Another knee jerk reaction journalist... Well you can reply to his blog

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Another knee jerk reaction journalist... Well you can reply to his blog

Posted: 4/19/2007 8:21:40 AM EDT

April 18, 2007
Imus, Virginia Tech, Iraq, Pollution: Let’s End The War Against Our Kids (Brent Budowsky)
@ 11:22 am
All across America today, while we mourn together the tragic loss in Virginia, nuts are buying guns, candidates are bragging they kill bunnies with semiautomatic weapons, and politicians tremble with fear of gun lobbies.

And more young Americans die.

We don’t need another debate about the talking points for and against gun control. We need a serious national discussion to find a way to protect legitimate hunters while preventing any nut case, psychotic and sicko from getting a gun to kill more children.

Virtually every day in Iraq, there are tragedies and outrages equal to Virginia Tech.

Young Iraqis are killed and maimed. Young Americans die in war, many because the older generation didn’t give them the body armor and protections they deserve. Then, young Americans are mistreated when they come home for care, because the older generation put a high premium on their tax cuts.

And more young people die, both Iraqis and Americans, while the band plays on.

As I write these words, another 150 and more Iraqis were killed just this day. We Americans are mourning, praying and outraged together as we must be. Iraqis endure just today the equivalent of five Virginia Techs, in fact far more because their population is far smaller.

Iraqis will endure more tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and we wonder why the policy is failing, while our president escalates the mistakes that have gotten us here, and treats anyone who offers alternatives with derision and disrespect.

A whole generation of young people throughout the Middle East is growing up in a world of hate and death, poverty and fear, killed by terrorists, their lives used as petty cash by insurgent killers, their future ripped off by corrupt sheiks and their lives being turned into perpetual massacres like Virginia Tech.

Every day, pollutants are poured into our skies, because the old are addicted to their cars, the oil companies are addicted to their profits, the politicians are addicted to their campaign money.

And the garbage is poured into the sky, and the older generation gives the young a legacy that threatens the climate and potentially the existence, someday, of the Earth itself.

Every day in Washington, the budget deficit and national debt are bloated some more, as the old generation steals from the young, as the grownups enjoy a quality of life paid for by the kids of the next generation who will bear the burden of the gluttony today.

And the debts of the old pile up, to be paid by the young, and those not born yet, who will be young tomorrow.

Every hour in Darfur, teenage mothers are dying with tiny babies in their arms, as they give them their last drops of water and food. Soon the babies will die as well, as the older generation that once promised that it will never happen again, lets it happen again, while we watch on flat-panel televisions, without the courage or commitment to stop it.

And the death of the young goes on.

Every minute on our televisions and radio, foul-mouthed hosts spout the media of hate, racism — or merely demean, make fun of, or hurt the weak, the vulnerable or the different.

The young of two great women’s basketball teams have the great moment of their lives stolen away, and even worse, a generation of young people grows up watching and listening to this stuff. Learning the ways of racism and sexism from their elders. Being taught that it is OK to make fun of people, and hurt people, and wound people, because some of our elders make money from this, while others are entertained by it.

Even congressional pages were victimized by their congressional elders, some of whom did them injustice, none of whom gave them protection for a scandal that lasted for years, ending with pathetic finger-pointing and evasions of responsibility and accountability.

Is anything sacred? Is anyone safe?

The hardships to the poor and young are on the rise, but rarely on the front pages, keeping Michael Harrington’s famous book, The Other America, alive today. A generation of our youngest, poorest are treated as non-persons, imprisoned in a Gulag of poverty, injustice and indifference while their elders forget the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount.

It is impressive how young people help the homeless shelters, serve heroically on the battlefield, and soldiers even accept the lack of adequate support from their elders with a stoic patriotism and sense of duty.

High schools and campuses have groups of kids waging the fight against genocide; young people sign up for the Peace Corps or raise money to buy phone cards for the troops to talk to their families. Every hour, every day, in every community there are young people doing great things, who deserve better from their elders.

Once upon a time in America there was a great generation. Today there is a great generational rip-off.

There is a song that says “teach the children.” Today, it is the grownups who could learn from the kids.

Let’s do our duty as elders, and end the war against our children, and the abuses against our kids, and the wrongs the old commit against the young.

Here is the link if you would like to comment:

http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/04/18/imus-virginia-tech-iraq-pollution-let%e2%80%99s-end-the-war-against-our-kids/

Posted: 4/19/2007 8:23:51 AM EDT

[#1]

Journalism is one of the easiest degrees to get, not that you need a degree to be a hack reporter.

As a recovering journalist, I can assure you that very few journalists know shit from Shinola about anything.

Everyone learns to write in the first grade. Journalists pretty well stall there while everyone else moves on.

Posted: 4/19/2007 8:28:30 AM EDT

[#2]

He rambles about as much as Cho.

Posted: 4/19/2007 8:29:49 AM EDT

[#3]

We don’t need another debate about the talking points for and against gun control. We need a serious national discussion to find a way to protect legitimate hunters while preventing any nut case, psychotic and sicko from getting a gun to kill more children.

You know, we've tried it your way for many, many years.
Doesn't seem to be working, does it?

Instead of expending more energy and money passing laws to limit access to firearms for certain people, why don't we concentrate on NOT HINDERING those who are law abiding and wish to carry for the protection of themselves and others?

Posted: 4/19/2007 8:32:10 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

We don’t need another debate about the talking points for and against gun control. We need a serious national discussion to find a way to protect legitimate hunters while preventing any nut case, psychotic and sicko from getting a gun to kill more children.

You know, we've tried it your way for many, many years.
Doesn't seem to be working, does it?

Instead of expending more energy and money passing laws to limit access to firearms for certain people, why don't we concentrate on NOT HINDERING those who are law abiding and wish to carry for the protection of themselves and others?

Oooh nice!!! I hope you posted that!!!

Posted: 4/19/2007 8:37:00 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Oooh nice!!! I hope you posted that!!!

Yep.

Posted: 4/19/2007 7:39:19 PM EDT

[#6]

bump for the night crew

Posted: 4/19/2007 8:04:03 PM EDT

[#7]

There's a poll---we're LOSING 46/54

Posted: 4/19/2007 9:51:09 PM EDT

[#8]

This author sounds very depressed. He is apparently afraid of everything.

I wonder if he is taking his medication? Perhaps he is need of counseling.

Sucks to be him.

Posted: 4/19/2007 10:10:43 PM EDT

[#9]

This guy is a tool. I left him something to ponder, which I doubt he will ever read:

Are you lefties really going to save the world? Like Lennin thought he was going to?

The 2nd Amendment was created and ratified as a means for citizens to protect themselves from an oppressive government, such as the government envisioned by your ilk. It has nothing to do with hunting and never will.

You can lie and distort the facts all you want, but it will not change a thing. You are wrong, you have always been wrong, and you will always be wrong. Lies and distortions will not make you right; they will only make you a liar, which you already are.

NMA

Posted: 4/19/2007 10:24:37 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
This guy is a tool. I left him something to ponder, which I doubt he will ever read:

Are you lefties really going to save the world? Like Lennin thought he was going to?

Ouch! ~~Painful~~ Deadly irony

Posted: 4/19/2007 11:52:30 PM EDT

[#11]

I wrote:

It is so nice to hear from those who would rather live as slaves than free men. It is also no wonder journalism is such an easy degree to get, since you obviously never have to offer any argument based on fact, just raw emotion. Don’t like guns?, good, don’t own one.But don’t deem yourself so important that you decide who gets to own what, or one day someone else will decide you don’t need that type of car, or that your house is too big for just you and your spouse, and that someone with kids needs it more and we are going to take it from you so an immigrant family with 5 kids has proper living space.

Hey, it is only “reasonable” and “common sense”. Why should you enjoy that big house on the lake when Jose and Juanita “need” the space more than you.

First gun rights, then speech rights, then property rights.
You really want to get this ball rolling? Without the first one, you cannot defend the others.

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