Dead Cant Rant

I meant to comment on this yesterday, but didn’t have time. In the Express-News, editor Robert Rivard raves like a lunatic (soul-sucking registration required) about a pro-life rally held at UTSA. He had a problem with the large signs depicting aborted babies alongside pictures of lynchings and Holocaust victims:

Students and faculty returning from Spring Break, especially those who left the city the previous week, had little or no opportunity to avoid or prepare for the tasteless and offensive visual onslaught. Instead, the morning walk to class or to the office became a forced march past 18-foot tall panels that featured photographs of bloody fetuses, black men hung from trees by lynch mobs and, worst of all, Holocaust victims of Nazi gas chambers.

The images and the linkages were obscene.

The linkages between abortion and lynchings and the Holocaust were “obscene”? Only if you don’t know the truth about Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Those linkages were very real.

Remember, it was Margaret Sanger who said “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.”

Flecks of foam are beginning to appear on Robbie’s mouth:

A spokesman for Justice for All, an anti-abortion group based in Wichita, Kan., told Express-News reporter Karen Adler that the point of the exhibit was to simply make “people stop and think.”

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A poster or banner with the F-word will likely be confiscated long before the person carrying it can maneuver into the field of a television cameraman on the presidential campaign trail. Yet it is somehow OK to surround students who aren’t even legal adults with images of extermination and murder alongside oversized photos of fetuses outside the womb.

Aren’t even legal adults? These are college students for Christ’s sake! They must be coddled like babies and not forced to think? How absurd!

Though given today’s standards, that’s pretty much to be expected…

Anti-abortion advocates certainly have the right to state their case, but not to the extent that they violate the rights of others. They are enjoined, for example, from violating the physical space of women using clinics — by laws that were born out of the movement’s propensity for violence and intimidation.

Pro-lifers are violent thugs, unlike your friends?

Not only is he morally repugnant, he is a complete idiot as well. He cites the First Amendment as a defense against — wait for it — the First Amendment! What a riot!

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Few people actually know the First Amendment, and there are surveys that indicate the majority of Americans might not support such bold guarantees today, were the matter put to a vote. The Constitution gives every citizen the same right of expression, but protects no group from conducting themselves in a manner that infringes on the rights of others.

This lunatic is the editor of the San Antonio Express-News.

Express-News Watch piles on as well:

Try mounting oversized images of Iraqi torture victims on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in a way that prevents lawmakers from entering or leaving the building without being filmed with the images as a backdrop and see how long it takes for someone to invoke Homeland Security concerns.

So, if some theoretical stifling of dissent is conceivable in Washington, that is enough to justify, for Rivard, actual suppression of free speech here at UTSA. In RivardWorld, it turns out two wrongs do make a right!

In any case, what does this have to do with Washington? Let’s stick to apples and apples: “Try mounting oversized images of Iraqi torture victims on the grounds of UTSA…” Um, I’ll bet it has already been done, and applauded by the administration.

Perhaps not at UTSA, but it certainly has happened at St. Mary’s, scene of last month’s obscene “Eyes Wide Open” atrocity of a “memorial”. This exhibit was promoted by the university as a “peace” exhibit meant to be a “memorial” to the soldiers killed, when in reality it was a blatant piece of anti-military, anti-American propaganda put on by the “American Friends Service Committee” (though we can think of another f-word), a radical-Left Quaker organization that has provided aid and comfort to America’s enemies on their own soil and helped military deserters flee to Canada.

To paraphrase Rivard: It’s a shame that the leadership of St. Mary’s University wasn’t able to mount a serious legal challenge to last month’s bizarre and offensive anti-American exhibit staged in the heart of the main campus.

This would be laughable, if he weren’t the editor of the Express-News — the only newspaper in town.