Daily Broadside | The Left Means to Destroy Our Country As Founded

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 24:20
It was because of the Lord’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.

It’s Thursday and the slow burn of the country formerly known as the United States of America continues apace. At the top of the list is the sacrificial white man Derek Chauvin who was tossed to the braying mob by the jurors in the false hope that it would appease the gods of woke. That of course won’t happen because once you feed the beast instead of starving it, it only wants more.

So now the activists that reside in Washington, D.C. will push their advantage by opening a “civil investigation to determine whether the Minneapolis police department has engaged in a pattern and practice of unconstitutional … policing,” announced yesterday by Merrick Garland, the US attorney general.

The probe will also determine “whether the Minneapolis police department engages in a pattern and practice of using excessive force during protests.” Garland said this new civil investigation was “separate from and independent of the federal criminal investigation into the death of George Floyd.”

So now we’re going to harass the cops who are trying to keep the streets safe and protect innocent civilians during “protests.” Anyone want to bet on what the findings will be? Wouldn’t want any mostly violent protesters getting hurt by the police while they’re breaking windows, setting fires, beating passersby, and looting stores. Gee, I wonder why cops are retiring in record numbers?

In spite of the convictions the Chauvin jury returned, these BLM activists demand that people trying to eat at a local restaurant leave New York City (NSFW language). See how pacified the black and white Marxists are? Let the healing begin!

Then there’s the insipid tendentiousness of the Bronx ditz Ms. AOC. She offered a take on climate change that challenges our understanding of the English language and all rules of logic.

“We must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change, that the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change, because … we are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to health care, the right to housing and education.”

Seriously, what does one do with that Gordian verbal knot?

“Trampling indigenous rights is a cause of climate change.” Who knew that populating America with white people would cause the climate to “change”?

“Trampling racial justice is a cause of climate change.” Same. Can you believe that the Democrats and their defense of slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow laws would cause the earth to cool, then to heat up!?

“Because …” Here come the reasons …!

“We are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights …” Wait, wut?

“… and deny people the right to health care …” Seriously? I thought Obamacare took care of that. It didn’t?

“… the right to housing and education.” Who in this country is denied housing or education? You know that we’re even providing all the illegal alien children with in-person schooling, right?

And this somehow all translates into the dreaded “climate change.”

She’s speaking English but it’s all Greek to me. Sometimes I think progressives just blurt a stream of consciousness that in their own head makes perfect sense—or maybe not—but that normal people can’t understand and therefore can’t respond to. Mind you, she wants to introduce legislation based on this mindless mishmash of unproveable claims. In days past, AOC would’ve been roundly mocked for her delirium, but that is verboten in today’s climate of change. (See what I did there?)

Finally, here’s one I bet you didn’t see coming. The United States Post Office has been spying on your social media posts.

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.

The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.

Oh. Gone are the days of holding envelopes up to the light. Now the postman is reading through what you post on social media in order to rat you out to “government agencies.” I thought they delivered mail, not intelligence. This is part of a troubling trend of an expanding U.S. surveillance state.

A conviction for murder is a validation of racism. Racism is a cause of climate change. And the United States Post Office is taking notes on your social media accounts and passing them “across government agencies.” Like the FBI, DOJ, IRS and who knows who else.

Our once proud nation is being eroded at a faster and faster pace. I’ll give the last word to David Horowitz who, in a piece about the Chauvin verdict, writes about the activists pushing the narrative about racism.

In fact, we won’t be able to stop these destroyers until we recognize that they regard us – America – as the criminals. They have no respect for us and our laws and institutions. They hate us. They are busy spreading the Hate-America-Lies of our enemies Communist China, Islamo-fascist Iran and Putin. And they mean business. Their goal is the destruction of America. They will succeed unless we start taking them seriously and work to expose and crush them.

Daily Broadside | The Poisoned Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Case

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 21:9
But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

Mid-week and the big story is that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty yesterday on all charges against him. Chauvin had been charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The jury delivered its verdict after 10 hours of deliberations over two days.

I didn’t listen to any of the trial, so any information I have about it is second- or third-hand news reports or commentary, just like the vast majority of Americans. I also don’t know the technical ins and outs of the legal differences between second-degree unintentional murder and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, although on the surface it seems understandable. So I don’t have much of a leg to stand on to dispute the jury’s findings.

But I do know this: Derek Chauvin wasn’t on trial for murder. He was on trial for being a racist.

Oh, technically he was standing trial for murdering George Floyd, but that’s not why the story stayed in the public eye for the last year. The reason we know about George Floyd and Derek Chauvin is because Chauvin is white and Floyd is black. The reason we know about George Floyd and Derek Chauvin is because Floyd’s death ignited violent protests involving Black Lives Matter, Inc., in multiple cities across the nation that caused billions of dollars in damage and killed 19 people. The reason we know about George Floyd and Derek Chauvin is because of claims that police are racist and that “America has its knee on people of color.”

George Floyd’s death and alleged racist motivations have been inextricably conflated together. The story is that George Floyd was murdered because he was black.

George Floyd’s death was claimed to be murder and the murder was claimed to be driven by racism. The Left wouldn’t separate the two then and won’t separate the two now. After the verdict was announced, Black Lives Matter, Inc., wrote, “But let’s be clear — This verdict does not change what we know all too well: White supremacy still exists.” Resident Biden stayed awake long enough to say, “[Floyd’s murder] ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism. Systemic racism — a stain on our nation’s soul.” Jesse Jackson, race monger extraordinaire said, “The killing continues. We must break the backbone of legal lynching forever. Police killing people is getting away with legal lynching.”

In the minds of the progressive Left, then, a guilty verdict for murder in this case means Chauvin is guilty of racism.

But racist motivations were not proven in court. The prosecution didn’t provide evidence for racism and the defense didn’t provide evidence disproving racism. Racism can’t be proven in this case unless Derek Chauvin confesses that he kneeled on George Floyd’s neck because he hates black men and wanted to kill Floyd.

Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know every human heart).

1 Kings 8:39;

Racism is an attitude, a deformity of character, a worldview, a matter of the heart. It shows up in words and actions and nothing Derek Chauvin did the day George Floyd died suggests that he was provoked by Floyd’s race to murder him. There is simply no evidence for it. All of the officers involved were patient and non-aggressive as Floyd resisted arrest for more than eight minutes and claimed to be claustrophobic and refused to comply with commands to get in the squad car.

Derek Chauvin couldn’t get a fair trial because the case was poisoned by accusations of racism from the start and then reinforced by violence and political clowns like Mad Maxine Waters demanding a guilty verdict. The only appropriate considerations should have been the evidence for and against his responsibility for Floyd’s death.

Rightly or wrongly, the jury decided that Chauvin was responsible for Floyd’s death. Perhaps he was. But we don’t know, and can’t know, whether Chauvin was motivated by racism. Only God knows that.

Undeterred, however, the Left let us know that racist policing was being decided in this case. And on that, unfortunately for them (and for us), the jury is still out.

Daily Broadside | Mad Maxine Fails Her Own Standards of Guilt

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 17:15
They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do,” and they did all the things the Lord had forbidden them to do.

It’s the second day of the third week of the fourth month of twenty-twenty-one. A recent study found that women who are a little heavier live longer than the men who mention it.

On January 6, you may remember, President Trump held a rally and said things like this:

Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down—we’re going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol—And we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them—I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections.

He claimed that the election was stolen and invited the crowd to walk down to the Capitol with him to make their voices heard “peacefully and patriotically” to the Senators who were confirming the electoral college votes. We all know what happened after that; the Capitol was breached and President Trump was later impeached for “incitement of insurrection.”

The charge was ridiculous and the Senate acquitted him.

One of those who voted to impeach Donald J. Trump a second time was Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). In fact, she boasted on her official government website that she drafted four articles of impeachment “in response to the tragedy of January 6, 2021.” Mad Max was deeply troubled that “Donald Trump provided white supremacists, right-wing extremists, and conspiracy theorists validation and free reign to spew hatred, bigotry, and racism, and yes – commit extreme violence.”

How ironic, then, that this past weekend she showed up in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, flapping her yapper in support of demonstrators protesting the police killing of Daunte Wright on April 11. But she also made some comments that did more than imply violence, unlike the comments of President Donald J. Trump.

Speaking of the Derek Chauvin trial, here’s some of what she said.

  • I’m going to fight with all of the people who stand for justice. We’ve got to get justice in this country and we cannot allow these killings to continue.
  • I know this, we’ve got to stay in the streets. We are looking for a guilty verdict.
  • If nothing does not happen then we have to not only stay in the streets but we have to fight for justice. I am very hopeful and I hope that we are going to get a verdict that is guilty, guilty, guilty and if we don’t, we cannot go away.
  • Oh, not manslaughter. Oh, no, this is guilty of murder! I don’t know if it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s first-degree murder!
  • We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

Here’s an elected official of our national government demanding a certain outcome and threatening “more” confrontation. The outcome she demands is, guilty of first-degree murder, which is impossible because Chauvin is not charged with first-degree murder. But Mad Max isn’t interested in facts; “I don’t know if it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s first-degree murder!”

Having set the expectation for the jury to do the impossible, she then threatens the city with continued riots. Remember, Minneapolis is where Burn Loot Murder began and there’s been rioting, looting, murder and arson. How could it possibly get “more confrontational”?

This isn’t the first time that Waters has called for confrontation with the people she dislikes. In 2018 she told a group of her supporters to harass Trump administration officials.

Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

By her own standards, Mad Max fails the incitement test. The editorial board of the New York Post is demanding that she be removed from office:

Maxine Waters is trying to create a civil war, and her irresponsible rhetoric is inciting violence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should strip her of her committee assignments and move for a vote to remove Waters from office.

Of course, Nancy Pelosi has declined to censure, impeach or otherwise punish Waters, who, to borrow her words, has “provided Blacks, left-wing extremists, and members of Antifa validation and free reign to commit extreme violence.”

The lack of consequences is simply another example of the Left’s double standards. One set of rules for conservatives, another set for progressives.

If the Left didn’t have double standards, they’d have none at all.