Perhaps a future generation of social analysts, isolated from party politics, will better understand the logic involved and, therefore, be able to explain it. But, for right now, one struggles to understand liberals’ logic when it comes to the concept of valuing human life. This is evident from three interconnecting “death links” on the topic.
The first link involves the death penalty. Most liberal Democrats oppose it due to unequal application, executing innocent persons and a claim it constitutes “cruel and unusual” punishment.
Its unequal application is historically accurate. Sadly, U.S. executions have long reflected overt racial bias. For example, a 19th century North Carolina law mandated death for black rapists of white women but only a maximum one-year prison sentence for white rapists of black women. While such blatantly racist laws no longer exist, a DOJ study covering the time frame 1930-1972 revealed an inbred bias in rape cases existed as 89 percent of executions claimed black males. Most disturbingly, the death penalty was applied in every case involving white victims but never black victims.
Concerning the innocent, the Innocence Project estimates 2-5 percent of today’s prison population – roughly 20,000 people – are not guilty. As of July 2018, with 2,738 prisoners on death row, by applying the same percentage, the possibility exists 55-137 innocent people await execution.
Unfortunately, we have an imperfect legal system, evidenced by dozens of convictions based on eyewitness testimony later reversed as indisputable DNA evidence established innocence.
The liberal argument the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, violating the U.S. Constitution, has long been voiced. It continues despite implementing much more humane ways of execution, such as lethal injection. But the argument rests on the belief the taking of human life, in and of itself, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and, therefore, is not man’s role.
Thus, the bottom line on liberal thinking about the death penalty is “all lives matter,” innocent or not. Logically, therefore, the death penalty should only be applied in cases involving the most horrendous crimes and in which independent evidence, such as DNA, inarguably determines guilt “beyond reasonable doubt.”
The second death link issue is abortion.
Pro-abortion liberals believe human life does not begin at conception. The law recognizes human maturity of a fetus occurs sometime during the third trimester of pregnancy, enough to impose limitations on abortions unless medically necessary. But a new New York law trumps such limitations, now allowing abortions even after birth. Post-birth abortions raise new concerns in the debate.
While New York’s law permits such abortions for health reasons, it fails to define what so qualifies. Clearly, therefore, should a fetus survive the abortion process – i.e., generating a human life – a parent effectively has license to “execute” an unwanted child, legalizing infanticide. Shockingly, liberals opposed to taking a rapist’s or murderer’s life for fear of cruel and unusual punishment refuse to view abortion in utero or post-birth similarly. Senate Democrats have even rejected Sen. Ben Sasse’s resolution to save born-alive abortion survivors – an outrageous rejection as no life is more innocent or defenseless than that of a born-alive survivor.
Thus, the bottom line on liberals’ thinking on abortion contrasts with their thinking on the death penalty as “all lives really do not matter.”
The third death link issue involves recalling history and a violent group Democrats helped foster 153 years ago – the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). While Democrats’ relationship with the KKK – a most violent supremacist group – no longer exists, today, liberals have replaced their support for one supremacist group seeking the death of non-members with another group having a similar mindset.
To entice the black vote today, Democrats falsely accuse Republicans of racism. But it was the Democratic Party that gave rise to the KKK in 1866 as Republicans struggled in the post-Civil War era to implement political and economic equality for blacks. Ironically, as Democrats rallied to support the KKK, blacks rallied to become Republicans. The first seven blacks elected to Congress were, in fact, Republican candidates.
Interestingly too, one of the Democratic Party’s most respected serving senators until his death in 2010 was Robert Byrd of West Virginia – a former senior KKK official. Today, listening to Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters hurl venomous racist charges at President Donald Trump, it is hard to believe she is the same person who mightily defended Byrd in 2003.
Historical archives show during an 86-year period (1882-1968), there were 3,446 KKK lynchings of blacks. Clearly, no supremacist group represented more intolerance for black lives than it did.
But what Democrats fail to grasp today is while the KKK – and the white-supremacy platform manifested by its hatred for non-members – is but a shadow of its former self, its white hoods have given way to a new supremacist group harboring a corresponding ideology of hatred for non-members. Naïve Democrats fully embrace it, even boasting its own members serve within it. They do so because they know so little about the beliefs to which the ideology subscribes.
While the ideology is complex, two foundational beliefs are revealing: 1) The world exists in only two parts – one in which its ideology thrives now and one in which it eventually, by force, will so thrive; and 2) every believer has a duty to convert non-members to this ideology – and, if they do not, to force them to pay a tax or kill them.
This then, plain and simple, is political Islam – a belief system demanding submission to it while embracing death for those unwilling to do so.
Those doubting such foundational beliefs need acquaint themselves with the concept of Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam as well as the “Conditions of Omar.” But, aware of it or not, the bottom line for liberals supporting Islam is “only Muslim lives matter.”
Spock of “Star Trek” television fame would find these three death links of liberal thinking “highly illogical.” Undoubtedly, the most illogical of these is non-Muslim liberals embracing the third link, failing to grasp that it is as subscribing to their own mass destruction.
