[Vision2020] A speedy little parable

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Doug Wilson's  posting, "Reference: Hostility and Discrimination,"  
subheading "Topic: Moscow Diversity Cleansing" <dougwils.com> might  best be summarized 
by the following parable.  
 
The Idaho State Highway patrol is obliged to arrest speeding motorists.   A 
trooper parked beside the road is passed by three cars exceeding the  65 mph 
speed limit.  Car A was going 66 mph.  Car B was going  70.  Car C was ripping 
down the road at 105 mph.  When the driver of  Car C noticed the trooper, he 
tooted his horn and flipped the trooper  off.  Encouraged by the driver's bon 
vivant attitude, his five middle-aged,  male passengers dropped their trousers 
and plastered their  wrinkled, toad-colored asses against the car's windows in 
a further  display of disdain for the law and legal authority.   
After a long and dangerous chase (with additional backup and tack  strips 
laid on the highway) the trooper was finally able to force the  driver of Car C 
to pull over.  The trooper approached Car C and asked to  see the driver's 
license.  Driver C blustered, "I don't need no  stinking  government license.  God 
taught me  how to drive."  The trooper was not impressed with this  response. 
  Things began to look serious for Driver C.  His  middle-aged passengers 
shamefacedly hiked up their pants and start to  quiver.  The plump bearded fellow 
in the backseat actually began to  cry.  Things weren't so darned funny any 
more. They turned to Driver C for  moral support -- which in and of itself was 
laughable -- but the best defense he  could muster was offered in a sniveling 
tone, "But why did you  pull me over when all those other guys were speeding 
too?  It ain't  fair!  I'm being singled out.  I'm being rail-roaded, I'm being 
 discriminated against.  You're a meanie!"   
The old "everybody-else-is-doing-it-so-why-can't-we" was not a very  
compelling defense to the trooper, the judge, or the jury. (Driver C had  recklessly 
driven through their town one time too many leaving cringing  pedestrians and 
damaged vehicles in the wake of his braying guffaws  and horn-tooting 
recklessness.)   
Moral: 
Necessity is the Mother of Invention, 
and its Father, a  bold Man of Chest.
But adjudicators examine intentions (and  financial records)
And whining is not a defense. 
Rose Huskey  


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