Curtis Dahlgren
The REAL "state of the Union": Justice, "equality," or anarchy?
By Curtis Dahlgren
"The world doesn't owe you a living. It was here first." — Mark Twain
IDEALLY, BOTH JUSTICE AND EQUALITY SHOULD BE BLIND — regardless of the 64 colors in the Crayola box, but the blurring of the Queen's English has turned everything upside-down. As Thomas Sowell has written in his column, the Left sets "equality" on a pedestal but — meanwhile — redefines "Justice" to suit their tastes, or "subjective preferences."
I paraphrase, but fads and "subjective preferences" can violate the Law of Nature which, in Cicero's words, means an Eternal law, "not one law at Rome and another at Athens," not one law now and another at other times, but a permanent and "color blind" law of JUSTICE..
A judge in New England recently gave a tap on the wrist to a man who had molested and raped a little girl for over four years. Never mind the color; one would think that the National Organization "for Women" would be outraged, but the judge says he doesn't believe in "punishment" anymore, and NOW probably agrees with him (unless of course, the defendant is pro-life or a Republican). Then they would have thrown the book at him, along with anything else they could get their hands on, and the Pretzels for the "American Way" probably agree with this "evolving standard of decency."
O.J. Simpson. Michael Jackson. Vote fraud. The Milwaukee Democratic tire-slashers.
Examples abound in this legal Never-Never Land. "Love means never having to say 'you're guilty' if any possible way can be found to rationalize the case for the sake of so-called Equality." This is not only the twilight for Natural Law, but for ALL LAW unless we nip it in the butt.
Mothers can now kill their newborns in cold blood and limp-wristed judges give them a slap on the wrist, while public nudity is applauded. Two plus two now equals five in Wonderful-Wonderful Land. In this Grey Universe, we are asked to "just leave the driving to us Liberals." And they will take us all the way to Utopia. Sort of like Hotel California, East Berlin, and Cuber: no one ever checks out! Misguided "compassion" is becoming an international disease.
Germany recently released the guy who masterminded the TWA hijacking to Beirut in the 1980s in which a sailor was beaten to death and tossed onto the tarmac like so many buffalo chips. A cousin of mine was the second person taken to the cockpit and beaten. He was in a U.S. Army uniform and they were going to kill him too, but he sensed a lethal back-swing and moved his head just enough to take a glancing blow, and for some reason they allowed him to survive.
Other recent head-scratching decisions: One of the Oklahoma City bombing convicts got an early release, and the man who shot the Pope in 1981 was released (at least temporarily), while lawyers frantically worked to save two California murderers, and seek special favors for the American Taliban and the guy who shot President Reagan. Thank God we got Martha Stewart off the streets — for a while anyway! Now if only Ramsey Clark can find a loophole to save Saddam from the hangman's knot!
[That's a bit of sarchasm, BTW. "Sarchasm" is the gulf between a writer of satire and those who don't get it.]
CATCH AND RELEASE is the only approved method of Justice for illegal immigrants, drug dealers, and terrorists, while a teacher in Wisconsin is suing for $15,000 for getting "tapped" by her supervisor in a "humiliating" experience.
My former employer was forced to pay $5,000 to a guy who cut his climbing rope with a chain saw and fell out of a tree. He wasn't hurt, but it was a harrowing experience, I guess. And no act is too stupid now not to be blamed on someone else!
Did you hear about the woman who sued McDonald's? No, not that one, the one about the "hot pickle" (whatever that's all about)?
In a book entitled "Buy This Book or We'll Sue You," Laura and Attila Benko compiled a collection of such latter-day atrocities (Citadel Press, 2001). The back cover alone was worth the $3 I paid for the book. For example:
But these are the kind of stories Mad magazine would have written in the 1950s about the trends of the day. Fifty years of "trends" later, it's impossible to write satire at all anymore (not just because someone might take "offense," but mainly because we've heard it all by now. There's nothing to be added to the actual historical record).
I think the American Bar Association should hire the P.R. firm of Ha mas, Jihad, and Parkit. No one but no one dares tell a joke about Palestinians anymore (but, do you know the difference between a dead skunk in the middle of the road and a lawyer? The skunk has skid marks in front of it.).
Speaking of jokes, let's get back to the verdict in the Milwaukee tire slashings case. The jury deliberated Thursday without a decision, because no one wants to go back to work just for a Friday. On Friday afternoon (surprahse, surprahse) the jurors came back with a decision: Hung. Not the defendants — just the jury. The prosecutors tripped all over themselves to offer a plea deal that allows the slashers to enjoy probation and high-fives all the way to the bank. Mama Moore says, "Praise the Lord."
The fact that the D.A. is a Democrat and the slashers had slashed Republican tires had nothing to do with it; Justice and/or Equality is color blind, you know. Besides, the attorney for one of the defendants said that operatives of the Democratic National Committee were the actual slashers. SO LET'S JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT!
Afterward, though, a friend of the defendants said that the Republican vans hadn't been intended to take people to the polls, but to take poll watchers to the polls — and heaven knows, we can't have any poll watchin' goin' on! Voter fraud and affirmative action are morphing into one.
The Governor says that picture IDs for voters would be UNFAIR (especially to Democrats). Just for the record, I registered in Michigan on the day of the 2004 election and therefore couldn't vote, but if I had wanted to, I could have voted SEVERAL times in Wisconsin.
Justice isn't blind anymore; it's just plain blind drunk! Like the Taliban, our lawyers spend their spare time just sitting around waiting to get bombed. They deliberately write laws so they're hard to interpret clearly. Like the terrorists: It has come to my attention that there was a mistranslation of the holy book somewhere along the way:
It's not "72 virgins" when you get to heaven; it's one 72 year-old virgin (says Jay Leno). Heaven has run out of virgins!
To give equal time to David Letterman, he says that Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes, "and he's married to five of them." They live in separate caves.
"The Taliban is on the run and don't know where to go," says Letterman. "Pakistan doesn't want them; Iran doesn't want them. Of course, they won't have any trouble getting into THIS country!"
I never mix metaphors if I can help it, but I'm mixing the American politics of "Justice" with Islamo-fascist "justice" — because that's where we are heading in fact if we don't wake up fast. It took HOW LONG to reach 2,000 deaths of American soldiers in a shooting war (?) but American cities witness that many murders in a matter of weeks! The Mainstream Media could investigate the subject if my stats are off a bit (but they "don't want to talk about it" since certain Party bosses have ruled those cities for many decades).
That last murderer executed in California pleaded "I'm too old to die." Look for Saddam Hussein to try that one if all else fails. By the time his trial ends, he probably will be!
This is the week of the State of the Union address. Think of the possibilities there for a good comedy writer these days. The real question is, will the media black it out like an NFL playoff game that's not sold out? Or will they try to "translate" it for us again?
Letterman says that one time the President addressed the nation and NBC and CBS refused to pre-empt "Friends" and "Survivor." Dave says, "So, God forbid, let's hope the enemy never attacks on a Thursday night." [NBC and friends might not SURVIVE.]
But seriously folks, how many freshman journalism students does it take to change a light bulb? None of them, because that's a sophomore class.
I AM being serious. The yard light's on but the people aren't home. Their silo doesn't have a roof on it.
The Left hates anything with a religious connotation, so would it surprise you to learn that the word "Justice" has religious roots? Regarding the word just, the "Dictionary of Word Origins" by John Ayto says:
"The Latin jus [pronounced joos] originated in the terminology of religious cults [AHA!] perhaps to begin with signifying something like 'sacred formula.' By classical times, however, it denoted 'right,' and particularly 'legal right, law,' and it has provided English with a number of words connected with 'rightness' in general and with the process of law. The derived adjective Justus has produced 'just' and 'justice' . . . "
We have just about come full circle — from Cicero and John Locke and "Natural Law" to civilization back to the Law of the Jungle. Staring the Future full in the face. Without anchor, moorings, a chart, or even a paddle.
Those things are all "unconstitutional" now, because we have more lawyers per capita than any nation on earth and they know how to play the system. Anything "religious" must be banned (even Christie Todd Whitman agrees with that), and so JUSTICE has been pre-empted by so-called "Equality."
Thomas Sowell wasn't kidding. He was being serious!
P.S.
I didn't follow the O.J. trial very much, but on the day of the verdict I was doing some work at a lawyer's house. When I rang the door bell to present the bill, he said to come in. Just about then, the verdict was announced on TV. The old gentleman shook his head and said, "[Some people] aren't living up to their responsibilities!"
Regardless of either the facts or doubts about the case, it is safe to assume that the jurors, like the jurors in the Milwaukee tire slashing case, were looking more for an excuse to acquit than a reason to convict.
The following words are carved into the facade of the Federal Courthouse in Sioux City, Iowa: "Mercy and Justice are met together." Those words are from the Bible, but you can't expect mercy forever when you forever disregard Justice.
In his famous farewell to America, President Washington said, "The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."
God bless America. BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
© Curtis Dahlgren
"The world doesn't owe you a living. It was here first." — Mark Twain
IDEALLY, BOTH JUSTICE AND EQUALITY SHOULD BE BLIND — regardless of the 64 colors in the Crayola box, but the blurring of the Queen's English has turned everything upside-down. As Thomas Sowell has written in his column, the Left sets "equality" on a pedestal but — meanwhile — redefines "Justice" to suit their tastes, or "subjective preferences."
I paraphrase, but fads and "subjective preferences" can violate the Law of Nature which, in Cicero's words, means an Eternal law, "not one law at Rome and another at Athens," not one law now and another at other times, but a permanent and "color blind" law of JUSTICE..
A judge in New England recently gave a tap on the wrist to a man who had molested and raped a little girl for over four years. Never mind the color; one would think that the National Organization "for Women" would be outraged, but the judge says he doesn't believe in "punishment" anymore, and NOW probably agrees with him (unless of course, the defendant is pro-life or a Republican). Then they would have thrown the book at him, along with anything else they could get their hands on, and the Pretzels for the "American Way" probably agree with this "evolving standard of decency."
O.J. Simpson. Michael Jackson. Vote fraud. The Milwaukee Democratic tire-slashers.
Examples abound in this legal Never-Never Land. "Love means never having to say 'you're guilty' if any possible way can be found to rationalize the case for the sake of so-called Equality." This is not only the twilight for Natural Law, but for ALL LAW unless we nip it in the butt.
Mothers can now kill their newborns in cold blood and limp-wristed judges give them a slap on the wrist, while public nudity is applauded. Two plus two now equals five in Wonderful-Wonderful Land. In this Grey Universe, we are asked to "just leave the driving to us Liberals." And they will take us all the way to Utopia. Sort of like Hotel California, East Berlin, and Cuber: no one ever checks out! Misguided "compassion" is becoming an international disease.
Germany recently released the guy who masterminded the TWA hijacking to Beirut in the 1980s in which a sailor was beaten to death and tossed onto the tarmac like so many buffalo chips. A cousin of mine was the second person taken to the cockpit and beaten. He was in a U.S. Army uniform and they were going to kill him too, but he sensed a lethal back-swing and moved his head just enough to take a glancing blow, and for some reason they allowed him to survive.
Other recent head-scratching decisions: One of the Oklahoma City bombing convicts got an early release, and the man who shot the Pope in 1981 was released (at least temporarily), while lawyers frantically worked to save two California murderers, and seek special favors for the American Taliban and the guy who shot President Reagan. Thank God we got Martha Stewart off the streets — for a while anyway! Now if only Ramsey Clark can find a loophole to save Saddam from the hangman's knot!
[That's a bit of sarchasm, BTW. "Sarchasm" is the gulf between a writer of satire and those who don't get it.]
CATCH AND RELEASE is the only approved method of Justice for illegal immigrants, drug dealers, and terrorists, while a teacher in Wisconsin is suing for $15,000 for getting "tapped" by her supervisor in a "humiliating" experience.
My former employer was forced to pay $5,000 to a guy who cut his climbing rope with a chain saw and fell out of a tree. He wasn't hurt, but it was a harrowing experience, I guess. And no act is too stupid now not to be blamed on someone else!
Did you hear about the woman who sued McDonald's? No, not that one, the one about the "hot pickle" (whatever that's all about)?
In a book entitled "Buy This Book or We'll Sue You," Laura and Attila Benko compiled a collection of such latter-day atrocities (Citadel Press, 2001). The back cover alone was worth the $3 I paid for the book. For example:
- The Franciscan nun who was sued for "negligently, carelessly, and recklessly" bowling over an opponent in a softball game.
- The fanatical surfer who sued a fellow boarder for stealing his wave.
- The prison inmate and convicted killer who sued two guards for waking him up too early on the day of his parole hearing.
But these are the kind of stories Mad magazine would have written in the 1950s about the trends of the day. Fifty years of "trends" later, it's impossible to write satire at all anymore (not just because someone might take "offense," but mainly because we've heard it all by now. There's nothing to be added to the actual historical record).
I think the American Bar Association should hire the P.R. firm of Ha mas, Jihad, and Parkit. No one but no one dares tell a joke about Palestinians anymore (but, do you know the difference between a dead skunk in the middle of the road and a lawyer? The skunk has skid marks in front of it.).
Speaking of jokes, let's get back to the verdict in the Milwaukee tire slashings case. The jury deliberated Thursday without a decision, because no one wants to go back to work just for a Friday. On Friday afternoon (surprahse, surprahse) the jurors came back with a decision: Hung. Not the defendants — just the jury. The prosecutors tripped all over themselves to offer a plea deal that allows the slashers to enjoy probation and high-fives all the way to the bank. Mama Moore says, "Praise the Lord."
The fact that the D.A. is a Democrat and the slashers had slashed Republican tires had nothing to do with it; Justice and/or Equality is color blind, you know. Besides, the attorney for one of the defendants said that operatives of the Democratic National Committee were the actual slashers. SO LET'S JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT!
Afterward, though, a friend of the defendants said that the Republican vans hadn't been intended to take people to the polls, but to take poll watchers to the polls — and heaven knows, we can't have any poll watchin' goin' on! Voter fraud and affirmative action are morphing into one.
The Governor says that picture IDs for voters would be UNFAIR (especially to Democrats). Just for the record, I registered in Michigan on the day of the 2004 election and therefore couldn't vote, but if I had wanted to, I could have voted SEVERAL times in Wisconsin.
Justice isn't blind anymore; it's just plain blind drunk! Like the Taliban, our lawyers spend their spare time just sitting around waiting to get bombed. They deliberately write laws so they're hard to interpret clearly. Like the terrorists: It has come to my attention that there was a mistranslation of the holy book somewhere along the way:
It's not "72 virgins" when you get to heaven; it's one 72 year-old virgin (says Jay Leno). Heaven has run out of virgins!
To give equal time to David Letterman, he says that Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes, "and he's married to five of them." They live in separate caves.
"The Taliban is on the run and don't know where to go," says Letterman. "Pakistan doesn't want them; Iran doesn't want them. Of course, they won't have any trouble getting into THIS country!"
I never mix metaphors if I can help it, but I'm mixing the American politics of "Justice" with Islamo-fascist "justice" — because that's where we are heading in fact if we don't wake up fast. It took HOW LONG to reach 2,000 deaths of American soldiers in a shooting war (?) but American cities witness that many murders in a matter of weeks! The Mainstream Media could investigate the subject if my stats are off a bit (but they "don't want to talk about it" since certain Party bosses have ruled those cities for many decades).
That last murderer executed in California pleaded "I'm too old to die." Look for Saddam Hussein to try that one if all else fails. By the time his trial ends, he probably will be!
This is the week of the State of the Union address. Think of the possibilities there for a good comedy writer these days. The real question is, will the media black it out like an NFL playoff game that's not sold out? Or will they try to "translate" it for us again?
Letterman says that one time the President addressed the nation and NBC and CBS refused to pre-empt "Friends" and "Survivor." Dave says, "So, God forbid, let's hope the enemy never attacks on a Thursday night." [NBC and friends might not SURVIVE.]
But seriously folks, how many freshman journalism students does it take to change a light bulb? None of them, because that's a sophomore class.
I AM being serious. The yard light's on but the people aren't home. Their silo doesn't have a roof on it.
The Left hates anything with a religious connotation, so would it surprise you to learn that the word "Justice" has religious roots? Regarding the word just, the "Dictionary of Word Origins" by John Ayto says:
"The Latin jus [pronounced joos] originated in the terminology of religious cults [AHA!] perhaps to begin with signifying something like 'sacred formula.' By classical times, however, it denoted 'right,' and particularly 'legal right, law,' and it has provided English with a number of words connected with 'rightness' in general and with the process of law. The derived adjective Justus has produced 'just' and 'justice' . . . "
We have just about come full circle — from Cicero and John Locke and "Natural Law" to civilization back to the Law of the Jungle. Staring the Future full in the face. Without anchor, moorings, a chart, or even a paddle.
Those things are all "unconstitutional" now, because we have more lawyers per capita than any nation on earth and they know how to play the system. Anything "religious" must be banned (even Christie Todd Whitman agrees with that), and so JUSTICE has been pre-empted by so-called "Equality."
Thomas Sowell wasn't kidding. He was being serious!
P.S.
I didn't follow the O.J. trial very much, but on the day of the verdict I was doing some work at a lawyer's house. When I rang the door bell to present the bill, he said to come in. Just about then, the verdict was announced on TV. The old gentleman shook his head and said, "[Some people] aren't living up to their responsibilities!"
Regardless of either the facts or doubts about the case, it is safe to assume that the jurors, like the jurors in the Milwaukee tire slashing case, were looking more for an excuse to acquit than a reason to convict.
The following words are carved into the facade of the Federal Courthouse in Sioux City, Iowa: "Mercy and Justice are met together." Those words are from the Bible, but you can't expect mercy forever when you forever disregard Justice.
In his famous farewell to America, President Washington said, "The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."
God bless America. BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
© Curtis Dahlgren
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