Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

Where did federal district judges get the idea they were in charge of the nation's immigration polices?  First of all, illegal aliens are all ..... all.... criminals because entering the nation illegally is a felony, so deportation should be an automatic.  The only due process they merit is to determine if they're here legally or not.  If not, that ends due process and goes right to deportation.   Federal courts are even demanding illegal aliens who are known members of criminal gangs with have a history of serious crimes be returned to the United States. 

Americans are now second class citizens in their own country in favor of illegal migrants costing taxpayers billions.  In fact, we're now seeing judges and governors openly breaking the law protecting them and attempting to prevent deporting them.  

• Clinton Judge Halts Deportation of Suspected Tren de Aragua Gang Members Under Alien Enemies Act, Orders Them Released
• Another Milwaukee County Judge Joins Rebellion, Floats “New Courthouse Policies” in Response to Radical Judge Vowing to Shield Illegals from ICE Agents
• Lock Him Up:  Lawless Wisconsin Governor Issues Guidelines to State Employees to Shield Illegal Aliens from ICE Agents
• Gov. Tony Evers Helps Illegal Aliens to Avoid Ice
• Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Announces Punitive Actions Against El Salvador in Defense of Deported MS-13 Illegal Alien – “The State of Illinois will Stand Up for the Rule of Law”

This is all part and parcel of Joe Biden's scheme to assure unending control of America by the Democrat party.  He allowed hundreds of thousands to swarm over the border and then shipped them inland as quickly as possible never to be seen again, with a due process scheme that would take ten years.  In the meanwhile they're having children.  Then the left claims since they now have children who are America citizens they can't be deported.  Wrong, they can be deported, and taking their children with them isn't like Nazis sending children to the gas chambers.  

• Update: 5:40 PM: 'Unsecured a border ON PURPOSE': Watch Tom Homan erupt on Biden's national treachery - "Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose"...........
  

This wasn't an original idea by Joe Biden, if he ever had one, and it's now clear he had no idea what was going on in his administration.  It turns out there were three auto-pens in the White House, and the far left staff controlled all three.   This has been in the works for decades.  It's the Cloward-Piven scheme to destroy the nation by creating a massive welfare state then over loading and collapsing the system in order to create a crisis so grave it would justify overturning the Constitution and imposing a tyrannical system of socialism on America.   These illegal alien schemes are the perfect fit to that corrupt treasonous scheme.

The Canada Free Press asked why Trump is the focus in their election instead of the Liberal party’s scandalous mismanagement?  The author points out "Canadians have long hated any Republican in power, having been conditioned to do so by a longstanding Marxist media", with writer after writer pointing out leftists are ruining Canada.  Well, apparently Canadians like being ruined because within three hours of the polls closing they called the election for the leftists who are there now, globalist tyrants all.   All of whom want to pick a fight with Trump.  Good luck with that Canada. 

And we want to make Canada America’s fifty-first state why?  They refuse to control their borders, crime is rampant, everything costs more there, their health care system is a mess, rights as we know them do not exist in Canada and their citizens are abused by their government, free speech is punished, Canada is not a free nation.  Not to mention the fact there would end up being so many more leftists in the Congress conservatives would never gain control again.  Canadians are not Americans and it's fairly clear their frozen country is a banana republic. 

Finally, these globalists who go into apoplectic hysteria over people flying from one destination to another claiming the world will burn up into a cinder if that's not stopped, are all flying to Davos, in private jets, for the meeting of the World Economic Forum, to which USAID gave $68 million dollars.

Bernie Sanders, a long time advocate of climate change tyranny, along with AOC, traveled all around the nation.... in a private jet..... to express their outrage at the rich.  And she wants to be President of the United States.  A young energetic bartender who, like Bernie Sanders, wants to be one of the rich she hates.  Imagine that!

 

The Only Crimes Are Political Now

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

On Wednesday, three teens were arrested for riding e-scooters over an LGBTQ ‘Pride’ mural painted on a crosswalk in Spokane, Washington. One of the teens was charged with a first degree felony and bail was set at $15,000.

On Saturday, in another Washington thousands of miles away, Hamas supporters rioted near the White House. They threw bottles at a park ranger and vandalized national monuments with graffiti reading “Death to America”. Islamic terrorist supporters waved banners and held up signs in support of Hamas. One man in a Hamas headband brandished a bloody Biden mask.

Two Park Police officers were injured in the pro-Hamas violence, but not one arrest was made.

Not a single arrest for the assault on a federal employee (1-20 years in prison), the vandalism of national monuments (10 years in prison) or the support for a terrorist organization (20 years in prison). If only they had done some donuts on a ’Pride’ mural, they might be in jail now.

But as we already learned during the BLM riots and the subsequent eco-riots and Hamas riots, vandalism and even assaulting law enforcement officers is not a crime when done by the right people for the right reasons. Even assaulting Capitol police officers, which up until now has been the only assault on a law enforcement officer that Democrats would condemn, became a victimless crime when Hamas supporters fought police outside Democrat headquarters forcing the evacuation of members of Congress. One of the men slammed a female police officer against a garage door and punched her in the face only to get 48 hours of community service.

Similarly after weeks of antisemitic violence at UCLA, the only serious arrest made was of Edan On, a Jewish high school student, who had been fighting to protect Jewish students after the university allowed Hamas supporters to occupy part of its grounds. Multiple Jewish students and community members had been attacked while campus cops and the LAPD refused to intervene.

CNN however ran a profile “unmasking” the Jewish protesters with a view to getting them arrested rather than any of the Hamas supporters attacking Jews on campus. The 18-year-old’s name now appears as a headline at USA Today, not a single Hamas supporter does.

I have spoken to Jewish community members who were assaulted at UCLA while police watched and refused to do anything, telling them to go down to the station and file a report.

This is the same L.A. in which BLM activists scored millions in police settlements from the BLM riots. And a place where the mayor is a close personal friend of a BLM leader backing the pro-Hamas riots and the Board of Supervisors paid for the defense of UCLA Hamas supporters.

The pattern is everywhere from BLM to J6, from Trump’s arrests to Biden’s pass. Crimes are not defined by laws, but by ideology. Prosecutorial discretion allows the full weight of the law to be brought against political opponents while political supporters will likely not even be arrested.

The evolving shadow legal doctrine that ties it all together is that actual actions, like vandalism or assault, don’t matter, what does matter is their positive or negative political value. A skid mark on a BLM or Pride mural is an act of hate while vandalizing a statue or memorial for BLM or Islamic terrorists is an act of social justice. A protester punching a Capitol police officer has a negative social impact if he is doing it to support Trump, but a positive social impact if he is doing it to support Hamas. And Hamas supporters attacking Jews are fighting for justice while Jews fighting back against them are oppressive Zionist warmongers who must be stopped.

This ‘right side of history’ doctrine is often phrased in subjective language like ‘hate’ or ‘assault on democracy’. These cannot be quantified because they operate purely in the realm of ideological tests. Much as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart defined pornography as “I know it when I see it”, so too his modern counterparts know who gets a pass and who doesn’t.

What they really know is who shares their politics and who doesn’t. So, increasingly, do juries. A system that could rely on jurors to do their jobs even a mere 5 years ago no longer can. Judges and jurors in ultra-leftist areas have, like career professionals including doctors and lawyers, been told that their duty is not to the law, but to upholding their side of the great ideological war.

Ordinary people, like the teens in Spokane, lack the ideological grounding and unexpectedly discover that what in other circumstances was a minor prank is now suddenly a major crime even while they and their parents watch much more horrific crimes being praised on TV.

What is obviously understood by the Potter Stewarts who prosecute, judge and opine about crimes is confusing to the ordinary citizenry who don’t understand why criminals freely roam the streets while the only crimes that the authorities seem to care about are “threats to democracy”.

The notion of what a crime is has been radically redefined in a matter of years.

At the height of BLM madness, violent offenders were set loose while people could be arrested and tried for new crimes like calling the police on a person of the wrong race. DA Bragg in Manhattan, who prosecuted Trump, came into office with a memo not to prosecute armed robbers. Crimes with clear offenses and punishment were no longer prosecuted, but instead convoluted chains of legal reasoning were used by DA Bragg to criminalize Trump’s opposition.

In Washington D.C., whose city council at one point tried to legalize carjacking, the only people who seem to face serious charges anymore are murderers and Republicans. Murder is more likely to be legalized in D.C. than being a political opponent of the radicals in power.

Political segregation effectively means that half the country no longer enjoys civil rights in places like Washington D.C., Los Angeles and New York City. Attacks on them go unpunished while any offense by them, even in self-defense, will mean the harshest possible prison sentences.

Abuses of power that harken back to the worst days of the early Civil Rights era have become routine. Law enforcement knows whom to arrest and whom not to bother arresting. Cops only intervene when the leftist violence is severe enough that it will reflect badly on them. Faced with individual assaults, they rarely bother intervening, collecting evidence or upholding the law. Even when the assaults lead to serious injury, or as in the case of Paul Kessler, a Jewish man assaulted by a terrorist supporter during a pro-Israel rally in California, death.

Prosecutors, many of them progressives or harboring political ambitions, drop cases against leftists while currying favor with the new establishment by throwing the book at their opponents. Judges, especially in areas where they are elected, are just as bad, and jurors are responding to social pressure to punish political and cultural enemies, and spare their own political allies.

Crimes in free countries primarily punish assaults on property and persons while in totalitarian states they primarily punish crimes against the state. Pro-crime policies effectively decriminalized drug offenses, shoplifting and even some violent assaults because punishing crimes against persons and property was seen as upholding a racist and capitalist system.

But the police were never going to be truly defunded and crime was never going to go away. Instead in the last 5 years, crime has come to be defined as a political and social offense, an act of hate, a threat to democracy and an insult to the values and views of the ruling elite.

America’s justice system is being replaced by kangaroo courts and a banana republic system that selectively arrests, prosecutes and convicts political opponents for opposing the regime.

Whether or not something is a crime does not depend on the law, but on the politics of it. There could hardly be a clearer example of it when the day before Hamas supporters staged their attack near the White House. Steve Bannon joined another Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, in being dispatched to prison for contempt of Congress.

Is contempt of Congress a crime? It depends who is in contempt and who is in Congress.

 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.