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October 21, 2005
Cry "Comprehensive Strategy" to Criminalize and Hope No One Notices the Crimes
Jonathan Chait of the Los Angeles Times calls our attention to two quotations,
But it's a reasonable bet that the fall of 2005 will be remembered as a time when it became clear that a comprehensive strategy of criminalization had been implemented to inflict defeat on conservatives who seek to govern as conservatives. [emphasis added]
My-my-my friends, isn't this just typical? Another intelligent conservative here, railroaded by our liberal justice system.
The first is from Jeffrey Bell and William Kristol's editorial in the Weekly Standard, "Criminalizing Conservatives," and the second is from episode 2F02 of the Simpsons.
The complete Simpsons line is,
My-my-my friends, isn't this just typical? Another intelligent conservative here, railroaded by our liberal justice system. Just like...Colonel Oliver North, Officer Stacey Koon, and cartoon "smokesperson" Joe Camel.
The line is in response to a Rush Limbaugh-like character having been incarcerated for attempted murder in the course of an election.
Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
Chait isn't the first to point to this line from the Simpsons. World O'Crap made a similar observation back on November 20, 2003 with regard to a discussion by the real Rush Limbaugh. However, one is impressed with a "comprehensive strategy" that is somehow self-implementing. Exactly who is carrying out the grand strategy? But of course, Jeffrey Bell and William Kristol see no such comprehensive strategy when it came to the legal problems faced by the Clinton administration. The only mention of Clinton is their speculation that the current "strategy of criminalization" may be pay back for the impeachment of Clinton. Which I have speculated was payback for the criminalization of crimes that forced Nixon to resign.
In the case of Clinton, the special prosecutor looked and looked and looked and probed and probed until he found something. And he finally did find something. In the case of the current Administration and the Republican legislators, the alleged crimes require precious little probing. They seem to be right there for everyone, with the possible exception of Bell and Kristol, to see.
Posted by Duane Smith at October 21, 2005 4:04 PM | Read more on Current Events |
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