A culture of authoritarian lawlessness is one in which there are two very different standards.
Everyone has probably seen the videos of gun control activists and transurrectionists storming legislatures. But even well before Jan 6, massive BLM riots, including a direct attack on the White House, had politicians and the media denouncing the use of force against the mostly peaceful rioters. Gen. Milley has spent the rest of his career atoning for walking with Trump to the Church of Presidents which BLM had tried to burn down.
Since then, Jan 6 rioters have been tracked down and locked up while BLM rioters are getting multi-million dollar payouts from cities like New York and Philly.
More recently, the FBI was sent in to bust non-violent pro-life activists even as it ignored dozens of arsons and attacks on pregnancy centers by Jane’s Revenge, a pro-abortion group, until the GOP took the House when it began making a handful of arrests.
Now there’s direct evidence that the Biden administration not only refused to protect Supreme Court justices in the wake of the Dobbs decision pro-abortion protests at their homes, but specific orders were given not to arrest the leftists.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) unveiled a series of training slides used to prepare Marshals for their assignments as she grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
The slides instructed the Marshals to “avoid, unless absolutely necessary, any criminal enforcement” involving protesters and that “making arrests and initiating prosecutions was not the goal” of their being stationed outside the residences of the court’s six conservative jurists.
Just in case there was any ambiguity…
Another slide directed Marshals not to “engage [in] protest-related enforcement” and to allow the protesters to exercise their First Amendment rights except to protect the justices and their families.
Britt said the slides were obtained from a Justice Department whistleblower who objected to Garland’s March 1 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
At that hearing, Garland insisted that Marshals were empowered to decide in the field whether to make arrests.
However, another slide cited by Britt directed Marshals to clear any “enforcement action” with the local US Attorney’s office “in advance” and warned: “It is counter-productive to make [probable cause] arrests on cases that the USAO will not charge and prosecute.”
Garland, of course, insisted that he knew nothing about it, and that may even be true. Garland and a lot of other Biden cabinet members and top officials, strike me as the equivalent of ‘Biden’, old white guys with lots of career experience whose role is to serve as the shields and fall guys for the younger radicals who are actually running their departments, divisions and agencies.
The policy however is painfully clear.
The Marshals were aggressively warned not to interfere with the leftist protesters and to allow them to engage in their illegal harassment, and to do nothing short of an actual terrorist attack.
These were the orders for BLM and Antifa as well.
This is what a two-tier system looks like. There’s zero tolerance for actions taken by your political opponents but maximum tolerance and zero enforcement for actions taken by your side that are even worse.
We’ve seen plenty of this with violations of the law with the Clintons and Trump, but we’ve also seen plenty of it with protest activity, domestic terrorism and riots.
A two-tier system may operate under the pretense of the law, but it’s still a tyranny. A lawful system objectively and even-handledly enforces the law.
What we have is the old Cold War joke about an American and Russian arguing.
The American says that he can go to the White House and shout that Reagan is a war criminal and the Russian replies that he can also go to the White House and shout that Reagan is a war criminal. In China, you can protest in support of Xi, but not against him. In America, you can protest for the Left, but not against it.
That’s tyranny.
Yeah, excellent example of the mechanics of law enforcement at demonstrations. People often blame the police for not enforcing the law, but it is actually the politicians who gave the police their orders that are at fault.
That’s why many officers are quitting, even at the expense of their pensions. Leftist politicians, will lower the standards to get their brownshirts in to replace them.
Younger officers who will support the propaganda with idealistic motives are what a previous German leader did. He got rid of the older wiser officers who would not follow orders and replaced them.
Sound familiar?
Time for Republicans to purchase as many AR-15’s as possible, and plenty’ of ammo.
It’s not two-tiered. It’s a hierarchy.
Leftists are allowed to do things we can’t do. They have institutions in place to pardon their actions. They’re allowed to harass and assault people without consequences, but if we fight them head on, we’d never hear the end of their hysteria about “far right extremism.” Any retaliatory action will be painted in that light.
The only solution is to take the high road, not retaliate unless forced to or able to, and continue to shine a light on how awful the left has become.
The ideal response is to laugh at their hysteria but right now they’re making strong inroads into banana republic land.
But there comes a point where action will be necessary. Who would have thought that the US could reach this stage? Plus the level of brainwashed citizens is staggering.
Garland has lied 100% of the time and committed perjury in Congress every time he opens his mouth
With impunity, like all leftists who lie to congress. Aren’t they under oath?
Yes, with impunity Remember when Mafia Dons feared Congressional hearings? Now we have crooked D-Bags and spinless RINOs running the show.
The completeness with which they have lived down to every reduced expectation of them, the uniformity and ubiquity of their under achievements, and the lightning speed of their seizure of every conceivable opportunity to embrace, if not induce, maximized catastrophes is without parallel in my experience.
Similar to Lenin’s behavior during the Bolshevik revolution.
Everybody alive can say that This descent is unprecedented.
Those who banned the police from arresting these Crinimals should be indited for Aiding and Abetting the Crinimals lock them in prison for 50 years do the same t o these bolshevik scum
I never dreamed I’d see this in the USA. The left created exactly the “justice system” they always claimed we had, but didn’t, because they wouldn’t exist if we did.
Reading the Declaration Of Independence is scary today, because so many of the grievances listed in it have come to pass again.
BHO lied about everything. He never told the American people what he really believed or who he really was. He started all of this madness in 2008.
The Clintons laid the groundwork. They appointed,, promoted, and fired based on “political reliability,” with impunity, even though most of their staff couldn’t even get a security clearance without special waivers.
Litterally, the first thing he did after being sworn in, was fire every single US attorney, without a peep from the dems or msm. They illegallyfired the WH travel office to install cronies. The two pentagon officers that released the personnel file of the Lewinski whistleblower, were promoted, not fired and prosecuted for their felony, as were the ATF and FBI leaders of “Operation Showboat,” the raid, subsequent seige, and near total fatality assault at Waco(the key players were also in charge of the Weaver fiasco). Reno ‘took responsibility,’ without the customary resignation. And of course there were hillary’s 1300+ illegally pilfered and databased FBI files. We still don’t know the total number, but from the results, they were obviously used to blackmail the GOP, and federal officials for decades.
These party operatives and moles were the landmines and leakers that undermined the W Bush administration for 8 years, and became top officials in the obama administration.
Good assessment of what has transpired over the last few administrations.
Everybody alive can say that This descent is unprecedented.