I saw a car the other day that had a "Choose Life" license plate on it--and it was from Kentucky! So now we know that there are at least two states with virtually identical tags. I still claim that these tags violate my first amendment rights, no matter what any court says to that effect (or against it). The first amendment gives us the right to stand on any street corner and spout out our views on any subject. It gives the same right to those whose views are opposite to ours. What the states have done here is to give a state-sponsored street corner to those whose beliefs are opposite to mine, while denying me that same street corner, and if that is not a first amendment violation, I don't know what is! I get physically ill when I see these plates, because I am so mad that I cannot express my views in the same manner. The best argument for abortion is that the unwanted babies become unwanted adults, and fill our prisons at our expense, after injuring our fellow citizens. Give me a break! Anyway, the next day I saw a car with a "pro-life" sticker on the rear liftgage of the SUV. No doubt this was a wrong-wing republican. As I stared at it I realized that these people are not really pro-life at all, they are simply anti-abortion. For one thing, most of the people who call themselves pro-life consistently vote for the death penalty. If they do that, they cannot call themselves pro-life at all in my opinion. So they are lying--which is nothing new for Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. Let's make them call a spade a spade, and refer to themselves as what they are! Hell, I am pro-life, I certainly don't want to die, and I oppose the death penalty, yet I still approve of abortion, because I don't consider a fetus to be a viable human being--at least not until he or she would survive on his or her own outside of the womb.... Those who call themselves pro-life are looking for a way to put a positive spin on their views in opposition to abortion.
Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, here is a guy who says we spend too much time molly-coddling our criminals. If we followed his logic, he himself would be in jail. He was found with illegal drugs, got put on probation (because of who he is) and then got caught with illegal drugs again, and STILL he is not in jail! If he were younger, and blacker, he would be in jail. He is not in jail, simply because of who he is, and who he knows, and that is a crime!
