The Psycho Reality
of NM's "No Choice" Army From Kansas
Normally, MeanMesa is a very genteel, soft spoken sort of blog, but in this instance a tiny bit of the old fire has found a home in these geriatric bones. When that tantalizing fragrance of bodies burning on the stake and that alluring thud of stones "redeeming" a fallen woman reach these old nose and ears, the exquisitely simple thought of "enough is enough" seems to become an inescapable conclusion.
Enough is enough. Give me a break,
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| The holy army of "Christian Love." (image source) |
Of course, we have all seen the medieval depths to which our neighboring state, that is, Kansas, has plunged in its faux Old Testament legislative "tent revival," but oozing that fetid ancient hatred and fear into Albuquerque is, well, the "enough" part of...
"enough is enough."
There are plenty of single issue "no choice" voters in Albuquerque -- more than enough to slide this regurgitated, imported, legislative trash onto a local ballot. There is also a more than adequate cess pool of political cynicism on the suspiciously ALEC controlled -- now sporting an unelected Republican majority -- city council to shoe horn this monstrosity into a cravenly scheduled single issue election most likely to be held very, very, extremely, quietly on a day lost amid the long dreary doldrums of a New Mexico November chill.
It's nothing new. This is a "perfect wave" of the same old, sickening, ALEC machinations that are designed to ram pre-written, "contracted" laws straight from wing nut think tanks down the throats of a distracted electorate. Quite aside from the local "no choice" band wagon, this same outfit brought the "stand your ground law" to Florida just in time for the killer, Zimmerman, to do his handiwork.
ALEC is writing state laws so fast that you'd think you were reading a roll of toilet paper -- "sponsored" laws to disenfranchise registered voters, break unions and cut public education spending in two dozen states. The anti-democracy, ALEC cracker running Michigan is trying to auction off the contents of the Detroit Museum of Fine Art to his billionaire cronies for a dime on the dollar.
Disabuse yourselves of any lingering possibility that these Kansan "vaginal control carpet baggers" have any shade of legitimacy in their origins. The corporate sponsors are in control of ALEC, and ALEC is essentially in direct control of the State of Kansas, now pumping, under direct ALEC orders no doubt, car loads of equally crazed anti-abortion zealots into Albuquerque.
And in New Mexico the state wide and Bernalillo County GOP ALEC gangs are salivating over the prospect of injecting themselves even further into the local government in Albuquerque -- an action in direct contradiction to the majority Party affiliations seen in the votes in Albuquerque elections. The NM Catholic Bishops are "carrying the water" for these smelly, rag tag invaders.
"Operation Rescue?" Abortion, Inc.
The puppet masters who are pulling the strings on this rolling gypsy passion play LOVE abortion, anti-abortion, early term abortion, late term abortion, rape and incest abortion -- or, no rape and incest abortion, the shimmering violence of burning abortion clinics and the bullet riddled corpses of abortion doctors assassinated in their church pews. All this high drama stuff is the proprietary work product of "Abortion, Inc." think tanks.
This is a hack political career opportunity for them -- just keep the single issue hill billies frothing at the mouth, do a little cynical gerrymandering and your client "candidate" will be in office for all eternity -- regardless of the voters.
Sometimes, while pondering the nature of the "home nest" of these state-to-state travelling trailer park weirdos, our fantasy fixes on a serene monastery at the top of some mountain or a hard working crowd in a busy community organizing office deep in some city. Forget it. The home office of "Abortion Inc." is in the board room of some billionaire's "hobby lobby" or the tactics room of some combo lawyer/PR firm.
It's all business.
Above the rank of second lieutenant in this organization none of these busy little hate merchants has ever worried a single moment about a fetus. They know that the franchise operation that signs their pay checks sells boiling hot or, perhaps, hysterically sobbing, anti-abortionists of every possible ilk who can be used to populate their heavily subsidized "protest rallies," you know, the ones where 100 people show up in buses with pre-printed signs to parade their "spontaneous outrage" in front of 200 television cameras which were also furnished by the franchise.
Think of them as something similar to the tea bags, but the owners of "Abortion, Inc." know better than to let any of the "bus riding little people" do the spelling.
Fact 1: For the mortally wounded, heavily soiled, NM state GOP anti-abortion zealots are a dependable bloc of base voters which requires astonishingly little maintenance. MeanMesa is a close acquaintance with one of these dependable "walking ballots."
Her vote is a sure thing. It will be right there -- regardless of a candidate's campaign, record, abilities or anything else -- on election day. This friend has a shocking antipathy to any information about the US economy, US foreign policy, US Congressional activity and even today's reports of US weather patterns, but when a drawling cracker utters the words "anti-abortion," he can count on her vote.
Fact 2: The Bishops have a gigantic stake in this election issue. They may be fairly quiet in the public commercial airwaves, but sitting deep in their fully funded, tax exempt cloisters they can see the writing on the wall. The congregation populations in their parishes decline year after year, and their historically suffocating authority over "the faithful" is in tatters.
For example, an estimated 80% of Catholic women in New Mexico routinely use "Liturgically prohibited" birth control.
The Romans have shown no hesitation in forming an "unholy" pact with any politician or religion willing to assist their authoritarian anti-abortion, anti-gay agenda. After all, during the medieval propaganda extravaganza in California's Proposition 8, the Bishops eagerly added their "campaign contributions" to the Mormon's envelope.
The Roman tactical frenzy in that affair was so apoplectic that none of them showed any remorse for the fact that Pope Urban II was probably turning over in his grave at the alliance.
Fact 3: The title of this post includes the term "Sharia." This is not merely an inconsequential product of MeanMesa's over indulgent, geriatric, strident hyperbole.
Sharia Law -- among many other echoes of the Dark Ages -- contains an extensive collection of Islamic "woman control" tenets. While the focus is very purposefully directed at fetuses in the public discourse of the anti-abortionists, we find an expanded interest lurking just below that odious surface.
The sheep herding patriarchs who cooked up this scheme wanted to a.) preserve the dominant authority of their tribal roles and b.) maintain and reaffirm social authority over the sexual lives of all those in their tribal domains. The anti-abortion incendiaries are meant to prepare the way for forcing all sexual activity into conformance with Old Testament Mosaic law under judicial enforcement.
In the Bishop's dreams a legally enforced policy of no condoms, no birth control and no abortions builds a fence within which there will be no sex without their patriarchal approval. The control of sex presents an opportunity for the ultimate preservation of this patriarchal authority. Beyond the Romans it can be violently promoted by the wildly insecure Wahabists in Saudi Arabia or simply by the dirty shirt preachers from the fields of Kansas, the game -- and the goal -- is the same.
Uttering these forbidden thoughts so openly is -- suspiciously -- considered an almost unforgivable social faux pas in modern culture, but MeanMesa very comfortably "steps up to the plate," as usual.
MeanMesa is posting these thoughts here as a result of being contacted by a telephone call from RESPECT ABQ WOMEN, the local organization which is working to make certain this wretched proposal doesn't become law by winning an election. [Visit the RESPECT ABQ WOMEN web site by following this link.]
If you happen to be a "non-celibate" Albuquerque young man, go help them out with their public contact campaign. There's no real need to explain why YOU might be working in your own personal interests, not to mention participating in the wider democratic process for your neighbors and your city.
Think of it this way. If you've met the anti-abortion lady carrying the ultra gross, super sized, full color poster, squealing like Joshua's trumpet at Jericho and passing out nearly incomprehensible tracts, understand that this is the same woman who wants the law -- her version of what's "right" for you -- to control your choices if you and your girlfriend ever wind up needing one.
The right wing's "war on women" can very easily become a "war on you." Just as much as these -- religious or political -- derelicts from the past are obsessed with controlling women, they are equally obsessed with controlling you.
The date for this vote has not been set. This is straight from the ALEC play book. If a lot of Albuquerque citizens go the polls, this abortion control law will lose. If hardly voters any turn out, it will be approved by a few dozen of the "faithful," but it will become law for everyone living here.
The Supreme Court ruled that your girlfriend -- and you -- have legal access to safe, medical abortion if and when you need it, but the Supreme Court, now populated by a majority of wing nut Bush W. political creatures and a majority of Catholics, cannot be counted on to protect your rights.
The current Supreme Court cannot even be counted on to support its previous decisions -- especially not if cash and political favors are involved. Don't be hypnotized into automatically thinking that you and your girlfriend have access to family planning services -- including abortion. The anti-abortion thugs from Kansas have other plans for you two. In their dream the law and the courts will force you to live in accordance to their barely Biblical religious ideas.
Stand with our New Mexico women. They cannot successfully face this challenge without our active support and active participation. Fundamentalists, regardless of which religion or which issue, are brutal, functioning on an alien value system, and this is no exception.
Facing Facts
Fact 1: For the mortally wounded, heavily soiled, NM state GOP anti-abortion zealots are a dependable bloc of base voters which requires astonishingly little maintenance. MeanMesa is a close acquaintance with one of these dependable "walking ballots."
Her vote is a sure thing. It will be right there -- regardless of a candidate's campaign, record, abilities or anything else -- on election day. This friend has a shocking antipathy to any information about the US economy, US foreign policy, US Congressional activity and even today's reports of US weather patterns, but when a drawling cracker utters the words "anti-abortion," he can count on her vote.
Fact 2: The Bishops have a gigantic stake in this election issue. They may be fairly quiet in the public commercial airwaves, but sitting deep in their fully funded, tax exempt cloisters they can see the writing on the wall. The congregation populations in their parishes decline year after year, and their historically suffocating authority over "the faithful" is in tatters.
For example, an estimated 80% of Catholic women in New Mexico routinely use "Liturgically prohibited" birth control.
The Romans have shown no hesitation in forming an "unholy" pact with any politician or religion willing to assist their authoritarian anti-abortion, anti-gay agenda. After all, during the medieval propaganda extravaganza in California's Proposition 8, the Bishops eagerly added their "campaign contributions" to the Mormon's envelope.
The Roman tactical frenzy in that affair was so apoplectic that none of them showed any remorse for the fact that Pope Urban II was probably turning over in his grave at the alliance.
Fact 3: The title of this post includes the term "Sharia." This is not merely an inconsequential product of MeanMesa's over indulgent, geriatric, strident hyperbole.
Sharia Law -- among many other echoes of the Dark Ages -- contains an extensive collection of Islamic "woman control" tenets. While the focus is very purposefully directed at fetuses in the public discourse of the anti-abortionists, we find an expanded interest lurking just below that odious surface.
The sheep herding patriarchs who cooked up this scheme wanted to a.) preserve the dominant authority of their tribal roles and b.) maintain and reaffirm social authority over the sexual lives of all those in their tribal domains. The anti-abortion incendiaries are meant to prepare the way for forcing all sexual activity into conformance with Old Testament Mosaic law under judicial enforcement.
In the Bishop's dreams a legally enforced policy of no condoms, no birth control and no abortions builds a fence within which there will be no sex without their patriarchal approval. The control of sex presents an opportunity for the ultimate preservation of this patriarchal authority. Beyond the Romans it can be violently promoted by the wildly insecure Wahabists in Saudi Arabia or simply by the dirty shirt preachers from the fields of Kansas, the game -- and the goal -- is the same.
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| No Problem. We know how to control women. (image source) |
Uttering these forbidden thoughts so openly is -- suspiciously -- considered an almost unforgivable social faux pas in modern culture, but MeanMesa very comfortably "steps up to the plate," as usual.
Albuquerque's Young Men Have a "Dog in This Fight"
MeanMesa is posting these thoughts here as a result of being contacted by a telephone call from RESPECT ABQ WOMEN, the local organization which is working to make certain this wretched proposal doesn't become law by winning an election. [Visit the RESPECT ABQ WOMEN web site by following this link.]
If you happen to be a "non-celibate" Albuquerque young man, go help them out with their public contact campaign. There's no real need to explain why YOU might be working in your own personal interests, not to mention participating in the wider democratic process for your neighbors and your city.
Think of it this way. If you've met the anti-abortion lady carrying the ultra gross, super sized, full color poster, squealing like Joshua's trumpet at Jericho and passing out nearly incomprehensible tracts, understand that this is the same woman who wants the law -- her version of what's "right" for you -- to control your choices if you and your girlfriend ever wind up needing one.
The right wing's "war on women" can very easily become a "war on you." Just as much as these -- religious or political -- derelicts from the past are obsessed with controlling women, they are equally obsessed with controlling you.
Make sure that you are registered to vote in this election.
The date for this vote has not been set. This is straight from the ALEC play book. If a lot of Albuquerque citizens go the polls, this abortion control law will lose. If hardly voters any turn out, it will be approved by a few dozen of the "faithful," but it will become law for everyone living here.
The Supreme Court ruled that your girlfriend -- and you -- have legal access to safe, medical abortion if and when you need it, but the Supreme Court, now populated by a majority of wing nut Bush W. political creatures and a majority of Catholics, cannot be counted on to protect your rights.
The current Supreme Court cannot even be counted on to support its previous decisions -- especially not if cash and political favors are involved. Don't be hypnotized into automatically thinking that you and your girlfriend have access to family planning services -- including abortion. The anti-abortion thugs from Kansas have other plans for you two. In their dream the law and the courts will force you to live in accordance to their barely Biblical religious ideas.
Stand with our New Mexico women. They cannot successfully face this challenge without our active support and active participation. Fundamentalists, regardless of which religion or which issue, are brutal, functioning on an alien value system, and this is no exception.
Please Send These Crazies Back to Kansas
See, people in Kansas like folks like this bunch. Folks in Kansas think it's just swell to send this pack of Biblical thugs anywhere that will have them.
It's not.
Defeating this ballot initiative will be worth a thousand words. The first four of those thousand words will be:
It's not.
Defeating this ballot initiative will be worth a thousand words. The first four of those thousand words will be:
No thanks.
Go home.
Additional Reading
The New York Times has covered the Operation Rescue scam in Albuquerque.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/us/albuquerque-becomes-latest-focal-point-in-abortion-wars.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/us/28albuquerque.html
Here's what the "pro-life" ["no choice"] bunch has on their site.
http://www.prolifenm.com/2013/08/the-abortion-issue-remains-front-and.html
This is a previous post from MeanMesa concerning ALEC New Mexico.
ALEC NM: Anti-Democracy in the High Desert
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