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The spectacle on display in Minnesota reflects a catalogue of dysfunctions that have managed to survive the Trump administration’s attempts at correction. The suicidal bad ideas that have polluted our Constitutional order for decades have been wounded, but still are dangerous and capable of metastasizing throughout our institutions.
The protestors are the poster-children for the corruption of our public schools. Particularly telling are the many displays of ignorance concerning our Constitution. The assaults on the federal officers responsible for protecting our borders and the integrity of our citizenship under the supervision the Executive Branch, are obvious examples. Such “resistance,” as these poseurs call it, also is against the laws that proscribe interference with officers doing their job to apprehend lawbreakers.
Other markers of our cultural decay include Minnesota’s politicians and leaders who ordered their police not to cooperate with ICE officers, who are charged with enforcing this country’s laws and detaining those who cross our borders illegally, and then often commit murder, assaults, rape, human trafficking, and other crimes.
This interference with, and disregard of federal agencies’ authority by state citizens and their political offices, an authority empowered by the Constitution’s divided powers, are a form of the “nullification” used to justify Confederates’ violations of the Constitution during the Civil War.
Another sign of our corrupted school curricula are ideas that proclaim these border-jumpers who enter the country illegally are not criminals. Yet we know from ICE officers that criminals have been apprehended in the hundreds of thousands. Instead, the illegals’ champions abuse the virtue of empathy, and masquerade moral idiocy with such virtue-signaling. Yet, they have no empathy for the victims of those crimes committed by illegals, or for the taxpayers who are fleeced to provide them welfare from programs created for citizens.
These dysfunctional practices and beliefs saturating our institutions are also the effects of the death of common sense and traditional wisdom that are the foundation of our Constitution. A century of secularism has been the force multiplier of the weakening of faith. For the Framers of the Constitution, religion was the sine qua non, as George Washington expressed in his 1796 Farewell Address: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports,” the “firmest props of the duties of men and citizens . . .Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on the minds of peculiar structure, reason and expertise both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
The ignoring of this wisdom by the left was put on display in Minnesota by anti-ICE protestors who disrupted a church service and shouted down worshipers, including families with children. Apparently, the protestors, including self-identified failed “journalist” Don Lemon are ignorant that The First Amendment lists freedom of religion first, expressing the Framers’ belief that other freedoms depend upon the freedom of religion.
Unfortunately for the protestors, DOJ’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, knows the Constitutional law of the land and is brushing aside their spurious freedom of speech claims, and is charging three leaders, including Don Lemon.
This lack of common sense, by the way, is a common trait of the dangerous ignorance we’ve witnessed during the Anti-Ice protests, especially among those physically attacking armed ICE agents and threatening their lives. This is typical of people with bad educations and little street-smarts about the habits of armed police officers. Partly this reflects their sense of entitlement, and narcissism about their elevated virtue and intelligence. Two protestors paid the ultimate price for these deficiencies of practical wisdom.
The first thing learned by clever young people who live in tough neighborhoods frequented by police is “Don’t f—ck with the police.” Growing up in the rural San Joaquin Valley, I had a few experiences illustrating this precept. The first took place during a gang-fight at my rural high school between Mexican American students and white kids who were sons of Dust Bowl Okie migrants.
Policing was left to the Highway Patrol. I was rubber-necking with a couple of other bystanders next to a Patrolman when I got a lesson in the “cop-three-step.” During the melee, a student bystander wanted more action, so he started to join the fight. The Patrolman yelled at him to stay put. But being a border-lander “born fighting” kind of kid, he started running toward the fight, so the officer jerked him back roughly as a warning. But the kid took off toward the fight again. This third time, the cop bounced his night-stick on top of the kid’s head, making his eyes roll like a slot machine as he dropped to the ground. That was the police three-step: first a tough verbal order, next a rougher physical jerk, then a f–king up his sh-t.
The protestors against ICE, being entitled narcissists, are used to cursing officers, kicking their cars, and pelting their cars or them with rocks and bottles with impunity. So, the protestors escalated. A woman tried to ram an officer with her car and ended up dead, since there’s nothing that requires an officer to sacrifice his life to a lunatic using a car as a weapon. The male nurse made the stupidest error you can make when getting physical with a cop you’ve spat on and whose car you’ve kicked–– he brought a loaded semi-automatic pistol. Again, nothing in an officer’s contract requires him to lose his life to an unhinged activist with leftist comrades who are true to the Marxist modus operandi–encourage useful idiots to use “any means necessary.” That’s who’s responsible for those deaths and many others.
All this mayhem is the wages of suicidal bad ideas that pollute our institutions from education to the media to state and federal governments. President Trump has battled these bad ideas, but much remains to be done.
