Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [112]
Of course, those who benefit from mobs have never cared for the American form of government. From their contempt for the Constitution to their “Europeans Need Not Apply” immigration policies, liberals apparently would prefer to live in a country more like Zimbabwe. Their fondness for powerful governments is premised on the assumption that they would get to be Mugabe. It never occurs to them that they might be Mugabe’s dinner. Robespierre and his cohorts had the same idea.
The two main impulses of the Legal Left in America appear totally contradictory to a normal person. On one hand, they act as if judges are all-seeing visionaries capable of expressing the “general will” in accordance with Rousseau. But at the same time, liberals don’t trust judges to do their jobs, which is to hold trials.
While Justice William Douglas’s crayon scribblings on the Constitution are treated like Moses’ stone tablets, liberals believe no judge can possibly preside over a fair criminal proceeding, unless the defendant is (1) a white male, and (2) accused of rape, blowing up a building in Oklahoma City, or shooting an abortionist.
In all other cases, liberals automatically denounce criminal trials as unfair. This is why the record for the fastest trial-to-execution in the second half of the twentieth century is held by Timothy McVeigh. If only he had claimed he blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to protest U.S. imperialism, courts would still be hearing his appeals.
This is not only because liberals admire marauding violent criminals—which they do—but also because they want to create widespread distrust of the justice system. Liberals would prefer it if courts limited themselves to abortion policy and war strategy and steered clear of actual trials.
Both hallucinatory constitutional rulings and attacks on the criminal justice system have the same goal: undermining the rule of law in order to establish mob rule and anarchy. Trust only the media; liberals will tell you who’s guilty. In the world of the liberal, as in the world of Robespierre, there are no crimes, only criminals. And the criminal is usually Sarah Palin.
The crown jewel for the Left in destroying people’s faith in the courts was the Central Park jogger case, one of the most shocking, brutal crimes in the nation’s history.
On April 19, 1989, a twenty-eight-year-old investment banker working at Salomon Brothers went for a run through Central Park around 9 p.m. During her run she was attacked, dragged into the woods, savagely beaten, raped, and left for dead. It wasn’t until 1:30 a.m. that night that police found a bloody, disfigured creature moaning in a puddle of mud. The jogger had been dragged 200 feet down a muddy ravine. She was barely alive, still thrashing four hours after the attack.
By the time the police found her, she was semiconscious, still gagged, bound, and bleeding. She had lost three-quarters of her blood. The police couldn’t tell at first if she was male or female, a homeless person or an investment banker. The homicide unit of the Manhattan DA’s office initially took the case because not one of her doctors believed she would be alive in the morning.
The New York City Police Department, the best in the world, gathered evidence; cases were assembled and brought to trial. About a year later, three teenagers—Antron McCray (fifteen), Yusef Salaam (fifteen), and Raymond Santana (fourteen)—were convicted in one trial and two more, Kevin Richardson (fourteen) and Kharey Wise (sixteen), were convicted in a second trial of various crimes against the jogger.
Those convictions were based almost entirely on the defendants’ detailed, videotaped confessions. When they confessed, they were subjecting themselves to criminal prosecution