Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All minsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
All minsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Don't know what that means, exactly? Welcome to the club. When you tumble Through the Looking Glass everything gets turned around: right and wrong, for example. Like Alice, Americans are trapped in a parallel universe that strikingly resembles what we are used to, but doesn't make any sense.
Case in point: The House of Representatives (those slithy toves) just passed a bill, H.R. 1913, that offers special hate-crime protections to all kinds of people with other than typical sexual proclivities, including pedophiles. When Representative Steve King (R-IA) and others tried to amend the bill to extend hate-crime protections to pregnant women, senior citizens, and members of the Armed Forces, they were turned down flat.
So, in the America in which you and I now live, following an altercation between a pedophile and an old gent, a pregnant mom, or a soldier on leave, guess who gets slapped with a felony? What happens to the clergyman who uses the pulpit to oppose homosexuality, gay marriage, or even pedophilia? Whom does the law protect: the young woman or the exhibitionist, peeping Tom, or foot fetishist that's been following her around?
According to Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a former judge:
This hideous bill has been passed on to the Senate, which also is on the wrong side of the Looking Glass. Here is the Senate's Web site, and I urge you to give your senators a piece of your mind, if you can catch them between gyring and gimbling.
Case in point: The House of Representatives (those slithy toves) just passed a bill, H.R. 1913, that offers special hate-crime protections to all kinds of people with other than typical sexual proclivities, including pedophiles. When Representative Steve King (R-IA) and others tried to amend the bill to extend hate-crime protections to pregnant women, senior citizens, and members of the Armed Forces, they were turned down flat.
So, in the America in which you and I now live, following an altercation between a pedophile and an old gent, a pregnant mom, or a soldier on leave, guess who gets slapped with a felony? What happens to the clergyman who uses the pulpit to oppose homosexuality, gay marriage, or even pedophilia? Whom does the law protect: the young woman or the exhibitionist, peeping Tom, or foot fetishist that's been following her around?
According to Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a former judge:
Let me summarize. Pushing away an unwelcome advance of a homosexual, transgendered, cross-dresser or exhibitionist could make you a felon under this law. Speaking out against the homosexual agenda could also make you a felon if you are said to influence someone who pushes away that unwelcome advance. And pedophiles and other sexual deviants would enjoy an elevated level of protection, while children, seniors, veterans and churches would not.So, Mom, Dad, Gramps, and Pastor, the next time you see your local pedophile (borogove) on a park bench oogling your children at play, remember who counts, and it's not you or your children.
This hideous bill has been passed on to the Senate, which also is on the wrong side of the Looking Glass. Here is the Senate's Web site, and I urge you to give your senators a piece of your mind, if you can catch them between gyring and gimbling.
Twisted and unsettling.
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