[Vision2020] Public Prayer, Morality and Wayne Krause

[Rosemary Huskey]

When a politician wastes a single second of the electorate's time making
inaccurate and ill-founded nostalgic appeals to godly standards of past
morality it is high time he excuses himself from the public stage and
retires to a quiet corner of his living room to write his starry-eyed
memoirs - which will not be a best seller.  Barring that possibility, based
on his recent pronouncements, perhaps Wayne Krause could explain why events
in the deeply religious Bible Belt  delivered the shame and evils of social,
medical, and educational segregation, lynching, sharecropping, and the Klan.
Bible verses were read every day in school and Sunday church was a routine
event for the majority of elected, white only town/city officials.  How
quickly he has forgotten (if he ever made an effort to educate himself) the
bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963, and the
civil rights struggles which have continued for a hundred and fifty years in
this country.   Maybe Alabama seemed too removed for Wayne to draw any
conclusions about the nauseating celebration of Confederate mores. Okay.
Look out any window in this town to see the land which for thousands of
years  belonged to Nez Perce and Palouse people.  Missionaries, including
that abusive, thieving scumbag, Henry Spalding were thick on the ground
beginning in 1836.  In many homestead shanties the Bible was read daily.  Of
course that didn't stop these prayerful, moral, bible thumpers from their
inhumane and cruel treatment of Native people whose land they stole, and
whose culture they ridiculed and suppressed.  

Let's cut to the chase. Wayne's appeal to the good old days was not actually
centered on the necessity of public prayer and right-minded (by his
standards) morals.  It is part of the Tea Party rhetoric that Wayne has
gobbled up like a cheap steak dinner.   Wayne Krause was channeling the Tea
Party, NRA shill, and dogsbody lunatic, Wayne LaPierre.  Which is of course
would be his befuddled right except . . . . . we have a respected, competent
law enforcement professional on the city payroll.  Chief Duke understands
the relevant issues that surround gun safety consideration in ways that
Wayne Krause and his posse can't begin to imagine.  I'm not surprised Wayne
grandstands on behalf of the local Republican apparatchik but it is a
disappointment that other members of the Council clambered aboard his clown
car as well.  I guess it didn't occur to a single one of them to wonder why
Wayne might have more insight on the issue than Chief Duke. It should have.


Rose Huskey

 

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