Radio Derb – An Extract
19th April 2012
To speak about the federal power and about law, all in the same breath, anyway opens the door to bitter cynicism. Some of the key laws the federal government is entrusted with enforcing are left un-enforced, because the federal executive, for cold political reasons, wants to pander to constituencies who’d prefer them not enforced.
Poster boy here: Onyango Obama, the president’s uncle, an illegal immigrant from Kenya. Last week Radio Derb reported on Mr Obama having had his Massachusetts driver’s license suspended for 45 days after he admitted to driving drunk. Mr Obama is manager of a liquor sotore in Framingham, Massachusetts; so the Scarface rule may be worth re-stating here: “Don’t get high on your own supply.” Anyway, the news last week was that Mr Obama’s driver’s license had been suspended.
This week’s news is, that with one bound he was free! Yes, Mr Obama has been given a hardship driver’s license from the state Registry of Motor Vehicles. A hardship license is what you get if you can show that not having a driver’s license poses an undue hardship on your livelihood — in this case, Mr Obama’s livelihood as a liquor-store manager. In applying for the hardship license, Mr Obama fortified his case with a letter from his employer, Conti Liquors, and also with proof — maybe it was 120 proof, maybe 150 proof, I don’t know — that he’d enrolled in an alcohol-treatment program. Apparently there is no public transportation in Framingham.
So the state law that deprived Mr Obama of his driver’s license is just a joke law. They put up this elaborate, quite expensive show of a judicial proceeding, with a ruling from the bench and a sentencing, but they don’t mean it. It’s just pretend: like a children’s game, like the pretend federal law that says, direct quote from Section 8 U.S. Code 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii), quote: “It is unlawful to hire an alien, to recruit an alien, or to refer an illegal alien for a fee, knowing the illegal alien is unauthorized to work in the United States. It is equally unlawful to continue to employ an illegal alien knowing that the illegal alien is unauthorized to work.” End quote. That’s a joke law, too; that’s a pretend law, too; or, if it’s not, why is Conti Liquors of Framingham, Massachusetts not explaining themselves to a federal judge?
This is what the public is missing by having Derb defenestrated from National Review. Rich Lowry is not only a coward, he is also a fool.
April 19th, 2012 at 22:21
Well, it is Mass. – they’d do the same for a Kennedy (and have!).