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.
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