Your People Who Should Have Been Aborted Update

I'm starting a new feature that I will run, roughly, whenever I feel like it. It's called The People Who Should Have Been Aborted Update. It deals with the latest destructive behavior of people who should have been aborted by their mothers prior to their birth. By "destructive," of course, I do not mean destructive to themselves and themselves alone. We should be so lucky. I mean destructive to everyone and everything that is good.

For the record, I don't have a particularly strong stand on abortion. I consider myself pro-life, but I would make exceptions for instances like rape or incest or when the mother's life is in danger. More important to me, though, is the effect on me. A woman having an abortion somewhere has no impact on me whatsoever, unless the police see fit to spend precous and finite resources arresting her instead of arresting the burglar who broke into my house or the thief who stole my car. People are afiraid of property crimes. They are not afraid of being aborted, except perhaps retroactively, and I don't recall Thomas Hobbes saying anything about government preventing abortion in preserving the social order necessary for civilization. But I digress ...

Whatever you think of abortion, you must admit that the subjects of the People Who Should Have Been Aborted Update are arguments in favor of it. Typically, they are people who have done absolutely nothing good in their lives whatsoever. Not ncessarily for lack of trying mind you, just everything they try ends up hurting everyone else.

A good example of this is Jimmy Carter. I won't argue with the contention that Jimmy Carter means well, though whether he means well for the US in particular is questionable. But everything Jimmy Carter tries just ends up being not just a failure, but a disaster with far-ranging negative consequences for the good people of the world. Iran, the Panama Canal, his whole presidency, for that matter; North Korea, Venezuela, etc. For all his supposed good intentions, the world would have been far, far better off if Jimmy Carter had been aborted.

The same goes for the following individuals:

Hugo Chavez. Under my original argument in favor of abortion, Venezuela's Number One export has gone from oil to comnunist revolution. Melana Zyla Vickers has the background. Meanwhile, Chavez is now buying US congressional representatives with cheap oil. Get the disgraceful and frightening details here. (Hat tip: Publius Pundit). Short story long: don't go to Citgo. Ever.

Ramsey Clark. You know him. You hate him, or at least you should. If you don't, move to France because you certainly aren't worthy of being here. Clark is like an evil Jimmy Carter, only dumber. What's he doing? Trying to help Saddam. Not that that's unusual, however.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams. Now, you've heard of people who start great organizations designed to do good things. Red Cross, United Way, Humane Society, Indiana Wolf Park, etc. What did Tookie do? He started the Crips. Yup, that's the same Crips who through drug dealing, murder, auto theft and burglary have made many if not most of America's inner cities unliveable hellholes. Who've given the phrase "South Central L.A." the meaning that it has today. Now, 24 years after he murdered four people, he's due for execution. And some people, who probably should have been aborted themselves, are actually opposing this. Mind you, mere membership in the Crips should be a capital crime. Michelle Malkin has the scoop.