Topic: looking down from Olympus

[whimsicalmamapig]

United States Representative Aaron Schock spoke on Fox this evening about his efforts to free a political prisoner from Myanmar. When asked why he did this he said that one day he told his staff to find an example of wrongfully imprisoned political prisoners in the world and pick one and try and free him.

While it is good that the subject of his project has been freed, It struck me as sort of an example of what the greek gods would do as they looked down at the mere mortals below and decided to medle in their affairs.

If Mr Schock was truly worried about global injustice due to tyannical governments he should first tend to his own government and then, having solved our problem, use that government to insure the blessings of liberty to the rest of the world rather than withdrawing from it behind our oceans.

I smell hypocrisy here on oh so many levels

[Glock32]

I agree that they look at us from on high, and that goes for the whole of the liberal elite.  As for the chosen recipient of their magnanimity, the liberal moral code always dictates "the Other" as a superior entity. Liberals reflexively side with the Other in all scenarios.

[Libertas]

You don't have to look far to see tyranny in America...if you don't see it then you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.