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insights Archive for: April 2007
Greg Abbott, Defender of the Holy Faith
posted by snarko on April 4 2007
Speaking at a Republican Party dinner Friday night in Lake Jackson, Greg Abbott told Brazoria County Republicans that the national results of the November elections do not represent the dawning of a new age for Democrats in Texas. According to a February 18 story in the Brazosport Facts, Abbott urged the group, "All we need to do is stand on our principles."
The Brazosport Facts story continues, "During an introduction speech by state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, the Angleton Republican told the audience Abbott stood for those values, as exhibited by his defense before the U.S. Supreme Court of the Ten Commandments statue on the Texas Capitol grounds."
In June 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the statue could remain on the Capitol grounds. In his well-documented typical fashion, Abbott milked the case for all the grandstanding he could squeeze out of it. He made a huge, high-publicity production of flying to Washington, D.C. to argue the case personally at the Supreme Court, then held another grand press conference when the Court later issued its decision. During his recent re-election campaign, Abbott mailed voters a glossy brochure containing a full-page picture of him at the side of the Ten Commandments statue, exhibiting himself as the defender of holy righteousness. (No doubt the photograph used in the campaign mailer was taken by Abbott's publicly funded Texas Attorney General publicity team, as were video clips he used in his campaign's "protecting children" television spot.)
Referring to the Ten Commandments case in the speech he gave Friday night, Abbott said, "When atheists come to Texas and challenge our values, we will use it as an opportunity to defend them. Not on my watch as attorney general are we going to have that monument taken down," he proclaimed. "That monument will stand on Texas Capitol grounds for the rest of history."
Now dear reader, take note that if you are a Texas citizen who happens as a matter of Constitutionally protected personal opinion to be a non-believer, you do not qualify to be a part of Greg Abbott's Texas. No matter that you may be a Texas-born lifelong Texan, and no matter that Greg Abbott as the attorney general of our state is supposed to be the lawyer for all the people and the chief defender of our republican Constitutional democracy. Instead, he uses your tax money and mine to set himself up as a medieval defender of the faith; and just like his medieval role models, he puts you on the wrong side of "us and them" if you don't profess the faith.
Dear reader, also please take note that while using ancient time-honored symbols of virtue and ethics as a means to praise and glorify himself, Greg Abbott at the same time does nothing to challenge the rule of greed and the tyranny of robber barons who want middle class Texans to become permanent indentured servants to the banks and insurance companies. A master of hypocrisy just like his medieval role models, while using ancient and noble exhortations for moral living as media for his grandstanding he does nothing to defend the ordinary Texan from the rampant twin corruptions of money and deceit that threaten to overwhelm our precious democracy ? how could he; those corruptions are his own path to power.
Dear reader, the current Texas attorney general is a very dangerous man. Mark my words, ambition runs hot in him for political positions at the highest possible levels from which to use the public's tax revenue for the promulgation of Constitution-distorting neoconservative tyranny, all for the true purposes of self-glorification and power. Mark my words, please, and take them seriously.
Dear reader, do you still need to know why I am not satisfied with the Democratic Party's 6-seat gain in the Texas House plus winning the local races of Dallas County? Do you still need to know why I am not satisfied with the Democratic Party's 2006 policy of not seriously attempting to win anything except a handful of state legislature races plus the local races of one county?
I respectfully contend that an election that left this dangerous man in power, to continue using the public's revenues and the public's right of legal prosecution for the private benefit of the few, should not be hailed as a spectacular statewide success. I respectfully contend that a State Democratic Party campaign strategy that did not make this man a serious target for defeat should not be saluted as a role model for political strategy.
Under the Texas Constitution, so long as Greg Abbott is attorney general he possesses the exclusive power to declare what legal positions and what legal actions will be advanced on behalf of all the people of Texas. So long as Greg Abbott is feeding his ambition and climbing the political ladder, foes of the Constitution will have a powerful ally. Do you wonder why I say the Bushite freeze may be thawing nationally but in Texas we're still iced in?
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