Ah, the slippery slope

[khaosworks]

Sprechen Sie Englisch, Herr Gropenführer? By Mr. Terence Chua, Pissed Off And Loving It.

(thanks to mactavish for bringing it to my attention)

In an AP article, "San Francisco Honors Same-Sex Newlyweds", the Supreme Commandant of Stalag Kalifornia, Der Gropenführer Arnold Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying:

"In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex. Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs, I mean you can't do that," Schwarzenegger said Sunday on NBC.

I normally don't make fun of the way other people speak English, but I will in this case because I am a very, very small and petty man when it comes to numb-nuts like Schwarzenegger.

"In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex." Well, fuck me.

As an encore, Arnold, why don't you for Great Justice, take off every Zig? You've been in the US how many years? There are New York cabbies just fresh off the last refugee plane from Baghdad just a step up from saying, "my hovercraft is full of eels," that speak better than you do. Repeat after me - a, an, the. A, an, the. Articles are your friends.

And of course, gay marriage is the same as a semi-automatic weapon spraying HORRIBLE FIERY DEATH and a drug fiend doped up on some primo horse. Fuckin' A, man - didn't you notice all those arms and drugs dealers standing on the steps of City Hall handing out ammo and vials of crack after the first couples got married the other day? All over the country, cities are just chomping at the bit to issue those drug dealing licenses. Mayors are just screaming to each other, "San Francisco did it, boys! The door's wide open!"

It. Simply. Boggles. The. Mind.

Can we recall this guy too?

Comments

Re:

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

You can't cower behind a law that has been overturned - got to be careful about the phrasing there - but I know what you're trying to say. The tension between working outside the law to restore the law is a question that has persisted throughout history. Take the entire idea of "regulation" (or, as another era called it, "vigilantism") to begin with. But the argument itself is not as simple as it may appear, primarily because the law itself is not monolithic - violating part of it does not necessarily render the rest of it invalid. To paraphrase Gary Trudeau, the rule of law is not like virgnity - it does not vanish at the first violation. But that's a whole other discussion.

Schwarzenneger, despite what the web page might say, does not have the constitutional authority to direct the AG to do anything. The page may say he has the duty to ensure the laws of the state are upheld, but it says nothing about the mechanisms that allow him to do that. The constitution gives the governor very specific executive powers. To go beyond those is just as ultra vires as the actions of the mayor.

I agree entirely that as it is now, the issuing of licenses is against Prop 22. But sadly, aside from being a concerned citizen, the machinations of the mayor and the actions of the City of San Francisco in suing the state over the constitutionality of Prop 22 and its flaunting of its violations of the same, it's just none of his beeswax. It's between the City and the law enforcement system of the state.

The original point of my commentary was to pour scorn on Schwarzenneger and his attempt to associate gay marriage with drug dealing and deadly weaponry. I stand by that comment.