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Judicial Activists Strike Again

6.27.08 @ 12:01AM

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Adrian Roberts's spittle-flecked letter left my jaw in my lap. I hardly know where to begin, but I will anyway. Roberts witlessly makes precisely the point that Ferrara argues - that to those on the left who prize feelings over facts, and knowing that their intentions are honorable, it therefore follows that anyone who disagrees must have intentions that are OTH. As Ferrara writes, "disagreements with their opponents never seem to involve a difference of opinion, or of philosophy, or of the effectiveness or justification of different policies. What their opponents believe and argue for is always a scandal."

Secondly, regarding Roberts's assertion that conservatives "have been tricked into thinking that these rich people actually care about them!" Sorry, Adrian, no one has been tricked into anything. The last thing I want is for government to care about me, to love me, to think about me at all. If I were approached on the street by someone who said, "You don't know me, but I and some others have been thinking about you, and we're making decisions on your behalf, because we care...," I would grab the nearest cop and have that person arrested for stalking.

Last, but not least offensive, is Roberts's almost unbelievable statement that "...rich people look for ways to pay poor people less and less money." Is that the way it works? That simply by virtue of the fact that one person has more than another, he "owes" that person? How dare he try to avoid the equitable redistribution of his wealth?
-- Pete Chase
San Diego, California

It appears that at least one of Arianna's minions has wandered off the reservation again. Adrian Roberts' angry letter denouncing all conservatives is a real piece of work. Is this guy an actual person or merely a caricature of the loony left? Did he come up with this tirade on his own or is it just a cut-and-paste montage of blather lifted from the blogs of others at places like the Huffington Post?

I especially marveled at the paragraph listing all the things conservatives don't care about. Who knew that Mr. Roberts' employment at an investment bank provided him the added of fringe benefit of unlimited discernment regarding the motivations of every conservative on the planet, even the ones he doesn't know?

One wonders though, if Mr. Roberts is so disgusted with the way all conservatives operate, how does he justify retaining his employment in that den of iniquity? A place that obviously enables these miscreants to profit from their evil practices is certainly no place for a man with his sense of moral superiority. Why isn't his outrage strong enough to make him quit his job in protest over their mistreatment of others?

Could it be that his lust for material possessions edges out his desire to right the wrongs he claims to see others commit? That is just a guess on my part, though. My job as an IT professional doesn't provide me with the insight required to peer into the hearts and minds of others to get at their motivations. I have to leave that to an omniscient God. But, Mr. Roberts is right about one thing. God will be the final judge of all our actions, including his speculations about the motives of others.
-- Rick Arand
Lee's Summit, Missouri

WITHOUT MENTIONING ANY NAMES

"...it will be well for [the Prince] to seem and, actually, to be merciful, faithful, humane, frank, and religious. But he should preserve a disposition which will make a reversal of conduct possible in case the need arises...he must be disposed to change according as the winds of fortune...dictate."
-Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
Chapter 18, "In What Way Princes Should Keep Their Word"

Sounds kinda familiar, doesn't it?
-- Gretchen Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

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