With the headlines now dominated by what’s happening in Afghanistan and at our southern border, growing instances of lawlessness taking place throughout the country are melting into the background. Amazingly, most of this law breaking is being perpetrated by those in government leadership positions. People are noticing and are pushing back. Here are some examples:
- The city of San Francisco allows shoplifting theft without prosecution or penalty for up to a total of $950 in stolen merchandise. The city’s District Attorney (Chesa Boudin) states he is focused on lowering incarceration rates and is therefore not prosecuting “petty” criminals.1 In addition to the outright undisguised shoplifting that now occurs daily, many burglaries and other violent crimes are being left unprosecuted. The city government uses the ridiculous justification that addressing mental health issues will have a greater effect on curbing crime than enforcing the law. Even if mental illness contributes to crime, you don’t just ignore crime while you are “fixing” the mental health problem. With Walgreens and CVS closing half their stores throughout the city because of the surge in crime, it should be obvious to everyone by now that it’s the DA that has the mental health problem. This has nothing to do with burdensome incarceration rates, racial injustice, wealth inequity, or some abstract academic theory on mental illness. Those who commit these crimes are bad actors who are too lazy and selfish to work and function in society. And they are now being enticed by the city government to become more aggressive and commit even more crime. It is lawlessness, pure and simple.
- Many school districts are imposing critical race theory curriculums, mask mandates, and vaccination requirements in direct violation of state laws or Executive orders. This has resulted in increasingly raucous and aggressive behavior at school board meetings by parents and board members alike. Some Governors are about to implement punitive measures against these violators, such as withholding the salaries of school district officials who are flaunting the law. In a counter action, the Biden administration is threatening to claim racial discrimination against states that have passed laws preventing mask mandates. This makes no logical sense – how can not being forced to wear a mask possibly be racist? Racism is always the default tactic of the Democrat party when they can’t compete intellectually on the substance of an issue. At the same time all this is happening, many parents have simply decided to remove their children entirely from the public school system. That is evidenced by the percentage of children now being homeschooled. The number of homeschooled children has more than tripled in the last 18 months (from 3.3% to over 11% as reported by the US Census Bureau). The increase in homeschooling is even greater among Hispanic children (12.1%) and African American children (16.1%). In our opinion these children are far better off.
- Democrat legislators in Texas fled the state to prevent the state Congress from voting on legislation they oppose. They are abandoning their elected responsibilities and using their positions as bargaining chips in a game of cat and mouse. Cowardly, fragile, and unintelligent can’t begin to describe how ineffectual these particular “representatives of the people” are. We suppose it must be assumed that those who voted for these legislators are on the same cognitive level. When have you ever before heard of a situation where elected officials had to be issued arrest warrants so they would report to work? Worse, some of them then spent their own money to fight the arrest warrant in court so they could remain away. This not how democracy works; it’s not how any form of government works.
- The extension of the CDC’s eviction moratorium (for those renting apartments and such) given by President Biden sits at the top of the heap of these lawless acts. After the US Supreme Court very clearly stated in June that this moratorium could only be extended beyond July 31st by an act of Congress, President Biden unilaterally gave an order to extend the moratorium anyway (without any congressional action). This is patently illegal. Biden himself stated publicly that the best he expected to do was buy more time for the moratorium by immersing his unlawful act in the court system. Apart from refusing to uphold the law as he swore to do as President, his action provided top cover for others in his administration who believe they can simply ignore the rule of law as well. Afterall, if the President does it, so can I! Nancy Pelosi gleefully added to the insanity by openly encouraging President Biden to ignore the US Supreme Court. We are confident Biden’s illegal “decree” for this latest extension to the moratorium will ultimately be overturned by the Supreme Court. But without a significant remedy from the Court that will force a change in behavior of this kind, it is a certainty the lawless pattern will continue.
The common thread in all the above examples is an intentional violation of a law, executive order, court ruling, or civic duty. They are not mistakes, misunderstandings, or politics as usual. These acts are fundamentally different from bad policy decisions such as we are seeing right now with the botched Afghanistan withdrawal and the catastrophe at the southern border. Bad policy makers can be replaced at the next election. On the other hand, people who indiscriminately ignore laws and encounter no law enforcement resistance will continue that behavior indefinitely. It will slowly become another accepted norm in society. When we can’t rely on the rule of law to keep order, particularly when those in positions of some authority are the perpetrators of the lawlessness (school district officials, legislators, and even the President), the seeds of civil war are sewn.
For now, that nascent war is mostly in the form of a non-violent (but escalating) tit-for-tat evolution of opposing “rules” enacted by local, state, and federal officials. The slow pace of the court system in resolving these conflicts is being used to advantage by the perpetrators who carry out their crimes at a faster pace than the courts can handle. In places like local school board meetings which include regular citizens, the tension and hostility is becoming physically tangible. We expect this will only get worse. Mask mandates and requirements to show proof of vaccination are now pure political power plays. Science “left the building” a long time ago when it comes to justifying these measures. Mask mandates in particular do nothing but fuel the discord and increase the probability of aggression, and possibly violence, on both sides.
We are convinced the majority of Americans are disgusted with this behavior, especially when it comes to elected officials and local administrators. Conservative governors in states like Texas and Florida are doing everything in their power to combat this trend of lawlessness and set things right. Judging by the large number of people disrupting their lives to uproot and relocate into Texas and Florida, the Governors of those states are striking the right chord. Let’s hope they continue their fight and are successful. We don’t want a return to the days of frontier justice.
1 Even with major crimes, the San Francisco District Attorney will still not bring charges despite police officers having video of the crimes being committed and suspects caught with weapons.
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The situation in California is very disturbing. Who would ever want to move or live there?
There is only 1 good way to handle that situation.
I suppose we will find out on September 14th just how much the residents of California care about their state. If the recall fails and Newsom remains in office, they obviously don’t care very much.
Well, these are evil times for sure and they have/are happening at an accelerating pace. Lawlessness in this country is supported by half of our representatives in Congress. When they don’t get their way, they encourage constituents to pillage and burn cities down or overthrow a successful sitting president. They can do this easily today because they control the corrupt Justice system and more importantly the communications to the general public (no election can change the later propaganda that worked so well for other communist forming countries). Unfortunately, I’m afraid that frontier justice is probably eminent. I was certainly hoping not to see it in my lifetime but I stated in an older blog that the takeover of our government by socialists was eminent given that the population of government dependence continues to grow and out number the population paying for it and our higher education system is now completely successful in corrupting the minds of students over many decades, creating an unstoppable constituency to support communism, yes communism. Now, we are closer than ever to have that happen. Even if we somehow banned socialism ideology brainwashing in schools today it would take 50 years to turn the mental tide in voting constituents. We saw from the previous presidential election that the takeover is happening with lots of corruption, which is an unstoppable byproduct of government. Even if by chance the next election slips conservatives into a majority, the corrupt media will again destroy a successful conservative administration. But, rest assured frontier justice will eventually right the ship at some point down the road, as it did in the Wild West of lawlessness and the American Revolution by commoners oppressed by a tyrannical government. If you stop and think about that last thought, the British government was far more on the straight and narrow than our current government. It will be quite interesting because most of the law enforcement and military rank & file will align with the resistance, as our military leadership has gone bad, as well as our intelligence and justice agencies – see the Afghanistan exit failure or maybe they purposely armed the Taliban with $billions in weapons to tee up another war to keep their military ranks moving (note: that’s why they hated Trump, he wanted a strong military to prevent wars – most officers and generals need wars to move up) . And take a moment to reflect on the attempted presidential coup d’etat of a duly elected president by our own government agencies and know it is completely un-prosecuted after five years. Case closed, verdict in… we are watching the final formation of a tyrannical government thwarting the freedoms granted by our founders.
Johnny R. – Here is something that might make you feel a little better. I just read an interesting article in “The Federalist” by Joy Pullman (https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/25/trust-not-in-princes-7-reasons-for-hope-while-the-ruling-class-lights-dumpster-fire-after-dumpster-fire/). She provides an updated number for the percentage of children who are presently homeschooled at 19.5% as of this past May. That’s one out of every five kids. When you combine that with the record number of children now enrolled in Charter and Private schools, the author contends that we are now more detached from the US public school system than ever before. That 50 year turnaround time you spoke of for the education system may actually be a lot shorter.