Filed under: Democrat Corruption, History, Law, Media Bias, News | Tags: Profiling the Community, The Conversation About Race, The Zimmerman Case
Stephen Hunter explained “Profiling,” today at Powerline. It’s an important article, and worth your attention:
Profiling. When the president calls for “calm” in the aftermath of the jury speaking, he is profiling. When police departments call in the manpower, put special command units into specific locations, and beef up for potential demonstrations or rioting, they are profiling. When celebs and rap stars use social media to put out irresponsible incantations to bad behavior, they are profiling. They are, in fact, profiling far more invidiously than anything George Zimmerman was accused of.
Their presumption is that the African-American community is immature, impulsive, prone to violence and incapable of understanding the nuances of the case. More volatile and less rational, this community demands special attention in order to nurse it through an emotional crisis, spare it and us from irreparable damage. It is, in fact, based on an us/them dichotomy.
Any individual who argued such a point would be destroyed; these gentlemen and entities may do so without consequence, except an affront to reason and the stench of hypocrisy.
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Law, Media Bias, Politics, The United States | Tags: A Tragic Episode, Media Behaving Badly, Running With a False Story
Mark O’Mara, the lead defense attorney for George Zimmerman: “Two systems went against George Zimmerman that he can’t understand: you guys, the media. He was like a patient in an operating table where a mad scientists were committing experiments on him and he had no anesthesia. He didn’t know why he was turned into this monster, but quite honestly you guys had a lot to do with it. You just did. Because you took a story that was fed to you and you ran with it, and you ran right over him. And that was horrid to him.
“Then he comes into a system that he trusts — let’s not forget, six voluntary statements, voluntary surrender — and he believes in a system that he really wanted to be a part of, right? And then he gets prosecutors that charge him with a crime that they could never, ever, prove. They didn’t lose evidence along the way, right. So I don’t think anyone in this room would argue they had evidence of second degree murder. This ‘in you heart’ stuff…. That’s not what we’re supposed to do. So those two systems failed him.”
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Humor, Intelligence, Law, National Security, Politics, The United States | Tags: Homeland Security, Investigation, Surveillance
(h/t: Maggie’s Farm)
Filed under: Capitalism, Economy, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Islam, Law, National Security | Tags: Changing the Language, Fudging Vocabulary, Redefining Words
In these pages I complain fairly regularly about changes in our vocabulary that the Obama administration has performed. Victor Davis Hanson agrees and starts right off with one of the most annoying — the “Affordable Care Act.” I think it tacks on “Patient Protection” at the end to complete the euphemism. (No wonder we call it ObamaCare.) Dr. Hanson calls it “The New American Vocabulary.” His list does not include Blame: because none of that ever attaches to the president.
Affordable Care Act: Mostly unaffordable, uncaring, and inactive.
Assault Weapon: Paint your .22 black and add a plastic handle.
Associated Press: Leakers who dared to challenge the White House monopoly.
Baby: Punishment for a mistake.
Benghazi: We won’t have any more because one video-maker is now in prison.
Berlin Wall: Analogous to the Cold War fence that kept out German illegal aliens from entering a free East Berlin.
Biden: Buffoonery after it becomes boring.
Buffett: He alone built that.
Carney: Ron Ziegler lives!
Cashing in: A practice finally ended when Hillary Clinton and Lisa Jackson left office.
Coal: A toxic rock that the crazy Chinese believe makes heat.
Corporate Jet Owners: Sort of like Air Force One.
Corpsmen: Zombies.
Courts: Revolutionary tribunals.
“Cowards”: Everybody but “my people.”
Debt: What debt?
Debt Ceilings: Only Senate cowards vote not to raise them.
Deficits: Ex-presidents incurred them.
Diversity: Endangered by locking up mass-murdering Maj. Hasan.
American Elephants 