From Red State:
By “Astro-turfed White nationalist groups”, of course, they’re referring to the FBI provocateurs we all know and love.
Category: Law and Order
Always Has Been
In one of his customary well-reasoned comments, Longtime Reader GMC makes this statement (discussing this post):
“If citizens do not have faith that the State will hold up its end of the social contract, they will take matters into their own hands.”
Will, and should.
My only corollary to this is a reminder that in answer to all those who wail about people “taking the law into their own hands” (not the same as the above, but parallel to it), we have to note that the law has never left our hands. The law is not the sole preserve of lawyers and judges, but of the People in general (a point that GMC likewise addresses in his comment about jury nullification). Likewise, the enforcement of the law is deputized by the People to agents of the State — and if said agents are incapable of or unwilling to perform that responsibility, the the People have not only a right but a duty to take the enforcement back into their own hands.
The law belongs to us, We The People, not to all its priests and Sanhedrin, and even less so to its enforcers — despite all their delusions to the contrary.
Yes, It Has
Here’s a headline which made me giggle like a little girl:
Rittenhouse Verdict Has Leftist Rioters Worried: “It fundamentally changed
the culture of protest”
The punchline is equally delicious:
This is still America, much to their chagrin, and in the absence of police protection and intervention, the American people can and will protect themselves and their fellow citizens from lawless mobs bent on mayhem, violence, and destruction.
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Remove or incapacitate police, and yes, Americans can and will step up to lawfully fill that vacuum. Who couldn’t see that coming?
Read the whole article, and don’t have a mouthful of coffee while doing so.
“Losing”?
I yield to no man in terms of my respect for Victor Davis Hanson, but I’m afraid the worthy professor is extremely late to this party.
Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization
Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America.
Yet American conservatives still adamantly supported the nation’s traditional investigatory, intelligence, and military agencies — especially when they came under budgetary or cultural attacks.
Not so much anymore.
He then enumerates said institutions: the FBI, the military (senior officers), Big Tech / Woke journalism, federal health agencies, and the criminal justice system in general.
I will admit that the above are relative newcomers to the conservatives’ hall of shame, but as we all know, we’ve always loathed and distrusted the alphabet soups of the IRS, ATF and DHS, as well as Cabinet departments like the EPA, Energy, Interior and Education — to name but a few.
Wake up, VDH: they’re all on the shit list. They are very close to being — and in some cases very much already — not the “pillars of our civilization”, but active destroyers thereof.
And if you Readers want proof of this, ask yourself this question: would you rather deal with your local law enforcement, or the FBI? Your county tax office or the IRS?
Q.E.D.
Quote Of The Day
From this Insty post talking about the fascist fucks in Melbourne Oz:
…talking, of course, about the U.S. Also, follow the link to Rebel News and watch the video to see the OzFuzz in action.
I think I’ll head out to the range for a while, just to calm my nerves.
Empathy
Seems like even the lawyers are getting sick of it:
Even though he’s a lawyer, I’m on his side.
In my own case, when once threatened with punishment for contempt of court back in Seffrica, I snarled: “Contempt doesn’t even begin to cover what I feel for this court.” The judge looked somewhat startled and my lawyer put his head in his hands; whereupon the judge started laughing and let me off with a R50* fine — which my lawyer paid because I refused to.
Fuck all of them, black-robed assholes.
*Back then, fifty rands was almost half a month’s rent for my downtown apartment.