[Vision2020] Public Prayer, Morality and Wayne Krause

[deb]

And scientists have just discovered that the biggest dinosaurs had brains the size of tennis balls. Wayne Krauss? Golf ball dinosaur................
Debi R-S
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rosemary Huskey 
  To: council at ci.moscow.id.us ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:47 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Public Prayer, Morality and Wayne Krause


  When a politician wastes a single second of the electorate's time making inaccurate and ill-founded nostalgic appeals to godly standards of past morality it is high time he excuses himself from the public stage and retires to a quiet corner of his living room to write his starry-eyed memoirs - which will not be a best seller.  Barring that possibility, based on his recent pronouncements, perhaps Wayne Krause could explain why events in the deeply religious Bible Belt  delivered the shame and evils of social, medical, and educational segregation, lynching, sharecropping, and the Klan.  Bible verses were read every day in school and Sunday church was a routine event for the majority of elected, white only town/city officials.  How quickly he has forgotten (if he ever made an effort to educate himself) the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963, and the civil rights struggles which have continued for a hundred and fifty years in this country.   Maybe Alabama seemed too removed for Wayne to draw any conclusions about the nauseating celebration of Confederate mores. Okay. Look out any window in this town to see the land which for thousands of years  belonged to Nez Perce and Palouse people.  Missionaries, including that abusive, thieving scumbag, Henry Spalding were thick on the ground beginning in 1836.  In many homestead shanties the Bible was read daily.  Of course that didn't stop these prayerful, moral, bible thumpers from their inhumane and cruel treatment of Native people whose land they stole, and whose culture they ridiculed and suppressed.  

  Let's cut to the chase. Wayne's appeal to the good old days was not actually centered on the necessity of public prayer and right-minded (by his standards) morals.  It is part of the Tea Party rhetoric that Wayne has gobbled up like a cheap steak dinner.   Wayne Krause was channeling the Tea Party, NRA shill, and dogsbody lunatic, Wayne LaPierre.  Which is of course would be his befuddled right except . . . . . we have a respected, competent law enforcement professional on the city payroll.  Chief Duke understands the relevant issues that surround gun safety consideration in ways that Wayne Krause and his posse can't begin to imagine.  I'm not surprised Wayne grandstands on behalf of the local Republican apparatchik but it is a disappointment that other members of the Council clambered aboard his clown car as well.  I guess it didn't occur to a single one of them to wonder why Wayne might have more insight on the issue than Chief Duke. It should have.  

  Rose Huskey

   



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