The national discussion within the media and academia is being intentionally altered in a manner that redefines the normal exercise of human concern and basic American rights as acts of criminality, domestic terrorism, and racism.
Protecting one’s home, privacy, business and accounts from unlawful intrusion, children from inappropriate influence, and the nation from massive numbers of illegal entrants, including those infected with disease or affiliated with criminals are all correct actions. However, in the views of a politicized Justice Department, radical-left district attorneys and many progressive government bureaucrats, they are roadblocks to the “fundamental transformation” they so desperately desire.
To achieve the goal of profoundly changing the culture and laws of the nation requires the silencing of those who reject the traditional character of the country. An examination of seemingly unrelated incidents and federal actions reveals a pattern of rejection of both normal behavior and the Bill of Rights.
During the summer of 2020, riots involving arson, assault, looting, attacks on federal court houses and police stations, along with the establishment of so-called “autonomous zones” that ignored legitimate authority were deliberately mislabeled as “peaceful protests.” Similarly, a wholescale rejection of necessary and appropriate safeguards designed to ensure the integrity of balloting was instituted in numerous jurisdictions. Those who responded rationally to those actions, by protecting their residences and shops, or advocating for a stronger law enforcement response were harshly and falsely criticized, called racists, and accused of voter suppression. Some, like a couple from St. Louis, were subjected to criminal prosecution for shielding their home from a threatening mob.
Mere words are being turned into policy, due to the election of district attorney candidates lavishly funded by left-wing donors, and the Progressive-dominated Democratic Party’s capture of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives.
Parents who reject the utilization of public schools for propaganda risk being labelled as “domestic terrorists,” with all the legal consequences that entails. The Justice Department, just as it did the last time a leftist president occupied the White House, is being used as a partisan bludgeon against those not of the same political persuasion. Attorney General Merrick Garland, in response to a memo from a progressive academic group, has instructed the FBI to review the words of mothers and fathers who, during the COVID lockdown, became infuriated upon learning about the radicalized public school curriculum their children were being subjected to.
College students who dare to question the prevailing leftist orthodoxy on university campuses face recriminations from academic authorities.
Desperately concerned local officials who react with horror at Biden’s open borders and his practice of quietly spreading illegal aliens, many infected with COVID or under the sway of Mexican drug cartels, are threatened with federal recrimination. Many migrant families illegally entering the nation are COVID-positive. Criminal cartels have crossed the southern border and fired upon U.S. citizens
The basic concept of government protecting the innocent from the guilty has been rejected. Chesa Boudin, elected in 2019 as San Francisco’s district attorney, doesn’t believe in locking offenders up for numerous types of crimes. In cities like New York, bail reform, which has allowed repeat offenders to walk the streets soon after they are apprehended, is responsible for massive spikes in crime.
These issues and incidents may appear as random events and problems. They are not. There is an intentional drive to change the character of the American people. It was always the intent of the founders that the citizenry, not the government, was sovereign. This was indisputably expressed in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, which state that any powers not specifically given to the government belong to the people. That concept is abhorrent to the Progressive left, which requires that Washington must be able to do whatever they want it to do in order to implement their authoritarian agenda.
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