Tea at Trianon: In Socialist Seattle Crime DOES Pay, And It Pays Well

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

In Socialist Seattle Crime DOES Pay, And It Pays Well

From Right Flank:

The head of the King County Public Defenders came up with the harebrained cash payments scheme in an attempt to reduce the number of felony prosecutions. Violent crime has increased in unison with inflation, the cost of living and unemployment.
Instead of paying criminals to prevent crime, the left should reconsider its border policy. The southern border should be completely closed until the nation has enough housing to accommodate its current taxpayers at reasonable prices. The problem with paying criminals to avoid arrest is that you eventually run out of taxpayer dollars to keep the peace.
Media outlets obtained a letter to the King County prosecuting attorney that highlighted how to significantly decrease misdemeanor and felony caseloads assigned to public using a numerical cap.
If such a cap were put on public defender caseloads, it would inevitably lead to those being suspected of crimes walking free instead of being charged. Moreover, the local budget funds allocated to hiring additional public defenders would also be strained, creating an indefinite shortage of legal representatives. (Read more.)