Have a Peach

Posted by Valerie on February 18, 2009

May God have mercy on us, and save us from “Enlightened Leadership.”

I’m shocked. I expected this editorial eventually, in this place and with this content–but not with this language.

I thought the NYT was still not quite ready to come out as the Ministry of Truth.

“Needless fears”? That’s either evidence of journalistic incompetence or a bold-faced lie.

Before this whole mess started, CPSC Commissioner Nancy Nord told Congress that the CPSC didn’t need more money or more power, and she’s been reviled ever since. Her recent admission that CPSIA has serious defects that the CPSC cannot remediate has her on the way to the scaffold. (Nancy, I will so buy your book if you ever write one!)

What we’ve gotta understand is that the CPSC is a two-person show. It’s just Nancy Nord and Thomas Hill Moore running the whole shebang. Go take a look at THM’s February 3rd letter one more time and tell me if you don’t think Thomas Hill Moore is applying to be chief of CPSC. If he gets what he covets and then is joined by 1-4 people who think like the NYT editor thinks, we are in for a very bumpy ride.

You see, while normal Americans express grief, shock, and dismay after they first get over that ”it must be a hoax” intial reaction to CPSIA, there are others who believe that CPSIA is a very good thing and very long overdue. They love this piece of trash, and they have no intention of changing it.

See The New York Times Betrays Small Business where Walter Olson calls today’s NYT editorial, “Clueless. Disgraceful. Grossly ill-informed. And cruelly hard-hearted toward families and businesses across the country that are facing economic ruin.”

Take a look at this–

 Now that you’ve seen the video, sit back, relax and enjoy this peach. While you thumb your nose at the scaremongers, I think I’ll pull out the (not yet lead-tested) wooden swords and shields for my little boys. After reading that NYT garbage, I need to watch my young knights revel in a little danger.

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.” -Samuel Adams