Three Wildly Unrelated Items

One of my favorite Canadians, David Maharaj, wisely observes in response to The Real Culprit “…[A]nytime a drunk driver kills an innocent, most statists blame the driver. However, when a shooter pulls the trigger, the state worshipper blames the gun.”

And back in Moscow-on-the-Hudson, “an explosion [of natural gas] killed at least one person and injured more than a dozen others … on Saturday.” A nincompoop on New York City’s infamous council immediately exploited the tragedy for some personal publicity–and, in the process, unwittingly encapsulated all of Progressivism: “Jumaane Williams urged residents to report gas leaks immediately. ‘This is one of the best times that you can be wrong … If you think you smell gas, please call 911. Be wrong and be a hero.‘” [Emphasis hilariously added.] Understand what this dimwit is advocating: clueless, illiterate graduates of New York’s public educational morass should snitch to Our Rulers about their neighbors, providing bureaucrats with yet another excuse to invade private property and “inspect” for leaking gas. And issue fines in the process, because even if gas isn’t leaking, zillions of other “violations” enable these leeches to rob owners of property. But hey, even if you are factually wrong in addition to cowardly and a gossip, you’re still a “hero” to Progressives.

Finally, prepare for Our Rulers to dub many, many more happenings a “National Special Security Event,” a la the pope’s recent visit. Though that designation is “usually reserved for the State of the Union and political conventions,” calling Pope Francis’ tour an NSSE “meant that the [Secret Service] had access to federal resources and funds…” Oh, boy, free (that is, taxpayers’) money! Other bureaucracies will catch on quickly. I predict that at some point, even roadwork on Leviathan’s crumbling infrastructure will qualify as a “National Special Security Event.”

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3:30 pm on October 5, 2015