Virginia's Virgil H. Goode remains in the news. The Baltimore Sun has an excellent piece discussing Goode's shameful and ignorant hate speech during a season that is supposed to represent peace on earth. I've already posted my thoughts of Virgil Goode here.
Mac followed up with a nice piece on misconceptions about Islam.
All of Virginia's elected officials should be speaking out on this issue. Many Virginian bloggers are promoting that Goode's hate speech is not typical of Virginians. However, the silence of our elected officials on this issue sends a different message--agreement with the bigotry Goode is promoting.
We should not let our elected officials "off the hook" so easily. They should clear the air and have the courage to verbalize their positions on this crucial issue.
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Interesting comment....is it pjgoober or scottynz?
I realized to truly give it justice I would need to write at least a post entry to my blog...but this topic of yours really seems truly "booklength" to answer.
so it's up there in the "immigration" stream of thought. I do hope I get around to that topic with all the stuff that keeps breaking around us.
But I am disappointed with the current debate of immigration and terrorism. There is a root cause that "touches" both of these issues (that are in a sense actually created by the wealthiest percentile of our own country....)
The fact that we work through the WTO and IMF (and have plundered prior to the formation of the WTO and IMF) to plunder other countries resources and leave the general population there living on $2.00 per day. If we had more equitable streams of incomeand a structure of FAIR TRADE....we wouldn't be facing many of the problems we do....especially of violence both internal and external.
Buzz....
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