zondag 9 oktober 2011

Preliminary skirmishes


If you're thinking that the General Political Considerations in the Netherlands with "act normal, man" from Wilders to prime-minster Rutte was shocking, the Americans, and especially the Republicans have way of themselves in this. Not in Congress or Senate, but Republicans who want to be nominated to compete against Barack Obama next year in November.
To name a few things to Michele Bachman, who has several times publicly blundered, and  also has angered scientist by declaring that the mandatory HPV vaccine in Texas was dangerous for the girls who received vaccine. Also, she received much criticism by declaring that women should always be submissive to their husbands.
Another is Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, and under his governorship are a record number of executions were carried out with an absolute low last week a very likely innocent man was executed.
The primaries for the Republicans are dominated by the so-called Tea Party, an extreme right wing and very conservative branch of the Republican Party.

Also there debates between the Republican wannebees on Fox News, pretty much the home station of the American Right and obviously biased.

And about those debates I want to say something. Not so much about the debate between Romney, Bachman, Perry, Huntsman, Santorum and others, but the audience. Because what happened struck me as something scandalous.
And even if it seems far from our bed, there is a parallel with the Netherlands, Wilders especially, because where does freedom of speech and defamation and discrimination start?

What happened?

On the question of narrator what should happen to an uninsured patient with a severe injurie in an Emergency Hospital  the audience began to shout: "Let him die!, Let him die!". And if that was not enough during the next debate, a new low.
For that I give a little background information. Just before the debate, Obama had put an end to the "do not ask, do not tell" in the U.S. Army. This principle meant that managers were not allowed to ask if someone was homosexual, and that recruits were not allowed to tell them they are homosexual.

To illustrate it a homosexual soldier was put on the stage by Fox News and when this soldier was presented by the narrator, and do not forget that the military, as Americans say "serve to protect the country and its people," began the audience to “boo”

Because this soldier was homosexual.

I find it absolutely outrageous that an audience wish a wounded uninsured fellow American dead  and “boo” a soldier who risks his life for them.

But it says everything about the American Right, the Republican Party, TeaParty and Fox News.

Wants to know more about the primaries? Google GOP2012, GOP Debate or Tea Party.

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