T'is an ill wind that blows nobody any good! Allow me to demonstrate.

The Silver Lining # 1:

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Lindsay Mitchell blogged on Saturday of the English police emergency that had a Herefordshire shopkeeper rush to the crime scene, his shop, in a bluster. Turned out they wanted to impound three gollywog dolls in the shop window!

Silver lining: Days latter an embarassed constabulary return the toys and the politically correct police constables (PC PCs!) end up a laughing stock and actually hurt their stupid cause.

Silver Lining #2:

Back home in Christchurch the Christchurch Cat Control Campaign has begun. Activist Ray Spring has been interviewed on the Newstalk ZB podcast and if at first he sounds chilling he soon sounds simply absurd. A one-family one-cat policy, microchipping, yard fortification, cat curfew after dark on punnishment of extermination (after one warning, if a registered cat).

There is plenty of support for the thin end of this wedge, as long as the thick end of the wedge is denied- and it's really hard for libertarians to oppose this. However, extremist crazies make wedge politics impossible! From the first they are disclosing the full naked motivation of their ambition.

And that is the silver lining. These extremist dorks, like the PC PCs, are so damn trigger-happy they shoot themselves in the foot. To that extent those who want the cat-crazies to die out should finance and support the lunatic fringe. The damage they strike to their own stated intent is cheap at most any price!

The PC PCs and the CCCC are so full of ill wind as to blow their enemies a favor.

It reminds us of Vladimir Lenin, sent by the Germans to weaken the Russians in an act of political warfare.

If the Islamists, for example, wanted to apply this sort of warfare who would they send? They would send us those who hated them beyond all reason. They would support their own most fanatical enemies for their unique ability to embarrass their own cause. Of course they don't have to send us people like that. They're already here.