Freedom and Life

[pegkerr]

Many thanks to rivka at Respectful of Otters, who points to Amanda Marcotte of Mousewards, who made the following observation here at Pandagon:

I have also noticed that two values that BushCo likes to fling around are "life" and "freedom", but I have also noticed that the two are opposite values in their rhetoric. You can have freedom or life, but not both. They are pretty consistent in this viewpoint, and if they evoke freedom, you can be sure they are covering up for someone's death, and if they evoke "life", you can be sure they are trying to take away your freedoms.

Wow. Wow.

You're right. That's exactly what they're doing.

Comments

I'm with you on this one.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I commented to someone else about how the Shiavo case has really ratcheted up my feelings that it's no longer safe for me to stay in this country.

[gwynnega]

That's exactly it, all right.