Peggy Noonan, contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal, agrees with the opinion found in some wingnut blogs that looters should be shot. In today's
opinion, she writes:
As for the tragic piggism that is taking place on the streets of New Orleans, it is not unbelievable but it is unforgivable, and I hope the looters are shot.
She goes on to distinguish between those who are taking the basics like food and water and those who are stealing. Yet this is a woman who espouses she wants to protect life, and has disdain for those who want to end it. A woman who argued for keeping
brain dead Terry Schiavo hooked up to tubes indefinitely with these words of how precious life is:
God made the world or he didn't.
God made you or he didn't.
If he did, your little human life is, and has been, touched by the divine. If this is true, it would be true of all humans, not only some. And so--again, if it is true--each human life is precious, of infinite value, worthy of great respect.
And so the hypocrisy of the right continues.
Peggy Noonan was one of the speech writers for President Reagan, and she's "famous" for coining the phrase that Bush Sr. mangled: "1,000 points of light", the forerunner to today's "compassionate conservatism".
She's written about Mother Teresa. She's gushed over Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ". And now, she advocates shooting people to death over television sets.
What part of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" does she fail to understand?