Boortz in the Pitt

Recently, libertarian talk show host, Neal Boortz published an article on his website (here). The article is a reprint of a column from a high school newspaper written by a senior, which apparently "sent the principal into a panic ... running around and confiscating uncirculated copies of the column." Boortz interviewed the student on his show and asked him if he would like to write every now and then for Nealz Nuze. Not only was Boortz impressed with the senior's writing skills, I'm sure Boortz, as a libertarian, disagreed with the principal's zeal in suppressing the student's "right" to free speech or freedom of the press.

Well, I'm afraid I can't go along with Boortz on this one. Rather, "Another 'modest proposal'" was more akin to yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, for which "free speech" doesn't apply. It was totally irresponsible. While it may have been offered as tongue-in-cheek, it certainly wasn't funny. That America's youth think this way, even in jest, is more than a little scary. This kid's thinking should be our "worst nightmare".

In his defense, however, we taught him to think that way, both by our behavior as a culture and through a government education dedicated to evolutionary indoctrination. This ultimately and logically leads to eugenic consequences. Since our generation has garnered governmental decree to decide who lives and who dies in the mother's womb, so our children, backed by that same government, will decide who lives and who dies in the nation's nursing homes. Today we kill our children in the womb because they are inconvenient and expensive to their mother. That general hatred for children specifically and for human life in general means that in our old age we may be euthanized by our "children" because we will be inconvenient and expensive to our society.

Eugenics is "the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding," and its founder was Francis Galton, cousin to Charles Darwin. The ideas expressed by Galton were supported by the likes of Margaret Sanger, founder of the modern abortion movement, and by Adolf Hitler and his minions (need I say more). It's sad that Neal Boortz gave this kid his "fifteen minutes of fame".

While I agree with some of Boortz's pragmatic political proposals, he is, nevertheless self-avowedly non-Christian. Therefore, he is part of the problem, not the solution. Ideas have consequences, and ideas apart from Christ ultimately lack eternal profit. Jesus said, "He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad." -Matthew 12:30