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Daily Broadside | Distorting History Will Never Bring the Offended Justice

As I mentioned on Friday, I was traveling this weekend. I was in Washington, D.C., where the world, the flesh and the devil meet in a swirling vortex of power and greed.

While I was there I walked down Pennsylvania Avenue past the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where plots against Trump were hatched and dirty information on Joe and Hunter Biden was suppressed. I walked down Constitution Avenue past the Department of Justice where Merrick Garland had the audacity to green light a raid on Donald J. Trump’s personal home, a first in American history, over nothing more than “classified” documents that he had the inherent power to declassify as he wished.

I wasn’t filled with pride when I saw these buildings; I was filled with revulsion at the sickening abuse of power that they represent.

There were some good experiences that offset the grim reminders those granite buildings represented. I walked through the National Archives (right next door to the DOJ) and saw the originals of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Those made my heart swell with pride over the foresight and wisdom of our Founding Fathers, who created the freest country the world has ever known.

But even they, in all their earthly wisdom, couldn’t make something that would outlast the evil in the human heart. I’ve quoted it before and will quote it a hundred more times before I die, but John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Generally speaking, we are no longer a “moral and religious People.” The people currently in the government “of, by and for the People” are drawn out of that no-longer-religious community. They are, with few exceptions, of, by and for themselves.

A good example of how this plays out was in the National Archives’ gift shop. As I walked through it something felt “off” to me. I couldn’t place my finger on it until it occurred to me that while there were facsimiles of our founding documents and pocket Constitutions and stickers and magnets and pencils and coffee cups and T-shirts, there were very few representations of the MEN who wrote these documents. Instead, what I saw were sections devoted to women and minorities.

I have no problem with acknowledging that women played a role in our founding, or that minorities also contributed. But the degree to which they were represented in the gift shop was all out of proportion to the contributions they made. Again, not to disparage any group, but it wasn’t women and minorities who wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

It doesn’t matter that it was a patriarchal society — you can’t make that “right” by somehow downplaying or demonizing men and increasing the presence of women in a gift shop.

Yet, that’s what I saw. And that is a direct result of a grievance, which comes from feeling a dissatisfaction or perceiving an injustice, which is believing you have been wronged — and that is exacerbated by not getting the justice or revenge you think you deserve.

Somehow, those in charge think they are getting “justice” by replacing our history or emphasizing minor actors out of proportion to their contributions. Unfortunately, all they’re doing is distorting history.

True justice for things done a hundred or two hundred years ago can’t be had. But, someday, the True Judge of all mankind will bring justice to bear and make all things right across all time.

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;
    therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
    Blessed are all who wait for him!
— Isaiah 30:18

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Daily Broadside | The Weaponization of the Federal Government Continues Apace

Daily Verse | Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Thursday’s Reading: Proverbs 18-21

Thursday and, if you’ve been paying attention (and even if you weren’t), the Supreme Court sent Roe v. Wade to the dustbin of history last month with a 6-3 majority (although Roberts only concurred with the case in question, Dobbs, not with overturning Roe). Of course, there was the much anticipated reaction from the Left, which had been hyperventilating with murderous threats since the draft opinion was leaked in May, with one near-assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh. As the Left likes to spout about every issue it supports, “people are gonna die!” And they almost delivered.

Roe was overturned on solid constitutional grounds because it was originally established on faulty reasoning and unconstitutional grounds. In other words, Roe was judicial malpractice, with the court overstepping its authority and usurping the role of the State legislatures. Even the notorious RGB agreed that Roe was bad law. Remember, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In other words, the federal government has only the powers delegated to it in the U.S. Constitution. If a power isn’t listed, that “power” belongs to the states or to the people.

The legality of abortion — killing an unwanted child all the way up to the moment of birth in some cases — was rightly returned to the States for adjudication.

A number of States have banned (or will shortly ban) abortion, while many others have codified abortion. Some, like New York and Vermont, want to make abortion access a constitutional right so that it can’t be rescinded with new legislatures. While I am adamantly opposed to abortion, this is how it should be: each State working out through their legislatures how they will handle baby-killing.

So, with all being right in the world, why does this press release give me the chills?

The Justice Department announced today the establishment of the Reproductive Rights Task Force. The Task Force formalizes an existing working group and efforts by the Department over the last several months to identify ways to protect access to reproductive health care in anticipation of the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. 

Oh.

Let me get this straight. SCOTUS corrects an egregious (not to say illegal) wrong and the United States Department of Justice — justice which is supposed to act only according to the law without respect to education, rank, wealth, sex, skin color or opinion — is not only choosing sides, but aligning itself against SCOTUS?

“As Attorney General Garland has said, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision is a devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States,” said Associate Attorney General Gupta. “The Court abandoned 50 years of precedent and took away the constitutional right to abortion, preventing women all over the country from being able to make critical decisions about our bodies, our health, and our futures. The Justice Department is committed to protecting access to reproductive services.”

As is usual with Leftists, they constantly lie, and especially so in our ruling class. SCOTUS did not “take away a constitutional right to abortion” because there never was a constitutional right to abortion to begin with. That so-called “right” was made up by unelected men in black who “concocted an elaborate set of rules, with different restrictions for each trimester of pregnancy, but [they] did not explain how this veritable code could be teased out of anything in the Constitution, the history of abortion laws, prior precedent, or any other cited source.”

Also note the euphemism, “reproductive services.” If you’re fighting for abortion, you’re not fighting for “reproduction.” You’re fighting to keep from reproducing which, let’s face it, is pretty simple: keep your zippers zipped.

But that won’t stop the DOJ and former SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland from bringing the weight of the federal government to bear on the States and, in effect, on We the People.

Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta will chair the Task Force, which will consist of representatives from the Department’s Civil Division, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney community, Office of the Solicitor General, Office for Access to Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, Office of Legislative Affairs, Office of the Associate Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General and Office of the Attorney General and will be supported by dedicated staff.

Hey, Fat, what’s with all the “offices”?

Those many “offices” who are banding together to intimidate those who oppose abortion are being paid for by your taxes. This is a perfect example of the federal leviathan that, once created, keeps growing and consuming more resources, more office space, more overhead and, most of all, more tax dollars. Like Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors.

Guess who else the DOJ is “partnering” with.

The Justice Department is working with external stakeholders such as reproductive services providers, advocates and state attorneys general. The Task Force will continue this important effort. It will also work with the Office of Counsel to the President to convene a meeting of private pro bono attorneys, bar associations and public interest organizations in order to encourage lawyers to represent and assist patients, providers and third parties lawfully seeking reproductive health services throughout the country.

Can you imagine the DOJ, or any agency of the United States government for that matter, advocating on behalf of crisis pregnancy centers if the situation had somehow been reversed and it was pro-life advocates who had lost a “right”?

Yeh, me neither.

The DOJ is pulling together a juggernaut of baby-killer advocates to fight for an imaginary “right” to murder your offspring instead of upholding the law of the land which is now being determined by the States. In Garland’s own statement, he says that, “The Justice Department will use every tool at our disposal to protect reproductive freedom.”

It sounds like he’s serious.