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And the villains are:

• District Attorney Michael Nifong
• Rev. Jesse Jackson
• The Media
• William Bowen, local head of the NAACP and former President of Princeton University
• Richard H. Brodhead, President of Duke University
• 88 members of the Duke faculty who took out a newspaper ad full of false, leftist, politically correct crap

What is missing for the above list is an apology. Imus apologized and got fired. I guess lefty justice doesn’t apply when you’re trying to be politically correct and screw up miserably.

Read the details: A Gutless Lynch Mob by Thomas Sowell

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I agree completely with Erie County Legislator Cynthia Locklear’s observation regarding the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority and also believe the legislature needs to take more action.  The ECFSA has the main problem that all NYS Authorities have, it is a non-elected bureaucracy that has no direct accountability to the voters.

The Erie County legislature needs to be more responsive to the voters with spending and tax cuts.  The actions taken to date amount to baby steps when a full run is needed.  The focus needs to be on returning money to the private economy that is now being spent at the whim of elected officials.

Here are some of Cindy’s observations:

In my judgment, the FSA (which voted itself into a mandatory powers status in November 2006), is itself acting arbitrarily, capriciously and with what appears to be a vindictiveness driven by the whims of some of its members.  This is the epitome of “bad politics”.  But, none of these players can be “voted out”.
Here are some the actions I have observed:

• Persistent and knowing violation of the Open Meetings law;
• Past failure and continuing refusal to inform the Legislature of its actions in tabling or denying matters approved by Legislature;
• Refusal to approve the County’s annual membership in the New York Association of Counties (which is the primary networking, educational and lobbying organization available to Erie County);
• Refusal to support the County’s change-over to performance based budgeting as had been approved by 70% of the voters in the November election; and
• One member’s desire to spend FSA funds to take junkets to different cities (including Las Vegas) for the purpose of “seeing” how performance based budgeting works.  

Ron Paul’s writing completely supports my contention that Al Sharpton, Jess Jackson, et al., have done more to promote racism than Don Imus ever could.

The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.

The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It’s disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism.

It’s also disconcerting to hear the subtle or not-so-subtle threats against free speech. Since the FCC regulates airwaves and grants broadcast licenses, we’re told it’s proper for government to forbid certain kinds of insulting or offensive speech in the name of racial and social tolerance. Never mind the 1st Amendment, which states unequivocally that, “Congress shall make NO law.”

Let’s be perfectly clear: the federal government has no business regulating speech in any way. Furthermore, government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combating bigotry in our society. Bigotry at its essence is a sin of the heart, and we can’t change people’s hearts by passing more laws and regulations.

Read it all: Government and Racism by Ron Paul

Many democrats and some republicans are now, not surprisingly, calling for stricter gun control laws. Will that make us safer? No! But, it does make the politicians appear to be doing something worthwhile, that is worth votes. I guess you could call it bloviating for votes - it happens all the time.

Virginia state law ensured that Cho Seung-Hui would not meet any armed resistance that could have ended his shooting spree before 33 people were dead. Virginia state law prohibits guns on campus, even legally owned guns. A complete ban on the possession of guns is extremely strict control, yet it does not deter someone bent on committing criminal activity.

Had students and/or professors been allowed to carry legally registered concealed guns, there could quite possibly have been a different outcome. The chances of the shooting spree could have been lessened by the knowledge that others on campus could be armed. The likelihood of the shooter being shot would have also been much greater. Instead, the gun control law turns campuses into a giant non-threatening target for criminals.

Simply put, all of this is media hysteria and demagoguery. Power-hungry politicians and their liberal media allies are so eager to exploit a crime for their own gain that they cannot even wait for the cleanup to begin without chiming in to score cheap political points based on emotion.

The real story in places that restrict gun ownership like Britain, Australia, and Canada is that their violent crime rates are higher than those in the U.S. Both Britain and Australia saw crime rates rise after the enacting of gun bans. Gun crime scholar John Lott also analyzes the failure of the “just call the cops” mentality on a college campus in an eerily timely article from last week.

Gun free zones may be well intentioned, but good intentions [are] not enough. It is an understandable desire to ban guns. After all, if you ban guns from an area, people can’t get shot, right? But time after time when these public shootings occur, they disproportionately take place in gun free zones.

(Read the whole article, written before the Virginia shooting, here.)

Sadly, the liberal media response to this act of pure evil in Virginia has been predictable, yet somewhat surprising in its rapidity. Anti-gun politicians and their news allies just could not wait to begin their condemnation of “gun nuts.” Unfortunately, the real issues of the right of self-defense and the stupidity of “gun free zones” on school grounds turning children into unarmed targets will be lost in the shouting, hysterical pursuit of the destruction of the Second Amendment.

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Don’t make the same mistake with a “war on guns”!

The tragic murders of Virginia Tech students, apparently by an insane person, will prompt new attempts to ban private ownership of guns. Once guns are banned, crime will explode. Households and vulnerable members of society will lose the ability to defend, which will invite more intrusions and attacks. Knife crimes will rise as they have in Great Britain.

Gun prohibition will create a new industry for criminals – gun running and black market sales. Police will conduct stings by posing as black market gun dealers and entrap innocent citizens driven by fear and threat to secure means of personal protection.

Read it all:  Ban People – They Kill by Paul Craig Roberts