holy Trinity is complete. Annunciated from on high in TV-evangelistic tongue, the heavenly message is delivered, and donations to the ticket suggested. As Michele herself puts it, God alone “tells [me] what to do.”

So much for freedom of religion for those who choose to worship God rather than bow down to this God-playing, rabble-rousing, walking Tower of Babel.  Bachman isn’t even very original: God speaks to every tyrant who has ever succeeded in blinding an ignorant public to its lies, distortions and hypocrisies.

So much for freedom of religion for those who choose to worship God rather than bow down to this God-playing, rabble-rousing, walking Tower of Babel.  

Bachman isn’t even very original: God speaks to every tyrant who has ever succeeded in blinding an ignorant public to its lies, distortions and hypocrisies.Not content with beating around The Bush in her ambition to be elected President God, Bachmann would re-route Sarah Palin in saving her party thousands of taxpayer dollars in gas mileage. John McCain’s search for a running mate took him all the way to Alaska in his party’s effort to find a candidate even more stupid than Dubya; the fanatics on today’s route to righteousness need go only as far north as Minnesota for their descent down the rabbit hole of tyranny and stupidity.

Independence for women has about had it, too. No longer the individual’s own option, reproductive rights are selling well and selling out. What with “choice” being made a dirty word; Viagra and Cialis advertising the “romance” of the right moment and the willingness of Bachmann to sacrifice every other woman’s freedom to her political ambitions in her courting of the male vote, we’re being driven back to the nineteenth century.

As Frances' Safidi tell us, If anti-abortion people and politicians want to go back to the time when desperate pregnant women were killing themselves attempting an abortion, they should also give up their computers, their cell phones, anti-biotics and other facets of modern medicine and modern surgery. To which Gloriana Casey adds, “I think that even farm animals are treated better in breeding practices than women, although apparently cows get a championship stud service.”

In Alabama and Mississippi, women are being imprisoned for life on murder charges for choosing to end their pregnancies, though their constitutional right to abortion remains legal in any federal court.

In the Bachmann Court, Michele’s sale of her sisters into the slavery of man’s complete, no-birth-control rape of women’s rights is the kind of religious sacrifice owed her in her ambition to “represent” us. After all, she claims any number of foster children who benefit from her charity.

In the Bachmann Court, Michele’s sale of her sisters into the slavery of man’s complete, no-birth-control rape of women’s rights is the kind of religious sacrifice owed her in her ambition to “represent” us. After all, she claims any number of foster children who benefit from her charity.

The fact that she exercises her own freedom of choice to play Mama is beside the point. She’ll never be dependent on a bullying male for support and it isn’t going to interfere with her political agenda.

In his article for The New York Times, Tim Egan points out that “Bachmann’s errors, her inconsistencies and her double standards are incidental to her supporters’ faith: It’s the triumph of faith over reason.”

All the same, Bachmann argues her Master’s Degree credentials in Tax Law as proof that her lack of knowledge of everything else is equally incidental. Her education is, indeed impressive in its successful robbing of the poor to give to the wealthy by way of loopholes in the law she is supposed to respect.

A farewell to Planet Earth might be cited as yet another farewell to life, liberty and the pursuit of science. An outstanding example of Bachmann’s contempt for intelligent reasoning is her stand on climate change as it is affected by fossil fuels releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.

“Carbon Dioxide,” she tells us, “is a natural thing, and being a part of nature it can’t hurt you.” That water is essential to life but too much of it can drown you; fire is essential for warmth and cooking but too much can turn a human into cinders; that natural forces like tsunamis, floods, forest fires, earthquakes and other little quirks of nature can hurt the hell out of you seems to have escaped her notice.

That the same lack of long-term planning and government oversight produces the same kind of chaos is just another one of those “natural” details.

When a right-wing House of Representatives appoints the most ignorant, uninformed, fourth-grade intelligence with nothing but beauty-contest credentials to chair The Intelligence Committee, we might as well forget about what the idiot-fringe calls “Taking back our Country.” It’s already been stolen.

Gerry Tatham, July 3, 2011

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