The late Renee Good was up to no good. As revealed on Wednesday, her car struck the ICE officer in front of her and caused him to suffer internal bleeding. Had she lived, quite likely she would have been arrested for attempted murder, or at least attempted manslaughter.
Despite all the folklore that the fakestream media has been devising, the truth about her life and her chosen mission has been exposed. Matt Walsh, in a brilliant podcast, lays out in exact terms the network and funding of Leftist insurrectionists like Renee Good in Southern Minnesota. These insurrectionists regard themselves as ‘social justice’ warriors, but a more accurate description would be “vigilantes.”
Let Us Not Mince Terms
First, what does the term ‘social justice’ even mean? And, when you place a modifier in front of the word ‘justice,’ does that not fracture the meaning of ‘justice?”
“The most sacred of the duties of government,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.” The solemn responsibility and duty to uphold the application of justice for all, of necessity, must be the underlying principle for every individual who is elected to serve, be it Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, Donald Trump, or JD Vance.
‘Social justice’ activity is synonymous with the efforts of a particular group to redress what it considers to be a wrong, such as power lines being installed in proximity to impoverished neighborhoods rather than near affluent neighborhoods. Is this, however, a ‘social justice’ issue or a justice issue in and of itself?
Welcome to Today
We are not living in 1826 or even 1926. In 2026, many avenues exist for exposing and addressing issues of great merit or, for that matter, questionable merit. On a local level, the zoning boards, city councils (with virtually inherent diverse views), public gatherings, town hall meetings, symposiums, online forums, local and national television, and much more, can be harnessed to examine and scrutinize a claim and, if needed, to seek effective redress.
No government, on any level, is anywhere near perfect much of the time. Democracy itself can be quite messy. Yet, every other form of government is worse.
In a democracy, or a representative republic, which is how the U.S. is governed, no individual or group of individuals is authorized to skirt the law because they have concluded that they are not subject to a particular law. Long before her death, Renee Good surmised that she was not subject to the laws with which she disagreed. Nonetheless, each of us needs to make the effort to change the law, policy, or perceived inequity, while operating within the framework of democracy and the bounds of the justice system.
The Privileged Class
Consider a ‘sanctuary’ city such as Minneapolis. For the city, populated by Renee Good types, to flout the law, it has to have a woke mayor like Jacob Frey, city council members, ward representatives, and a variety of committee members, including individuals who have been elected or appointed. En masse, these individuals believe that they are entitled to pursue their objectives while ignoring wholesale what has been previously passed into law.
This self-proclaimed, privileged class fervently upholds bypassing what the majority of their own citizens rely upon each and every day: equal application of the law on a national, state, or local level.
A sanctuary city or state is a jurisdiction that intentionally obstructs federal officers. Leftists rationalize that ‘social justice’ mandates breaking the law because not every law is a good law. True – not every law is necessarily a good law. All laws, nevertheless, at some point got passed via a process, which might have been fair or unfair. Certainly, if a law invariably discriminates against one group versus another, then within a democratic framework, seek to change the law.
Vigilantism, the Choice of Leftists
When one group inserts catchphrases into the mix, particularly ‘social justice,’ it is an indication that the group has a differing viewpoint on a particular issue or set of issues. Is that group’s viewpoint and desired actions more meritorious or superior to whatever transpired before their quest? Are they entitled to flout the law, because they ‘know’ they are right? Of course not. What if we all acted that way? What if thousands of motorists, each with a cause, parked diagonally in the nation’s thoroughfares to impede traffic, as Renee Good did? What if they revved up the engines in defiance?
In past decades, such groups engaging in entitled behavior would be deemed vigilantes. What are vigilantes? A self-appointed group of citizens who undertake policy enforcement without having legal authority, often because they deem the legal agencies to be inadequate.
We reside in a nation dominated by a media, a big tech industry, and a bloated bureaucracy that decidedly leans left. As such, groups that advocate for ‘social justice’ have the wind at their backs. Their vigilantism, however, violates the rights, preferences, and even votes of at least 51 percent of the population.
Anybody Can Have an Opinion
Who among us could not offer a roster of issues that we’d like to change in society? Like Renee Good, if we recklessly decide to ignore prevailing laws in favor of what we want, how quickly will society completely break down? Answer: very quickly.
Taking the law into one's hands is vigilantism, an ill-advised route to working outside the system, however imperfect the system might be. Vigilante-controlled societies are ruined societies, with a citizenry that dwells in constant fear.
Despite the wild delusions of the brain-washed, useful-idiot Leftist masses, which apparently are itching for a second Civil War, this nation, indeed any civilized society, will not benefit from more Renee Goods and more vigilantism.
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