If only more Americans had the courage to defy freedom-stifling edicts...[Image via The Smoking Gun]
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
R.I.P. Rosa Parks
If only more Americans had the courage to defy freedom-stifling edicts...[Image via The Smoking Gun]
If only more Americans had the courage to defy freedom-stifling edicts...[Image via The Smoking Gun]
I must put forth this question as the issue is remarkably similar to one we have ongoing.
ReplyDeleteWhere were all the people demanding that all the laws already on the books be enforced when Ms. Parks refused to obey the law?
Oh, wait. There were those people. They were the ones trying to deny Ms. Parks her dignity and citizenship and constitutional rights to be treated equally under the law in accordance with our founding documents.
It's all so clear now. Racists and gun-banners are the same people. They believe themselves superior to those they would deny, and entitled to control others not as free.
So why the quietude in the face of all the praise sure to come Ms. Parks way, especially while being eulogized. Shouldn't the Bradys, and especially Mr. La Pierre et.al. be campaigning to put her in the back of the bus again? She was a known lawbreaker.
Hypocrisy seems to be their strong suit.
Vitriol aside, I regret the passing of Rosa Parks. She was a brave woman and an inspiration to all men and women who would be free. I pray the rest of us Americans are worthy or become worthy of her kind. I pray that the suppressors of freedom, in whatever guise, are crushed under the weight of her example in other equally important contests for supremacy of ideals. May the evil ideals of the suppressors sucuumb to the courage of their challengers.
Remember, the same type of people that want to kill the rights guaranteed under the second amendment are the same type of people that wanted the law-breaker, Rosa Parks, in the back of the bus.