Randall Terry, infamous anti-abortion nutcase, is at it again. This time, he's actually encouraging his followers—some of whom belong to his organization called Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex—to create flaming effigies of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to protest Democratic support of "child killing." "Greetings," says the man (not terry) in the orange-tinted glassed (do they make everything seem evil?), "it's time to start drawing from our proud American history of burning people in effigy." That's part of our proud American history? What about this or this? I don't think American's can claim ownership of effigies. It's pretty much a universal protest tactic.
That said, I have no problem with public protest. But perverting a Holiday primarily meant for children and drunk adults by putting on violent demonstrations is a little contradictory: "What we want you to do is put on a protest on October 31st, on Halloween Day, showing Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid burning in hell if they don't repent of [sic] making us pay for child-killing in the Health Care Bill. No, this is not a threat to their body [sic], but it is a threat to their soul [sic]."
Ok, first of all, Halloween is a pagan holiday. Why are these hard-core Christians embracing the spirit of it? Second of all, nobody made anyone pay for anything yet. Thirdly, doesn't this spit in the face of the whole "Judge not lest ye be judged" mentality? That's right. That's just "liberal biased language."
Would be effigizers are engouraged to frequent Kinkos and Walmart and Home Depot (I wonder how they feel to be vehicles of jihad), and "cut slow and with feeling," when mounting the pictures of Pelosi and Reid to cardboard. The language used in this video sounds just like combat training, or cult-speak, and reminds me Al Queda recruitment videos: "Go to OverturnRoe.com, click on marching orders and do exaclty what it says."
Then there's this WWE/Monster Truck Rally inspired promo video:
Yikes!
