I think you can say with a great deal of confidence that I have not been involved with civil rights protests. Not my problem, you see.
Of course, being an Alabamian, I am aware of Brother Connor’s transgressions in 1963, and I suppose, other times. Again, not my problem.
I see that you, as so many other bleeding hearts, blame LBJ’s Great Society for the situation today. Sure is nice to be able to put the blame on others than those who are the problem.
Maybe one of these days you will be the recipient of the tenderness meted out by one of these feral black mobs or street criminals and you just might think that just maybe—I mean, maybe—the fault lies with them, not “society.”
But you’re so nice. And you’re morally superior to us Neanderthals. I can tell. I don’t know how you can stand walking among us.
You have the wrong idea there, I'm not a "bleeding heart." A "bleeding heart" would love LBJ's "Great Society" and say that it didn't go far enough. I'm for gutting it just about completely because it is fiscally irresponsible and has made us a worse society.
I agree with you that the street criminals are personally responsible for their criminal behavior and should be punished by the law accordingly. But at the same time, there are occasional instances of police overzealousness all over the country, where decent people are roughed up by police. Is it as big a problem in the overall scope of things as "feral mobs"? No. But if we are to maintain constitutional liberty, those problems have to be addressed as well. And the legacy of "Bull" Connor was that of a police chief who encouraged excessive force on the part of his officers in the street.