Slumming

Things are kind of in a doldrum in Blogville, so I decided to slice a path through the gauchista/sinister end of the internet. While there, I found this snarky post at Mac-a-ro-nies [ever notice how the Left go for cutesy names, while right-tilting blogs have sturdy, classically informed names which resonate with the Latin and/or Greek roots of our culture, such as, for example, Lex Communis] which apparently takes dextrous bloggers to task for not condemning Eric Robert Rudolph. Mac opines - under the heading "Right Wing terror suspect in custody:"

I am curious to see whether the Right blogosphere, which has been quite hostile to Muslims accused of terrorism, will defend Eric Rudolph.

Sate your curiosity here, Mac. It won't happen. From my experience, Right-tilting Blogospheriacs have the singular ability to pierce the surface to get to the deep existential truth of an issue. Let me demonstrate this technique, which is apparently very rarely seen in your end of town - just as Muslims who murder Americans are bad, so too are Americans who murder Americans, regardless of their sick ideologies or twisted grievances. To explicate this subtle reasoning even further - if Eric Robert Rudolph is the serial bomber whose bombs murdered people, then he is a sick, evil, distorted piece of cancer walking around in human form and deserves the harshest punishment the law can visit upon him. To drive this amazingly principled concept home let me offer the following: Anyone - and I mean anyone - who treats any human being as an end or an obstacle to be murdered as an impediment to the realization of their political or ideological ends in this country deserves such a fate.

Believe it or not, Mac, this country is a functioning democracy which means two things: (a) everyone has the opportunity to shape public policy through the mechanisms of democracy - even the pro-life movement, despite the best efforts of the Supreme Court to remove abortion from the arena of social policy, can pursue the constitutional amendment route, and (b) and, here's where the Left really doesn't get it, if you lose the public policy debate, too bad; it's a democracy and you have to live with the consequences of not getting your 50% plus one, or your 66%, or whatever. In other words, even if you lose, it's still legitimate, so long as it's by the rules.

Having said all that, Mac, what about Mumia or those "liberals in a hurry" who thought nothing of depriving the son of this innocent lady of his mother because she was a "bourgeois pig" and therefore not really important compared to the Movement? Yes, the Left was truly in fine form with its condemnation of murderers when Sarah Jane Olson was finally brought to justice. They showed their solidarity by throwing a fundraiser and buying her ever so preciously named cookbook. Who among them really cared about Myrna Opsahl? In your feverish dreams do you think that Eric Rudolph is going to be celebrated by giddy fundraisers feted by National Public Radio or that there will be a cookbook featuring Eric Rudolph kicking up his heels like the winner of a lottery?

Match my condemnation with a few of your own?

Update: Mark Byron (links not working) advises that tarring "Christians" with Eric Rudolph is misguided. "Christian" in "Christian Identity" serves the same function that "Democratic" did in "German Democratic Republic, i.e., misappropriate a good concept for an evil end.