No truth to entrapment

Locally, we’re going to see the word entrapment used quite often during the next few weeks and months as the trial of Michael McGee, Jr. gets underway. It’s already been lobbed out there several times. Nationally, we’re going to see it used also as the trial of Rep. William Jefferson (D-Louisiana) begins. Jefferson’s the guy who gave new meaning to cold, hard cash when $90,000 was found by the FBI in his freezer, presumably a portion of the bribes he received for using his office to arrange business deals in Africa. (Isn’t that where all law-abiding people put their legal tender, in the freezer?)

My question is how does a person of integrity and high ethical and moral standards ever become entrapped? If a person possesses these qualities, then no matter how conniving or enticing the would-be entrappers are, the person will see the offer for what it is – illegal or wrong – and consequently turn it down. If, on the other hand, a person is devoid of values or a moral compass, illegal or wrong behavior is simply the usual or typical behavior of such a person and thus there can be no entrapment.

No, entrapment is just another weasel word conjured up by liberals and eaten up by the media to once again characterize people of little or no moral standards as victims. By using it, people simply attempt to take the focus and responsibility off of themselves and put it somewhere else, usually on “the man” or “society” or, in the case of McGee, on “whitey.”