The father of Bowe Bergdahl, the Idaho soldier released from captivity in a controversial prisoner swap with the Taliban, has received emailed death threats that authorities are investigating, an Idaho police chief said on Saturday. (Reuters)
In Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’ there is a fevered crowd, with pitchforks carrying torches of fire creating a mob scene to rid the township of a monster feared and loathed. Ms Shelley clearly creates a scene in which reason has been replaced with irrationality, purpose substituted for madness and insight blinded by the sheer force of belligerence. The monster is bad, the monster must be stopped and if in fact we act as we have perceived that monster to have acted so be it; because our monster is a good monster.
Flip-flopping T-Publican politicians/irresponsible fame seeking pundents/phony journalists/individuals with lack of compassion, insight or purpose have perpetuated a vigil in which killing a monster is the only priority available. With pure malice, political gamesmanship, lack of value and awesome hate those who revel in turning the stupid into lemming like creatures have provoked the most nasty of American society to act out and act upon their most heinous desires. No longer in America (where divide has become the optimum choice,) do we care about the facts but perseverate over fiction and falsehoods. There is no longer anymore patience to find the truth when in fact the lies are so easy to finesse.
A soldier was captured, we know nothing more as fact except he enlisted to fight a war and was captured. An American was held prisoner, his parents mourn his captivity and yearn for his return. One of our own is coming home and suddenly he is a monster, we are the bearers of pitchforks and torches. Suddenly, we care less about the facts or truth but salivate at the opportunity to tar and feather this man making him the enemy. The same people who praise Jesus as their Lord and Savior, who profess the sanctity of our military, who carry paperback editions of the Constitution next to their assault weapons, who swear their blood runs red, white and blue have created a monster and act as worse and more dangerous monster themselves. This fevered filled virus if not stopped will run amuck and it will ravage any piece of democracy left. We have all got to be scared at the insanity around us, I know I am!
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