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The Arrogance of Horsepower

5.2.07 @ 12:01AM

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As you know, being "above the law" is not a new phenomenon for those who are charged with the responsibility for keeping order, enforcing the law, etc. Also, I note that the "gig" to which the Guv was being transported was an Al Sharpton-generated photo op at Rutgers in connection with the Imus affair -- whoop-de-do. And, we're supposed to entrust our protection from mass murderers and various other criminals to the "authorities" rather than have the capability to defend ourselves? Yes, the Little People always, and everywhere, pay the price, particularly and inevitably, in the socialist project.
-- P.A. Melita
Charlottesville, Virginia

Just wanted to keep you up to date on the latest incident regarding the subject accident.

Just minutes after apologizing for setting a bad example, and promising to set a better example in the future, Corzine departed the hospital and was clocked doing 15 MPH over the speed limit on his way home! You are absolutely right about the trooper who caused the first accident, but how about laying some blame on an arrogant governor who could stop those troopers with a single word, but chooses to B. S. the public instead.
-- Jim Kolocotrones

I think we should look to the Guv on this one. Do you really think that he was not setting there saying hurry up I am going to be late? Also he was NOT wearing his seat belt so his injuries were a given. I do agree about one thing, tickets and big fines should be passed out on this to both the trooper and governor. Anyone that does not wear a seat belt is an idiot, but then he is a Democrat and they all know what is good for me and don't practice what they preach.
-- Elaine Kyle

The flow of Liberal Elitist hypocrisy is never ending. Several years ago when Jon Corzine was in the Senate, he sponsored a bill, along with Rep. Gary Ackerman (D, NY) in the House, that would force every state to ban the use of handheld cell phones while driving. If a state failed to enforce the proposed ban, it would lose some federal highway funds.

The arrogance of these two, from New York and New Jersey (one of whom has chauffeurs), is remarkable. Jon Corzine would use the power of the Federal government to prevent a regular guy on a lonely stretch of road in Montana from calling home to say he will be late for dinner.

Mr. Peters rightly focuses on the trooper, but Jon Corzine is the chief law enforcement officer in the State of New Jersey, and he should be criminally charged as well.
-- Tom Dykers
Goochland, Virginia (a.k.a. Flyover Country)

This is situation normal, isn't it? Princess Di went airborne at 120 mph in a tunnel, not because her driver was a maniac, but because she and her boyfriend raised a haughty finger to him in response to an impulse to lose the paparazzi (for which in truth they would not live without). As the future President Kennedy killed himself and two women taking an airplane ride for which he was not qualified (not a peep), so too we see Corzine living by the special rules of the Elites, when his only crime is in getting caught.

Surely we cannot think this behavior is anything bit normal? Then the pretentious jerk weeps at us that he is humbled because he knows he is seen as a special role-model for others to look up to and is so very sorry to have incurred this lapse of judgment.

That reporters can listen to this without barf-bags does not speak well for them.
-- James Wilson

Thanks for your "rant" regarding double standards for us and the police. I feel a little better knowing that I'm not alone in my outrage in their unrelenting disregard for the law.
-- Brett

MULTIPLE CHOICES
Re: Mark Tooley's Choice Shots at Catholics:

It is apparent to me that what we have here is a case of dedicated proponents of "choice" insisting on the right to deny any choice to a segment of society. I suppose I am being simplistic, but I would fight the political/public relations battle with these folks on just that issue. If an individual doctor or health care facility must be allowed the choice to perform fetal murder, then other doctors or health care facilities must be allowed to refuse to perform such "services." You want your choice? Fine, then I insist on mine. Oh, wait, now I remember, we are not allowed to use logic in settling political/legal questions.
-- Kenneth Shreve
New Hampshire

RCRC isn't just a shot at Catholics but all Christians, Catholics and Protestants, who believe in the sanctity of life and who oppose abortion.

Unfortunately, it appears that as Christian denominations, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church find themselves opposed to God's Word.

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