March 2, 2013
Douglas C. Lyons
The Sun Sentinel

RE: Oliver Cromwell, a still relevant DWEM tradition, and trying to avoid “R”, today’s most infamous Scarlet Letter, the branding of which can never be undone. – Some comments on your column in today’s Sun Sentinel. I add, somewhat gratuitously, that your publishing on this, the infamous first day of Sequestration, is worthy of Pulitzer attention. If not Joseph, certainly Lily.

Mr. Lyons,

Oliver Cromwell, the author of a not quite big league Holocaust – Can Holocaust be quantified? – in the country of my forebears, said to a non-complying Parliament, “I beseech you in the bowels to Christ to consider that you may be wrong”.

The “still relevant DWEM tradition” that I refer to is the presumption of innocence. It is a gift of Natural Law that we receive at birth. It comes from beyond the stars. Does it cover George Zimmerman or does its comforting aegis stop with O.J. Simpson?

[As a journalist, do you think the New York Times’ characterization of George Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic” is –A- fair reportage or –B- race baiting cum pandering a la the Duke University lacrosse team, all of whom were melanin challenged and, as such, presumptively guilty Republican racist rapists?]

You exhibition of the genetic dispositions of a dedicated modern American Liberal is invoountary. Absent any concern for, or even awareness of, the permanent things, you say that the law, any law, is bad if it does not advance the Progressive policy du jour.

Modern American Liberals proclaim that they don’t want to get into any discussion between a physician and his patient, excepting one where the MD gets to ask if the patient is packing. Will he get a bonus Medicaid/Medicare payment if he tells who is carrying a hog leg?

You also say that “state law prohibits local government from creating laws regulating fire arms”.

I hate [not really] to be the one who breaks this to you but state laws and its Big Brother, Federal laws, “prohibit[s] local government from creating laws” regulating a lot of things

Fort Lauderdale cannot have its own rules governing contracts.

Palm Beach cannot lower the Florida sales tax within its borders.

Miami cannot prohibit a road sign saying that Obama is both a horse’s ass and a pompous fart and Biden is a moron.

And while ink-stained wretches can convict a perpetrator – “alleged” of course – because of the race of the victim or said perpetrator – “alleged”, of course – it does so at a great disservice to the common weal of the body politic.

Should a silver tongued advocate, say Moishe Gonzales, AKA “Werewolf”, convince a la Johnny Cochrane, 12 of George Zimmerman’s peers that he did not do it will Trayvon Martin’s extended family take to the streets and exercise their right to, as Congresswoman Maxine Waters describes it, “alternative shopping”?

Are the PC word police heating up the dreaded “R” branding iron for me?

Let me know.








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