the results of wiping one's ass with the bill of rights
As has been the case for the past week or so, John Ashcroft is in the hospital suffering a very painful case of gallstones or pancreitis or some combination thereof...and for the past week I have felt a small bit of karmic restitution in that the guy is suffering severe pain with a serious, and sometimes fatal, infliction. I mean, if anyone deserves to be in such horrible pain (and no one truly "deserves" to be in pain...but you know what I mean) it's America's favorite jack-booted thug™.
I wasnt going to mention the story because of the fact that it's mean to think such bad thoughts and to find at least a little joy in even the worst of man's suffering...but then Ms. Michelle Malkin posted this on Townhall. For those that don't want to infect their computers with a rancid Townhall cookie:
I would just like to point out to Ms. Malkin that many bad, bad men did very, very good things for their countries. Hitler built a superb expressway system linking every corner of Germany, Lenin and Stalin industrialized the serfdom that was Tsarist Russia, Saddam Hussein brought the greatest women's rights of the Middle East to Iraq, Castro trains excellent doctors for cheap, and the list could go on and on and on...
Ms. Malkin points out that those that would criticize John Ashcroft's methods "don't get it" in much the same way as trench-coated losers argue that Matrix-haters only hate the sequels because they too, "don't get it". Oh yeah, Ms. Malkin, we get it. Yes, John Ashcroft has jack-booted his way to putting away some very bad men...bravo, bravo. But we also get that it isn't that hard to catch the baddies when you throw a net over the entire fucking country. Skill in justice, as in medicine, comes in precision...the removal of bad elements without causing distress to the body as a whole.
John Ashcroft should be lauded for his successes only in so much as his doctors should have been lauded had they removed his gall bladder by messily reaching their hands through his ribcage and yanking it out with one quick jerk. Instead, Im sure they performed their surgery with precision becoming a doctor in these United States of America...living up to a certain ethical, moral, and professional code...something we can only hope for in an Attorney General.
I wasnt going to mention the story because of the fact that it's mean to think such bad thoughts and to find at least a little joy in even the worst of man's suffering...but then Ms. Michelle Malkin posted this on Townhall. For those that don't want to infect their computers with a rancid Townhall cookie:
It is not the incivility of the Ashcroft-haters that galls me. It is the unmitigated insipidity and apathy they display toward what this man and his department have done to protect their right to be free, safe and stupid.
I would just like to point out to Ms. Malkin that many bad, bad men did very, very good things for their countries. Hitler built a superb expressway system linking every corner of Germany, Lenin and Stalin industrialized the serfdom that was Tsarist Russia, Saddam Hussein brought the greatest women's rights of the Middle East to Iraq, Castro trains excellent doctors for cheap, and the list could go on and on and on...
Ms. Malkin points out that those that would criticize John Ashcroft's methods "don't get it" in much the same way as trench-coated losers argue that Matrix-haters only hate the sequels because they too, "don't get it". Oh yeah, Ms. Malkin, we get it. Yes, John Ashcroft has jack-booted his way to putting away some very bad men...bravo, bravo. But we also get that it isn't that hard to catch the baddies when you throw a net over the entire fucking country. Skill in justice, as in medicine, comes in precision...the removal of bad elements without causing distress to the body as a whole.
John Ashcroft should be lauded for his successes only in so much as his doctors should have been lauded had they removed his gall bladder by messily reaching their hands through his ribcage and yanking it out with one quick jerk. Instead, Im sure they performed their surgery with precision becoming a doctor in these United States of America...living up to a certain ethical, moral, and professional code...something we can only hope for in an Attorney General.
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