Efficiency vs Accountability Inconvenience vs Rule of Law

 

Efficiency vs Accountability / Inconvenience vs Rule of Law

“Sorry Brittany, but with Charlie Kirk we tried the peaceful route… you’re wrong… the left HATES us, and no amount of ‘healing’ will make them not want to kill us… we’re well beyond that at this point… you CANNOT coexist with people who want you dead…” 

A post from and NFL fan reacting to this post from Brittany Mahomes, wife of KC QB Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, sharing this quote from Sharon McMahon: 

“Hate will not get us out of this mess. Your feelings might lie and try to tell you otherwise, but hate doesn’t know how to heal or build, only how to harm and destroy.”

“For years, those on the radical Left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now…. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity, and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.” 

Donald Trump on the Kirk assassination.

"If you’re trying to pretzel yourself into painting Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old, into a 'fascist' or 'leftist' model based on your rabid ideology, maybe you’re not seeing the bigger picture of what online radicalization is— because 'you' are the radicalized," 

 Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA)

“It is this authoritarian cosplay. It's like they're putting on costumes and they want to seem tough as part of this slow-rolling authoritarian takeover. That's what this is all about… It is not about crime. It’s important to say, clearly, this is not about solving crime… If you want to solve crime and you believe that more law enforcement is needed in these cities — and surely there's some cities where that's the case — the federal government and Congress could fund a COPS bill and community engagement programs… They could fund a bunch of stuff. They have a budget coming up here in two weeks. They control the House and the Senate. They control the White House. They want to act as if they have no agency when it comes to the actual policies of these cities.” 

Republican Journalist Tim Miller. Side

“[At] some point we have to find an off-ramp, or it's going to get much, much worse… I hear all the time that words are violence, words are not violence… Violence is violence.” 

Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox.

Somewhere between 650 and 850 thousand American soldiers died during our Civil War (1861-1865), more than perished in all of our wars from founding to today. But now, there is a new “war” beginning, against political opponents and “crime.” I don’t think voters would vote for crime, and criminal statistics are showing a rapid decline in all levels of criminal activity. Trump is all about fighting imaginary statistics about the level of crime in America. He is flooding cities or threatening to flood cities (Governor approved in red states, Governor opposed in blue ones), to fight crime, is easily proven to be a power move to put Trump loyal paramilitary forces anywhere there may be cluster of voters who oppose him.

He's sending serious criminal investigators from places like the FBI and ATF, untrained in street policing, as his Big Beautiful Bill cut large budgetary allocations to reduce violent crime and fund better suited and more local police, who are the real bulwark against most crime. Instead, seeking private police force loyal to him, Trump has laid the groundwork for a personal paramilitary police force: “The offers are part of a supercharged recruitment campaign that will take years to meet its goal. Republicans in Congress just allocated $30 billion to ICE to hire 10,000 new officers so it can ramp up deportations.

“But the Administration’s interest in boosting ICE’s headcount from 20,000 to 30,000 is bumping up against multiple challenges, including finding applicants who are both qualified and willing to live in parts of the country where ICE is intent on deploying more agents.

“‘You’re talking three years before you see a significant increase of ICE agents on the street, which is the end of the administration,’ predicts John Sandweg, who was the acting director of ICE during the Obama administration.” Time, August 12th. Big ICE money is in fact luring local cops to defect to this Trump corps. As unpopular as Trump is, he does seem to foment violence, as long as it for him and his causes, as his massive pardon clearly evidence… of violent and convicted January 6, 2021 Capitol attackers, which he personally invited to move on that building,. Well, instead of dousing the flames of violence in too many of his followers, as the above Trump quote illustrates, he seems to invite his followers to use their long guns in a civil war of vengeance and retribution.

“Some [more than a few] supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump blamed the political left, casting Kirk’s murder as the culmination of years of hostility toward Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. On social media, they pointed to posts that appeared to celebrate Kirk’s death as evidence of conservatives increasingly being targeted.

“The killing of Kirk has become a potent symbol for a segment of the American right that increasingly views the political left not merely as ideological opponents but as existential threats to conservative identity and power. Fueled by years of rhetoric, amplified by social media echo chambers, this anger reflects a broader narrative in which Trump's allies often portray themselves as besieged patriots facing a lawless and hostile opposition… ‘They couldn’t beat him in a debate, so they assassinated him,’ Isabella Maria DeLuca, a pardoned January 6 rioter and conservative activist, wrote on X.” Reuters, September 12th.

Some have directed strong negative barbs at the efforts of Utah Governor Spencer Cox (a Republican) to find an off-ramp for this escalating violence. We are nation of major civil rights laws, embedded in the Constitution, where although a majority rules, it is never at the expense of basic individual rights.

I’m Peter Dekom, and with this growing rage on both sides of the political divide exploding across the nation, in a nation of over 320 million firearms, I am afraid the violence is destined to escalate, killing politicians and their respective supporters under the false flag of “patriotism.”