timeimmortal

I do care that “truly marginal and deeply resentful fools” get caught in the HRC web as much as I do the unsuspecting restaurant owner wanting to keep his doorway free of pot smoking loiterers.

I don’t need to share their marginal views or resentment to defend their right not to be harrassed by a bureaucracy that defaults to “guilty until proven innocent”.

Why? Because, it’s the truly resentful who are most likely to carry their frustrations beyond verbal release into murderous violence when backed into a corner, and doubly so when those doing the backing trade in provocateurism and injustice. When the unbalanced finally snap, it’s rarely the bureaucrat behind the machinery who endures their wrath - it’s the innocent at their workplace, or the police officer who pulls them over for speeding who find themselves in the crosshairs.

It’s a tricky enough business dealing with these individuals within the justice system proper. The last thing we need are the thumbscrews of the human rights racket being applied to such cases.

In recent weeks, I’ve learned again, first-hand, what “marginal and deeply resentful fools” will do when pressed to do so little as to defend a proposition with a little bit of sound reasoning. Rather than do what people might normally do (i.e. defend the point being made with a little bit of sound reasoning), they will only grow more angry and irrational, until such time as they either abandon the situation or abuse what power they possess in order to forcibly take the upper hand.

Kate is talking about much the same thing in her post, albeit using somewhat more violent and public examples. The point is that when pressed, certain categories of person will do unpredictable and/or truly despicable things, the same way a cornered animal might do.

And the human rights commissions and their investigative methods are not a factor which will mitigate this sort of problem; they will exacerbate it. So it’s not just a case of where the HRCs openly trample on one of the most fundamental human rights — they do that also, though. It’s also a case of where the HRCs, which ostensibly exist to nip the problem of violent hatred in the bud, may actually promote it in their own perverse way.

~ by Kenneth on May 16, 2008.