{"id":4626,"date":"2018-04-05T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/leftists-love-criminals-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:52:42","slug":"leftists-love-criminals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/leftists-love-criminals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Love Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You will never understand the Left until you understand that they reliably take the side of losers, underdogs, and criminals, who comprise their clientele and path to power.&#0160; And with lefties it is always about power, first and forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5576905\/Homeowner-78-arrested-burglar-stabbed-death-break-in.html?ito=social-facebook\">Here<\/a> we read about a 78-year-old Englishman who, in defending himself against a screwdriver-wielding home invader, caused the miscreant&#39;s death and is now facing a murder charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Dear old England, the mother country. It is sad to see your mother, senile and decrepit, go down the toilet, having lost all her moral sense and the will to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Once again one sees the justification for my political burden of proof:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I call the&#0160;<em>political burden of proof<\/em>.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Actually, that is far too mild a statement. Perhaps tomorrow I will tell you what I really think.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will never understand the Left until you understand that they reliably take the side of losers, underdogs, and criminals, who comprise their clientele and path to power.&#0160; And with lefties it is always about power, first and forever. Here we read about a 78-year-old Englishman who, in defending himself against a screwdriver-wielding home invader, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/leftists-love-criminals-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftists Love Criminals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}