“When the great disinterested body of the people hesitate to protect each other in their common rights and privileges, they are gone forever, and nothing but revolution can redeem them.” – Frederick Robinson, A Brief Exposure of the Bar Association, June 25, 1831; Annals of America Vol. 6.
A few statements by Jimmy Failla a few days ago clued me into his closet Liberalism. I tuned in to see if things had changed in the years I had quit listening. They had not.
Failla’s comments:
- “cops should reflect society”. Really? If that were so convicted felons, drug addicts, alcoholics, and a whole host of undesirable citizens would be given a badge and a gun. This fallacious idea began back in the late 1980s when Senator Pat Schroeder mandated the military reflect society. If you’ve been in the military since then you can’t miss the emasculation, the politically correct cancer that has devastated our military. Law enforcement agencies have a winnowing application process for a reason.
- “blighted cities and neighborhoods should be funded”: By all accounts the “War on Poverty” has been dismal and expensive failure. Public housing soon turned into ghettos because no human being values anything for free. The media covered this problem in Baltimore a few years ago when the mayor complained of “racist” non-funding by the Trump administration only to discover the hundreds of millions he had gotten for urban renewal were either siphoned off by him or given to slum lords to purchase votes.
- “Rittenhouse should NOT have been there!” EVERY LAW- ABIDING ARMED CITIZEN IN THE STATE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE! The laws of self defense apply to communities as well as to individuals. If a society is threatened with destruction it falls upon the citizens to preserve their community. This is a no brainer and has legal precedent. It is a Constitutional right to protect yourself and your community within legal bounds.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Abolitionist Publisher killed by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois in 1837:
“So long as man is in the body, physical force must be used to secure moral results. God always has used it and always will.”
“The certainty of an ultimate appeal to force is all that gives law any terrors to the wicked.”
America’s historical precedent for communal self-protection:
“Corrupt public officials and an influx of criminals combined to create such a state of lawlessness in San Francisco that private citizens took law enforcement into their own hands through the formation of vigilance committees.
“Whereas, it has become apparent to the citizens that there is no security for life and property, either under the regulations of society as it at present exists or under the laws as now administered; and that, by the association together of bad characters, our ballot boxes have been stolen and others substituted, or stuffed with votes that were never polled, and thereby our elections nullified, our dearest rights violated, and no other method left by which the will of the people can be manifested.
Therefore, the citizens whose names are hereunto attached do unite themselves into an association for the maintenance of the peace and good order of society, the prevention and punishment of crime, the preservation of our lives and property, and to ensure that our ballot boxes shall hereafter express the actual and unforged will of the majority of our citizens. [This is not only a constitutionally legal right but a natural right as defined by our Founding Fathers. Remember, the STATES have all powers not enumerated to the Federal government.]
And we do bind ourselves, each unto the other, by a solemn oath, to do and perform every just and lawful act for the maintenance of law and order, and to sustain the law when faithfully and properly administered. But we are determined that no thief, burglar, incendiary, assassin, ballot-box stuffer, or other disturber of the peace, shall escape punishment, either by the quibbles of the law, the insecurity of prisons, the carelessness or corruption of the police, or a laxity of those who pretend to administer justice.
And believing ourselves to be executors of the will of the majority of our citizens, we do pledge our sacred honor to defend and sustain each other in carrying out the determined action of this Committee, at the hazard of our lives and fortunes.” – Constitution of the Vigilantes of San Francisco, 1856; The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, XXXVII, San Francisco, 1887, p. 111-113; Annals of America, Vol. 8, p. 383.
It should be a source of shame to the law abiding citizens in Kenosha, the county and the state of Wisconsin that their citizens didn’t rise up in defense of their community. Inaction only guarantees further anarchy.
State governors can authorize organizations like the Texas Rangers with real law enforcement authority and/or enlarged police or sheriff’s reserves / auxiliary where the requisite training would provide an enhanced, legitimate, trained counter to the anarchists.
