Focusing on the fundamental importance of the rule of law in our erstwhile free and democratic Republic, I have often quoted a line from Sir Thomas More (beheaded by King Henry VIII in 1535) as depicted in the Academy Award-winning film “A Man for All Seasons” (best picture - 1966):
“If the law be down, such a wind will blow in the land that no man can stand.”
I believe a great many Americans, continuing to go about their lives as if nothing has changed around them, are oblivious to a profound and revolutionary earthquake that is shaking the country, generated at the highest levels of our government. This earthquake - the overthrow of the just rule of law - a bedrock, existential principle that sits at the very center of the intellectual, moral and spiritual definition of America - has been and continues to be perpetrated against the people by a seditious, traitorous class of aspiring dictators - power-hungry demons who have no concern for the people, the country or the Constitution and will resort to any means necessary, no matter how lawless, to achieve their ends.
Though there are many facets to this legal treachery, this weaponization of the legal system against the people, three glaring examples of how the strategy is being executed come immediately to mind.
The first is the great fiction of the January 6th “insurrection” and the attendant, brutal, vicious and unjust use of the law against more than a thousand US citizens - the great majority of whom did nothing more than attend the rally and walk around the Capitol that day. No matter what one actually did on that occasion - some few indeed were rowdy and should be held accountable before the law - all one had to do to be deemed guilty of a crime under the law was to be present.
Against all evidence - and excluding any exculpatory evidence - the Democrats, insulting the intelligence of the American people - who saw with their own eyes what happened that day - mostly people just walking around peacefully - nevertheless screamed “INSURRECTION!” and claimed Donald Trump was somehow the instigator of an attempt to overthrow the government. This notwithstanding the glaringly inconvenient fact that DJT had offered Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, 10,000 national guard troops to maintain order at the Capitol on that day and had the offer refused - a fact the Jan 6th Committee subsequently deliberately hid from the people and failed to mention in their report. That fact - Trump’s offer of 10,000 troops - is hardly consistent with the Committee’s conclusion that Trump was an “insurrectionist” trying to overthrow the government. Indeed, that one fact alone blows the “INSURREC TION!” narrative entirely out of the water.
Knowing all this, the Democrats’ toadies in the House nevertheless proceeded to construct a Trump-hating kangaroo court - the uniformly anti-Trump, infamous January 6th Committe - that excluded any conservative, pro-Trump Republican representation, any pro-Trump witnesses and any pro-Trump evidence, thereby ensuring the intended, predetermined Trump-damning outcome of the hearing. Simply stated, from any balanced, fair-minded perspective the January 6th Committe was a travesty.
Interestingly, though the Democrats continue libelously and slanderously to claim Trump intended to overthrow the government on January 6th, he has never subsequently been charged with, put on trial for, or convicted of “insurrection”. Why not? Because the Democrats know it is a lie. They know they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of proving such a case in open court - even in a court controlled by Democrats.
The January 6th Committee having predictably declared the events of that day an “insurrection”, the weaponized FBI (who have acknowledged they have found little evidence that Jan 6th was a “coordinated attack”) then proceeded to launch its biggest operation in history - identifying and rounding up anyone who was present at the Capitol on 6th January - most of whom, presumed guilty from the start, were rapidly railroaded through a weaponized legal system and thrown in jail. To my knowledge, none were charged with “insurrection”.
As concerns the true nature of the events that transpired on January 6th, if you have a nose for rotten fish, you will smell plenty of it in Tucker Carlson’s interview with the man who was head of the Capitol Police on that day. Notice how the anger wells up in this man as he describes what he witnessed.
A second example of the collapse of the rule of law in America is the fate of one Peter Navarro, PhD, former economic adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term. Navarro has been targeted by the left for his association with DJT. Based on the longstanding legal doctrine of executive privilege - the right of confidentiality for the President’s communications with his close official advisors - Dr. Navarro refused to respond to a subpoena issued by the then Democrat-controlled House of Representatives (Nancy Pelosi).
Without there having been a formal hearing of Dr. Navarro’s and President Trump’s rights under the executive privilege doctrine, the 74-year-old Dr. Navarro is today sitting in prison, serving a four-month sentence for his “crime”. He was not shown the courtesy of being allowed to stay out of jail until the executive privilege issue could be properly heard and adjudicated. The Democrats rushed him into the slammer as fast as they could. Their message - certainly not the fair and balanced rule of law - was, “You oppose us and you will suffer.”
Today, with the Republicans now in control of the House of Representatives, we read that the Department of Justice has instructed two of its lawyers in its tax division not to comply with subpoenas issued by the House in relation to the House’s investigation of Hunter Biden and his father Joe Biden’s impeachment probe. In response, a federal judge appointed by Joe Biden, Judge Ana Reyes, has blasted the DOJ as follows (see entire article HERE):
"There's a person in jail right now because you all [the DOJ] brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena," Reyes said, referring to the recent imprisonment of Peter Navarro. "And now you guys are flouting those subpoenas.... And you don't have to show up? I think it's quite rich you guys pursue criminal investigations and put people in jail for not showing up, but then direct current executive branch employees to take the same approach. You all are making a bunch of arguments that you would never accept from any other litigant."
Do you see any basic fairness in this? Any justice? Would you not call this the overthrow of the just rule of law?
The third and arguably the most stunning and immediately dangerous example of the perfidious left’s overthrow of the rule of law is the assault against the US population being carried out at the border under the auspices of our own traitorous, illegitimate government (the 2020 election was clearly stolen). Here, the illegitimate Biden regime is flipping off the American people and deliberately refusing to enforce the duly constituted immigration law of the land, allowing millions upon millions of unvetted illegals to flood into the country. Then, adding insult to injury, the traitors at our head proceed to use our money to feed the invaders, house them and fly them anywhere in the country they wish to go - dumping the burden of support on the unsuspecting states and localities where the illegals are surreptitiously delivered.
In this lawless process, the anti-American leftist revolutionaries running our government, flying in the face of their sacred sworn duty, are reducing in myriad ways the wellbeing of the legal citizenry across the board and bringing chaos upon the people (see my earlier Substack post “Treason at the Border - What’s Really Behind It”).
By deliberately creating a vast dependent class of non-citizens - many millions of bodies and mouths than cannot provide for themselves and must be taken care of - they are diluting the people’s financial resources and reducing the quality and quantity of public services legal citizens receive - education, medical, law enforcement, social services, etc. - benefits the legal citizens of the country have paid for and are rightly entitled to. (Here in Utah, we attended a meeting recently where we heard parents decrying the destruction of their children’s school experience due to the great influx of illegal, non-English speaking immigrant children who take up most of the teachers’ time.)
Most importantly, by deliberately allowing and openly encouraging this vast flood of unvetted human beings into the country - people whose intentions are entirely unknown - the traitors in the Biden administration have betrayed their most sacred sworn duty to protect the citizenry against physical harm. They are deliberately exposing the American people to the increasing lawlessness and direct physical danger that attends the vast invasion of unvetted illegals. Every day in the news we read about more instances of violence and lawlessness perpetrated by people who have no right to be here.
Most frighteningly, because of the seditionists and traitors at our head, we are facing the virtual certainty of more terrorist attacks on the order of 9/11, on our own soil, on our own doorsteps. It not a question of if, but only of when…
If this isn’t treason, what would you call it?
It all begins with the deliberate overthrow of the rule of law… and where does that lead? As history attests, it leads HERE:
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” - George Santayana
How much more of this lawless outrage will you - will we - put up with before we wake up, understand what is happening and begin to organize our thoughts and our actions to resist this tidal wave of tyranny and evil that is sweeping our land?
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, order vs. chaos, liberty vs. tyranny, patriotism vs. treason, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, God vs. the Godless…
Life is a test… You’ll choose, one way or another…
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada