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All Americans surely agree that justice is a social good; everyone wants a just society. But definitions matter: to those of us on the political Right, justice means dispensing appropriate consequences for those who break the law or commit some moral transgression. It means righting wrongs. It means prioritizing the innocent and the victim over the guilty and the criminal. It means stabilizing society by, as much as possible, fairly maintaining law and order for all citizens.
In addition, for the Right justice is generally an individual matter, addressed on a case-by-case basis, meaning that if a single crime or sin against another has been punished and restoration made to the victim(s), then justice has been done.
But our justice is not their justice. To the Left, who see everything through the distorting Marxist lens of oppressor-vs.-oppressed, justice means overthrowing the oppressor, end of story. They view it collectively; justice is not served until an entire guilty society is torn down and rebuilt from the ground up, and restoration has been made to all who were oppressed. Think of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer’s famous declaration, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
For the Left, the end justifies the means; whatever empowers the oppressed and deconstructs systemic oppression is just. It does not necessarily have anything to do with law and order or right and wrong; instead, it has everything to do with crushing opposition to the revolution, by any means necessary, to reverse the power dynamics of an unjust society. “There is no crime in revolution!” went the Maoist slogan of the Cultural Revolution – meaning, no act which furthers the overthrow of the “old” can be considered criminal.
A truly horrific example of this is in the Left’s defense of the barbaric terrorism waged by Hamas in Israel four months ago. Decent souls everywhere were sickened by the shocking war crimes committed there on October 7th, but the Left have been untroubled – even celebratory – and defiant. “You don’t get to decide how we resist,” is their pro-Hamas slogan on placards – on which blood drips threateningly from the letters of the word “RESIST.” The perverse narrative behind this slogan is that Israel is an oppressor regime that must be overthrown, and therefore no crime committed by the purportedly oppressed Palestinians can be considered unjust. Gang rape, torture, murder, kidnapping, all of which were gleefully carried out by sadistic Hamas “freedom fighters,” are not seen by the Left as crimes but as just “resistance.”
Recent events offer up many other examples of ways in which the Left demonstrates its lust for total, permanent power and a blatant disregard for law and justice in pursuit of it.
Breitbart News, for example, reported that
On Wednesday, 150 House Democrats voted against the “Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act” by Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) which would make drunk driving grounds for ineligibility to be in the U.S.
[…]
In another vote this week, 155 House Democrats voted against legislation from Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) that would ensure ICE agents can promptly deport illegal aliens convicted of Social Security fraud against American citizens.
Both laws nevertheless passed, but the point is that the vast majority of Democrats went on record as wanting to protect illegal aliens from the consequences of their crimes because Democrats, who always prioritize criminals over law-abiding American citizens, are hell-bent on using a tsunami of illegal immigration to destabilize the country and import an insuperable voting majority. Illegals are necessary to bring about the revolution – hence, their breaking of immigration law is not truly criminal.
Nor are any of their violent crimes truly criminal, as long as those are committed against the “oppressor.” Saturday, January 27th in New York City, a mob of illegal aliens living in a taxpayer-funded migrant shelter ruthlessly and fearlessly assaulted police officers who tried to take one of them into custody. They were later released on bail because New York is a sanctuary city; one of them even grinned and gave both middle fingers to media cameras after his release, just as Democrats who harbor such violent thugs in their sanctuary cities give both middle fingers to law-abiding Americans.
By contrast, the Left has for three years nursed outrage over what they call an “untold number” of police officers they claim were injured by Trump supporters during the manufactured chaos at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In this instance, the Left views Trump supporters as members of the white supremacist “oppressor” group, and the Capitol police to be protectors of democracy (i.e., the Biden administration); hence, any attacks on the officers are considered heinous crimes. The administration continues to this day to hunt down, with a prosecutorial vengeance, any protestor who happened to wander onto the Capitol grounds that day (or be guided inside by welcoming Capitol police).
Last Tuesday, six pro-life activists were found guilty of “conspiracy against rights” and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act with regard to a peaceful protest outside a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021. Among them, facing a maximum prison sentence of 11 years, are a 73-year-old and a 55-year-old Christian father of 11 children. This is not justice by any objective standard – this is unconscionable political persecution of pro-life Christians, a demographic that the Left despises because Judeo-Christian morality is an obstacle to the Democrat revolution against all traditional American norms.
By contrast, the male Congressional staffer who filmed himself and a male friend buggering each other after-hours in a Senate hearing room in December will face no charges, not even a basic obscenity misdemeanor, because, like drag queen groomers and gender ideology pornographers seeking to sexualize young children, their transgressive behavior is a form of revolution against the archaic, bourgeois sensibilities of an unjust American society.
Christian U.S. Navy veteran Michael Cassidy has been charged with a hate crime after tearing down a demonic Satanic Temple display at the Iowa State Capitol last December (check out my interview with him about that incident on The Right Take podcast). How many left-wing anti-Americans across the country have been charged with tearing down statues of the Founding Fathers, Christopher Columbus, and other historical icons in recent years? How many rioters and looters were charged with crimes in 2020, the year of Black Lives Matter devastation across the nation?
The Left views Cassidy’s righteous outrage to be “hateful” because he destroyed a display dedicated to Satan, the first revolutionary (remember that left-wing strategist Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals acknowledged Lucifer as “the first radical”), but the neo-Marxist revolutionaries destroying our national icons were given a pass because they were eradicating the history and monuments of their “oppressors.” Similarly, the Left views Black Lives Matter looters not as criminals but as part of an oppressed class who are merely claiming reparations owed them.
The very definition of a despotic, anti-democratic government is one which weaponizes law enforcement against its political opponents while turning a blind eye to the blatant crimes of its own ideologues and allies.
Has the United States ever had an administration more committed than Joe Biden’s to punishing cruelly anyone who has stood in the way of the revolution to fundamentally transform our nation? Or one so lawless that it willfully abandons immigration law and border security, refuses to charge violent Black Lives Matter rioters with crimes, and seeks to destroy the lives of peaceful pro-life protesters?
The blatant hypocrisy and double standards are jaw-droppingly egregious, but it isn’t enough for the Right simply to point out the Left’s hypocrisy, because the Left is impervious to being shamed. Leftists don’t care what they’re accused of, because they never play defense. They are perpetually on the offensive. They cannot be shamed even with undeniable evidence of hypocrisy or wrongdoing, which they simply ignore. For a Party and movement that are on a self-righteous mission to “save democracy” and “save the planet,” no transgression is beyond the pale; anything and everything they do to further their agenda is justifiable in their minds (“No crime in revolution!”). And conversely, anything and everything the Right stands for is an evil obstacle to the Left’s utopian vision and must be destroyed by any means necessary.
The Right needs to waste no more energy on futile complaints about leftist hypocrisy and focus instead on simply waging war against the Left’s revolution to replace our civilization with a collectivist dystopia.
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Spurwing Plover says
And we Resist any Attempts for them to take over our Nation and force their Sharia Laws upon us HAMAS GO HOME
Beez says
Time to revive the Committees of Safety and Correspondence.
Gary Littwin says
We don’t get to choose how you resist. Fine. And you don’t get to choose how we kill you.
sue says
Hello Dr. Tapson. You say: “Christian U.S. Navy veteran Michael Cassidy has been charged with a hate crime after tearing down a demonic Satanic Temple display at the Iowa State Capitol last December.”
Yes. The double standards are so blatant here. Utterly shameless. Which is frightening. But on the other hand, rather than tear the statue down, couldn’t he have commended the Iowa State Capital on its honesty, given that the Inspired Scriptures warn us that all the kingdoms of the world lie in the power of “the wicked one”, Satan the devil?
Have you ever thought about the amount of pagan symbolism all over our political and religious buildings? Is the cross, for example, a Christian symbol?
And isn’t this why Jesus taught, and teaches us to pray for God’s Kingdom to come? How much we need the loving, perfect and impartial rule of the heavenly government. It alone can restore the earth to the paradise of peace it was always meant to be. And if you would please look at Daniel 2:44 you will see that the heavenly government will end the times we are living in now, times during which “man has dominated man to his harm”.
Hardball1Alpha says
Winston S. Churchill — ‘The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.’
Mo de Profit says
“ the distorting Marxist lens of oppressor-vs.-oppressed, justice means overthrowing the oppressor, end of story.”
That is never the end of the story, it is always the start of the beginning of communist dictatorships, and it’s always brutal, “nobody is safe until everyone is safe”
Hardball1Alpha says
They’ve replaced Mao’s “Little Red Book” with the smart phone.
J.J. Sefton says
“The Right needs to waste no more energy on futile complaints about leftist hypocrisy and focus instead on simply waging war against the Left’s revolution to replace our civilization with a collectivist dystopia.”
The question is HOW? Considering the gravamen of Mr. Tapson’s fine essay indicates that the system is so corrupt that we will not be afforded the benefits of an impartial criminal justice system for the redress of our grievances, that leaves us with very limited options.
Soon, if this continues (and there is nothing to indicate that it will stop) there will be only one option left. God help us. And God help them.
THX 1138 says
By the standard of altruism private property is an injustice. The meek shall inherit the earth by eating the rich and the rich is anyone who has even one more dollar than you have.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Pride is a sin. So give up your money and your pride.
Your money, your property, your accomplishments, you didn’t build that, they are gifts from God. You don’t own them, they are bestowed upon you as blessings and gifts from God. Your Godly duty is to share God’s blessings with those he has not so blessed. Don’t be greedy, greed is a sin. Share, sharing is a virtue.
The Parable of the Rich Fool
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
Intrepid says
Have you contributed anything to the betterment of this country by always defaulting to your idiotic anti-altruism slop fest. And your simplistic, childish “lessons” on Medieval Europe.
I thought you didn’t want to get involved in these political arguments anymore. I guess you are that much of a liar. That or you simply can’t help yourself.
Steve says
I’m sure that if Hitler had emphasized the “Socialism” in “National Socialism” and chirped, “I’m not antisemitic, I’m ‘Anti-Zionist’!” and recast “The Final Solution” as “Resistance”, legions of woke idiots and academics would have supported him.
TruthLaser says
Too many were supporting him, or at least impressed with his rule until they were attacked or threatened. Many did see the socialist big government side as the future.
Steve Chavez says
SHOULDN’T A RAPE VICTIM REQUIRE A RIOT?
If a MAGA did that, yes, but if an ILLEGAL did that, no!
VICTIMS OF ILLEGALS need to start suing!
IF AN ILLEGAL BEATS UP A COP…. no bail, released. If a BLM/ANTIFA/DEMOCRAT beats up a cop, throws urine-filled balloons and bricks that them, no crime. If they ambush and kill a cop… can’t find them.
IF A PRO-LIFE CLINIC is trashed and fire-bombed… a real excuse by the DOJ… “We don’t know who they are because it happened at night.”
STRANGE that bank robbers wear masks but the FBI can trace all of them with the countless security cameras to eventually catch them.
BLM/ANTIFA wears masks, destroy entire cities, and they can’t be identified. LOL! The authorities can’t follow them to the cars which are parked around the corner? WTF IS THAT!
One ANTIFA rioter was unmasked, and she turned out to be professor at Ft. Lewis College in Portland where many of the riots took place and the city center was taken over.
NEXT RAPE BY AN ILLEGAL DESERVES A MASSIVE PROTEST! A MURDER DEMANDS THE SAME! AND YET…. WE ALL WRITE REALLY REALLY MEAN COMMENTS HERE AND ELSEWHERE AND THEN ADD NUMEROUS !!!!!! TO SHOW THEM HOW MAD WE ARE!!!! THE DEMOCRATS ARE LAUGHING AND YES, ME WRITTING CAPS IS ME SCREAMING!
internalexile says
“There are no morals in politics. There is only expedience.”–Lenin. The Left has been there for a long time. When half the country wants to continue to live as a constitutionally mandated representative republic, and half wants to tear up the constitution and replace it with a coercively egalitarian socialist Marxist dystopian utopia, a country not of relative equality of opportunity, but of enforced equality of outcome, a compromise really no longer is possible. My God, what has happened to this country?
Ed Snider says
With the Palestinians, with Muslims in general, the end is even worse than the means.
Onzeur Trante says
Americans need to get passionate about each and every America Last policy of the Left. Reclaiming the border is just the first step. Keep the fury alive. Let it spread. Take back the country.
danknight says
How to resist? …
Without violence or law-breaking?
Well, how burying the hatchet?
Here’s an idea … don’t be (actually) racist. (Read David Horowitz, if you’re clueless.)
… Has anyone declared that “It’s Okay To Be White?” …
We cannot even get most Christian pastors to say this. Much less Atheists and other minorities. Even on the Right. Black Conservatives and a very small number of bold independents are willing to say it.
We should have fixed this racist, bigoted neighbor hating 60+ years ago, but we will lose everything now … if we don’t …
… unless the issue of the anti-white type of racism is fixed … and soon.
… all functional nations will be over …
G-d help us all.
glpage says
This is why another civil war is almost inevitable. The left will continue with violence as a justification to meet their goals as long as they do not suffer. Unfortunately, spending a night in jail is not suffering to them, being arrested is not suffering to them. They will continue until they feel actual pain such as getting back what they are dishing out only more so. They will continue until they experience severe injury or loss of life. They might have second thoughts about their actions if they see their comrades next to them falling down dead. I am not advocating violence, I hope that it will not be necessary, But I really believe we are near to or at the point where it is necessary if we want to save this country. The left has decided they are untouchable, that they can do what they want with no repercussions, that they can continue to flaunt the law of the land. And, they will continue to do so until they feel pain.
Dan Hargreaves says
You got to remember always to the Marxists the issue/s they are protesting about is never really the issue. The real issue is the capture of absolute power.
George says
No more trying to reason with democrats, Just deport them to the socialist paradise of their choice and ban them from returning.