Law Versus Mob Rule (Thomas Sowell)

Indeed he is and right not just according to race. In the past few years, we have seen the erosion of laws because some person or group is placed in a victim status. From OJ Simpson and Rodney King to the illegal aliens - eventually it will erode respect for the law from all quarters.

The legal question is whether letting someone accused of such a crime go free on bail is likely to mean that he will not be around long enough for a second trial. But no one is seriously debating that.

The Jena Kid in jail did have a $90,000 bail with a $9,000 bond needed to let him out to go free. The question needs to be asked, why didn't the race pimps simply post that kid's bond? Why didn't any of rap artists post his bond? They sure found the money to travel several times to Jena and then pay for chartered buses to march on Jena for justice but failed to simply post that kid's bond.

Many people have sent their hard earned $$$$$$ to FREE the Jena Six but those who were free were too busy buying more Bling and Stuffing hundreds in their mouths.

Well said, you’re right on the mark.

There is nothing more disingenuous to me than to hear liberal pundits and even senators and reps bring up the fact that such and such Repub did the same or similar thing in the near or distant past to justify behavior that is clearly not acceptable.

They are expert in the saying that if something is repeated often enough the people will believe it, it’s disgusting.

Remind me. Isn’t his degree, specialty, in the area of statistics? It has been awhile since I read his book. I originally found it facinating becuase, to tell the truth, it was a subject I knew would give me a real bad case of MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over). LOL! But he is certainly a man of many interests when you read his column regularly. I think he is well known, but like I said, he is dicounted by the left as a “sellout” like any black conservative is. It takes us right back to my original thoughts. The one thing I find very frustrating is the lefts constant condemnation of people and opinions they do not know. FOX is biased, Sowell is a sellout, etc. As for me, I spend a lot of time getting both sides of every story. If I see a thread here I open DU or KOS just to see what they are saying.

I got a kick out of your info on Sowell and airline travel. It made me think of something I witnessed back in the 70’s. I was living in Fairbanks Alaska. A theater group at the U of A put on the first ever stage version of The Martian Chronicles, from the book by Ray Bradbury. Before the performance I letter from Mr. Bradbury was read to the audiance in which he said he wished he could have attended, but there was no way that he could becuase the only way he could get there was by air.....and he was afraid of flying. And this was a guy who wrote about space travel. LOL!

Isn’t his degree, specialty, in the area of statistics? It has been awhile since I read his book.

His degree is in economics, but you may be right that he has a specialty in statistics. Because he is good at finding the meaning of data, all right. I believe he is responsible for pointing out the significance of the correlation between income and age - that the "lowest quintile of the income distribution" so beloved of liberals for indicating the unfairness of capitalism is not a permanent underclass but predominantly a bunch of young people just starting out, and usually headed up to a higher, and not rarely the highest, quintile within ten years.

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