Amid the Insanity: Are chickens coming home to roost?
/By: Joel E. Gordon
The inexplicable Pennsylvania vote to elect a diminished pro-criminal candidate named John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate notwithstanding, the unsustainable pro-criminal policies of the progressive left are showing signs that some of those very ideologies may be beginning to falter. I must start by saying that we wish ill will to no one; law, order and safety remain among our top priorities. We in law enforcement have never wavered from that position, but now that some of the biggest contributors to the erosion of our civil society have personally felt victimization, have the chickens come home to roost?
Hypocrisy is evident from sea to shining sea A progressive member of the Seattle Washington City Council who has been a vocal critic of law enforcement amid the "defund the police" movement is criticizing police for not sufficiently pursuing reports of multiple instances of feces being thrown into her yard.
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a self-described socialist, sent a letter to police in Seattle claiming they were "failing to investigate" what she says are six separate instances of a “politically motivated person throwing feces into her yard"
"There is obviously a glaring inconsistency between this approach and the way in which former Mayor Durkan, after a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest was held a short distance from her mansion, was provided with a 24-hour stakeout for a full year," Sawant wrote in her letter, suggesting she deserved police protection as a result of the incidents. "As a socialist City Councilmember who has participated in Black Lives Matter protests, I am being told that my case of six threatening incidents involving human excrement doesn’t merit even a serious investigation, let alone protection."
Did she actually think that her realized wish to “defund the police” would have no consequences? Consequences like fewer officers? And that those they do have left on the force have nothing more important or pressing than to investigate her poop-thrower? Perhaps she should call a counselor or a social worker to handle this?
So-called "squeegee kids" who shake down drivers to pay them for "cleaning" their windshields are becoming more bold, committing crimes such as assault and robbery. This past summer, a Baltimore, Maryland, city man was shot five times and killed by one.
The federal judge overseeing the Baltimore Police federal consent decree called officers and reported that a pair of squeegee workers gave him the middle finger, spat on his car and wrote “racist” in suds on the windows.
No property was damaged, no one was injured, and neither squeegee worker was charged in the incident, according to police. But U.S. District Court Judge James K. Bredar and his wife’s run-in with squeegee workers, and the ensuing police response, has renewed the focus on squeegeeing and raised questions about the necessity of having law enforcement respond to certain situations. Progressives have now called into question Judge Bredar’s suitability to continue ensuring compliance with consent decree mandates now that he has personally felt victimized.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she did not regret threatening to punch then-President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, if he came to the Capitol, “That’s right,” Pelosi told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell when asked to address her comments about Trump on January 6. “I would have punched him out. I said I would have punched him out. I would have gone to jail. And I would have been happy to do so.”
When Pelosi was condoning her willingness to commit an act of violence against a U.S. president, she probably never imagined that her husband Paul Pelosi would become a victim of a violent attack in their family home committed by an illegal alien. While much remains unknown in secrecy about further details of the vicious attack, suffice it to say that it surely must feel different being a willing perpetrator than being a victim.
There are a multitude of other examples of the failure of progressive policies. Since the concept of rights without a view toward responsibility has taken further hold the results have been both predictable and inevitable.
As time goes on and more of the “elites” and their families fall prey to the violence being perpetrated largely due to ill-advised bail policies, release of criminals, illegal criminal aliens running freely at-large and reduced consequences, the return to law and order should progress in a more orderly way. Let’s just pray that, in the meantime, the cost to human life and suffering has as minimal an impact on all of us as possible until sanity returns.
Joel E. Gordon, BLUE Magazine Managing Editor, 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 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
