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Carjacking Politicians
January 6th, 2008I live for irony, and it finds me daily. But sometimes it breaches the line that separates irony from absurdity.
There is a certain snake by the name of Senator Don Perata. I know Don, having sat with him in a corporate board while he engineered a few million in corporate welfare. I have talked him down in front of reporters. In other words, I’ve been so close to him so often that my doctor insists on conducting frequent tests for slime infections.
Like most politicians, Don has one game he most enjoys playing, that being gun control. Don has never seen a gun control proposal that didn’t make him moisten his Depends. In California he has attempted to ban guns, tax ammunition into an unaffordable commodity, and has told many false tales about threats of violence from NRA members (he loves to tell that story to reporters, but whenever challenged to produce police reports on these ancient incidents, he or his demonic staffers demur).
So imagine my giggle fit when news broke that Don “The Bay Area Bagman” Perata had been carjacked … at gunpoint. All his efforts to disarm the general populace (I say “general” because Don has at least one handgun and the rarest of Bay Area artifacts, a concealed carry permit) seem to have been for naught.
The carjackers were prototypical street thugs. They were men in their 20’s. They worked in tandem (one walking up to the car, and another boxing Don in with another vehicle). They held their gun “gansta” style (sloppily sideways). They were dedicated criminals who most likely:
- Did not have a permit from the state to buy a gun.
- Did not wait the mandatory 10-day period to obtain a gun.
- Did not obtain a permit to carry their gun in public (unlike Perata).
In short, they willingly violated every law Don Perata enacted. Meanwhile my buddy Rich, a Vietnam vet, father of two, grandfather of three, who has held a job all of his life, paid his taxes, and has never broken a law more serious than speeding … he has obeyed all of those laws.
Perata never has “gotten it.” Don never stops long enough to separate chaff and understand the motivations and rationalizations of criminals. He fails to perform simple logic and isolate the good guys from the bad.
And now Don had a thug shove a gun up his nose while Rich and I chuckled. We laughed because we know the incident will not help clarify the issue for Perata. Some skulls are too thick.
