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I did not know I was a communist until I moved to Idaho

By Michael Blankenship

The other day Glenn Beck became worked up over social justice. In Beck's world social justice is code for communism, Marxism, totalitarianism, Nazism, and bad acne. Beck advocated that his listeners run from clergy who uttered the phrase social justice. One of his targets, Jim Wallis, responded in today's Huffington Post. Wallis writes "In countering Beck's misunderstanding of social justice on The Colbert Report, James Martin, an editor of the Jesuit America magazine, quoted a Catholic Archbishop as saying, 'When I feed the poor they call me a saint; but when I ask why people are poor they call me a communist.'" That's it - an epiphany!  I did not know I was a communist until I moved to Idaho. If I taught that Idaho was embracing good policy by locking up every offender in crowded, dangerous facilities, then I would be greeted with open arms...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).