IF THE LAW BE DOWN...
When I fired up my computer this morning, I found on my MSN home page an article from (Surprise! Surprise!) the Salt Lake Tribune titled “‘Solidarity’ with Utah’s [illegal] immigrants prompts some businesses to shut down for a day.” I have added to this title, in brackets, the critical defining word - “illegal” - the liberal Trib conveniently and tellingly left out.
I went immediately to the comments section of this piece and attempted to post the following:
The published declaration mentioned in this article refers to illegal immigrants and their treatment by the federal government as follows:
"...federal political treatment of hard-working and law-abiding immigrants, who are being unfairly treated..."
Unfairly treated? I think not.
The illegal immigrants referred to in this self-congratulatory, virtue-signaling declaration are hardly "law-abiding". They broke the duly constituted law of the land in coming here illegally, and they continue to break it by remaining and working here. Those who employ them are also breaking the law.
This is not rocket science. Those remotely familiar with the foundations of this great nation know respect for the rule of law is the lifeblood, the very definition of America. As President Trump, observing the obvious, said long ago, "Either the law means something, or it doesn't." If the duly, democratically constituted law of the land has come to mean nothing - if it can be ignored or overruled at a whim, as these people propose it should be - then America is finished.
Interesting how little understanding many people have of this obvious, fundamental and critical dynamic of the American nation - the rule of law - a principle that will determine, for good or ill, the future and fate of America, depending on how we relate to it.
If we choose to trample on immigration law, what law shall we next disregard? And what law after that? This dark road leads to lawlessness, chaos and the end of the Great American Experiment in self-governance based on the democratic rule of law.
"It the law be down, such a wind will blow in the land that no man can stand."
- Sir Thomas More
Fortunately, the American people chose another way, a more excellent way, last November - a return to the rule of law.
My comment was immediately rejected as not complying with “community guidelines”. My! What a surprise!
Suspecting I knew why the liberal censors had rejected my comment, what they - or their algorithm - found objectionable in my comment, I went back and deleted in my fourth paragraph the words “virtue-signaling, self-congratulatory”, then tried to repost the comment. This time it went through.
What does that tell you?
What it reveals is hardly a surprise. We are dealing with a bunch of liberal media snowflakes and wusses who, while willing over the years to credit and circulate all manner of baseless, deceitful distortions and hominem tripe regarding Donald Trump and his supporters, cannot take the heat when their own motivations and character come under scrutiny. They can dish it out, but they can’t take it. When someone calls a spade a spade and blows their cover, they cringe and cower behind the facade of “community guidelines”.
Pathetic.
As the Chinese parable has it, “True gold is not afraid of the fiery furnace.”
Regarding those Utah folks - these delusionally compassionate and self-righteous people - who think they are making some kind of profound statement of superior virtue by closing their businesses for a day - who choose to support lawlessness and reject the rule of law - are not only pathetic but dangerous. They are either ignorant of or willfully rejective of this most fundamental organizing principle of the American Republic - the constitutional, duly constituted rule of law. As such, as they float up in the “virtue-signaling, self-congratulatory” delusional bubble of their moral superiority, they give their support to lawlessness and, at the most basic intellectual, moral and spiritual level, are enemies of our Republic. Their lawless, anarchist views and attitudes, writ large, spell doom for America as a society governed by the constitutional rule of law.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, patriotism vs. treason, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless…
The war goes on…
Torquemada