A Congressman from Hell

I'm trying to finish some paintings for a show and music thing tomorrow at the McKenzie-Mueller Winery. In the background I can hear a conference on Extraordinary Rendition and Relations with Europe on CSpan-2. At this moment the esteemed Congressman from California Dana Rohrabacher is railing against some ignorant Italian diplomat who brought up the completely irrelevant concept of using legal means to fight crime, using as an example the Italian fight against the Mafia. Dana correctly pointed out that this is completely different, since when the magic word "terrorism" is invoked all bets are off, all laws are moot, might makes right, and the "Rule of Law" is just a silly anachronism best left in kindergarten with other childish ideas. I mean, laws and constitutions are just fine up until they really mean something, until there's some sort of cost or inconvenience involved, and then, well forget it! Don't these foreigners know what it means to face terror, by cracky?

Or something like that. I can't swear it's a direct quote. But that's what he meant.

The blind ignorance shown daily by Americans in authority should be enough to make us all ashamed.