Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Out of Liberal's Sight - Crime Out of Mind at the New York Times by Heather Mac Donald

Keep Crime in its place, on the Democrat's Public Housing Plantation. m/r

Crime Out of Mind at the New York Times by Heather Mac Donald - City Journal

The paper’s latest vendetta against the NYPD overlooks the rampant lawlessness in public-housing projects.
1 October 2012
How quickly the New York Times forgets. A spate of gruesome violence in the city’s housing projects this summer had brought the elevated crime there even to the Times’s attention. A four-year-old boy was killedduring a shootout on July 22 at the Forest Houses in the Morrisania section of the Bronx; the gang gunfire erupted at a basketball tournament held in honor of a girl fatally stabbed at the same project the previous year.
On July 5, New York police officer Brian Groves was shot in the chest in the Lower East Side’s Seward Park Housing Extension. Only Groves’s bulletproof vest saved his life. Groves was on “vertical patrol” in the project’s stairwells, responding to residents’ complaints of drug dealing; when he opened the stairwell door, he saw a man with a pistol, who shot Groves at close range after the officer had chased him down five flights. A building resident told the Times that strangers roamed its halls: “There’s a lot of loiterers at night opening the door to people who don’t live there.”
The night before, a gang shooting in front of the A.K. Houses in East Harlem had taken the life of a 21-year-old college graduate on his way to graduate school; he was felled in a case of mistaken identity. His mother told the Times that she hoped more people and politicians from black neighborhoods would support Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s efforts to get guns off the streets. A 17-year-old girl had been killed in identical circumstances at the same location two years before. On June 16, an 88-year-old woman was beaten to death in her apartment in the Pelham Parkway Houses in the Bronx. The intruder, who ransacked her apartment, had apparently followed her as she returned from grocery shopping on a Saturday morning.
These incidents are just a few of the thousands of murders, assaults, sexual crimes, and drug transactions that annually afflict the city’s housing projects
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