Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Veneer Cracks

To be honest, I'm actually a little surprised by this. Lee Richardson has been around politics to know better - but it appears that the festering ooze of what passes for thought among the ReformaTory set has infected Mr. Richardson:

"Particularly in big cities, we’ve got people that have grown up in a different culture," he said. "And they don’t have the same background in terms of the stable communities we had 20, 30 years ago in our cities … and don’t have the same respect for authority or people’s person or property."

He later added: "Talk to the police. Look at who's committing these crimes. They’re not the kid that grew up next door.”


What a delightful sentiment - so who among the HarperCon$ is going to take off their muzzle next?

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