The Coleman Claque

Hitler's Mustache     For the Chirren   In 1981 Roger Coleman raped and stabbed to death his sister-in-law.  There was no DNA testing, and a previous conviction for attempted rape was not admissible.  Still, a year later blood and pubic hair evidence convinced a Virgina jury to sentence him to death.  The usual endless round of appeals ate up 10 years before Coleman's time ran out.  DNA testing had emerged, but was still primitive.  The best it could do is say that Coleman's DNA was 50% consistent with the killer's.  As Coleman's appeals ran out everyone from the Pope to Mother Theresa were responding to the media weep-a-thon.  Feeling pressure, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder folded.   If  Coleman could pass  a polygraph, he'd be released.  Yawn. Coleman flunked the test and was soon twitching and toasting in Virginia's electric chair. End of story, right?  Wrong.  DNA technology advanced, and the True Believer bleeding heart posse were convinced they now, finally, would have definitive proof of our barbarism.  They demanded another DNA test. In 2006, with the Washington Post leading the media charge, Gov.  Mark Warner ordered new DNA testing of Roger Coleman's spunk.  Alas, he was proved guilty; this time incontrovertibly.  His unctuous claque were left flabbergasted, fit to be tied and demoralized (temporarily anyway).  The nice young man had lied to them! Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville - "Democracy in America" (1835 I think this parable contains an important truth about the Progressive psyche.  It's illustrative of their hauteur; they believe and expect that one example is enough to win any argument.  Enough to contravene existing law, practice, or tradition.  They believed with all their hearts that had Coleman been innocent, capital punishment would be banned.  And why not? Someone throws a Lawn Jart into another's head; congress bans Lawn Jarts.  Ditto peanuts and only God can count all the examples.  Guns, Healthcare; the list is endless. All enacted using a few (usually faked) sob stories. Freedom arrested by the tyranny of a minority. *Sound of boot steps* Now we have a president and government ruthless enough to walk into any room blindfolded and start swinging a mace.  Useful idiot progressives are the hook they hang their public hat on. We are being bludgeoned as I speak. Aside:  I wrote that last Sunday but lost track of it.  This just reminded me.