AG Morrison: The Perceptual Distortionist

How can AG Paul Morrison behave the way he does? 

To understand this type of behavior is to understand what propels the liberal’s logic for most political matters.   

I wish to quote a passage from Ian McEwan’s book SATURDAY: “…he remembers a famous thought experiment he learned about long ago in a physics course.  A cat, Schrödinger’s cat, hidden from view in a covered box, is either still alive, or has just been killed by a randomly activated hammer hitting a vial of poison.  Until the observer lifts the cover from the box, both possibilities, alive cat and dead cat, exist side by side, in parallel universe, equally real.  At the point at which the lid is lifted from the box and the cat is examined, a quantum wave of probability collapses.” 

As long as Morrison did not have to lift the lid on the Tiller case, vis-à-vis, because of Morrison’s lame excuses: 1.) Kline has an anti-abortion-obsession; 2.) Paperwork improperly handled by Kline’s office;  3.) Kline not understanding the proper protocol channels when pursuing this case; 4.) Kline has invaded the privacy of many women for whatever reason; etc, etc, …Morrison could justify not investigating this case any further. 

BUT once Morrison lifted the lid on the Tiller’s-Schrödinger’s-box, a “quantum wave of probabilities collapsed”, and he had to make it look as if it was his discovery that the “cat was dead” and that Tiller had broken the written law. 

Why? One may ask.  Because, it may seem surreal to us, but Morrison has a hero complex and actually believes that he is protecting us from the evil’s of Phill Kline, not Tiller. 

When Morrison’s job as DA was handed to Phill it had to have been unsettling for him: even though he had just won the election against Kline for the AG position; a part of Morrison’s JoCo Tribe had somehow turned on him.   

Did Morrison ever wondered if his election was bought by Tiller?”.  I don’t think so, I think his logic ran more in the vein of: He was elected by the people, because, the people hate Phill Kline as much as he does.   

How can an intelligent man be so driven by his own illogical hate? 

In Freud’s terms our mind can greatly be influenced by what we see and how we see it.  A quote from Willis Harman’s, VISIONS OF TOMORROW: THE TRANSFORMATION AHEAD, (OD Practitioner 13, February 1981) states:  “…we know that the way we see the world is affected by suggestions that we’ve absorbed, hypnotically or otherwise; it’s affected by our expectations’ it’s affected by our perceived needs.  If we have to see the world in a certain way in order to feel comfortable, we tend to see it that way.  If people who are important in our lives see it a certain way, we tend to see it the way they do.  We can be badly fooled in the way we perceive the world.  We can be fooled individually or we can be fooled as a tribe.”  This is the unwritten law, the law of the tribe’s perception. 

This is a perfect example of Plato’s laws, the written law and the unwritten law. Plato stated that, “There is a written and unwritten law.  The one by which we regulate our constitutions on our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.”  So, in our little scenario, the written law is: Abortionist must follow certain mandates for a late term abortion; the unwritten law: If we question the practices of an Abortionist we have a hidden-religious-agenda to close all abortion clinics and take away women’s rights. 

Since AG Paul Morrison has a perceptual distortion about Phill Kline brought upon by the unwritten law, he will see this case as his way of defending Kansas against the evil’s of Phill Kline. BUT in Paul’s illogical pursuit of Phill he has forgotten that his accusations of Tiller breaking the written law are very serious.  Tiller is not one to be toyed with, as we have witnessed in his slow annihilation of Kline.   Needless to say, Paul Morrison has placed himself in quite a conundrum, amazingly he doesn’t realize his situation: …but, I guarantee, Sebeluis does.