Governor Rendell is at it again. Today’s emotional appeal is to fear.

‘State Police will simply not have the manpower to continue assisting police in our distressed cities like Coatesville, Erie, Williamsport, and Reading’…(Link)

Let me translate that for you. We are going make it difficult to by a gun for protection. Then we will threaten to remove police protection. The only way to stop this tragedy is if poor people agree to let us take more tax dollars from those rich people…you know…anyone with a job.

Remember: It’s the politics of fear when George Bush talked about terrorist (those guys who killed 3,000 innocent people on 9/11), but it’s OK to raise taxes under the threat of reduced police protection in areas where the people hate the police. That’s not the politics of fear because it’s a liberal position.

Here is a thought to ponder. Poverty and crime do not have to go hand in hand. There was no crime wave during the Great Depression. The prosperous decade before the Depression, the Roaring 20′s, was the time of gangster. Much of the crime was the unintended consequence of a progressive Constitutional amendment…Prohibition.

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