There were supporters of the bill there, and they were behaving like adults instead of wound-up baboons.
They’re in a lose-lose situation on that front. Either they let the crowds in and suffer through the same behavior as last time, or they lock them out and make them into martyrs whose “voice wasn’t heard”.
BRAVA! Exactly right. This IS a war and anyone who reads military history knows that you don’t win one battle and take your toys and go home. Multiple fronts, land, sea and air
. But not in the screaming and thuggish ways used by the abortion promoters, by making unborn babies human in the eyes of the public. They have been dehumanized by the evil empire of abortion mills, feminists, the media and frankly our schools’ curricula on sex and reproduction are a factor as well. But we have not only the power of Christ and His Church but biology and technology on our side.I am going to report your post for the disparagement of primates.
What can I say, I’m a rebel on the edge…
This is so true. I think we have a lesson to learn from the liberals, who have been patient and persistent at pushing things in tiny, little baby steps for 40+ years now.
Those 1,000 or so protestors just wasted a whole lot of taxpayer money by interfering with the democratic process. Of course Austin benefits, because that’s another 30 days of hotel rooms, restaurant meals, etc. It’s a win-win for the loonies in the gallery, crying out for the blood of the preborn to continue to be spilled. That is most certainly NOT representative democracy, it is the opposite, it is what the founders tried to prevent, it is MOB RULE by a minority. Read your history. You’ll have to go all the way back to the Federalist Papers though, you won’t find the truth in history books any more.
I said it was a byproduct of representative democracy. Citizens want to ensure that their voices are heard. That’s not mob rule – it’s not a witch trial. It is, however, a result of the filibuster. If the protestors were pro-life and became rowdy to ensure that their message was heard and abortion was severely restricted, would we really be outraged at their antics? Or would we be grateful for their brazenness? Would we be angry at the money it cost taxpayers to curb abortion? I’m sure we could find cheaper forms of government – but I doubt we’d be happy living with them.
Well stop quoting them then. Because ignore doesn’t block out quoted posts.
Because the democratic process was derailed. Because the majority DID vote for the bill but it was dismissed due to a technicality. Thus the will of the people was thwarted by mob rule, by the loudest voices, by obstructionism rather than a credible argument.
What do you think voting is, it’s basically rounding up the biggest loudmouths. Whoever can get the most people to the polls that will vote for them wins. The apathetic don’t vote in as high of numbers as those loudmouthed committed people.
Totally disingenuous. And you presume facts not in evidence. WERE there any protestors on the pro life side disrupting the proceedings? Do you think most such votes are accompanied by howling banshees? The plan was not to have the people’s voices heard. This is a REPRESENTATIVE government, not the Polis in ancient Greece. We elect representatives and they are to speak for us. We can certainly weigh in before or after the vote with calls, letters, faxes. I often spend the time to write a letter to my Senators or Representatives…and they write back.
Everyone points to British Parliament, but they have many rules that aren’t necessarily obvious to us Americans. They have spirited debate, but they don’t allow 1,000 people off the street into the chambers to cause disruption of their proceedings. It’s not the same thing AT ALL.