Posted on 10/30/2023 4:25:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The judicial mob tyranny under which we’re now living didn’t begin with Trayvon Martin and Black Lives Matter, but it certainly got a lot of traction there.
Earlier this week, I attended the theatrical debut of Dinesh D’Souza’s compelling new documentary Police State. As much as I liked the movie, there was one subject left unexplored: the ironic fact that, today, among those most vulnerable to the “police state” are local police.
Searching for a more inclusive metaphor than “police state” to describe our current state of peril, I reached into the past and came up with “Jacobin Justice.” In the way of background, the left-wing Jacobins were the most powerful political faction to emerge during the French Revolution.
The power of this bourgeois elite derived from their ability to manage the Parisian mobs. To satisfy the mob’s bloodlust, the Jacobins imposed a state of revolutionary justice untethered to any traditional sense of Judeo-Christian morality. The result was a reign of terror that saw more than 10,000 people tried and executed.
There have been outbreaks of mob justice throughout American history, but it is only really in the last ten years or so that America’s Jacobins, our “best people,” gave mob justice their blessing. To be sure, Jacobins have been using mobs since the emergence of the Soviet Union a century ago, but largely for propaganda purposes.
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By the year 2012, however, the Jacobins were finding common ground not with Atticus Finch, but with Robespierre. Instead of resisting the mob as Atticus did, they sided with the mob, managed it, encouraged it. Instead of defending the transparently guilty, they felt free to condemn the transparently innocent. Oddly, almost no one noticed what may have been the darkest turn in judicial history.
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I just said that when the Marque de Sade does your eulogy chances of your being a good person are pretty much zero.
Nope.
Most were middle or lower class who did not mouth support for the absolute lunacy that was happening. Or more accurately they were accused of not supporting the "revolution".
Mostly they just had something that someone else wanted. Like a goat. A wife. A pretty son.
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