Liberals (Re-Re-)Discover the Law of Unintended Consequences
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From hate crime laws being mis-used by eager prosecutors to a reminder that terrorists are an ever-present threat, Liberals had a bad week
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Last week saw a number of events that undermined Liberals’ grasp of the world as they see it, from the actual world. It wasn’t pretty.
The beginning of the week saw Liberals, and many others, wondering if the hate-crime conviction of a Rutgers student spying on his homosexual roommate as an act of justice or a misapplication of the law.
At a minimum, this was not one of the “sexier” crimes committed against a gay person, and proponents of hate crimes knew it. In short, it turned out to be an immature college student using today’s technology (thank God I was in college 25 years ago and not now) to spy on and make fodder of his roommate. It’s not a leap to think that if the roommate was heterosexual and had an encounter with the opposite sex, a similar treatment would have been applied.
But lo, eager prosecutors, perhaps caught up in the heat of the moment, but more likely with an agenda, pressed ahead with “hate crime” charges that a sympathetic jury bought. Look for one or more of the prosecution team to run for office here in the great northeast.
Then came the tragic story of a 16-year old black boy being shot by a self-deputized Gary Cooper in a gated community in Florida last month.
It appears that the local police department fumbled by not investigating the matter fully and charges of a severe nature could well come out of it. But many of the usual political discourse suspects are trying to pin a racist label on this crime and while such may have been a motiviating factor, much of what has been revealed shows that the shooter was a wannabee sheriff, perhaps someone who aspired to being a policeman but had to settle for a mall security guard slot and watching John Wayne western movies.
Finally, France saw a 12-day killing spree by self-avowed terrorist Mohamed Merah who murdered 7 people in the name of the Palestinean cause (which has renounced him and his actions).
Forgive the seeming skiddishness but such action in a western country is too close for comfort, despite Liberals saying that it is time to leave the War on Terror half way around the world in Afghanistan as it is over, unwinnable, or whatever. It does not appear that the terrorists will simply “get the hell off the battlefield and declare victory.” They will follow and try to destroy us. And one must wonder what the “weak-at-the-knees” approach that the Obama administration has re-inforces the brazenness of terrorists.
All of which leads to a resounding refutation of the gospel according to Liberals. In their world, most inter-racial crimes against a person of a protected class is a per se hate crime, regardless of the facts. But reality quite often says otherwise and when hate crimes prosecutions are inappropriately used, the law’s legitimacy is diluted. And Liberals’ belief that we can just unilaterally end, or minimize, the War on Terror by exiting theatres without downside is sorely misplaced; we face an unyielding and re-calcitrant enemy just as we did in 1944; force is the only language Islamo-fascists understand and adhere to.
As Mr. Obama is a card-carrying Liberal who holds such sorely-placed assumptions, voters would do well to keep such in mind when entering the ballot-box this Fall.
-I.M. Windee
