America's Dumbest Wanker™ outdoes himself.

This is so easy, it's almost sinful. Witness, yet again, a demonstration of overwhelming illogic from Weasel Boy:

Hypocrisy is on show in a Manhattan courtroom today. The New York Civil Liberties Union will argue for the second day before Judge Richard Berman that the city's subway bag search policy is an "unjustifiable erosion of the privacy rights of the American public." Yet take a walk into the NYCLU's Manhattan headquarters - which it shares with other organizations - and you'll find a sign warning visitors that all bags are subject to search. One of the city's lawyers, Jay Kranis, pointed this out yesterday in court while cross-examining a witness. Either the NYCLU believes its headquarters are at greater risk of a terrorist threat than the city's subway system, or it believes ordinary New Yorkers don't deserve the same safety precautions that they do.

Wow. What incredible hypocrisy. I wonder if that's any more hysterically hypocritical than, say, this (emphasis gleefully added):

Why, someone once asked H. L. Mencken, did he continue to live in the United States when he was so critical of it.

Mencken's response: Why do people go to zoos?

That exchange came to mind the other day while I was reading an account of de facto President Cheney's visit to a coven of Utah Republicans and the attendant flap over guns. Cheney's appearance was nearly cancelled because some delegates balked at having to check their firearms at the door.

That's right -- the same gun-happy lunatics who think everyone has the right to arm themselves to the teeth made sure delegates couldn't bring those same firearms into a Republican convention 'cuz, well, I guess it might be dangerous or something.

Like I said, sometimes, this is just too easy.

JUST TO DRIVE THE POINT HOME, it's not like I had to go back four years to show what kind of ignorant dick Weasel Boy is. The alleged hypocrisy that so amuses him happens to be all around.

As one example, the current White House administration is, as everyone knows, a big believer in the Second Amendment to the Constitution and the almost-unfettered right to bear arms. However, if you want to visit the White House, there's no damned way they're going to let you bring a handgun on the premises. Using Jinx's own logic, that would make the Bush administration a collection of "HA HA HA HA HA ..."-level hypocrites, wouldn't it?

As another example, I'm a personal believer in free speech, but my support for that ends at my front door. You have the right to say whatever you want in public (barring libelous and slanderous stuff, of course), but your freedom to speak doesn't give you the right to enter my home and start lecturing me just as I'm sitting down to dinner.

It's all a matter of context, of course -- just because you say people should have basic rights doesn't mean you're suggesting they have those rights all the time and under every circumstance. My right to privacy and security in my home trumps your right to free speech there, which is exactly as it should be.

And it's amusing that the same ignorant dickwads (Hi, Jinx!) who refuse to appreciate the significance of context in these cases are exactly the same ones who, when they're called on a lot of their bullshit, immediately accuse their critics of (yes, you guessed it) taking their words "out of context."

It would be funny if it weren't so embarrassing, species wise.