Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Environmentalism's Nihilistic Impulse, Part 4

From Grist comes this YouTube video showing the Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, in a tank, crushing a Mercedes parked in a bike lane.  Staged or not, it says something about the liberal mind.

Now Mercedes owners aren't a sympathetic group, but progressives are always talking about "proportionality" in the administration of justice, so the automotive "death penalty" seems a big out there for a parking offense.  Wouldn't showing the Mayor slapping a ticket with a hefty fine on the windshield make the same point?  From whence comes this impulse to destroy?

And where did the city get money for the tank?  For the Mercedes?

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