I’ve never understood why liberals are so angry —and mean. After all, they won right? They own the White House, the Senate and the House. Okay, the judiciary remains independent, but that is as it should be — elections have consequences.
When California Rep. Maxine Waters urged followers to “defy the Supreme Court” in light of its 5-4 overturning of Roe v Wade, she made a special claim about African American women. “Women will be in control of their bodies, and if they think Black women are intimidated or afraid, they got another thought coming,” she said. “Black women will be out in droves. We will be out by the thousands. We will be out by the millions. We’re going to make sure we fight for the right to control our own bodies.”
Really? Perhaps Waters doesn’t know that Planned Parenthood deliberately positions its offices in minority neighbors. Or that in the last 50 years since Roe was wrongly decided — giving women a right to an abortion as a matter of privacy that is nowhere in the Constitution — an estimated 20 million black babies have been killed, at a far higher rate than their white counterparts. Castigating Amy Schumer and other white privileged liberals vowing protests, conservative Candace Owens observed, “The black population today would be double if it were not for Planned Parenthood.”
There is nothing in Dobbs v Jackson preventing women from getting abortions. The decision merely returns the issue to the states, per the Constitution’s 10th Amendment. This is the federalism the founders adopted. It seems to be working.
California has already announced plans to become a sanctuary state for abortions, apparently with no limits on timing. Even in Mississippi, the genesis for this case, women will be able to get abortions up until 15 weeks of pregnancy, when babies begin to feel pain. Major corporations, Amazon and Morgan Stanley, have pledged to underwrite the time off and expenses of employees who need to travel for an abortion.
And yet, the Democrats are doing everything they can to demagogue the issue. President Biden lied when he said the decision makes the US “an outlier among developed nations.” Most Euro countries allow abortion up to no more than 15 weeks.
It is hard not to conclude that left-wing activists unleash violence because they want to frighten us into keeping them in power. Maxine Waters stoked fear among black women to rile her base. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delayed bringing to the floor a measure giving security protection to Supreme Court Justices — and this after a man attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. More than two dozen Democrats voted against it, including of course Maxine Waters. You can read their names here.
Because they encourage violence, it is fair to ask what their political strategy is. Why did Pelosi delay the vote on justices’ security? Why did 27 Democrats — all of whom have access to federal protection — vote against it? First, money. After a draft version of the Dobbs decision was leaked in early May, Pelosi and Senate Leader Chuck Schumer raised $7 million overnight. Second, votes. They will hammer the issue of abortion, frightening women to believe their right to an abortion is threatened, warning them they dare not vote for evil Republicans who want them pregnant.
But it is hard not to wonder — and frightening to contemplate — if the Radical Left has an even bigger ambition — to stoke the mob toward assassination, so they can fill another Supreme Court vacancy while Biden is still in office. In Portland this weekend, protesters screamed for “Death to SCOTUS,” while other activists in Washington D.C. protested outside the home of Justice Clarence Thomas, in violation of federal 18 US Code § 1507, which bans attempts to intimidate judges.
And because they also own the media — former journalists who are now propagandists all — they are rarely called out for their irresponsible summons to the left-wing antifa mobs who are now filling the streets with their faux outrage. “My body, my choice,” they now cry. “No uterus, no opinion,” they now assert. It is as if they have forgotten the wrenching debates we as a nation have had over the last two years, about whether the government can mandate what medicines we put in our body, about whether only women can become pregnant. Hypocrisy thy name is liberal.
They have painted anyone who disagrees as the enemy — evil, racist and all those other trendy diversity words — so they no longer have to treat us like what used to be called the loyal opposition. They ignore that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of women’s rights, predicted this decision. Until we can overturn that infusion of snarling media arrogance — we are right, you are unworthy — nothing will change.
But it is even worse than that. The Far Left’s violence — in words and actions — is met by a phalanx of silence from the political/media establishment. Where are the reporters to call hatred for what it is? Where are the conservatives to condemn attacks on American citizens? Where is the Justice Department to enforce the law?
In that category of attacks from thugs I now include Biden’s FBI — which has made a conscious effort to purge its ranks of conservatives and now arrives at homes of innocent Americans with Gestapo raids at dawn, rouses them from beds in their pajamas, shackles them with chains and prevents them from calling a lawyer. Are James O’Keefe and Peter Navarro to be the country’s new poster kids for tyranny? Just last week the FBI raided the rural home of a retired couple in Texas who attended the January 6 rally in Washington last year but went no further than the Capitol steps.
Lora DeWolfe and Darrel Kennemer, who live on seven acres near San Marcos, TX, said they think the FBI mistakenly identified Kennemer as someone else. No matter such trifling details, agents busted through the gates of their rural home and in a pre-dawn raid, threw flash-bangs, handcuffed them, and trained lasers on them before searching their home for evidence. In the end, the couple was not arrested.
“They’re corrupt, and they’re trying to scare us,” Kennemer said.
To which I say, where are the Republican voices to stand up for their righteousness? Where are the RINOs to protest the Department of Justice official who called pregnancy centers — now under systematic attack by leftwing activists — “false clinics?” Have they all been scared down by the McCarthyesque Jan 6 show trials?
They sit quietly on the sidelines, guarding their own power, waiting for the storm to pass. Instead, as it did during that infamous Summer of Love in 2020, it is more likely this unchecked violence will leave us less safe, more fractured, riddled with crime.
The establishment expressed shock after a deranged supporter of Bernie Sanders gunned down Republican congressmen five years ago — not because they were in Congress but because they were conservatives. But Republicans did not blame Democrats. Now, as the nation is gaslit by protests as misguided as they are ignorant, the Right watches from the sidelines as our country is destroyed again by Left-wing violence. Our leaders are silent again, hunkered down, waiting for the storm to pass.
Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution historian who is 68 and so likely remembers America before its demise, said the other day he thinks we are in a revolutionary period, like the French or Russian Revolutions, no longer a country living under rule of law. Will Christians be sent to the guillotines for celebrating the end of Roe v Wade’s taking of innocent lives? Will Soviet style purges consign us to Siberia for holding views different from those of Biden’s current Stalinist regime?
This is still America. Where are leaders to insist on an end to lawlessness during the exercise of free speech? Stand now if ever you could. We have never needed you more.
Black Babies, Abortion & Left's Killing Machine
Wonderful essay with an excellent laundry list of talking points I needed for my upcoming vacay to be spent with leftie adult children and my precious grandchildren! Thank you and God Bless!!!
Amen! If anyone in this country is stoking violence it is the Left and their jack-booted thugs: The FBI; DOJ; Anti-fa and the ignorant young people indoctrinated in our colleges and universities. It's time to stand up for America and the Constitution!