Search and Destroy

The news cycle is consumed with the pitched battle over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.  So much is being written about and commented on and I will only make a few brief points here.

I think this is a serious matter for the Republic.  The highly partisan fight goes well beyond Kavanaugh.

On 9/11, we learned how fragile and vulnerable our homeland defenses were.  A handful of guys in a cave in Afghanistan were able to inflict terrible damage on our homeland.

In 2008, we learned how fragile and vulnerable our financial system was.  We nearly plunged into a depression that rivaled the Great Depression, and are still suffering from its effects.

And now we are learning how fragile our legal system is.   The rule of law is being attacked by the Left and the American Bar Association itself.  If they prevail, our system will be changed irrevocably.  The presumption of innocence, due process, the right to face your accuser, among other fundamental concepts will be altered forever.  And so will the nomination process itself.  A person can now be wrecked by a single bald, naked, unsupported, uncorroborated allegation.

Ms. Ford has abused the system twice.   If what she claims to have happened actually did happen, she abused it at the time by not going to the authorities.  While it is not easy, people that are assaulted have an obligation to go to law enforcement AT THE TIME.  First, it holds that person accountable.  Second, and just as important, people who do this must be stopped.   By not going to the authorities at the time, a victim is also abdicating her responsibility to protect other women from a perpetrator. 

That was the first abuse of the system.

Then Ms. Ford abused the system again.  She waited until Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court to come forward.  Then she collaborated with the DNC until the last possible minute to throw the nomination process into chaos.  The hearings became so degraded that we were reduced to hearing Senator Whitehouse going through his high school yearbook line by line asking Kavanaugh about slang referred to in it.

The American Bar Association revealed itself by transforming itself from a trade association dedicated to “defending liberty and pursuing justice” into a progressive PAC.   After the ABA issued a pronouncement in lockstep with the DNC calling for an FBI investigation, I called the ABA and immediately terminated my 23 year membership with it.   The ABA decided to take sides in this fight and completely ignored the violence being done to due process.  Pursuing justice is only for some, I guess.

Next to the dismemberment of fundamental principles of our judicial system, the other aspect that was most troubling was the Alinsky-ite mob tactics used by the Left.  A mob of angry, chanting women (at least one of which a George Soros employee) cornered the pivotal, and appropriately named Jeff Flake, who used his leverage to extend the hearings in order to do a limited FBI investigation. 

Of course, the other part of the Alinsky-ite tactics is to provoke your adversary into anger and them point the finger at them for being angry.   The get-in-your-face tactic has been employed by BLM, and recently at restaurants where Ted Cruz and Sarah Huckabee Sanders were accosted by mobs

Here, the Left has torn apart Kavanaugh and his family in a most vicious way (accusing him of being a gang rapist) that would make Tonya Harding blush.  At least Tonya had her cohorts do it the old fashioned way, with a crow bar to the knee cap.

The same people that wailed about separating children from their purported families have not shown any restraint in bludgeoning the children of Brett Kavanaugh with false accusations that their father is a sex offender or, as USA Today insinuated, a potential pedophile.

It is with great irony and sadness that I am reading Gordon Wood’s book “Friends Divided:  John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.”  I will likely meet Mr. Wood when he comes to speak at the Newberry Library in a couple of weeks.

I will have one question for this great American historian during the Q & A-  “What in God’s name have we become?”