When the White Hats have switched to Black

Okay, everybody, repeat after me: The America I once knew and loved is no more; Amerika v2.0 is indeed a banana republic, and in any banana republic the police are NOT my friends.

Make no mistake; the velvet glove illusion of "justice" and "democracy" has an iron fist inside it. We can rail, and rightly so, against the horrid, naked criminality and lust for power of the political class and their immediate underlings, as well as the apparatchiks and technocrats in the bureaucracy and elsewhere who, as true believers, follow orders or take the initiative independently to repress us.

But more horrendous by orders of magnitude is the attitude of people like us, our fellow citizens who wear a uniform and swear an oath to uphold the law, yet go along to get along and "just follow orders."

What was Michael Byrd thinking and feeling when he gunned down Ashli Babbitt? Ditto the agents of the regime when they beat Roseanne Boyland to death? Or Lon Horiuchi when he pulled the trigger on Randy Weaver's wife and son? And that was 31 years ago when the nation was not on the brink of turning into what was happening concurrently in Yugoslavia.

Ace highlighted yesterday evening Biden's infamous declaration that Trump will not be allowed to serve regardless of the election results. And then there is the abject rabid hatred and delegitimization of the Supreme Court in it's Dobbs and Affirmative Action decisions. If things do get sporty, either spontaneously or with a little help from the 1st Ray Epps Glowie Airborne Division, the question is what will the beat cop do when/if martial law is declared?

We all ought to have seen plenty enough by now to be able to discern the answer to that one quite easily, I think, and it’s a grim, disheartening answer indeed. Even so, the evidence continues to pile up higher (and deeper) with every passing day.

You can’t hide NYC’s migrant crisis by chasing off journalists, NYPD
Why on earth did the NYPD cop-block a Post reporter from interviewing the migrants camped this week outside Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel?

Yes, the public campout was a huge embarrassment for the Adams administration.

But that doesn’t qualify as “exigent circumstances”, the BS excuse the cops gave to stop reporters from speaking to the migrants themselves.

“You don’t have to be here, you want to be here,” bluffed one officer.

Wrong: We do have to be there!

A massive throng of illegal migrants gathered in the commercial nerve center of America’s largest city as they await processing by a slapdash, jerry-rigged system that can in no way accommodate them is the definition of newsworthy.

That Gotham’s crisis is a direct result of federal policy only makes it more so.

Cracking down on our reporters’ First Amendment rights in response is beyond unacceptable.

What were the cops (or whoever told them to do this) hoping to achieve, anyway?

Again, easy: exactly what they were ordered to achieve, that’s what. And in the event, they did, whether you feel it’s “beyond unacceptable” or not. Which in turn presents the ultimate question: What, if anything, are you willing to do about that?

It’s the selfsame question we will all be required to answer sooner or later, presented in a slightly different guise by the latest round of transparently bogus Trump “indictements."

The Trump Indictment Criminalizes Political Dissent
Is it legal to disagree with Democrats? The Jan 6 indictment says it isn’t.

The serial indictments and investigations of former President Trump are meant to rig the 2024 presidential election, but the latest indictment is unique in rigging even its aftermath.

Previous indictments of the former president had broken all sorts of new legal ground by turning misdemeanors into felonies and deciding that the statute of limitations is just a suggestion, but the Jan 6 indictment by Democrat special counsel Jack Smith criminalizes election challenges.

Or at least election challenges against Democrats. And along with that, all political dissent.

The Jan 6 indictment contends that Trump’s election challenges were a crime. What does this latest indictment offer that the previous indictments did not? This one is designed to intimidate any Republicans who might seek to challenge the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

Unsatisfied with indicting the leading GOP primary candidate in order to rig the election, Democrats are criminalizing political opposition before and after the upcoming election.

But…but…but Mike, you squee piteously. What does the political persecution of Trump have to do with the po-lice, which was supposed to be the original topic here? Oh, lots, sez I. Mainly this:

The police are neither your “employees” nor your “public servants,” not in any meaningful sense. Not any longer they ain’t, assuming they ever were. They are creatures of their real masters in goobermint, plain and simple, and as such they will do as they are told to do, with a scattered handful of notable and honorable exceptions.

As went the “justice”system, the US Constitution, and the greater Republic for which they once stood, in a manner of speaking, so went the police—exactly as they did in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Stalin’s USSR, and every other vile shitrapy controlled by the Left. When history has spoken as loudly and clearly as this, we should all spare ourselves the misery which will result from deluding ourselves otherwise.

In a different guise, perhaps, but the one crucial question remains before us, continuing to haunt our thoughts and aspirations until it is answered, in full and unequivocally.