The Great Canadian Wish List on Facebook has been taken over by the So Cons.
It seems to some, a silly thing that pro choicers care about this endeavour.
I would ask those people to consider the situation to the south of us.
Media regularly gives the crazies the floor. Christianity is no longer associated with love and charity, but with hatred, bombs and people who actually deride other christians for caring about the poor.
In a country facing mounting military deaths from an illegal and unneeded war, poverty, domestic terrorism, declining standard of living, the main election platform issue is whether or not you are pro choice.
Politicians pandering to the foetus fetishers try to outdo each other with increasingly outrageous ways to deny women basic freedoms and constitutional rights.
I sincerely doubt that the average citizen upon seeing Ann Coulter, or Bill O’Reilly or any of the other hate mongerers, saw anything other than a poor sorry soul that gave one an occasional laugh but would certainly not be given any real consideration.
I sincerely doubt that the majority of Americans thought there would come a day when those trying to deny a woman access to healthcare would be given free reign to , shout obscenities and otherwise interfere, and yet government officials would be dispatched to the homes of those organizing protests encouraging people to exercise their freedom of assembly, in an effort to threaten those organizers with jail or worse.
The erosion of civil rights in general and women’s rights specifically has been done based on a very vocal, yet quite small organization of theocrats. There is little difference between these people and the theocratic terrorists. Both use a mangled version of religion to justify their hatred and their overthrow of democratic process.
By underestimating the power of the vocal minority, Americans are now faced with laws and governments which are not representative of their ideals and values. By not understanding the press is owned by those who would seek to control them, they have become pawns in the media game of fear and pandering. And by believing in the sacredness of their constitutional rights, they have ignored that for some, only their version of god is sacred and all else is up for grabs.
I am glad that so many strong intelligent women and men stood up to the obvious “freeping” of the CBC Wish. It is worrying that too many are ignoring the power of the vocal minority, assuming that ignored they will go away.
It needs to be remembered that politicians listen to the loudest voices. Lets not allow those radical theocrats to be the only voices being heard.
Horton needs to hear a who. 
Well said. As silly as the facebook thing is, that is how it starts. Little things like that are the termites that eventually undermine the structural integrity of the house and bring it crashing down … while we’re sleeping in our cozy beds. We can’t afford to sleep, or for that matter, even get too comfortable. Constant vigilance is the price of human rights; there’s no room for complacency.
Every time they try to commit the outrage of “debating our rights”, it’s imperative that they’re kicked to the curb.
Hear, hear. I for one am sick and tired of the right-wingers claiming they and they alone are the true Christians. It’s time for those of us progressives to take the advice of St. John the Baptist who proclaimed himself a lone voice crying out in the wilderness. As long as someone shouts out, some one is bound to hear it.
Unfortunately, though the anti-rights godbaggery in the US is perpetrated by a vocal minority, it is not as small a minority as some people think. I live in one of those Bible-belt red states, and I can honestly say that though most people around here aren’t virulent anti-choicers, they certianly see no moral/ethical problems with impeding women’s acess to abortion, and tacitly approve of such measures. The problem, I am afraid, is a one-two punch. Firstly, people, under direction from many of the christian denominations active in this country, have a strong dose of exceptionalism guiding them. THEY are good, moral folks, and the decisions THEY make are right, but those OTHER people… well, they aren’t to be trusted. And secondly, there is a staggering lack of historical understanding of just how bad things were pre-Roe.
Things ARE as bad as they seem in the US, and they will get worse before they get better, I fear. I hope Canada can steer clear of the same pitfalls.