{"id":1253,"date":"2012-04-20T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2012-04-20T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:21:29","slug":"facts-are-stubborn-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was so predictable.\u00a0 There is new anti-profiling legislation, co-sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin that would expand federal law enforcement guidelines against profiling and mandate training on racial profiling at all federal law enforcement agencies:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/18\/long_time_coming_trayvons_law\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It is another example of a solution in desperate search of a problem.\u00a0 This is all based on a monstrous and deliberate distortion of the facts in the Trayvon Martin case.\u00a0 The following paragraph is typical of how this is portrayed by the liberal left:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was profiled, followed, chased, and murdered,\u201d said Federica Wilson, the cowboy hat-wearing congresswoman from Miami where Trayvon lived with his father. \u201cThis case has captured international attention and will go down in history as a textbook example of racial profiling.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So far, there is zero evidence that Trayvon Martin was profiled; in fact, it is not entirely clear that George Zimmerman committed any crime at all.\u00a0 He may be guilty of nothing more than self-defense.\u00a0 The most recent picture, released in court today, shows a bloodied George Zimmerman with significant injuries on the back of his head.\u00a0 These pictures were taken within 3 minutes after the policy arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n

The following article from PJ Media shows just how bad this has become:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/blog\/walking-papers-the-incredibly-thin-speculative-zimmerman-affidavit\/<\/a><\/p>\n

One has to ask why the liberal left jumped in with both feet on this case.\u00a0 I think it is because there is an embarrassing lack of racial profiling abuses.\u00a0 This is the same reason they hyperventilated about that Harvard professor.\u00a0 It is also why the Duke Lacrosse team was pillared in the media.\u00a0 As demonstrated by Dick Durbin, the liberal left has all this neat anti-profiling legislation burning a hole in their pocket, and they are desperately in need of a high profile incident.<\/p>\n

The indictment against Zimmerman is not only bad, it is laughably bad.\u00a0 But this is not funny.\u00a0 It certainly isn\u2019t funny to George Zimmerman who literally has a bounty on his head from the New Black Panthers.\u00a0 But it also isn\u2019t funny because liberals are now trying to use this gross misrepresentation of facts to pass irresponsible legislation.\u00a0 The proposed legislation is not just wrong, it is dangerously wrong.\u00a0 If police cannot profile against those who are most likely to be a threat, they must treat everyone as a threat.\u00a0 It is precisely this kind of logic that resulted in a 95-year-old grandmother humiliated into removing her soiled adult diaper so some TSA agent could be sure she was not a threat:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=44467<\/a><\/p>\n

I am unaware of the TSA stopping a single terrorist attack.\u00a0 There are certainly people who have been caught with weapons, but most of them are celebrities who leave handguns in their carry-on luggage.\u00a0 The real terrorists, such as the shoe bomber and the diaper bomber, managed to get on planes rather easily and were only stopped by outraged fellow passengers.\u00a0 Perhaps the terrorists were so intimidated by the mere presence of the TSA that they didn\u2019t even try, but I suspect not.\u00a0 I think terrorists now know that fellow passengers are on the alert, and they won\u2019t hesitate to fight back.\u00a0 The 9-11 hijackers only succeeded because official policy, up until then, was to cooperate with hijackers.\u00a0 Now that aircrews and passengers understand what is at stake, it is going to take more than a box knife to take over an airliner.\u00a0 I strongly suspect as long as we use good metal detectors and look for handguns and hand grenades, we will be pretty safe.<\/p>\n

In addition, there is a shortage of people stupid enough to try and bring down an airliner by blowing their balls off midflight yet smart enough to pull it off.\u00a0 People that stupid can fool the TSA, but they are unlikely to fool their fellow passengers.\u00a0 In the meantime, the liberal left wants police to treat everyone as a potential criminal so we won\u2019t risk offending those who actually are criminals.\u00a0 Of course, if we are talking about white Christians, then profiling is not only acceptable, it is required.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1770, John Adams was the defense attorney for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.\u00a0 He took the job because none of the \u201cTory\u201d lawyers were willing.\u00a0 The following is from his defense argument:<\/p>\n

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If we are right about the facts, liberals are doomed to defeat.\u00a0\u00a0If we are wrong, they deserve to win.\u00a0 Those who ignore the facts are incapable of governing effectively.\u00a0 That is why liberal governments are always voted out of office.\u00a0 It is only a matter of time.\u00a0 Eventually, all those strategies based on false assumptions are doomed to failure. \u00a0That\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was so predictable.\u00a0 There is new anti-profiling legislation, co-sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin that would expand federal law enforcement guidelines against profiling and mandate training on racial profiling at all federal law enforcement agencies: http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/18\/long_time_coming_trayvons_law\/singleton\/ It is another example … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-headlines"],"yoast_head":"\nFACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS - SCOTS HONOR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1253\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS - 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