Once again, I find myself compelled to produce a column which I do not prefer.  Unfortunately, I watched  several political programs over the weekend.   Now I’m mad and here’s my column.
 

     On one program, (This Week with George Stephanopoulos)  two left-leaning commentators expressed their disdain concerning our treatment of Islamic terrorists.  After two minutes of commercials, the topic turned to abortion. The topic of abortion was specifically tethered to President Obama’s  commencement address at Notre Dame. The same liberals who expressed outrage concerning our treatment of  terrorists, claimed that the dissenting voices at Notre Dame were overreacting.   Perhaps I am losing my mind, but I cannot comprehend the disparity in their logic.   On the one hand, we have a terrorist who’s mission in life is to end the lives of as many people as possible.  On the other hand, we have an innocent child (though unwanted)  who never did anything to hurt anyone.  I have a question--  Who turned the lights out?

     Admittedly, I am somewhat schizophrenic concerning the issue of torture.  Perhaps my soul is too stained to allow my head to reckon with the issue.  Here is my only offering: perhaps we should compel terrorists to work at Chunky Cheese.  Yes, they should serve at the parties for the children of my psychology professors.  Note: they did not believe in corrective discipline.  After one week, the terrorists will be begging- “Will somebody please water board me?”
       

     I have just written in jest what I cannot write with reason.  The world is messed up and often we are compelled to engage in actions which we also disdain.  Some things should be done in basements where purer souls are not saddled with issues which they cannot digest.
 

     Years ago, I saw a film which displayed the torture of an unborn child.  The tiny infant was recoiling in pain as he/she tried to avoid the abortionist’s scapel.  As I wrote before, I do not know how to decipher the moral issues concerning the torture of terrorists..  I have no moral confusion concerning  what I saw in that film.  For some that was called ‘freedom of choice”.  
 

     Recently, I saw a photograph of a surgeon performing surgery on a child ‘in vitro’  (in the mother’s womb) .  The yet birthed infant stretched out her/his hand and clasped the finger of the surgeon.  That child was younger than many aborted babies whose bodies are discarded in dumpsters.  Call me  insane, but I have been ruined by the hand of a child who has no political party, no lobbyist in Congress nor sanity in society.  What follows is a story for your consideration:

     By 1940, the Nazis had invaded and occupied Denmark.  They flew their Swastika over the castle of King Christian X.  Promptly, the King ordered a soldier to remove it.  The next day a vehement Nazi officer assured the King, “We will replace the flag”.  The King retorted, “And I shall summon another soldier to remove it”.  The incensed officer rebuffed: “And we shall shoot your soldier”.  King Christian X leaned forward to meet the face of the Nazi officer:  “Then you will have to shoot me, for I will be that soldier”.
   

     My fellow countrymen, will you lean forward to face the face of insanity?  Will you bear the brunt of their emotionally inspired rhetoric?   Is there anything left in you, whereby you can climb a flagpole and thereon proclaim: “Then you will have to shoot me, for I shall be that soldier”

 By Tom Brown