Congress passed Obama care to provide quality health care... so why is death a chosen lifestyle for America? by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
A small town in south central Pennsylvania has the honor of being the location where the most Americans died in any battle in the western hemisphere. At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,July 1st through 4th, 1863, 23,049 Americans were casualties during the great battle to save the union,including 3,155 killed. Gettysburg is known as the High Water Mark for the aspirations of Southern nationalism, and is seen as the turning point for a war which re-defined the American nation.
And yet today controversy hangs over the peaceful quiet town as profiteers make another effort to construct a gambling casino near this sacred ground. The profiteers want to take advantage of the flow of the millions of visitors who annually trek to thispivotal field in American history.
This proposal has been rejected before, but like cancer it returns. And should it be approved it would just demonstrate how cheap life is modern America.
It would be the appropriate partner for an even more startling piece of enws which arose last week. 150 miles east of Gettysburg in a city which claims to be one of the greatest in the world, "the City which never sleeps" it was reported that 43% of all babies conceived in this modern Sodom are aborted! 43%.
Stunned? Me too.
More than ten million children, whose freedom was purchased on those fields in Gettysburg where more than three thousand men gave their lives, have been aborted since the Supreme Court declared that it knew better than God and the Founding Fathers, and created a right a savagery women could practice so as to protect their own "liberty".
And these two examples really only illustrate an America that has turned from God. the use of illegal drugs is rampant. The result, ...we would an increase of mentally and physically disabled and disfigured children have any relationship?
Shame baths America, we are submerged in it. This is the liberty that some on Nolan's Chart proclaim is "good". This is modern America. It exists because you allow it, you participate in it, you do nothing to reverse the course...and so the real question must be: How cheap is life in America?
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Posted By: Walt
Date: January 11, 2011 09:14:25 AM
Let me get this straight. They're not proposing to build on the battlefield. They're proposing to build near it. So what?
I live near the Manassas, VA battlefields, which are surrounded by developments of various kinds. There are shopping centers to the south and housing developments all around it. The key is that nothing is built on the grounds of the battlefields.
I'm sure there are various kinds of development already surrounding Gettysburg's battlefields as well...which is fine, so long as the development isn't ON the battlefield grounds.
Posted By: Nobiius
Date: January 11, 2011 01:07:03 PM
Hi Mark - I'd like to address a few of your points.
First off, as to the rampant use of illegal drugs...the use of illicit substances in the US is somehow higher than most (if not all) other places, but I wouldn't really call it rampant, if you check statistics. Also, our failed prohibitionist polices actually work against us here and INCREASE per capita usage rates as compared to certain countries with more liberal & sensible drug policies. Also, driving drugs underground actually gets rid of all possible regulation that might otherwise control who has access to these substances and what kind of quality might help ensure safe use - as use will never go away as long as humans are human.
Secondly - exactly what mentally/physically disaged & disfigured children are you referring to? Perhaps I just haven't heard, but I wasn't aware of an epidemic of drug babies at current - I AM, however, well aware of an epidemic of deformed children in Iraq, likely from our use of depleted uranium on the battlefield.
I am curious to know how you feel about this, and your views on the iraqi occupation, as a side note. I don't think life should be considered cheap anywhere, personally.
As far as libertarians and abortion - my understanding is that most don't necessarily want abortion outright legalized, but actually want to see the federal government, as with most other issues, butt out and let the states decide for themselves. At that point, it's what the people want, and you'll have to work it out with them.
Thanks for your posts, I can't agree with a decent number of them, but I appreciate your fighting for your beliefs.
Posted By: Mark Vogl
Date: January 11, 2011 10:38:20 PM
Nobiius, I dont know if I have spelled that right, since I can't see it as I type this.
Your question concering Iraq is the one I would like to answer. First, before we went to war I opposed going to war in Iraq. I opposed because I expected a long war/occupation and did not trust the American people to sustain the commitment. I did think Saddam evil, I did think there was justification for a strike...but as I said I did not trust the American people. Further, I do not believe America should be the police man of the world, or that we should build nation -states. Our focus for too long has been outside the borders of the US.
