BREAKING NEWS: “A group of almost 5000 radicals, described mostly as poor, uneducated, and jobless, have entered and occupied the most prominent square of the Capitol. The movement, believed to be lead by a core of a dozen men, were warned repeatedly not to gather on private property to spread their propaganda. For days they have ignored this instruction and several were forcibly arrested and beaten. At this moment, a man identified as Stephen, one of their ringleaders, has begun an illegal speech. We go live to the site…
33AD, the Apostles: #OccupyTempleMount
[Acts 2:46, 4:1-3, 4:23-27, 5:17-18, 5:27-42, Acts 6, Acts 7]
Michael Spotts:. www.michaelspotts.com
The life of an individual does not belong to its mother, though he or she enters through her. Nor does an individual’s existence belong to the State, though the State is responsible to protect him or her. We hold it to be self-evident that all humans have certain inalienable rights; I add, from our earliest beginnings. Government exists to protect each person’s pursuit of life, liberty, and well being, no matter whose womb he or she enters through, or at what stage of life he or she is at.
The Towering Fall on 9/11
A layman’s assessment of the outcome of that day
Written 2010.12.07
Across radio stations and cable news networks I have heard voices lamenting that eighty years from now, Americans will have all but forgotten the great tragedy of 9/11. As with the sinking of the Titanic, the burning of the Hindenburg, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, life will have moved on with the times. Perhaps the infamy of those moments will be commemorated in aggrandized films or television specials, but the events of New York’s darkest day will otherwise have passed from meaningfulness to our collective conscience.
I doubt this projection. For reasons which put fire to my skin even to think of, I am convinced there will not be forgetfulness of the tragedy any time soon. And the reason has unfortunately little to do with lives lost that day. The fall of the Trade Centers was a horrendous loss of good men, worthy to be mourned and remembered. However, the more awful legacy of the destruction may be what the toppling of the towers signaled: the collapse of our National sense of security. Their free-fall into ruin, indelibly printed upon the minds of all who witnessed, marked the plunge of unquestioned individual privacy and mobility. Two great towers toppled; with them plummeted two great principles of even loftier consequence: the sacred presupposition of innocence until proven guilty by a jury of peers, and the unparalleled liberties hitherto enjoyed by citizens of this Country.
