At any rate, there is that saying, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, but I guess that this depends whether or not either the goose or the gander is a P/C liberal.

From Godfather Politics:

Hate crimes are beginning to stack up. But determining what constitutes a “hate crime” is in the eye of the beholder. Actually, it’s in the eye of liberals who only see criminal activity when it’s leveled at one of their protected classes. Here’s the latest insanity. While California has been described as the “land of fruits and nuts,” New York is competing to be the fruitiest and nuttiest land of them all.

What did that dog say in the Beggin Strips commercial? Oh, yes: “Baccccooooonnnn!”

“Police are investigating an unusual bias crime on Staten Island. Muslims who gathered for prayer to celebrate the end of Ramadan in a city park found bacon scattered on the ground. . . . [B]efore most of the faithful arrived for Morning Prayer, it was discovered that someone had scattered a quantity of raw bacon on the field.”

This is, as they say, is Big News! Why?

“‘This has been determined to be a bias event on the part of our Hate Crimes Task Force,’ NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters.”

A bias event on the part of the hate crimes task force.

This, of course, is because that dastardly act was sure to offend Muslims.

It’s another matter entirely if you’re in, say, Saudi Arabia, an Islamic country, and find yourself under arrest for possession of a Bible, but here in this Judeo-Christian country, it’s fine to desecrate… well…

Where were our government officials when artist and photographer Andres Serrano unveiled his “Piss Christ”? It was a photograph of a “small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art’s ‘Awards in the Visual Arts’ competition, which is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.”

What was the response from the art community? Here’s one example:

“The art critic Lucy R. Lippard has presented a constructive case for the formal value of Serrano’s Piss Christ, which she characterizes as mysterious and beautiful. She writes that the work is ‘a darkly beautiful photographic image . . . the small wood and plastic crucifix becomes virtually monumental as it floats, photographically enlarged, in a deep rosy glow that is both ominous and glorious.’ Lippard suggests that the formal values of the image can be regarded separately from other meanings.”

I’m sure Mzzz. Lippard also feels that the above mentioned IslamoBaconGate affair was the most perverse, racist hate crime in modern history, or something to that effect, though she’s still rahther partial to “Piss Christ” (pinky extended as she sips at her chamomile tea).

Mzzz. Lippard likely pulled the handle for Obama in 2008, will again this November, and would probably purchase Pelosi and Reid bubble gum cards if they were available.

With a “snip!”

But it turns out that the bacon was left there for stray animals and had nothing to do with intimidating Muslims. The person who put the bacon in the park made these comments on a radio show:

“I had put the bacon there. It was going bad in my trunk and I put it out for the scavengers like the opossums and the raccoons and sea gulls, and I did not intend for that to cause anybody any problems.”

LOL! Mayhaps the NYPD should start doing something more constructive, like putting together an internal crime prevention unit: In the last several months (I wonder if it has anything to do with the “anti-racist” lowering of standards for recruitment) members of New York’s finest have been nabbed for everything from ticket fixing and DUI to smuggling slot machines, running guns, kidnaping and extortion, and stealing firearms from a police precinct house.

We here at Hard Astarboard have always been supportive, almost fanatically so, of the police, but things here in New York are getting just a little out of hand…

Maybe the police who were put on “bacon patrol” looking for a “hate” crime were the same officers who shot the nine bystanders near the Empire State Building last week.

The Godfather Politics article, by Gary DeMar, is here.