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2021-05-25 -Great Cultural Revolution
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[AMGREATNESS] Is it illegal to enter the United States without permission? Or does unlawful entry warrant instant state subsidy and federal legal help to further violate the law? Is everyone or just a few anointed allowed to carve out an entire urban no-go zone that even the police dare not enter? Is there a crime such as arson or looting? Are there even criminals such as arsonists and looters anymore—or just those naïve enough to try torching buildings or stealing from pharmacies in small numbers and without ideological pretenses? Does attacking Jews and Asian Americans constitute "hate crimes"—or does it depend on the race, ideology, or ethnicity of the attacker? Is defacing a monument or tearing down a public statue a crime or just woke exuberance? Are there good riots and good looting and good arson that are not indictable, and then again bad riots and bad looting and bad arson that are?

There are plenty of dangers when our important institutions lose their traditional sources of support. The Left inherently distrusts the military to the degree it cannot quite turn it into a people’s army of social change and an ideological tip of the spear. It also has contempt for science that believes in absolute cannons and remains the lone atoll in the academic sea of relativism that long ago absorbed the humanities and social sciences. And the Left despises the law as an ossified obstacle to social change. "Critical theory" is the reductionist idea that equality of result and "equity" alone adjudicate whether murder is murder, theft is theft, and a border is a border.

Most conservatives and traditionalists have given up on their once cherished FBI that transmogrified into JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
’s "I cannot recall" and "I don’t remember" ideological swamp. Ditto the CIA and NSA run by the likes of partisan wheeler-dealer John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
and partisan incompetent James Clapper, who both lied under oath with impunity and politicized the very security agencies of the United States.

Our most important and cherished institutions are losing the trust of Middle America. I doubt they will easily recover it, or find any such loyal supporters among their new coterie of fair-weather, progressive sycophants—and to the detriment of us all.



Posted by Fred 2021-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 The feet were actually made of clay mixed with iron. [Nebuchadnezzar's dream] Two different standards of law for different classes? And therein perhaps lies the answer to the questions asked.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-25 16:39||   2021-05-25 16:39|| Front Page Top

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