Loretta’s Lynch Law
By Thomas Fleming
July 8, 2016
American political leaders are almost to a man, woman, and all points in-between, uneducated and literate only to the level that they can read the speeches that are written for them. Nonetheless, it is sometimes enlightening to examine the clichés—almost all of them not simply false but counter-intuitive— with which they pepper their pronouncements.
Case in point, Loretta Lynch’s sermon on the murder of five officers of the law in Dallas. After thanking the reporters for attending, she assured the American people that “we”—whatever or whomever she means by that—
"…intend to provide any assistance that we can to investigate this attack and also to heal a community that has been severely shaken and deeply scarred by an unfathomable tragedy."
If we are going to be at all literal, a tragedy is a work of literature in which a noble person becomes arrogant, makes mistakes, and finds ruin. If we are going to use “tragedy” as a metaphor, we should apply it to cases of noble men who are destroyed by excessive ambition or pride. Coriolanus, say, or Napoleon, or General Patton. By definition, a senseless or “unfathomable” disaster is not a tragedy.
And why, exactly, is the racist murder of Dallas policemen, “unfathomable”? In the negotiations with the police, the shooter, now deceased, says that he was motivated by hatred of white people, and that the Black Lives Matter movement had roused his righteous anger to the point that he had to commit murder. What else is new? The Black Lives Matter movement is openly and explicitly dedicated to destroying law and order and justifying any form of thuggery so long as the thugs are black.
Most revealing, perhaps, is Lynch’s use of the word “community.” She does not mean the people of Dallas, who in any case do not form a community simply by the geographical accident of living in the same metroplex. When African Americans use the word community, they always and only mean their community. Why black people in Dallas should be scarred by killers who acted out the cop-killing fantasies of the very popular Black Lives Matter movement, is beyond my humble ability to comprehend.
Lynch goes on:
The peaceful protest that was planned in Dallas last night was organized in response to the tragic deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
For a BLM demonstration, it was remarkably peaceful, though some looting and thuggery went on, and participants shouted the usual homicidal slogans--Pigs in the Blanket, etc. . Who knows if the night might have gone on to the usual conclusion, if supporters of the movement had not acted on its principles.
Now comes that most ancient of chestnuts:
Americans across our country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear. These feelings are understandable and they are justified. But the answer must not be violence. The answer is never violence.
That is exactly the position the President and Congress took on December 8, 1941, and that is the American response to British atrocities at Lexington and Concord: The answer is never violence. This attitude also explains why the USA have no military forces, and why we scorched German and the Japanese cities in WW II.
We must continue working to guarantee every person in this country equal justice under the law. And we must take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.
But neither Lynch nor BLM believe at all in equal justice under the law. The FBI director admitted that one of his employees who did what Hillary did would be in deep trouble, but not a celebrity politician. The principle on which Lynch acts is that crimes committed by African Americans are not to be punished with equal severity as crimes committed by white Americans.
Of course she wants to disarm law-abiding Americans. That way they will not be able to defend themselves against thugs in and out of government.
But Lynch saves her best stuff for the peroration:
To those who seek to improve our country through peaceful protest and protective {?] speech, I want you to know that your voice is important. Do not be discouraged by those that would use your lawful actions as a cover for their heinous violence. We will continue to safeguard your constitutional rights and to work with you in the difficult mission of building a better nation and a brighter future.
But as nearly everyone knows, BLM protests are rarely peaceful, and their members regularly use the rhetoric of hatred and assassination. In which penumbra of the Constitution, I wonder, do Lynch and her ilk find a right to engage in protests that destroy property, defame character, insult authority, and prevent ordinary people from going to work or performing needed errands? The rights of peaceable assembly and petition are the rights of corporate communities, towns, counties, states, to consider problems and present petitions to legislators. There is not a signer of the Declaration who would have regarded such demonstrations as anything less than acts of rebellion.
Finally:
I urge you to remember today and every day, we are one nation, we are one people and we stand together.
No, Loretta, no. Perhaps we were something like one nation in 1960, but leftist politicians, activist judges, and race-baiting minority leaders (You, Loretta, are all of the above) have succeeded in dividing us, probably irreparably. People like Bill and Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch have declared war on middle class taxpaying, normal Christian men, women, and children. Because we are law-abiding citizens and Christians, we do not go on a rampage every time we lose an election—or basketball game—or hear that a white thug has been shot while resisting arrest.
Obama, Lynch, Clinton and company long ago put their cards on the table. For them, men who love women and work for a living are primitive like the Sioux Indians whose extinction has been decreed by the Marxist laws of historical progress. The next election will determine whether the barely sane are still in the majority. (It is good to see that the neoconservatives and other NeverTrump activists have stripped themselves of their borrowed feathers and come out in the open as the declared enemies of anything that is left of what is normal and decent in American life. The great thing about learning to recognize an avowed enemy is that we do not have to listen to anything they say.
Get back, Loretta
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