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Progressive Prosecutors Build a New Kind of Police State - They’re not defunding the police; they’re funding the thought police.
Front Page Magazine ^ | 26 Feb, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/26/2024 11:08:14 AM PST by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 02/26/2024 11:08:14 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It becomes illegal to tell the truth about leftists.


2 posted on 02/26/2024 11:08:47 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

Daniel Greenfield ping


3 posted on 02/26/2024 11:09:11 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

BLM were Obama/the Left’s SA-Brownshirts or Red Guards. They caused chaos for a distinct political purpose.

Their goal was to eliminate the independence of 3000+ local police and sheriffs and put them under DOJ/FBI control

Notice how no one talks about “defunding” any Fed.gov police?


4 posted on 02/26/2024 11:10:44 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MtnClimber

Just like every other totalitarian regime in history.


5 posted on 02/26/2024 11:10:50 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

The police are now here to restrain those who would stop the criminals


6 posted on 02/26/2024 11:13:05 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: MtnClimber

No surprise.

When you put criminals in charge, they disarm and arrest the police and law-abiding citizens.

They give their fellow criminals free reign to loot, burn, pillage, assault, rape, plunder and murder.


7 posted on 02/26/2024 11:22:11 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: MtnClimber

That was the most depressing analysis I’ve ever read. The worst part is I agreed with most of it.


8 posted on 02/26/2024 11:26:35 AM PST by Mustangman
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To: No name given

The truth is, the people in charge of law enforcement at the upper levels in this government care as much about people breaking the law as the inner party cared about the proles (or the common criminals) breaking law in Orwell’s “1984”.

People are now punished for being in the wrong political party.


9 posted on 02/26/2024 11:37:58 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: Robert A Cook PE; 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

excerpted in full by our friend mtnClimber!

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Daniel Greenfield's website: The Sultan Knish blog

10 posted on 02/26/2024 11:44:38 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: rlmorel

When was the last time 17 Senate Democrats broke away from most Senate Democrats—with the assistance of Senate Democratic leadership in the Senate—to help Republicans enact Republican policies overwhelmingly opposed by Democratic voters nationwide?

It’s never happened.

Ever.— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 25, 2024


11 posted on 02/26/2024 11:45:23 AM PST by combat_boots
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To: MtnClimber; joesbucks; kiryandil; Political Junkie Too
The Supreme Court in Timbs v. Indiana ruled to prevent this from happening. Unfortunately, Americans like Joesbucks have no problem with political persecution.

In the ruling the following was stipulated.

“Protection against excessive fines has been a constant shield throughout Anglo-American history for good reason: Such fines undermine other liberties. They can be used, e.g., to retaliate against or chill the speech of political enemies. They can be employed, not in service of penal purposes, but as a source of revenue. The historical and logical case for concluding that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Excessive Fines Clause is indeed overwhelming.“

12 posted on 02/26/2024 11:50:15 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell,)
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To: Mustangman

If you want to really be depressed, I am thinking that the only role Conservatives have in this world is to pick up the pieces of what these jackasses break.


13 posted on 02/26/2024 11:52:21 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Nothing gets you in trouble like telling the truth.


14 posted on 02/26/2024 12:17:28 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: MtnClimber
... crime waves ... and the serial prosecutions of former President Trump and other conservatives are not separate events, but the common outcome of a fundamental transformation of the justice system from punishing crime to punishing political opposition.

The 8th Amendment says excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed... nor cruel and unusual punishment...

The Soros bimbo has screwed the pooch... it's O-VAR,,,

15 posted on 02/26/2024 12:18:08 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrat superdelegates created to stop the 'black community' from electring the 'wrong person'...)
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To: Mustangman

Same here.


16 posted on 02/26/2024 12:18:31 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: MtnClimber
This isn’t “lawlessness”: it’s a new sort of law based on a different set of values.

Yes, it is, and it has a name: Critical Legal Studies, an arm of the overall Marxian Critical Theory bundle of doctrines. Simplified, it holds that all law is a manifestation of a privileged class exerting political power over an oppressed class. There is no possibility of a legal system built on equal justice for all, contrary to one of the most core beliefs in the American constitutional system.

Here I differ slightly from Greenfield - despite devout protestations to the contrary, there is no adjustment possible in this system, no "punching up" and "punching down"; what is possible is only the change in which classes populate the punchers and the punchees respectively. This is the meaning of the "We're in charge now" mantras - the only thing that changes is the "we", and social justice is in the continuation of oppression, not its elimination.

Yes, this, like most of CT, is profoundly cynical and nihilistic, but it is easily understood (the Left is grossly intellectually lazy, after all) and a very exploitable conduit for the resentment and envy that confer the political power necessary to effect it. The upshot is that there can be no equal justice for all, and that the cycle of oppression is eternal. The people perpetuating this nonsense look evil because they are.

17 posted on 02/26/2024 12:25:02 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Mustangman; All
The worst part is I agreed with most of it.

Daniel Greefield is an excellent writer and he did a good job explaining it.

I have been saying much the same for years, but not all in one place.

He hits the mark when he notes this is a regression to the more common, former state of unlimited government power.

Those in charge want to keep power and enlarge it.

The genius of the American system was to hold the power in check and provide ways for a peaceful transfer of power.

Progressives wanted/want unlimited power in government, very similar to the Pharoahs.

18 posted on 02/26/2024 12:27:38 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: MtnClimber

Beware Beware the thought police are everywhere;


19 posted on 02/26/2024 12:54:43 PM PST by BillT (If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s way pass time to just shoot these tyrants.

The Tree Of Liberty is very thirsty.


20 posted on 02/26/2024 1:02:29 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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