Roy Exum
Every day last week a Chattanooga woman sent me a press release for a “Recess Week of Action,” which was the greatest example of “an exercise in futility” that I can recall in recent years. I absolutely refuse to attend, write, or publicize such a group of admittedly-questionable political agitators. Please, I have never seen anything like this! Sometime soon, I suspect, the truth will come out about this new wave of hate because somebody is behind this massive effort to embarrass our nation and the clear majority of those who love it.
Nancy Rosanes even posted a thinly-guised plea for a “dialogue” with elected Republican leaders among the Chattanoogan.com opinions but another reader, Mya Lane, quickly revealed Rosanes' true intentions and the fact her Facebook account indicates Rosanes is something of a left-wing activist.
The Washington Times has identified the movement called “Indivisible” as “a group of progressive activists who are showing up at Republican town halls across the country with the purpose of wreaking havoc."
Everywhere there has been a gullible Republican who has held a Town Hall meeting the official has been bullied, called down, ridiculed, and slandered to the delight of the liberal media who act as though it is breaking news. It is obviously a concerted effort of liberal defiance over the fact the country is now run by conservatives. The Democrats, found in the dictionary between “dastardly” and “dinosaur,” and the words sandwich quite nicely indeed, should be searching for solutions that appeal to the American public rather than providing more reasons for an ever-increasing number of United States citizens to despise the party.
Now comes convincing video footage that “Indivisible” backers went far ‘over the line’ of common decency when they actually booed the name of “Jesus” at a Louisiana function in Metairie. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy had agreed to speak last Wednesday and, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the agitators got the rancor going even before the opening prayer, common in the Deep South. Click here for the video.
The newspaper account read, the group “tried to shout down the invocation. ‘Amen!’ one man hollered just moments after Louisiana State Chaplain Michael Sprague began his prayer. ‘Let's get on with it!’
"’Pray on your own time,’ another shouted, ‘this is our time!’ A group of women near the back of the packed room at East Jefferson Parish Library chanted: “Separation of church and state! Separation of church and state!” Then a Viet Nam veteran was shamefully shouted down as he presented the Pledge of Allegiance.
“I’ve never been shouted down throughout a time of prayer like that,” Chaplain Sprague told columnist Todd Starnes of Fox News. “I’ve never been in a situation like that. It’s sad there wasn’t honor and respect for God.”
Sprague was also hurt by the disrespect for the Pledge of Allegiance. ““There was a lot of shouting. Some turned their backs. Many didn’t stand or put their hand on their heart,” he said. Then he added, “I’m not mad at people. My heart is bigger than that. My heart’s prayer is that everybody be treated with dignity and respect.”
The Times-Picayune account continued, “Cassidy never seemed to get rattled, but a little while after the rowdy exercise in democracy came to an end, the senator spotted Sprague in a hallway. ‘Thanks for doing that, Mike,’ Cassidy said. ‘Wow, they booed the name of Jesus!’”
For the record, Senator Cassidy – a former doctor -- is beloved in the state for opening a functioning hospital filled with volunteers after Hurricane Katrina and it was obvious that the “implants,” who arrived at his Town Hall meeting some four hours early to commandeer the seats, were intent on disruption. “There were some there who wished to be heard but did not want to listen," he said afterwards. "And, unfortunately, what they wished others to hear was a chant."
Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore, who is now said to have done more to hurt the nation than to help it, just launched a “Resistance Calendar” which follows Town Hall meetings and said, “We are just getting started.”
But I’ve got some bigger news – when the Dems start booing the name of Jesus, and turn their backs on the Pledge of Allegiance, that’s “crossing the line” in the worst way imaginable and the United States of America will not stand for it, not for a second.
When you boo Jesus, you boo His followers. As the F-18 pilot once radioed a poorly trained Iraqi who happened to show up in an outdated war plane just seconds before the latter’s demise, “En garde!”
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