So Much For The Rule of Law

Townhall.com ^ | May 12, 2022 | Jerry Newcombe

[Kaslin]

These days it seems that Saul Alinsky has taken over the Democrat Party. This is no longer the party of JFK---not even close. JFK said in his Inaugural Address, “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

There is no God, says Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), the Marxist community organizer par excellence from Chicago. He perfected many of the “by any means necessary” tactics the left is using today---tactics on full display these days in the wake of challenges to Roe v. Wade.

Alinsky deeply influenced some key leaders of the left. Such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who taught Saul Alinksy’s tactics to a whole new generation of “social warriors.”

Alinsky believed agitation was the key to overhauling the system. He said, “First rule of change is controversy. Change means movement and movement means friction and friction means heat and heat means controversy.”

He wrote the book on such change---Rules for Radicals, 1971. He dedicated this book to Satan---no kidding. “’Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology , and history … the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom---Lucifer.’”

Saul Alinsky believed that truth and morality are relative. He wrote, “The end justifies almost any means.”

He targeted Christians in order to break down Christian morality in society: “Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

With this kind of thinking, virtually no Christian or person of good will could run for office because no one is perfect. Yet President Calvin Coolidge said, “If good men don’t hold office, bad men will.”

I believe we are seeing on display Alinsky-type tactics in last week’s unprecedented (possibly illegal) leaking of the Supreme Court decision-in-the-making that could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade. When the left doesn’t get what it wants through the rule of law, they resort to dirty tactics to get their way.

It is ironic that the left often uses the name of the late pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in their Alinskyite tactics because Ginsburgadmitted that Roe v. Wade was poorly argued, which could one day lead to its overturn.

How are they using Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name? Writing for lifenews.com (5/5/22), Steven Ertelt notes: “A group named ‘Ruth Sent Us’ is now calling for disruption and violence in Catholic churches, as well as protests outside the private homes of Supreme Court justices and their families. These radicals even published the justices’ home addresses.”

The UK Daily Mail (5/5/22) adds that the “Ruth Sent Us” activists sent this message to their followers: “Our 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights,' the group's website reads. 'We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics.'”

And so the protests have begun outside of some of the justices homes. Justice Alito, who wrote the draft opinion, has now gone into hiding for his safety, with his family.

So much for the “right of privacy” the left claims to cherish. So much for the rule of law. So much for democracy (since these leftists appear to live in mortal fear that abortion will become subject to the voters). Welcome, mobocracy.

Amazingly, the Biden administration has no words of condemnation for this violation of the justices’ privacy---and the attempt to strong-arm the members of the Court to change their vote (which is a federal crime under the U.S. Code, though Biden’s Justice Department seems uninterested in enforcing it).

When asked if the president or she would condemn either the illegal release of the draft-opinion or the planned protests at the justices’ homes, press secretary Jen Psaki only said that such protests should be “peaceful.” On Monday, 5/9/22, she added that judges “must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety.”

This reminds me of what comedian J. P. Sears said in a different context: “That’s, of course, a testament to how super tolerant the lefts is with absolutely everything, aside from 100% of the things they don’t like.”

The left did not get abortion on demand through the legislative process. It was brought in through judicial fiat in Roe v. Wade. Now that the Supreme Court might return the issue to the ballot, state by state, through the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, the left is in a terrible uproar and resorting to tactics unworthy of a civilized society.

Somewhere Saul Alinsky is smiling.

[Lurkinanloomin]

“Where there is no law, there is no liberty” - Benjamin Rush, founding father

[ronnie raygun]

evil pukes in history, alinski

[Bernard]

JFK said in his Inaugural Address, “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

Nice new tag line. The old one had been there a while.

[Savage Beast]

"Saul Alinsky has taken over the Democrat Party."

"There is no God, says Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), the Marxist community organizer par excellence from Chicago."

You misguided souls who follow Democrat politicians, who allow yourselves to be brainwashed by the misguided Democrat propagandists of the news media, professors and teachers, "celebrities," et al., are you so blinded by the zeitgeist groupthink that you cannot see the quagmire of evil into which you are sinking--and into which you are dragging America, the world, and your children?

If so, you are truly lost!

America is in mortal danger.

[antidemoncrat]

“These days it seems that Saul Alinsky has taken over the Democrat Party.”

Hell, that’s been true since Osama Obama took office.

[R_Kangel]

"So Much For The Rule of Law...

..... Not to mention that 18 US Code § 1507 prohibits picketing or demonstrating in or near a building or residence occupied or used by a judge and anybody caught doing so should shall fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

...... This means that what these Communist Leftist activists are doing is absolutely ILLEGAL! So Jen Psaki and all of the Democrat Party who are out there saying that it is only proper that these activists partake in those Peaceful Demonstrations in front of the Justices Homes are complicit in encouraging criminal acts.

[joshua c]

selective enforcement of the law is tyranny

[Cboldt]

I’ll add to that. Law doesn’t protect liberty either. Liberty is a violence-based outcome. Law is just a mutual agreement 9sort of) as to what sort of conduct is tolerated, and what is not, as each person goes about his ordered liberty.

Sometimes law protects liberty, but generally it does not. Law limits what is allowed.

Any law that purports to limit government action is illusory - governemnts will tend to take more than was agreed they should have. see our federal governemtn out of constitutional bounds, CDC ordering people to mask up, orders to be vaccinated. This all happened and only after the damage might some court come in and say “not so fast,” government lacks that power. LOL - well, it got alot of masking and vaccinating done, power it had in fact, even though not later endorsed.

The way the founders got liberty from the king was by force of violence. This is what it takes when there is disagreement between the governed and the government. Otherwise the government will ALWAYS get its way. And the government will point to the law as what gives it the power. The power to take away liberty comes from the law.

[libertylover]

These days it seems that Saul Alinsky has taken over the Democrat Party.

Seems?

[Elsie]

And so the protests have begun outside of some of the justices homes. Justice Alito, who wrote the draft opinion, has now gone into hiding for his safety, with his family.

This is ILLEGAL!!!

U.S. Code Title 18 PART I CHAPTER 73 § 1507 18 U.S. Code § 1507 - Picketing or parading U.S. Code

Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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There is nothing wrong with 'the law'.

What is missing is ENFORCEMENT!!!

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[Elsie]

The way the founders got liberty from the king was by force of violence.

Golly!

I just READ that; somewhere...

[Scarlett156]

“It seems” that Alinsky has taken over the Democrats?

Not “it seems” but “it is obvious.” (With apologies to the author of the piece - I use the word “seems” a lot, usually to denote irony.)

[Scarlett156]

On a more serious note: This is how Democrats end up “winning” - because they will win at any cost. There is nothing they won’t stoop to, including electoral fraud.

Alinsky also said: “Make your opponent follow his own rules.” Therefore, the Right has to be nice. The Right has to play fair. The Right may not use forceful speech. The Right has to listen to both sides. The Right must not employ dirty tricks. The right must lose with good humor and grace.

Dunno about you, but I think we should grow more determined to win - not at all costs, but with greater will and spirit, skill, toughness, endurance, and keenness of intellect - and, when it comes down to it, firepower. All the things the Left doesn’t have in great supply. (Er, unless you count the nukes. The Left does control some of that action, but worrying about whether ChoMoeJoe is going to push the button - especially if fear of same keeps you from acting - is pointless. That it hasn’t happened yet, that’s a reason to keep going. If it does, we’re all going to be in the same boat.)

Nastiness, hate, threats, violence, cheating - let them excel at those things and wipe each other out. We are smarter. We can stay one step ahead of them if we stop filtering out what we don’t want to see and fight like mad dogs when they try to fight with us.