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About Liberty, and God, and our free will. Gary Corseri

I have just seen Michel Chossudovsky’s article on Global Research which makes grim reading, Global Poverty, Food Riots, and the Economic Crisis.{http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22926}

Yesterday, Common Dreams reposted Chris Hedges’ article, “Where Liberals Go to Feel Good.” Like other commentators, Hedges points out how gullible, feeble and cowardly our liberals are. While congratulating themselves on having the correct posture, they never go far enough. They are impotent and complicit.

Commenting on this, I said that what Hedges is describing sounds like what happens on Common Dreams itself. There, liberals can fret over Obama and root for the Democratic Party as the country goes to hell. I also said that their progressive calisthenics don’t include outrage or sadness over the worst mass murder in U.S. history. There is nothing on there about the Kermit Gosnell case, not even a stray mention in a comment. Yesterday, Common Dreams had an article called “Freedom of Choice: Living for What You Would Die For.” This, I pointed out, is “ironic and outright creepy,” considering their indifference to the killing of babies and women by a hack abortionist.

My comment provoked at least a couple of responses, one very thoughtful that agreed, yes, the Gosnell case should cause more of a national uproar. I stepped out for a few hours. When I came back, my comment has been erased! The responses to my comment have also been erased.

Common Dreams has revealed itself to be thin-skinned and completely undemocratic. Only approved opinions are allowed on there, apparently. This soft forum is where liberals go to feel good. I am both bemused and disgusted.

Too often, “Progressives” have been knee-jerk reactionaries when it comes to the issue of abortion–mouthing, unthinkingly, the “woman’s right to choose” ethos! What a reversal! We used to think that “reactionaries” were those who held fast to fossilized positions–overtaken by science, technology and/or new mores. But, I prefer to use the term in the sense of reacting without careful thought and analysis.

You show the human tragedy of our hypocritical system that will not fund health care for abortions, but allows butchers like Gosnell to scam the system.

Your article is provocative, and it works on various levels.

in which media participates with even more vigor than politicians. alternate media, tho, embraces, seems, thousand and one currents; thus, cannot be ever wrong; i.e., all outcomes r covered! tnx