Conservative Hypocrisy: Van Jones vs. Westboro Baptist Church
This guy helped found the Ella Baker Center, a modern day civil rights organization in Oakland, California, providing the launching pad for needed activist groups such as Books Not Bars and Color of Change AND he provided shelter and advocacy for families who lost their homes to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. He wrote the definitive book on rescuing both our jobless and our environment, “The Green-Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems“.
His sin? Once signing something that wondered whether or not 9/11 was an inside job. And believing in a society of equality.
Westboro Baptist Church? What have they done for a city, the oppressed, the overlooked, the homeless? Nothing. They show up at funerals and picket the dead, with whom they have NO connection. They carry signs that say ‘God Hates Fags’. They showed up at a memorial for a bus accident… They showed up at a memorial for the Sago Mine Disaster.
They show up at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who die in the line of duty. They showed up and one brave father sued them for disrupting his own right to privacy, to grieve his son who died in battle.
What is Westboro’s sin? For which no one has yet caught or stopped them? For which Conservative Pundits DO NOT attack??? They honestly believe that their hate-filled God is killing AMERICAN innocents around the world as a SIGN that we are doomed because the United States is becoming more tolerant of homosexuality. (Forget that their Jesus said ‘do not judge’…) The Dixie Chicks suffered more for saying ONE THING in 2003 (in the run-up to invading Iraq): “we don’t want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas”, than Westboro has EVER suffered for their far, far worse inflammatory calls to civil war.
They believe 9/11 was an inside job. They believe that the pregnant woman who jumped from the burning, collapsing Tower ‘deserved’ to die, along with her 3700 fellow Americans murdered that day. They don’t care if you are gay or straight, their God wants to kill you.
Where are the Conservative pundits now? Why did they attack (like ravenous wolves) a man who stood up for the poor and the incarcerated?
Why are the Conservative pundits now silent, when a soldier’s father is forced to pay the legal bills of a pseudo-religious group that wants to incite riots? WHY ARE THEY SILENT?
Could it be that the activist is black? And the preacher is white? Their base is white and Christian…
We are sitting on a powder keg. These protests are not lawful. They are meant to incite real violence. Letting them scream their vitriol is like allowing the shouting of ‘FIRE’ in a crowded theater. Until now, there have been no riots, because individuals or groups like the Patriot Guards show up and buffer the crazy protesters from the grief stricken families.
We give tax exemption to anyone who claims they are a religion. Let’s outlaw that. Why should one portion of society not pay the costs of the society they operate within, especially when they cost us LOTS OF MONEY for increased police protection when they host these HATE events? The Roman Catholic Church’s Legion of Christ is worth $20 billion. Scientology is a rich religion. Why allow tax benefits to nut jobs like Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church? Let them be taxed at the same rate as regular Americans.
And where are the same Conservative pundits who ripped Van Jones to shreds, when Westboro says exactly the same thing, only crazier?
Sitting on their hands, silent. As usual.
I assume these folks have the same ‘why bother’ attitude towards low-level spending cuts buggy car