Tuesday, December 23, 2003

More of an outlaw than you ever were

Well, I got myself worked up in that last post. Maybe I was wrong about those guys. Let’s play Gawker here for a minute. George Pataki, governor of New York, former mayor of Peekskill, and a terrible person, has pardoned Lenny Bruce for his obscenity convictions. (Mr. Bruce’s other problem, that he is dead, remains unresolved.)

Talk about a day late and a dollar short. I guess this beats dealing with the problems of today, which involve living people, and have not been already analyzed by history. Those problems might get messy.

Pardoning people for erroneous past crimes, especially dead people, is not exactly equivalent to legislation aimed to prevent erroneous convictions in the future. I guess Pataki isn’t worried about this since he will always be the governor. Of course, the real goal is to use this bit of sop, which helps no one, to obscure Pataki’s actual disregard of civil liberties as necessary policy.

I hate everybody. Happy holidays.

by Jack, December 23, 2003 4:16 PM | More from The Damned Human Race

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