September 10, 2015 

Letter to the Editor

The Star Ledger

Star Ledger Plaza

Newark, NJ 07102

RE: In the matter of Kim Davis and the “eclectic indignation” that is required of smarmy – as if there could be any other kind - modern American Liberal editorial writers as expressed in today’s editorial about the horror, the horror of following one’s conscience.

Sirs,

It is refreshing, indeed invigorating, to see a hubris of Homeric proportions, fueled by a wretched excess of “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”, that exists and thrives in the editorial offices of the Star Ledger, nee the Newark Star Ledger.

Let us stipulate to the fact that Kim Davis, [D] Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky was put in the pokey for disobeying the “law”.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Henry Thoreau when Thoreau was imprisoned for opposing the war with Mexico. Emerson said, “Henry, why are you in jail?” “Why aren’t you, Ralph?” was his reply.]

You call for “a discussion of the rule of law”.

Did you call for this discussion when county clerks began to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples when that was clearly a violation of exiting Federal law? Try to remember that the Defense of Marriage act was passed by both houses of Congress and signed, rather enthusiastically, into law by then President Clinton. It was, by any judicial standard, the law of the land.

“Sanctuary cities” exist in defiance of Federal law. Have you carped about the illegal behavior of the elected officials who stand in the doorway a la George Wallace and tell the intrusive Feds that their laws don’t count? Shades of John C. Calhoun!  Nullification lives!

[Gandhi broke the law about the tax on salt in a most public way. When he was tried and found guilty he would demand that the Judge send him to prison as the Law required. Any objections?]

In addition to the introduction by Boss Dailey of Chicago of the new math used in tallying ballots – 2 + 2 = 5 and death is no impediment to suffrage – the 1960 election may have turned on Senator Kennedy’s correspondence with Martin Luther King while King was in the Birmingham jail. Would you have supported his imprisonment? That he broke the law there is no doubt.

Would you have criticized the prisoner and the pol?

Speaking of double counting after the polls close, I can tell you as a true son of Hudson County that the funeral directors and the churches would try not to have any burials on Election Day. There were too many resurrections. Incoming hearses and outgoing buses filled with zombies with a blaring PA system proclaiming the virtues of “Row A All the Way” colliding would have made for carnage on West Side Avenue.

Another prisoner of conscience is supposed to have lectured his prosecutors thus: “When statesmen forsake their private conscience for the sake of their public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”

On at least 17 occasions President Obama broke the law by unilaterally and peremptorily waiving parts of ObamaCare.

I will gladly pay the costs of you gathering up and mailing me your editorials condemning the President for this violation of the law.

Could not a case be made for a spirit of forgiveness for Kim Davis? In the world of tu quoque she may have taken her cue from the President. 

Let me end by paraphrasing Orwell,

“All laws are equal but some laws are more equal than others.”

Perhaps friggin’ hypocrisy would be better.

What do you think?

Kevin Smith

PS – Absent the soothing balm of “eclectic indignation” modern American Liberals, particularly editorial writers, would be driven quite mad by the cognitive dissonance that is required of votaries of this scurrilous creed.