[Vision2020] A speedy little parable

[James Nelson]

Visionaries,

Ms. Huskey has crafted an almost perfect analogy to describe Mr.
Wilson’s sniveling defense of his scofflaw behavior. However, I
believe she missed one critical point: the car was stolen.

Sincerely,

James Nelson



----- Original Message -----
From: DonaldH675 at aol.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:26 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] A speedy little parable

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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