“Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.” I can’t begin to count the number of times I have heard someone say that. I have even used this myself to explain a golf shot that accidentally hits the target. It is a reminder that sometimes people we despise, with good reason, are actually right about an important subject. Today that person is District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who is making a mockery of the legal system in San Francisco. He campaigned on a promise to end mass incarceration, end cash bail, establish a unit to review wrongful convictions, to aggressively prosecute police misconduct and to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers. He de-emphasized the prosecution of drug cases and property offenses. The following article is obviously biased against Boudin, but we see a lot of this just by watching the news. Few would argue that San Francisco is a hot mess under his leadership.

Meet Chesa Boudin, Rogue Prosecutor Wreaking Havoc in San Francisco (dailysignal.com)

Well now he dropped a bombshell accusation that a California crime lab used DNA collected from a rape kit to track down and charge the woman involved with a felony property crime. Some are concerned that this would cause some crime victims to refuse to come forward. While that is legitimate, the real problem is much larger. The federal government now has access to mountains of information. Part of that is from DNA samples submitted by people for perfectly innocent reasons. For example, Joseph DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was found because someone researched DNA submitted as part of a genealogy survey done by his relatives. Detectives used the similarity of the DNA to target DeAngelo. Then they got a sample of his DNA, and he was arrested and convicted.

Now no one would argue that convicting someone like the Golden State Killer is a bad idea. But the problem with good ideas is that they are sometimes used by evil people for very unacceptable reasons. Justin Trudeau in Canada is giving us an example of that, by using laws passed to stop terrorism to stop truckers from protesting his insane COVID restrictions.

Currently Canada is literally threatening to freeze bank accounts of Trump supporters. It is no longer a stretch to imagine how an out of control government could use private information to stifle any political opposition. Freezing the bank accounts of terrorist, good idea, freezing the bank accounts of anyone who disagrees with you, not so much.

I must reluctantly admit that in this case, Chesa Boudin has a point. He is wrong about almost everything else, but he is not wrong about this. It is an important reminder that even despicable people are somethings right. We must avoid being CNN who assumes that anything said by Donald Trump or anyone who supports him is a dangerous lie. Blind Squirrels.

TDM