Don's Tuesday Column

          THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Bluff Daily News   3/01/2022

A plan comes together—they love it

Trump ally Steve Bannon has a sign (paraphrased): “Everything isn’t a conspiracy, but there are no coincidences”; randomness cannot explain things that point to a common end. Skip ahead for the final truth about dead, or killed/not killed, police related to Jan. 6.

After watching Donald Trump’s CPAC speech, images came to mind: The first one, based on the Batman series where a spotlight beams the winged Batman silhouette skyward, sending the signal that Gotham City was in dire need of his help; this spotlight had the silhouette of Donald Trump.

Then, the memorable scene in the first Star Wars movie, “A New Hope,” where Princess Leia’s recorded plea ended simply “Help us Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re our only hope”; now it would go, “Help us Donald Trump, you’re our only hope.” Outside of leftist ideologues, folks will come around, says the polling trend vis-à-vis President-ish Joe Biden. Mean tweets are gone; $4-$5+ per gallon gas is here for a while.

From “Fidel” Trudeau’s Canada (Justin spoke admiringly of Castro, and Chinese dictatorship), to the Freedom Convoys, to COVID-ocracy supplanting self-governance, to Russia invading Ukraine, resisted fiercely by Ukrainian military and people—there are parallels.

Most people at the time approved the protests over civil rights and, to a lesser degree, the Vietnam War; dishonorable and unforgiveable castigations were directed at returning soldiers and Marines, who should have received heroes’ welcomes. However, protests over civil rights for African-Americans, while occasionally violent, showed Americans the brutality used by Southern racist (Democrat) law enforcement and politicians.

Laws, passed and supported by a majority of those voters, were seen as inimical and dehumanizing to citizens whose only “crime” was being Black. Hence, the tactics of “civil disobedience” were employed to great effect, eliciting sympathies and support from non-Southern Americans, resulting in landmark legislation.

America accepted the morality of civil disobedience—which defied otherwise-accepted laws restricting gatherings, protests and marches—for the purpose of physically preventing the normal operations of life and commerce. If actions broke the law, arrests were peacefully acceded to, proving an acceptance of authority even while enduring police violence. Laws changed; normality returned.

The indignity of Black riders, consigned to the “back of the bus,” prompted a city-wide bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. That system came to an economic standstill as Blacks walked miles to jobs and shopping, without illegality, arrests or jailing. Things subsequently changed.

Our Constitution prohibits “ex post facto” laws: The government may not make something illegal simply to punish someone who broke no law, whose actions were legal at the time. Vengeful despots may, nonetheless, punish citizens expressing public dissent or civil disobedience; the current tactic is to simply proclaim an “emergency” and cancel constitutional rights for “rule by fiat.”

America’s Constitution enshrines “the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The clear-cut issue that drove Canadian truckers to protests and civil disobedience was forced medical injections to keep their jobs, like the vaccine mandates here. American courts have sided with the right to refuse, thankfully, while most accept vaccine shots.

 Despotism and tyranny defined: authorities set aside constitutional, legislative order for their one-person, or sole executive agency, rulership; they then proclaim an “emergency” to establish the precedent and illusion of necessity and normality. Fascism defined: that “unitary executive” then “favors” large otherwise private business sectors into doing the bidding of the regime.

That Canada’s Trudeau cancelled his “emergency” order means nothing; he knew that their senate would not support him. It means nothing unless illegally seized trucks, bank accounts, and cancellations of licenses and insurance are reversed. I gave $60 to the truckers’ fund. Pray that American truckers force changes.

The Democrat left hysterically wails about the “end of our democracy” while hypocritically favoring 1) illegal COVID mandates; 2) heavy-handed punishment of otherwise law-abiding citizens who “paraded” or “trespassed” peacefully on Jan. 6; and 3) illegal persecution/prosecution of Donald Trump, family and associates over phony, seditious accusations of Russian collusion.

“Our democracy,” to them, means they get to set the rules, demand obedience, punish their opponents and stifle and crush dissent anywhere it is expressed. They openly collaborate with social media to practice censorship while media mouthpieces openly ask for more laws to help them “cancel” dissent. Progressives should hope (prayer is verboten) these rules won’t be turned on them when power changes hands.

The reason some will talk/write about “almost 10 dead” (Twitter), or (fill-in-the-blank) dead police “because of” Jan. 6 protests (NYTimes, Washington Post, etc.) is because the partisan, Trump-deranged news media ignore objective facts when their anti-Trump narrative requires it. Such slanted sources then get quoted, to support alleged culpability by Donald Trump or supporters, for dead officers.

I deeply reject such assertions, given the left’s willful acceptance of dozens of dead police and civilians during the 2020 George Floyd protests/riots/arsons. Rioters destroyed a thousand businesses, costing billions in damages; soft or nonexistent bail freed many (contributors included Kamala Harris).

“Factcheck.org” is no friend to Trump, but in “How many died as a result of capitol riot?” they concluded that 4 protesters (1 shot, 1 beaten, 2 heart attacks) and zero cops died on Jan. 6. Some died from unfortunate suicides, for which no notes cited Jan. 6, and post-riot strokes; factcheck.org supports my statements.

Space runs out before explaining how “climate alarmism,” illogical animosity to, and “cancelling” of oil, coal and natural gas—in favor of unreliable wind and solar without the reliability of nuclear—has reduced America’s (and Europe’s) self-reliance and given Putin billions of dollars to invade Ukraine.