Liberal Tolerance & Other Myths

Rational soul that I am, despite accusations to the contrary, it pretty much works out that on the days the Theocratic Conservatives aren't peeving me, one or more Lockstep Liberals are rattling my cage. A pox upon both their houses, preferably one involving absolutely focusing rash and itching to keep them busy and out of our hair. If it isn't the Theocrats wanting to supervise our bedrooms and morals, it's the Liberals trying to separate us from cash/freedom/self-direction.

Latest in this depressing direction, a group of eastern Yalies thinking themselves safe in visiting that great liberal mothership of the West, San Francisco...found themselves, after having sung then National Anthem at a New Years Party, getting the tar kicked out of them down the street...

Granted, the Star Spangled Banner is a bit...grating, but it is our National Anthem, no matter how much some of us might wish a singable choice had been made. Random beatings seem a bit of an over-enthusiastic response to even the very most unfortunate of attempts at this difficult anthem.

Reports differ (1/10 Gay Patriot, San Jose Mercury News, KGO TV, Breitbart News #1, Breitbart News #2). Consistent among the reports it appears the SFPD has yet to interview the victims (10 days later) and the proud quote "Police have dropped their demand that The Baker's Dozen pay their own way pack to San Francisco to be interviewed. "

Umm. What is going on here? The closest I've gotten to patrol is 5 years in campus security, a bit of bar bouncing, and a couple of years dispatch work at a mid-size University...but...it seems to me that it's constructive to at least TALK to the alleged victims, ideally right there at the crime scene or as quickly as possible, failing that. It seems a little...wrong...to tell them they have to pay their own way back to register a complaint. And that apparently the perpetrators were offspring of the local liberal elite leads to suspicion of a certain, dare we say it, reluctance to investigate?

Now, if Mel Gibson can get his bollocks nailed to the wall for a DUI with anti-semitic screed dressing in Malibu...why is it so difficult to round up a group of malcontents (who were apparently lingering around the scene after SFPD arrived to bust up the hurly-burley) and jug them until they and the lovely surveillance camera photographic evidence processes their collective way before an arraignment court? And why is it suddenly "punish the victim week"?

Grrrrr.

Fortunately, Yale students frequently have wealthy and vindictive parents...we may soon be treated to a rousing chorus of "Bring on the Shysters", even as the City of Seattle goes to trial for its' mighty mismanagement of the WTO riots....grrr.