Tyranny of the Lawists
How a population of millions faces bias every day from the police, the media and the courts.
NEWS ITEM: Republicans complain that Trump and other conservatives are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement, media and Big Tech. “The No. 1 thing is this weaponization of the DOJ against the American people” — House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (POS – Ohio)
To: The Editor
From: Malcolm “Pinworm” Lafontaine, president
American Association of Repeat Felons for Liberty
Kentucky State Penitentiary #613557
Eddyville, KY
Re: Bias
When will the insanity end?
Once again, the week has seen the arrest of Americans by law enforcement agencies weaponized against the American people. On Friday, in Madison, Alabama, police arrested and handcuffed 41-year-old Christopher Jefferson and charged him with possession and distribution of controlled substances and firearms offense. Why Mr. Jefferson, and why that set of charges? Why not his neighbor, three doors down in Madison?
Is it perhaps because the neighbor has no criminal record and happened not to have two pounds of methamphetamines in his possession? Does that mere happenstance somehow absolve him of culpability? May I remind you that Bernie Madoff had no criminal record when he hatched his Ponzi scheme to steal millions. Hitler had no criminal record (except for inciting one small lethal riot in Germany). Apart from minor traffic violations, the Joker had no criminal record before laying waste to Gotham City.
Yet, just because of Mr. Jefferson’s “rap sheet,” and innocent scientific fascination with crystals, jackbooted thugs took him into custody. Let me ask you this: Why weren’t the Madison police deployed at the southern border, looking for rapists instead of harassing peaceful citizens of Alabama. Why aren’t they investigating Hunter Biden?
The answer is simple: bias.
Similar questions arise in the arrest a week earlier of Michael Anthony Louise, 79, of Syracuse, NY, in the 1989 double stabbing murder of an elderly married couple in Danby, Vermont. Police say that new technology allowed them to match a drop of blood from the victims’ car to Mr. Louise’s DNA. The “authorities” claim there is only a 1 in one billion chance of a false match, but I suppose they’ve never heard of a coincidence. Sometimes unlikely things happen. Unheard of things. For example, the Philadelphia Phillies are on their way to the World Series.
The point is, it seems like the justice system is obsessed with pursuing such “evidence.” Instead of apportioning investigative resources fairly according to, let’s say, political ideology, they fixate on a precipitating “unlawful event.”
As we say in our AARFL slogan, “Why pick on me?”
The most egregious miscarriage of justice in the past few days came with the California arrest of Wesley Brownlee, on the suspicion that he is the serial killer responsible for at least three of five recent fatal shootings in and around Stockton. According to the Washington Post:
Brownlee was being followed by police while driving, and investigators noticed behavior that led them to believe that the suspect was searching for another target, according to Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden. He was taken into custody during a 2 a.m. traffic stop while armed with a gun, wearing dark clothing “and a mask around his neck,” McFadden said.
There is a word to describe tailing a citizen on the basis of superficial features: “profiling.” A mask around his neck? In Covid World? That’s a nothingburger. Dark clothing? A 1-in-2 possibility. Armed with a gun? I guess just because he’s had a few scrapes with the law he forfeits his 2nd Amendment rights.
It’s an obscene abuse of police powers. I’m trying to think of a comparable example. Let’s just say you are an architect of political chaos, waist deep in the illegal effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and you refuse to answer questions before the Jan. 6 Committee and get charged, tried and convicted of Contempt of Congress. What is the moral of that story?
Answer: What about Hillary’s emails?
I’ve got some news for you. Just as the Roberts Supreme Court has ruled that political money is speech, no speech is speech. Meth cooking is speech. Physical violence is speech. This is a nation built on Judeo-Christian principles (although obviously the Judeos need to be kept an eye on). In the Old Testament, Samson, Moses and future King David all had blood on their hands. In the New Testament, Jesus brags about the horror, misery and mass death in the coming apocalypse (Matthew 10:15). Where were the grand juries then?
Yet the woke liberals see a relatively modest serial killing spree and get their panties all in a wad. If murder is politically incorrect, you might want to question a certain Deity of Interest — namely, God, who, feeling disrespected one day 3,900 years ago, smote all the first-born sons of Egypt. (Ask yourself: Who benefited? Duh, the Jews.)
Here’s the bottom line. This is 2022. We don’t discriminate* against our fellow citizens on the basis of race or gender or religion or sexual orientation or physical disability or physique or even attractiveness. Why then should we arbitrarily target those who are technically in violation of the law?
Day in and day out, felons and other scoundrels are the true victims of rampant lawism — the last non-taboo. The Police State stubbornly, cruelly takes into account only conduct, victimization, motives, evidence, testimony, statute law, case law and juries of one’s peers, with no regard whatsoever for what really matters: equal time. Literally.
I myself have 12-20 years on a flimsy 41 counts of racketeering. Granted, some mistakes were made, mostly limited to aggravated assault, truck hijacking and extortion. But talk about bias: the Commonwealth of Kentucky came down hard on me, and didn't even glance at the conduct of the prejudiced and tyrannical jury.
Those arrogant stooges got off scot-free, at least til I’m paroled. Because, as Jim Jordan likes to tell the Democrats, soon there’s gonna be a new sheriff in town — with a very long memory.
*Except every single fucking day.
"as Jim Jordan likes to tell the Democrats, soon there’s gonna be a new sheriff in town — with a very long memory."
And he's right. Nate Silver shows momentum in the midterms shifting to the Republicans. I expect that they'll impeach Biden before the spring thaw though for what I can't begin to imagine. It doesn't really matter, does it? It will be about the primal scream, not about anything material. Republicans are really good at this. Remember Joe McCarthy? He starred in a '50's remake of <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i>. Kevin McCarthy is his intellectual if not his biological kin.
A recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/us/politics/midterm-election-voters-democracy-poll.html">NYT/Siena College poll</a> reveals that an overwhelming fraction of American voters see American democracy in peril ... but, ho ... hum ... they have more pressing concerns at the moment. F*ck me in the eye with a spork.
We have nitwits in bearskins waving Confederate battle flags storming the Capitol but goddamn, the price of gas is rising. F*ck Brandon. Not a moment's thought about the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on oil prices. Not a peep about how prompt intervention with loads of cash prevented the economy from cratering during the pandemic. Inflation! Ignore the fact that inflation is a global problem at the moment. The Republicans will do a better job with the economy. (rolls eyes, wanders off)
In America we vote for the leadership we want.
In America we deserve the leadership we get.