The Commissars of Correctness......
From the "Bolshoi Bureaucracy" Files, in the People's Republic of
Maryland, a Montgomery County judge issued an injunction barring the
town of Friendship Heights from enforcing a ban on outdoor smoking.
That's OUTDOOR smoking. "Official silliness has always been more
dangerous than outdoor smoking," responded Timothy Maloney, lawyer for
Jacobo Rodriguez, who challenged the ban. (BTW, Rodriguez does not
smoke.)
The "Dumb and Dumber" Department......
From the "Not Quite Ready for Prime Time" files, here is this week's
"Pierre Salinger Non Compos Mentis" Award for stupid media questions:
"Are police worried about vigilantism?" --CBS reporter, Randy Golson,
questioning Chattanooga, Tennessee's police spokesman after a victim
of that city's 45th recent home invasion robbery shot and killed one
of the two perpetrators. The police spokesman replied, appropriately,
"Protecting your home is not vigilantism. Check the definition." (And
we couldn't leave this out.... When asked how he felt about shooting
the perpetrator, the homeowner responded, "I feel bad. I should have
gotten the other one too!")
Editor's Note: For some reason, the home invasions in that city came
to an abrupt halt......
In other home invasion news, South Carolina Attorney General Charlie
Condon released the following statement last week: "As Chief
Prosecutor of South Carolina, I am today declaring open season on home
invaders. That season is year-round," Condon said. "Citizens
protecting their homes who use force, even deadly force, will be fully
safeguarded under the law of this State and subject to no arrest,
charge or prosecution. In South Carolina, would-be intruders should
now hear this: invade a home and invite a bullet."
