Law and disorder

The Democrats have abandoned any fidelity to ordered liberty, which the Constitution guarantees. Instead they weaponize the law, at least at the federal level, to proceed against their enemies. This is tinpot dictator type stuff, of course. But at the local level, they now do what no tinpot dictator ever risked. They allow petty thieves, assailants, and even murderers to do what they will, with impunity. When they do that, they give further impetus to a Great Sortation – this time between the lawful and the lawless.

Law and disorder exhibit A: the FBI

First let’s update ourselves on the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. CNAV has covered extensively the raid on a former President’s house. (In which their agents rifled the closets and dressers of the lady of the house!) We now hear that the FBI, on Thursday (September 8), laid on thirty-five raids on persons allied with President Trump.

This comes after a federal judge ordered the FBI to stop using materials they took in their raid on Trump’s house, until a special master has had a chance to examine them for attorney-client and executive privilege. As such it represents a brazen escalation of the struggle to stop a former President from becoming President again.

Speaking of special masters, Trump’s lawyers and the Department of Justice each submitted pairs of candidates for the job. But when it came to drafting the order setting forth the special master’s duties and authority, the Justice Department clearly decided to troll the judge.

Specifically, the DOJ still wants to hide several documents from the public and even from the special master. Maybe Judicial Watch, for example, should file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to reveal them.

That Speech, and the precedent

It also comes after the incumbent President made a speech that, to some, brought back memories of a bloody tyrant. CNAV thought it looked more like the act of a certain Roman Senator who set the precedent for trampling on civil liberties in the name of state security. And how ironic, that, given Cicero’s many, many speeches against the government and for the liberties of ordinary citizens. Who can forget this memorable quote?

Inter arma enim silent leges.

Translation: in time of war the laws fall silent. Well, Cicero should know, considering how he handled the Catilinarian affair. But he also wrote the playbook on abuse of national emergency powers. Joe Biden, Democrat, is following that playbook. And various social media are full of modern Ciceros – and Catos, too.

Senator Marcus Porcius Cato, to his shame, was the loudest voice for executing Roman citizens without trial. (In the very next year, Cato involved himself in a false-flag pseudo-operation to incite a riot on the Forum steps. He did this to discredit his favorite enemy, Julius Caesar, the urban praetor – Rome’s chief justice.) Some of the snide comments peppering all the major social media sites echo Cato, in word and tone. Do those people not realize that the FBI, if they could come after a former President and his allies this way, could come after any of them just as easily? Or do they repose absolute confidence that the FBI would never turn against them, because they represent “The People”?

Law and disorder exhibit B: lax or selective local law enforcement

We now turn to Exhibit B, the disorder that Democratic mayors and governors shamelessly allow in their States and cities. Portland, Oregon, is typical, of the endgame if not of the present situations in those states and cities. The Mayor there has let homeless persons trespass where they will, and criminals rob and burglarize with impunity.

Now businesses are selling out at a loss. This is no mere ex-migration, but evacuation from an untenable situation.

Now the State of Illinois decided to make things an order of magnitude worse. This year their legislature passed a bill with a totally false name: the Safe-T Act. That acronym stands for Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity Today. It abolishes “cash bail,” and replaces it with a system requiring snap judgments on the danger any given suspect poses to specific others or the community at large. The Act classifies these offenses as literally non-detainable:

• Aggravated Battery.
• Aggravated DUI. This literally means Driving Under the Influence – of drugs, alcohol, or both.
• Aggravated Fleeing.
• Arson.
• Burglary.
• Drug-Induced Homicide.
• Intimidation.
• Kidnapping.
• Robbery.
• Second-Degree Murder.
• Threatening a Public Official.

When crime targets can’t defend themselves

Releasing suspects in cases on this list would be bad enough even if law-abiding residents could arm themselves for self-defense. But this is Illinois. Gun control in Illinois isn’t quite like the May-Issue states (California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York). But it comes close, and Governor J. D. Pritzker wants to get closer. Worse, most of these crimes will occur in Chicago and other big cities, whose mayors have all but disarmed their law-abiding residents.

Worse yet, police will no longer physically remove trespassers from anyone’s home or yard. This goes beyond burglary and robbery, and enables adverse possession.

So what does this mean in practice? It means that the government will implement these maxims of cultural Marxism, that no one cares to repeat out loud:

• A thief is an irregular wealth redistribution agent.
• A trespasser is an irregular housing redistribution agent.

This last recalls memorable scene from Doctor Zhivago, in which a neighborhood block director scornfully declared,

Now you’re going to live like the rest of us!

The only difference here is that this new law lets people take what they want, and leaves owners without recourse.

The only equity for which this law provides is a Marxist’s notion of equity in distribution of material goods. Beyond that, this law gives neighborhood bullies a free license to go on bullying. Though CNAV expects to see selective application of this law, especially regarding threats to public officials.

New Midterms issue: law and order

Midterms are coming up, of course, and that gives freedom lovers a chance to vote against weaponization of the law. Several prominent Republicans in the House of Representatives have already promised investigations, and multiple oversight committees. But except in the off-year States of New Jersey and Virginia, this also gives voters their last chance to vote for law and order. If they don’t take it, then they might as well:

• Sell their homes and businesses at heavy losses, or worse:
• Walk away from mortgages and lease contracts.

They then would move out-of-town and out-of-State. Then expect the criminal element to enjoy a short-lived celebration. Short-lived, because city infrastructures will collapse from lack of maintenance. This will result not only from lack of funding but also from lack of warm bodies to do the jobs.

Redo the Census

Sadly, this will leave many States underpopulated but still enjoying outsized influence in the House of Representatives. The Census Bureau has admitted overcounting the populations of eight States and undercounting those of six others. Ironically, Illinois is one of the six undercounted States. The Epoch Times estimates that the overcounting and undercounting distorted representation in the House as follows:

If the evacuation of States like Oregon, Illinois, New York, and California continues, then the Presidential election could decide whether to do another Census earlier than 2030. A Census needs about a year of preparation. So if a new President authorizes it in 2025 it could happen in 2026. States would then redraw district lines in 2028 as well as in 2032. A Census is expensive, so authorizing a mid-decade Census is no light matter. But a sudden ex-migration from four of the most populous States would justify it.

Once again, we see the Great Sortation getting more impetus. But we also see another issue to emphasize at this Midterms. That issue is: selective application of the law, and the destruction of America by facilitating disorder.