From Pine View Farm

Shelter from the Storm 4

Dick Polman notes that public buildings, such as schools, in Moore, Oklahoma, right smack at the intersection of I-35 and I-Tornado, do not have storm shelters, because freedom.

But Moore is hardly unique in Oklahoma; it takes its cues from state government, which doesn’t require storm shelters, either – all this, in a region that gets hit by tornadoes more times than anywhere else in America.

Maybe I’m just a blue-state guy posing a blue-state question, but I have to ask: Isn’t it the prime responsibility of government to protect its citizens, and provide for the common good?

Apparently not in red-state alley, because this is where Freedom comes in.

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4 comments

  1. George Smith

    May 24, 2013 at 6:04 pm

    Someone ought to write a book compiling all the things in Obama’s America rationalized away with the trope, “Because … freedom!” Australia vaccinated its young girls against hpv because it eliminates a potential for cervical cancer down the line. It helped young boys too through a phenomenon known as herd immunity with the result that genital wart infections have been greatly reduced — the same virus. Anyway, not in America, it was invented here, but it’s been fought because … freedom! And plus the attached notion that immunizing young women against a preventable STD encourages them to be sluts.

     
  2. Frank

    May 24, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    There is segment of our polity dedicated to the concept of “Chuck you, Farley.”

     

    They are a vile and nasty segment, but they are there.

     
  3. George Smith

    May 24, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    If the GOP had been like it is now back when we were children no one would have been vaccinated for polio and people would be in iron lungs and walkers.

     
  4. Frank

    May 25, 2013 at 7:57 am

    Well said.  You have the topic sentence for a first-class rant there.  I say go with it.