Posted on 10/01/2006 12:45:35 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 1, 2006 - 15:28
To save you the trouble, let me sum up Joan Vennochi's Boston Globe column of today, Carnage on the streets falling on deaf ears:
- Violent crime is increasing.
- It's Bush's fault because he's not sending enough money to local governments.
- He doesn't care about the uptick because the victims tend to be young black men.
- Oh, and to heck with the Constitution.
There. That wraps it up nutshell.
My favorite bit is Venocchi approving citation of L.A. police chief William Bratton:
``The federal government has stepped back significantly from dealing with the issue of local crime. This administration in Washington clearly feels that local crime is an issue for local towns and municipalities."
Well, yeah. Local crime is an issue for local towns and municipalities - and states. Check the Constitution. It's in there. Or more precisely, dealing with local crime isn't in there as a power of the federal government, meaning as a result that it's reserved to the states.
Another thing. Liberals seem to cherish the touching belief that shipping their tax dollars off to DC, letting the bureaucrats there conceive some creative new hoops and hurdles while skimming something out of the pot for overhead, then hoping that their locality will do better than average in the lottery when it comes to doling out the dough, is better than never sending the money in the first place. Why?
Then it's time for Vennochi to accuse the Bush administration of racist indifference:
"The willingness to ignore the latest crime statistics might also be explained by its flesh-and-blood victims. Males, blacks, and persons age 24 or younger continued to be victimized at higher rates than females, whites, and persons age 25 or older."
Look at the bright side, Joan. Maybe Bush is just biased against . . . men.
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doesn't look like Kanye West...
It's fairly clear that Vennochi is still suffering under the long discredited belief that the only measure of how much someone cares about a topic is how much government largesse he or she throws at the putative victims. Were she and her liberal allies to put on KKK outfits they couldn't cause any more damage to the inner city than their policies have to date. Does she really hate young black men so much that she wants to do for them what she's already done to the black family, shove it toward extinction?
True. But she goes to all his concerts.
Whatever is wrong...is Bush's fault.
Whatever will make it right...is higher taxes and more federal power.
These people have not had an original thought since 1934.
Much like the attitude you boneheads have about illegal aliens being the Feds problem, right chief?
Whoops! "Racial slur" apologies to the Native Americans for my using the word, "chief."
Typical knee-jerk liberalism....
Triple all of the sentences, increase the size of the jails, and abolish probation, and violent crime will plummet.
VENNOCHI (pgh 1): Massachusetts voters could never quite figure out who John Kerry is. Now there is some explanation for the air of mystery that surrounds him: in a most literal sense, John Kerry doesn’t know who he is, either.
Joan Vennochi who wrote the article "A Military Draft Might Awaken Us"
Joan Vennochi
It's all about Joe -- and not just about war.
US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, announced that he will run as an independent if he loses his party's primary nomination in August.
The three-term senator is billing his decision as a commitment to principle. Mostly, it feels like a commitment to Lieberma
Oh, if only Clinton were still president! Oh, if only Bush cared enough to fund "Midnight Basketball"! (Do I need the /s?)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
In my neck of the woods, Males, blacks, and persons age 24 or younger are the ones committing the majority of the crimes.
Huh?
Local crime IS an issue for local towns and municipalities!
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