Law School Conservative

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

Its almost 11pm in Venezuela, in about an hour, the oldest and most popular broadcast station in the country will close its doors, because dictator Hugo Chavez refused to renew their license. Turns out, this station supported the failed coup against Chavez in 2002 and its editorial and political views were decidedly anti-Chavez.

Needless to say there are riots in Venezuela, and Chavez and his goons are using force to quell them.

Now, in this country we have a decidedly biased media. Yet, instead of shutting it down, the government simply passes the “bitch about it” buck to bloggers like me, pundits, press secretaries, spin doctors and other B.S. detectors.

Here’s another thing that happens in this country: anytime the government does something that the “mainstream” politicos at the U.N. and the so-called “International Community” don’t like, they stand on their soap box and yell, holler, scream, hold hearings, drown puppies and other things. If President Bush ordered the FCC to shut Air America, NBC, CNN or FoxNews down for making fun of him, disagreeing with him, or for his own amusement, we’d have the U.N., Hugo Chavez in front, yelling at the top of their lungs about what an outrage this is.

Yes, it would be outrageous wouldn’t it?

What I find more outrageous though, is that no one in the “International Community” is holding Hugo Chavez to task for an action that is nothing short of the type of freedom of speech violation that would light a fire up the ACLU’s hind end. The U.N. would rather spend its time trying to fix the unfixable than preserving the rights that their very own Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees to one of their member countries’ citizens.

Guess what they say is right. You can’t spell “Entirely Useless” without “U.N.”

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

Ladies and Gentlemen, after three long, stressful weeks of law school finals we are back!

Why not re-open this blog with the usual pointing out of liberal non-sense.

In this CNN Story, the ACLU and other soft on crime groups are complaining about how the death penalty is “cruel” and “torture” because of an obese inmate in Ohio. In a definitely non-standard case, of the type the media and the ACLU love to make look as common place, an Ohio inmate’s execution died 2 hours after his planned execution time and after 10 tries at securing a vein to administer the lethal coctail.

According to the ACLU, 10 attempts to insert a catheter into the inmate’s vein is equal to torture.
Do life saving treatments administered by doctors count as torture now? According to the ACLU’s reasoning it is. Unless of course, ER staff trying 10 times to find a vein on an overdosing man with a long history of intavenous drug use is not torture, in the eyes of the ACLU, but “life saving treatment”.

Once again, this story demonstrates the lack of logical reasoning in the ACLU’s thinking. They seek to extrapolate from the prolonged execution of a convict (don’t expect me to feel sorry for him, he murdered someone in cold blood, he deserved to be executed), to claim that this happens in all executions and that they should be stopped because this is unfair.

I’d like to remind the ACLU, that as far as executions go, the U.S. is the most humane nation in the world. I’d also like to ask the ACLU, who claim that executions are “due process violations” and “cruel and unsusual punishment”, who exactly provided “due process” and protection against “cruel and unusual punishment” against the condemned convict’s victims?

Of course, since the ACLU can’t answer that, I’m going to leave it be, and just continue my claim that the ACLU is wrong.