Boiling Point

by Tony Blankley - June 21st, 2006 - TownHall.com

On June 12, in Hill v. McDonough, The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a death row inmate may challenge in court, via the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (42 USC 1983), the cruel and unusual nature of the method of execution he is about to be subjected to. In that case the method was lethal injection.

Last week (6/15), in a related case reported by the Associated Press (AP), the natural foods grocery chain Whole Foods Market ruled that they will stop selling live lobsters and soft-shelled crabs "on the grounds that it's inhumane." They will, however, "continue to sell frozen, raw and cooked lobster products." According to the AP, animal rights activists welcomed the decision.

If you do not know Tony Blankley's writing style well you might not recognize that he has started this article with toungue firmly in cheek and he is about to have some fun with his favorite targets, liberals. Whenever something really serious, like the death penalty is at stake, whether for men or animals, liberals can be trusted to come up with bizarre and outlandish arguments to defend their decisions.

One decision alluded to in this article is the bizarre concept that if someone is really stupid, they cannot be executed for killing someone else. Combine that with the liberal insistence on freeing guilty murderers after some period, who then go out and kill again, and you get the reality that American citizens have died because liberals turn dumb murderers loose as their right to be turned loose since they are merely dumb killers and not smart killers. However the people they then kill probably don't care whether they are dead because someone is dumb or not. The "someone who is dumb" includes the liberals that made this insanity happen. However liberals think of themselves as both smarter than you and more moral than you and they will become furious if you dispute either presumption.

Getting back to the article by Tony, if you are not a liberal, it will crack you up.