{"id":2865,"date":"2010-03-17T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:00:14","slug":"putting-things-in-perspective-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2865","title":{"rendered":"Putting things in perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

To me the Red Plan has been much more about the practice or mispractice of democracy than anything else. If it is a great success good for Duluth. If it is a great failure the hillside will not fall into Lake Superior. This is my home and I have felt compelled to take a stand for principle’s sake but compared to a Haiti or Ache Province in Indonesia its small potatoes. <\/p>\n

Every day I read about people who have much more to worry about than we do in Duluth and this<\/a> helps keep things in perspective.<\/p>\n

Its the second eye opening story I’ve read recently by John Hari. I’m excerpting a small sample so shocking that it may very well deter folks from starting at the beginning. That would be a shame because it is one of the most hopeful and distressing stories I’ve run across lately. Hopeful in showing what a few people can do when determined to make the world a better place and distressing because it shows the fragility of a good cause when it threatens the powers that be.<\/p>\n

As the meetings went on over the years, their demands for equality swelled. Why should women’s vaginas be mutilated? They screened a video of a female “circumcision” taking place for the men. One passed out; four vomited. “The rebellion just grew and grew,” Boge says. At a wedding in 2003, the bride and all her bridesmaids wore signs saying: “I am uncircumcised.” It was a Spartacus moment, and the women here weep as they remember it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not surprisingly, the distress comes from the impulse to shut down democracy by people for whom it is a great inconvenience. As Martin Luther King said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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