When the jury declared Daniel Penny not guilty of the reckless homicide of Jordan Neely, the activists from Black Lives Matter were outraged and staged a mostly peaceful protest. Obviously, the Jordan Neely death has been made political on both sides of the political divide, with ex-Marine Daniel Penny getting an invite from Marine vet JD Vance to attend the Army-Navy game with him and Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Uncle Tom Cobbley.
In the best of all possible worlds, we Hobbits want the criminal justice system separated from politics. If someone is accused of breaking the peace, then lawyers and judges and witnesses and juries should work it out; no activists need apply. But rulers don’t believe in process, and none more than our lefty friends, from the French Revolution onwards, through Stalin and Mao Zedong right down to our present lefty woke culture and Soros prosecutors like Alvin Bragg. Did you know that in the first nine chapters of Mao’s Little Red Book the word “enemy” appears 77 times and the word “enemies” appears 15 times?
If you want to know what it is like to be an enemy of the lefty state, then Nien Cheng’s Life and Death in Shanghai is your go-to source. Cheng, a woman of staggering courage and determination, tells the story of Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. She was imprisoned in solitary confinement and interrogated in No. 1 Detention House for six years starting in 1966, because she might have interacted with British spies and be an enemy of the Chinese people.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was all about power: Mao reasserting himself against rivals. Its vibe helps you understand the mindset of our lefty friends, and why they would think that it was racist for white oppressor Marine vet Penny to choke a victimized black to death. It makes complete sense that they would conduct lawfare against President Trump and his associates, because for the Left, it’s all about power.
I keep thinking: what is the difference between the Left’s culture of using the state to make war on its enemies and the culture of a man like Daniel Penny who just steps up to protect his fellow citizens? What is the difference between the extraordinary bravery of Nien Cheng and the cowardice of her acquaintances who avoided her for years and then resumed contact after her rehabilitation?
It’s the difference between a bully and a hero. What is Alvin Bragg? A state-sponsored bully. What is Daniel Penny? A simple hero. What has Joe Biden been in Washington D.C. for the past 50 years? A bully. What is Donald Trump, the man that stood up immediately after being shot and shouted: “Fight! Fight! Fight!” A hero.
“Let the ruling class bullies tremble at the middle-class rebellion. The ordinary middle class has nothing to lose but its fear. It has a world to win. Middle-class bros of all countries unite!”
Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill blogs at The Commoner Manifesto and runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class.
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