Last Sunday, a bunch of commie scumbags in Minneapolis, led by unemployed journalismer Don Lemon (we have a history!), stormed a church service because someone in the congregation was a member of ICE. They rushed in, disrupted the sermon, and generally freaked out the squares. The local cops were nowhere to be seen because their Democrat masters support this nonsense. And that’s great – they provided a preview of what these leftist degenerates will do on a mass scale given the opportunity. Normal people, queasy because law enforcement tactics employed against resisting people are aesthetically displeasing, suddenly got a good look at their future under Democrat rule. Now they understand why ICE does what ICE does.
But, of course, some of us can’t bear to put a check in the “W” column. A bunch of people on our side are furious because Monday morning rolled around and no one had been arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to Supermax yet. That kind of irrational emotional outburst is stupid, self-defeating for the movement, and it needs to stop.
I get that people are emotional. I get that people are frustrated. I get that their feelings are so full of feelings they might burst, and I don’t care. We are not a movement made up of teenage girls on a TV show who drive the plot with their inability to get a grip on their emotions. Man the hell up and stop whining like little female dogs. It takes time to go through the judicial process. That’s how it is, whether you like it or not.
This type of emo-spasm is sadly typical among the doomsaying, black-pilling peeps among us. “Pam Bondi hasn’t arrested ANYONE!” they shriek. But that’s demonstrably false. John Bolton has been charged. James Comey has been charged. Leticia James has been charged. “But but but but none are in jail!” That’s right! The criminal process has not been completed – you wanted them charged, so that implies you want them to undergo the legal process. “But but but but the Comey and James indictments were dismissed!” Yeah, the other side gets to defend the case – again, part of the criminal process that you demanded – and it’s ongoing. What we have here is a moving goalpost problem. People want bad actors charged, they get charged, and then people complain about that. It’s very annoying.
Monday morning consisted of a bunch of people crying that no one had been arrested yet about this incident. “But there’s evidence on the interwebs!” Yes, there’s evidence out there, much as in any criminal case. But that’s the beginning of the process, not the end. Do they think that criminal prosecution goes like this?
Evidence exists!
Bad guys locked up!
No, it does not. The people complaining are demanding that the legal system hold these people accountable. Great. We all want that. But to do that, you have to use the legal system. And that’s the legal system that exists in reality; it’s not the one where everything gets finished up in 60 minutes like on Law n’ Order: The White Christian Businessman Did It.
Here’s how a real prosecution goes – we want a real prosecution, right?
Gather evidence, and not just YouTube clips
Go to the grand jury for an indictment
Arrest the accused
Do pretrial activities for a year
Have a trial
Get a conviction, maybe
Have a sentence
Appeals
Now, if you really just want us to swoop our enemies up off the streets and toss them in a gulag – which I am perfectly aware (see my books) our enemies did with the J6 people and would do to us – have the stones to say so. But don’t pretend you want the DOJ to charge people with crimes because that means the criminal justice process. And the criminal justice process is not designed to satisfy frustrated people who want their pound of flesh yesterday. Again, I understand that the J6 persecutions made a mockery of both the “criminal” and “justice” parts of “criminal justice,” but even if emulating that fascist model was a good idea it is still not going to happen because the leftist judges would not allow it for us while they aided and abetted it in the case of the J6 pogroms.
Allow Pam Bondi, Harmeet Dhillon, and the rest of the DOJ team the time to do this right. They are on the case, but they must build a case. That means time. There’s much more evidence that needs to be gathered than some video clips, though those clips are terrific evidence – thanks, Don! Investigators and attorneys need to gather and process all the evidence, prepare for the grand jury, and go get indictments. Nothing wraps up in an hour like on the TV machine.
Note something important – there are specific laws that these people violated related to disrupting religious observances. Too often, people on our side start crying that no one has been arrested over some actual atrocity, but here’s the fact that too many seem to not know or not accept: everything bad is not a crime. “I want to see people arrested over J6!” Okay, great. I’m mad about it too. Tell me what specific people committed what specific crime, and not by using terms of art like “treason” and “sedition” that you heard on @MAGAGenius69’s podcast, which have specific legal meanings that don’t fit the situation. “We should arrest these liberal judges!” Okay, what for? Sure, I’m ticked, too – I used to have to deal with them personally in court – but you need a crime before you can charge someone. I am unfamiliar with the statute criminalizing being a biased, hack jurist. Some things are political and have to be dealt with in the political arena – instead of a criminal courtroom – no matter how mad they make you or how wrong they are.
I get the frustration. I get the anger. We patriots have been screwed over, and people must be held accountable. To do that through the criminal justice system requires us to use the criminal justice system, and it’s not insta-justice. Getting frustrated over things that we cannot change is not only pointless but demoralizing – how many people out there hearing the bleating about “The Trump Administration is doing nothing!” – a demonstrably false contention – will believe it and choose not to show up in November? If that happens, then nothing really will get done.
When some of us start spazzing out because their gratification is being delayed, tell them to chill. Take a breath. This is going to take time. Leave the emotional self-soiling to the Democrats. We are conservatives, not leftists. We don’t play that.
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