The News You Aren’t Hearing: Cultist Wildfires and Wealthy Chinese Busboys
A wildfire in southern California has destroyed over 700 homes and 384 square miles. The press is treating this as a natural disaster, but it was entirely avoidable. It’s a simple matter to clear out the dead brush that starts and fuels these fires, but litigious environmental fanatics have made it illegal. The Sierra Club and similar organizations demand policies that virtually ensure that fires like this will break out. I think that this destruction is precisely what they want. Their religion demands it.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been accepting contributions of around $1000 apiece from about 150 dishwashers, street vendors, and others who either don’t exist or don’t have the means to make such a contribution. The media storyline is that Hillary’s campaign just got a little overzealous, and there’s nothing to get too excited about. Yes, she’s blatantly breaking the law on a grand scale, but this is Hillary, and she is much too special to be limited by mere laws.
This is the same stuff that the Clintons gave us back in the nineties, back when the liberals were all excited about getting a new (and blatantly unconstitutional) campaign finance law. Now campaign financing restrictions are like immigration law: tough statutes with lax enforcement. So people in power and the businesses who fund them have nothing to fear; they know that the law won’t be enforced against them. But people who don’t funnel enough protection money to the right politicians can always be accused of having violated some law or other.
It’s the same situation that we had with antitrust law in the late nineties, when Microsoft learned that even the mightiest businesses must pay tribute to the princelings who run Washington. This is why socialists love it when government makes new laws and regulations. With enough laws we all become criminals, and so the government can hammer any of us at any time. It puts us all down on our knees, begging the government for mercy, kinda like how this woman managed to avoid arrest on a drug charge.
Update 10/24/07: As if on cue, we have this story about how comedian Steven Colbert’s joke campaign for president has generated threats of legal trouble. See, it’s a big legal problem if a corporation endorses a comedian’s hopeless campaign as a publicity stunt. But thousands of dollars illegally flowing to Hillary Clinton is just an insignificant error in judgment.