I'll never understand people. Allow me to jump up on my soap box for a minute.

[bootson]

Okay. So, I'm sure everyone has heard about the mine explosion in Montcoal. It really is a tragedy. It's not the first time it's happened...there was an explosion at my dad's mine a few years back but that happened (very luckily) on a holiday when there was hardly anyone working and no one was near the sections of the plow that blew. It's just...horrible. It's what happens, it's the risk every miner takes everyday, a risk we all knew my mom took and my dad still takes....and yet, it's such a tragedy. This is horrible and I can't even begin to really process it. My thoughts and sympathies are with every single family affected, with every person directly or indirectly hurt because of this.

And...it's so close to home. It's RIGHT there. My sister and her husband went to a wake last night (the funeral is today) for a man that has been best friends with my brother in law since they were about 2 years old. A boy I played t-ball with was killed. It wasn't just the explosion, it was the methane....they never knew what was happening until it was too late. I can't even....I don't know.

I do know....that people protesting? It's ridiculous. Have a video:

I'm all for free speech. I'm all for protesting things. You can protest hurting the earth with mining (but you better be using forms of energy so as to avoid being a hypocrite or you're no better than what you're bitching about), you can protest mining conditions and federal mine safety laws. BUT no one deserves to die. No one. People are trying to make a living and that's what you do in WV...we don't have a whole hell of a lot else here, okay? Go ahead and protest, but do NOT make the fact that all these people died just trying to make a living trivial. Also, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. All I'm saying.

WEll, that and it's Westboro....and they'll protest anything just to get a rise out of people. Which I'll never understand. What do those people approve of? Anything?

Comments

[bootson.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. But I don't really think completely ignoring them would make them go away. I think it would cause them to do more...because they need to attention to force out their "message" or what not. I just don't understand them and I don't even want to try....and that's not very like me.

[bbuttercup.livejournal.com]

I wonder what they'd do if people just stood quietly, totally silent, in a group with signs that had Bible versus that contradict their hate, signs that their children would read.

And the funny thing is, the wrath and hell-fire version of the Bible he likes to spew from, the Old Testament? says that he and his family literally don't have a chance in Hades of getting into the Kingdom. I guess that's what happens when you through out baby Jesus :o)

[bootson.livejournal.com]

If I'm ever personally confronted with these people...or in an area where I know they'll be....I'm going to get a fuck ton of people to do that. And seriously...it will be totally silent. Maybe we'll play, like, "Jesus Loves Me" sung by Sunday school children or something...but yeah, there will be no heckling or yelling.

See, I'm not very religious. I used to be able to find nearly any verse in the Bible from memory...I can't now and I honestly don't want to try but yes. The New Testament...if you want to believe in the Old you have to take the New.

Mostly...I just want someone to carry signs around them that just say "Don't Hate" and "We Love You Even If You're Crazy" and "Love Thy Brother, Bitches"....well maybe not that last one, but it's what I'd be saying on the inside.

And maybe I need sleep....