When the Law Is a Drag

PJ Media ^ | november 30, 2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

[yoe]

In (the Ferguson disaster), the law was the greatest casualty. Civilization cannot long work if youths strong-arm shop owners and take what they want. Or walk down the middle of highways high on illicit drugs. Or attack police officers and seek to grab their weapons. Or fail to obey an officer’s command to halt. Or deliberately give false testimonies to authorities. Or riot, burn, and loot. Or, in the more abstract sense, simply ignore the legal findings of a grand jury; or, in critical legal theory fashion, seek to dismiss the authority of the law because it is not deemed useful to some preconceived theory of social justice. Do that and society crumbles.

[yoe]

Where Black's are concerned Political Correctness has replaced Law & Order....seemingly incited by the Bully M. Brown's relatives and Al Sharpton who are pawns for the anti-Americans, Muslim Brotherhood, George Soros, CAIR,....the unseen force for the protests....these aren't protesters these are Anarchists, many not from Ferguson, MO. at all. Trying to overthrow the Grand Jury's decision is a crime....round them up then lock them up....until it can be determined the cost of the destruction, cost of looted items, addresses, priors...stiff fines along with hard labor.

[Steely Tom]

Fundamental Change, coming to America.

Elections have consequences.

[garjog]

Why should the people obey the law when the nation’s chief executive ignores it on whim?

[originalbuckeye]

Yep. There are no laws that apply to Bammy or his minions. I hope Holder is some day held to account for the way he has destroyed the necessity of obeying the LAWS in this country. Remember, Bammy couldn’t behave the way he does if we had an AG who respected the Laws of the Land.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hanson writes like an intelligent, principled, and civilized man. Scary to think how rare that is.

[Jacquerie]

It's better than that. This may be VDH’s best column ever.

Elections cannot cure what ails America.

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH ping ...

Our bureaucrats thirst for the single infraction by the law-biding citizen who can pay — to compensate for their impotence amid endless crimes by the law-breaking who are deemed unable to pay. That idea of redistributive enforcement permeates the entire federal government.

What separated the United States from a Peru or Nigeria or Mexico or Laos or Russia was the sanctity of the law, or the idea that from the highest elected officials to the least influential citizen, all were obligated to follow, according to their stations, the law. Under Obama, that sacred idea has been eroded. We live in a world of illegal immigration and amnesties, Ferguson mythologies, and alphabet government scandals, presided over by a president who not only does not tell the truth, but also seems to be saying to the public, “I say whatever I want, so get over it.”

[colorado tanker]

I first ran into this years ago when I heard a talk by a Native American advocating liberation theology. He knew what he as spewing was contrary to the facts, but he told the audience that it was "his truth" and we would just have to deal with it.

That's what the race hustlers are doing here, creating their own "truth" that is contrary to the facts and evidence.

[griswold3]

VDH nailed it (again)

[griswold3]

lawlessness comes from Godlessness
Fix that

[Jacquerie]

vice emanates from government

Fix that

[HotHunt]

[trebb]

The whole excerpt is a parable of the entire Obama term so far...

[griswold3]

“Obama and other activists forget how easy it is to tear down the institutions that maintain order and the rule of law, and how hard it is to shore them up so that our nation can continue to prosper.”
http://www.hoover.org/research/ferguson-and-rule-law

I say the destruction of the rule of law is the objective.