HYPOCRISY: Who’s the “Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier” Now?

“I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan and the most dangerous people on America continue to exist. That is the greatest threat of terror in America, domestic terror. So I would make sure my Justice Department and the Civil Rights Division is focused heavily on those very folks. I would make sure we focus on how to deal with the rise of white supremacy. You see what’s happening the studies that are beginning to be done, maybe at your university as well, about the impact of former military, former police officers on the growth of white supremacy in some of these groups.” – President Joe Biden

When I heard former police officers and military veterans, some of the bravest and most dedicated members of our society in the protection of freedom and liberty, being accused of fueling hatred through belief in any sort of supremacy I was both angered and dismayed. I knew that the president of our United States was not speaking about me or the countless number of my colleagues who have selflessly given themselves to service of our nation, its communities and fellow Americans. This fails any fair-minded fact-checking criteria. Then this falsehood from President Biden about the recently enacted and updated Georgia election laws:

“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.”

Biden framed his complaint in terms of a detriment to working people. The law would “end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work” or “ends voting hours early so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift is over.” In fact, under the new law, counties have the option to extend the voting hours so voters can start casting ballots as early as 7 a.m. and as late as 7 p.m. — the same as Election Day in Georgia. Moreover, an additional mandatory day of early voting on Saturday was added and two days of early voting on Sunday were codified as an option for counties. Somehow, inexplicably, Biden managed to turn that expansion into a restriction aimed at working people, calling it “among the outrageous parts” of the law, and for that the president earns four Pinocchios from the Washington Post newspaper fact-checkers.

The Georgia voting rights law is now being somehow touted as being inequitable. So in response and in the name of racial and social justice, Major League Baseball and a host of other companies are engaging in behaviors that are hurting the very people that they are claiming to support and protect. Case in point: “Woke” Major League Baseball moving its All-Star Game and player draft from a reportedly 51% Black Atlanta to Denver with a 76% population of persons categorized as white. The game's relocation is expected to deliver a severe economic blow to

Atlanta, reported to be in the $100 million range, where nearly 30% of businesses are said to be Black-owned. So who is being helped and who is being harmed? Talk about hypocrisy!

More mind-boggling hypocrisy:

By October 2021, I am being told, all of us will need to possess a federally approved “Real ID” to board any commercial flight or enter select federal buildings. Yet, it’s somehow discriminatory to ask for ID for voting purposes? Either identity is important or it is not, but the hypocrisy is astounding. MLB, Delta airlines and a host of other companies who themselves require IDs are incredibly taking a political position that proof of identity is unimportant because it is a potentially discriminatory practice? This is what George W. Bush once referred to as the soft bigotry of low expectations and is based upon prejudiced beliefs.

How have we gone from great efforts to reduce crime and enhance public safety through zero tolerance and broken windows policing to bail reform and diminished consequences for criminal activity and behaviors? While there may be middle ground found in criminal justice reforms, do truth, justice and public safety, important to the majority of law-abiding Americans, no longer have meaning to many of those in policy-making positions?

Why is it considered effective to have fencing, armed troops and barricades surrounding the Washington, D.C., Capitol district but not to protect our border against those with potentially hostile intent against our nation and its sovereignty? It has been reported that dangerous criminals and potential terrorists are coming across our now-softened southern border with Mexico. Have we forgotten the global threats that we should have tragically learned from in our post-9/11 world?

How long will we as a nation tolerate the abuse, death and abandonment of children at our border while allowing increased revenue for coyotes and drug cartels under the lying guise of compassion for immigration and immigrants?

Finally, if “progressives” insist that we must entertain the notion of gender neutrality, why can’t those of us who choose to consider ourselves to be race neutral? In this age of DNA sequencing and analysis, many have learned that their ancestry encompasses multiple racial and ethnic components. Why must race be considered? Aren’t we all just human?

We are better than this. It’s time to stop the hypocrisy, eradicate disingenuous policies and restore sanity to our broken world.

Joel E. Gordon is a former Field Training Officer with the Baltimore City Police Department and is a past Chief of Police for the city of Kingwood, West Virginia. He has also served as vice-chair of a multi-jurisdictional regional narcotics task force. An award winning journalist, he is an author of the book Still Seeking Justice: One Officer's Story and founded the Facebook group Police Authors Seeking Justice. Look him up at stillseekingjustice.com