Pluperfect =/= future subjunctive.
Political advocates often take an accomplished fact and try to cast it in conditional form to make one side or the other look bad. The classic example is:

"If we let Bush have a second term, he will feel no restrictions, and he will start ripping up the Constitution."

Or identically,

"If we let Obama have a second term, he will feel no restrictions, and he will start ripping up the Constitution."

Idiots. Constitution no longer exists. It lost its authority in 1803 with Marbury vs Madison, and every president since then ripped out huge pieces. Madman Lincoln burned it to ashes along with half the country in his wildly successful project to maximize the profits of railroad barons. A document that died in 1861 cannot be killed any further by Bush or Obama or whoever else you idiotically fear.

Here's a new variation on conditionalizing a plain fact.

Spokane Valley, acting under the influence of a Christian activist, has just passed a law restricting the costumes of 'bikini baristas'. (Note: I think the law is silly, but I don't live in the Valley so it's none of my business. Cultural matters are supposed to be handled at the city level where laws are naturally applied to the same people who want them. Culture is not meant to be at the Federal level where laws are viciously applied to vast groups of people who don't want the law.)

Shane Criddle with the Coalition for Community Values said ... "Flaunting their bodies in public in an area that is easily seen by youth.... That high school youth can come through in their cars and see a nearly nude woman and go to their school sexually charged; we just felt that was wrong."

Criddle must have spent a highly unusual adolescence. If there is any millisecond when a "high school youth" is NOT "sexually charged", I sure as hell don't remember it from my time as a "high school youth." Max charge 24 hours a day, so an increased charge from seeing a bikini is numerically negligible. Eliminating the barista is like avoiding nylon carpets when a thunderstorm is approaching because you don't want to cause lightning.
  ¶ 12:09 PM