This is my first video I have uploaded onto YouTube. It was a lot of fun making it and a lot more fun seeing this come to fruition. I have plans to create many more videos as a way to share my thoughts more quickly and reserve writing time for other projects that I am hoping to have done in the near future. Thanks so much everyone.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thorn in the side of Kansas
My apologizes to everyone for being away for so long. My computer had a virus and I had to take it into a shop to get it fixed. 6 whole days I had been away from my computer and I literally thought I was going to die of withdrawals from the net. LOL! I survived. I guess. HAHA! There was so much I wanted to write about and I was determined that as soon as I got back on I was going to address an issue I have with one of Kansas state legislators and something he said back in May.
On May 13th, Pete DeGraaf said in a state congressional proceeding that women should buy abortion only supplemental insurance in case they get raped. He then went on to compare that to having a spare tire in the back of his car in case of a flat tire. When asked to apologize for this, he refused saying that he would if women weren't so predisposed to killing babies.
Now before anyone hops all over me and tries to tell me what a great man Pete DeGraaf is and what a good man of God he is, listen first. This is exactly the kind of thing Democrats will get Republicans for and will use this to their benefit in the next election. I am doing the Republican party a favor in pointing out where they may be wrong to give them a chance to make corrections where corrections are needed. Also, I am very sick and tired of people who claim they are conservative based on how religious they are. Conservatism has nothing to do with religion. Which religion a person has is a personal issue. I don't care what religion a person has. What I care about is if they are willing to adhere to the US Constitution and will defend individual rights which is what conservatism is really all about.
Regarding to what Pete DeGraaf said this is what I got to say;
Whether we agree that abortion is murder or not is besides the point. The point here is that raping a woman is a direct violation of her individual rights. She should not have to have abortion only supplemental insurance to pay for the rapist's choice to violate her. We should make the rapist pay for the abortion should the woman so chose to have one. If he doesn't like it, then he should keep his pants zipped.
There is a huge difference in comparing a rape to a tire going flat. One is a violation of individual rights, the other is not. A woman should not have to go around wondering if she's going to get raped today. Everyone has a right to be secure in their own person. That's why we have police as a function of the government along with armed forces and courts. We pay taxes to pay for police because it is a way to protect individual rights and bring criminals to courts where they can be tried and judged according to the laws. So, if we're going to say that women should buy abortion only supplemental insurance for in case she gets raped, then we should tell everyone to pay for insurance to cover police services in case they are robbed, beaten or even worse, murdered because we're going to make victims pay to have their individual rights restored and that's how we're going to be. If the person is too poor to buy such things, well too bad, individual rights belong to only those who can afford them. Obviously that would be wrong.
You know, I can understand that people slip up sometimes and I know I do too. It's just often times, it's during these slip ups that you truly find out what a person is all about. (Especially if that particular person doesn't apologize and admit any wrong doing later such as the case with DeGraaf.) Any person doing some background research on DeGraaf would find that he is an associate pastor of a local community church and is against abortion even in the case of rape. I think it is great that people can choose their own religion or not to chose one as we do have freedom of religion. I care less for those who use government as a means to force their religious views upon everyone else especially when it violates other's rights. If we are going to have politicians who base their decisions for everyone on what their personal religion says, then why don't we just write everyone up a cheap ticket to heaven and call ourselves good and give each other a pat on the back because our laws says we're going to follow a certain religion. Wouldn't that be considered as a theocracy? Something similar to Islam but just with a different religion that we're all so familiar with?
Women, just like men, plan their lives and have goals to achieve happiness in their lives. It's part of their right to pursue happiness. Yet, when we tout that women shouldn't be allowed to abort a fetus after a rape, we're telling her that her right to pursue happiness can be limited by some idiot who decides to rape her and force a baby on her. She then, has to change her plans and prepare to have a baby she never wanted or planned for. Even if she was to put the baby up for adoption, she still has to take 10 months out of her life to devote to the pregnancy, not to mention the possible mental issues that could scar her for the rest of her life because her individual rights are actually limited and is beneath that of the dick head who raped her and the child who was conceived by rape. If this is the case, then what we will find is that men will then think that if they want to have a baby, then all they have to do is to rape a woman because she will be forced to have the baby. Never mind the challenge of having the woman fall in love with him and then make a commitment to each other to start a family together.
I would echo Barry Goldwater in saying that abortion is simply not a conservative issue. It is a religious issue and I don't see why an individual quite simply couldn't make that decision for themselves rather than making a collectivist decision for everyone and deciding that one choice is good for everyone. That's a collectivist way of thinking and is certainly not what our US Constitution is all about. You can disagree with me and that's your choice. But like I said, don't force your religion upon everyone else. Keep your theocracy at home. I am capable of planning my life as I see fit and deciding for myself what I believe in and don't need government to do that for me.
Siska DeYoung.
On May 13th, Pete DeGraaf said in a state congressional proceeding that women should buy abortion only supplemental insurance in case they get raped. He then went on to compare that to having a spare tire in the back of his car in case of a flat tire. When asked to apologize for this, he refused saying that he would if women weren't so predisposed to killing babies.
Now before anyone hops all over me and tries to tell me what a great man Pete DeGraaf is and what a good man of God he is, listen first. This is exactly the kind of thing Democrats will get Republicans for and will use this to their benefit in the next election. I am doing the Republican party a favor in pointing out where they may be wrong to give them a chance to make corrections where corrections are needed. Also, I am very sick and tired of people who claim they are conservative based on how religious they are. Conservatism has nothing to do with religion. Which religion a person has is a personal issue. I don't care what religion a person has. What I care about is if they are willing to adhere to the US Constitution and will defend individual rights which is what conservatism is really all about.
Regarding to what Pete DeGraaf said this is what I got to say;
Whether we agree that abortion is murder or not is besides the point. The point here is that raping a woman is a direct violation of her individual rights. She should not have to have abortion only supplemental insurance to pay for the rapist's choice to violate her. We should make the rapist pay for the abortion should the woman so chose to have one. If he doesn't like it, then he should keep his pants zipped.
There is a huge difference in comparing a rape to a tire going flat. One is a violation of individual rights, the other is not. A woman should not have to go around wondering if she's going to get raped today. Everyone has a right to be secure in their own person. That's why we have police as a function of the government along with armed forces and courts. We pay taxes to pay for police because it is a way to protect individual rights and bring criminals to courts where they can be tried and judged according to the laws. So, if we're going to say that women should buy abortion only supplemental insurance for in case she gets raped, then we should tell everyone to pay for insurance to cover police services in case they are robbed, beaten or even worse, murdered because we're going to make victims pay to have their individual rights restored and that's how we're going to be. If the person is too poor to buy such things, well too bad, individual rights belong to only those who can afford them. Obviously that would be wrong.
You know, I can understand that people slip up sometimes and I know I do too. It's just often times, it's during these slip ups that you truly find out what a person is all about. (Especially if that particular person doesn't apologize and admit any wrong doing later such as the case with DeGraaf.) Any person doing some background research on DeGraaf would find that he is an associate pastor of a local community church and is against abortion even in the case of rape. I think it is great that people can choose their own religion or not to chose one as we do have freedom of religion. I care less for those who use government as a means to force their religious views upon everyone else especially when it violates other's rights. If we are going to have politicians who base their decisions for everyone on what their personal religion says, then why don't we just write everyone up a cheap ticket to heaven and call ourselves good and give each other a pat on the back because our laws says we're going to follow a certain religion. Wouldn't that be considered as a theocracy? Something similar to Islam but just with a different religion that we're all so familiar with?
Women, just like men, plan their lives and have goals to achieve happiness in their lives. It's part of their right to pursue happiness. Yet, when we tout that women shouldn't be allowed to abort a fetus after a rape, we're telling her that her right to pursue happiness can be limited by some idiot who decides to rape her and force a baby on her. She then, has to change her plans and prepare to have a baby she never wanted or planned for. Even if she was to put the baby up for adoption, she still has to take 10 months out of her life to devote to the pregnancy, not to mention the possible mental issues that could scar her for the rest of her life because her individual rights are actually limited and is beneath that of the dick head who raped her and the child who was conceived by rape. If this is the case, then what we will find is that men will then think that if they want to have a baby, then all they have to do is to rape a woman because she will be forced to have the baby. Never mind the challenge of having the woman fall in love with him and then make a commitment to each other to start a family together.
I would echo Barry Goldwater in saying that abortion is simply not a conservative issue. It is a religious issue and I don't see why an individual quite simply couldn't make that decision for themselves rather than making a collectivist decision for everyone and deciding that one choice is good for everyone. That's a collectivist way of thinking and is certainly not what our US Constitution is all about. You can disagree with me and that's your choice. But like I said, don't force your religion upon everyone else. Keep your theocracy at home. I am capable of planning my life as I see fit and deciding for myself what I believe in and don't need government to do that for me.
Siska DeYoung.
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