Want Him to Enforce Laws That Would've Kept Steinle Alive? Gov Brown Thinks You’re a ‘Troglodyte’

PJ Media's Works and Days ^ | July 13, 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

[2ndDivisionVet]

Let's examine the issues rationally, and see who actually understood the Age of Reason.

Last March, California Governor Jerry Brown declared that those who wished existing federal immigration law to be enforced — in the manner that would have saved the late Kate Steinle from a five-times deported, seven-times released felon illegal alien – were:

[A]t best … troglodyte, and at worst … un-Christian.

In California, if one assumes that the law as written should be followed, one is dubbed either a cave-dweller or an apostate. Meanwhile, sophisticated non-troglodytes in San Francisco have a sheriff — with a criminal record of his own — release a repeat felon and often-deported illegal alien, and that act is proof of his enlightenment.

Did Ms. Steinle rate any editorialization from the president or his administration in the manner of Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown? In all these cases, the allegation is that the state was culpable for the death of an innocent. But Ms. Steinle had no prior criminal record or brushes with the law, and was walking and not in a fight or in the process of being arrested, so therefore her death did not rise to the level of a Ferguson or Baltimore “teachable moment.”

Last week in Canada, the governor next turned his wrath on supposed “climate change deniers.” (Note the cheap moral equivalence between skepticism of man-made global warming and denial of the Holocaust.) He included them again in his growing categories of pre-civilized cave-dwellers. Brown scoffed to his more sophisticated Canadian audience:

We have a lot of troglodytes south of the [Canadian] border....

[Frank_2001]

After taxes, a cave is just about the only place in California that a person who actually works for a living can afford to dwell! /s;)

[2ndDivisionVet]

I wouldn’t move back if they made me their king.

[Politicalkiddo]

“[A]t best … troglodyte, and at worst … un-Christian.”

I thought it was bad to be Christian. What if the person who thinks this is a good idea is an atheist? That’s a compliment, no?

[Jack Hammer]

Who gives a rat’s *ss what Jerry Brown thinks; he’s an idiot.

[Texas Eagle]

I thought it was bad to be Christian.

It is. That's just pablum for the potheads.

[Ray76]

It’s appalling. He cares about foreign criminals more than innocent Americans. And he’s not alone, almost all politicians do.

[Politicalkiddo]

Very true.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If the laws don’t have to be enforced, what was all the noise about Supreme Court decisions?

“What difference at this point does it make?”

[Semper Mark]

An elected American official criticizing Americans citizens while in a foreign country.

Is there no penalty for such betrayal?

[clearcarbon]

To governor moonbeam from his neighbors:

[saintgermaine]

Jerry never was too bright to begin with and it appears the same hold true for this particular sheriff. Our leaders more and more reflect the mentality of whoever elects them what doesn’t speak too highly, so what do you expect?

[SaveFerris]

That’s what I was thinking - Governor Moonbeam

[onona]

He’s worse - he’s a criminal.

[Gene Eric]

>> I wouldn’t move back if they made me their king.

Next time kingship is granted, take it! We’ll manage the details afterwards.

[VerySadAmerican]

First it was California voters who showed their stupidity by electing Brown governor. Then it spread to the rest of the US and we got Obama.