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Aug. 1st, 2006 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingFlip Benham was going to burn a Koran at Mississippi's state Capitol on July 18 but he couldn't get a fire permit. The blaze was to be the culmination of an antiabortion rally that Benham, director of Operation Save America, billed as an "ecclesiastical court." His attack on Islam might seem like a non sequitur, but to Benham, it made perfect sense. "Islam is the same thing as abortion and homosexuality," he said. "It's the black-colored glove covering the same fist, which is the fist of the devil." Benham had T-shirts made up, black with white lettering, proclaiming, "Homosexuality Is Sin! Islam Is a Lie! Abortion Is Murder! Some Issues Are Just Black and White!"
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Date: 2006-08-02 12:21 pm (UTC)But I was bringing in his previous speeches. Flip Benham isn't new.
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Date: 2006-08-02 08:37 pm (UTC)I do hate the fact that the most recent tactic is essentially a blockade, but I also hate the fact that people seem completely willing to let legislators chip away a little more freedom just because the target (for now) happens to be Fuckhead Fred Phelps or Operation Rescue's shoulda-been-miscarried bastard children.
I can't say "leave flag-burning alone" but also say "no Koran-burning."
These people are NOT worth watching. If we were actually taking care of these issues the way they SHOULD be taken care of, the crazies would talk themselves out and accomplish nothing. So there's a couple hundred wingnut protestors that don't even have the courage of conviction to get arrested over it? Fuck them, and fuck people that keep pushing them into the spotlight.
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Date: 2006-08-02 08:59 pm (UTC)And I didn't say anything against him burning a Koran. I think he's got the right to burn any book he wants to. I also think that people who burn books, especially when accompanied by this kind of rhetoric and past record, are dangerous, violent mental defectives who are deeply in need of psychological treatment for their flamingly repressed homosexuality, years of in-depth critical thinking skills, and quite probably a good deal of antipsychotic medication.
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Date: 2006-08-02 09:34 pm (UTC)My right to freedom of speech and religion, yes, that's the concern. And also my larger point. Why pay attention to THESE assholes when the assholes who are IN CHARGE OF THE COUNTRY dismantle a new part of the Constitution every day?
What's more useful, the journalist in question covering this non-story where a loony can't even get it up enough to light some paper and face the consequences, or Alberto fucking Gonzales constantly saying "It's in the Constitution" and NEVER BEING QUESTIONED ON IT? Why is not every worthy newspaper/magazine/television show's editorial staff as outraged as we are about THAT, but they'll fall all over themselves to do such things as cover this story or "bravely" tell off Shirley Phelps?
Do you see what I mean now? Fuck Flip Benham. Statistically speaking, 100% of people now living know he is an insane asshole who nobody should take to heart. "No Porn" Al and the Shrub are at the threshold of turning the US into a police state where the Bush regime can castigate and gorge at will, and not nearly enough newspeople are even making a ripple over it. Maybe Olberman, but I dunno.
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