A Round-Up Of Evil
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (except when it is).”
The first thing I do every morning after I clean out my email inbox is to check news and opinion sites. I revisit those sites a few times during the day, usually spending a few hours reading articles.
What I’ve seen recently has been jaw-dropping, to say the least. Natural disasters have occurred and will always occur, and the human suffering they cause is horrific. What I find more disturbing are some of the conscious decisions people in leadership positions are making. They form a pattern. I’d like to look at this pattern through the lens of “Hanlon’s Razor,” an aphorism stating, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
These decisions simply cannot be explained by stupidity or even negligence. They must have been intentionally made, with the sure knowledge that the consequences would be harmful and sometimes even fatal to Americans, including the very people supporting the decision makers.
HHS secretary Xavier Becerra’s recent testimony before Congress concerning 400,000 missing migrant children was shocking. He seemed blithely unconcerned. It sounds as if someone can just walk into a migrant holding facility and claim a child with very little difficulty. As bad as our nation’s public schools are, I sincerely doubt anything like that would happen there. If some stranger were to approach a member of the faculty or staff, claim to be a relative of one of the child, and ask that the child be released to him while providing little to no ID, that person would be talking to law enforcement in short order.
How do you lose almost a half million children and act as if that’s just how things are done?
I never imagined I would see the day when a murderous Venezuelan prison gang would establish itself in 16 states and take over entire apartment buildings. Summoned to explain his decisions before Congress, DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, like Becerra, offered content-free word salads and evasions.
Mayorkas’s facial expressions during his testimony reminded me of those made by Peter Strzok when he was likewise questioned. Not to put too fine a point on it, but in both cases, I got chills. I honestly believed I was looking at the face of evil.
See Also:
And This Is Why the Public Doesn’t Trust the DOJ
Buttigieg: The Peter Principle on wheels
Terrorist threat: The FBI and DHS clam up
Ignore the hysteria: Trump’s deportations will be an outbreak of lawfulness
