For his enemies, the law
“It’s getting worse.” Not to raise an alarm or anything, Bill Kristol writes, but, “the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have abandoned all pretense that they are interested in something so old-fashioned as the rule of law.”
- ICE draws weapons on people who ask questions
- ICE arrests people for legally videoing arrests
- ICE demands “papers” from 15-yr-olds
- ICE threatened to shoot/arrest an ambulance crew
- ICE hides their faces and drives cars without proper plates.
- This administration routinely violates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 10th & 14th Amendments and says it’s “enforcing” the law.
And it’s not just Donald Trump’s insistence on getting revenge on perceived enemies by prosecuting them when “sound grounds for legal action don’t exist.” This administration is moving against any and all its critics.
Kristol explains, “the administration and its allies routinely claim that peaceful protests are controlled by ‘antifa’—which they in turn claim is a criminal and terrorist conspiracy. And they assert that such speech is a cover for and an incitement to violence. The administration is thus laying the groundwork for subjecting speech critical of it to suppression and prosecution.”
We are in “off with their heads” territory. Trump is gunning for protected speech. His agents have conducted another military strike against an alleged small vessel off the coast of Venezuela:
Trump said, “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics” and “was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks …” was in “International Waters” and that “six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike.”
How long before summary executions for alleged drug smugglers becomes executions for alleged “criminal and terrorist” protesters?
Kristol admits to the irony that popular mobilizations like No Kings are actions he once opposed. But this administration is not only pursuing unpopular activities and, in the case of slaughtering alleged drug dealers, illegal. Murdering alleged drug dealers landed former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte in prison in The Hague. A consummation
devoutly to be wish’d for Dear Leader.
Kristol concludes:
“No Kings” is an expression of protest. But it is also an affirmation of responsibility. We the people ordained and established our free government. It’s up to us to keep it.
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