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Melanie Phillips: Leftist ideology is replacing the rule of law in Britain and America

By Alliance Alert

Melanie Phillips in the Wall Street Journal, "Lynch-Mob Justice," available via Google News: "In both Britain and America, ideological prejudices are coming to undermine the rule of law. In a number of incidents, people who have committed criminal acts have been acquitted or had their cases dismissed purely because they represent a politically correct cause or belong to a 'powerless' victim group. ... Based on the Marxist dogma that power is synonymous with oppression and powerlessness with virtue, such ideology has also given self-designated 'powerless' groups a free pass. Whatever wrong they may do or disadvantages they may suffer from are never their fault or their responsibility. It is always the 'oppressor' group that is to blame. ... So in Britain, it is becoming ever harder for Christians to be allowed to live according to their religious ethics."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).