Bread and circuses keep the people happy, stirring up outrage can keep them motivated -- but sometimes the politicians themselves jump into the circus as the key clown.
Enter Kris Kobach, secretary of state of Kansas, who has been in the news off and on for the past year for various political jockeying stunts relating to the Kansas U.S. Senate race in 2014.
During his radio talk show this week, Kobach alluded that Obama could halt the arrest and prosecution of minority criminals, because that is his administration's interpretation of the Civil Rights Acts.
Listen here.
The rundown was fairly straight-forward:
Kobach discussed the recent news of the University of Minnesota's decision to not release race-related information about campus crimes in its email alert system. Race would only be identified if it was deemed necessary for the identification of the suspect.
From there, a caller identified as "Stu" went on a tirade:
Given the situation in Minnesota, given the recent story that Obama was instructing immigration enforcement to not enforce the immigration laws against illegal aliens, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch, Kris, to envision an announcement that any black person accused of a crime, charged with a crime, is not going to be prosecuted, regardless of the crime.
The caller continued with Eric Holder's "free-pass" to the New Black Panther's voter intimidation activities, and how the administration has already ignored the law.
Kobach, an attorney and public official, could have distanced himself from these comments, or questioned the conspiracy theory or connection. Instead he agreed with the caller:
[Eric Holder] basically made it true...that the civil rights laws were only to protect minority races, and he was not going to be enforcing them to the benefit of white people who were discriminated against on the basis of their race. So, that’s basically what you’ve described...
Kobach then cuts the caller short with a small caveat:
So I guess it’s not a huge jump, I think it’s unlikely, but you know I’ve learned to say with this president, never say never.
Reality check time...
How did we get from discussing a Minnesota campus police department's policy to an executive order only applying to the federal government and Eric Holder's dealings with the Black Panthers -- all of which pointing toward President Obama imminently giving all minorities a free pass from prosecution?
At what point does the manufacture of outrage and conspiracy theories lose steam? Ever?
So let's see... We have a foreign-born, radical Islamic, gun-grabbing, disbarred, Black Panther, America-hating President who is now going to force every police department and prosecutor in the United States (who are not actually under his authority) to not punish the crimes of roughly 30 percent of the population.
Yeah, right...