Reading some of the comments posted to the Canadian articles you linked to terrify me for the future of this country, as Obama shoves us closer and closer toward the same model of left wing European stupidity that has obviously turned so many (but thankfully not all) Canadian minds to mush.
What scares me the most is the moral priorities that these brainwashed leftists have. Their first concern is for the well being and rights of the killer. Not one of those who expressed concern for the rights of Li also expressed concern for the rights of ordinary people to live their lives without the threat of being attacked by such a psycho.
For instance, a common opinion is that “the role of the justice system should not be revenge, it should be rehabilitation.” Not once do such people recognize that the primary role of criminal justice is to protect the rights of the innocent. The thought doesn’t even cross their minds. The same mentality infects the mindset of those who kicked up a stink about the efforts of Bush to thwart terrorist attacks against us. The ‘right’ of someone to plan terror attacks over the phone is apparently more important than the right of innocent people to go about their lives without being blown to smithereens.
The trouble with leftists is that their brains are so infused with misguided emotion that they are not capable of making objective value judgments. It is not possible for them to sit down and consider the concept of a hierarchy of values, that some rights trump others, that the right of the individual to live trumps the ‘right’ of a dangerous psychopath to live life without restriction. They’re so intoxicated with the feeling they get from defending whomever they perceive to be the ‘underdog’ in any particular situation that it’s impossible to talk any sense into them.
I sometimes wonder if they can be categorized as sane humans themselves. Here in New York I’m surrounded by hardcore leftist liberals. I know people who stood and watched the 9/11 attacks close up in all their horror from mere blocks away downtown – yet within hours were expressing sympathy for the attackers and hoping that America would rethink its ‘oppressive’ foreign policy as a result. One girl I knew in Brooklyn told me “well I just think it’s great that they could actually do something like that, to teach those greedy capitalist bastards that they’re not invincible.” I’ll never forget those words as long as I live.
So while I’d like to think that these Canadian leftist would have felt differently had they been on the bus and witnessed the gruesome act, I certainly wouldn’t bet on it.
