Roger Kimball looks back at the recent past…

At the Threshold or Turning Point

“…The sharp erosions of our freedoms during the COVID-19 pandemic will go down in the history books, or at least in the official manual of totalitarian crowd control.

How easily the entire population was cowed into submission.

People abandoned their businesses, cowered in their homes, wore pointless masks, and pretended to believe that liquor stores were more “essential” venues than houses of worship.

Amazing.

But it’s also important to remember the martyrs to the ideology of the deep state, the people who were chewed up and spit out as the regime went about the business of consolidating its power and its control over the climate of opinion.

An incomplete but representative list includes the following:

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, who was set up and destroyed by the FBI in order to make room for the Russian collusion hoax.

John Eastman, a lawyer for Trump, who, even as I write, is in the process of being smeared and possibly disbarred because he dared to offer the former president legal advice.

Peter Navarro, a former Trump adviser, who, though he lived practically next door to the FBI building in Washington, was apprehended while boarding a plane. The G-Men slapped the 72-year-old man in handcuffs (and leg irons!) and threw him into a cell once occupied, they were careful to tell him, by John Hinckley, the lunatic who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981.

Then there are parents who object to schools’ force-feeding their children with the radical Marxist teachings of critical race theory, not to mention the latest forms of sexual exoticism.

For challenging those orthodoxies, Merrick Garland, attorney general of the United States, instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools, after suggestions their protests might be “a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”

To combat this fantasy crime, Garland called (pdf) for a “partnership among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement to address threats against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff.”

It was all-in to crush the upstarts…”

The federal bureaucracy is a Democrat bureaucracy that protects and promotes Democrats…

Feds Planning New Commission to Regulate ‘Harmful’ Social Media Content

You already know what this commission will be. Conservative ideas and speech are harmful.

Related:

Mark Levin…

Life among Democrats – Los Angeles edition…

THE BEST WAY TO INCREASE CRIME EVEN MORE: Woke LA County supervisors propose motion to DEPOPULATE jails by releasing inmates – and also consider letting criminals with bail set at under $50,000 out of prison

A new level of woke racial stupidity. The stupid is so thick, it has become the absurd.

Woke feds refused to deploy facial recognition on key portal because they thought it was racist

Democrats have captured our education system and destroyed it…

Rats, roaches, mice, flies found in hundreds of NYC school cafeterias

“…One out of every five New York City public school cafeterias are crawling with bugs, rodents — or both — repulsive new stats reviewed by The Post reveal.

Health inspectors discovered roaches, mice, rats, and flies in nearly 400 public school cafeterias over the last three years, recently released city Health Department data shows.

The figures also reveal that 1,380 of the city’s 1,859 public schools — about 75% — have been cited by the agency since 2020.

The violations include 1,072 deemed critical —  conditions most likely to cause foodborne illnesses — in at least 620 different public schools.

The revolting violations include:

    • Filth flies — several fly species which breed in garbage or feces — or evidence of them in more than 100 schools
    • Mice, or evidence of mice, found in more than 300 school cafeterias.
    • At least 46 times in which cold food, including meat and dairy, was not kept below 41 degrees. Anything above 40 degrees for cold food is considered the “danger zone” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is when bacteria including salmonella or e coli begins to grow.
    • Live cockroaches were also found in 80 school cafeterias…”

Related:

APPALACHIAN STATE PAYING GRAD STUDENTS DIFFERENTLY BASED ON RACE

Headline of the day – Garbage Democrat DA Edition…

A Man Is Shot Twice And Alvin Bragg Charges Him With Attempted Murder

Related:

‘New York City is a Joke:’ Manhattan Prosecutors Charge Victim of Assault With Attempted Murder.

“Let me get this straight – the suspected thief shot the victim, who wrestled the gun away and shot the guy who just shot him, and…they’re charging THE VICTIM with attempted murder and unlawful possession of a firearm?” Wrote Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Amy Swearer. “New York City is a joke.”

I feel bad for this guy, but he threw his hat in the ring, and he has to face the same scrutiny as everyone else. I don’t trust CBS to give an accurate representation of the interview.

Most of the talking in the clip is from the interviewer. All we get from the senator is single syllable grunts.

Democrats voted for this guy, media promoted this guy, and now he is a United States Senator unfit to serve in that role.

The supply of Asa Hutchinson on liberal news far exceeds the public demand…

Asa Hutchinson: I Am Running for President

So what? I am not against his running. I don’t think he will ever get over 10%, maybe 3%.

How soon before this comes to the U.S.? Will it only apply to one side of the political divide?

Police State: French Woman Arrested for Calling President Macron ‘Trash’ on Social Media

Canada has gone batshit crazy. America should reevaluate our relationship with Canada.

Canada Advances Plan to Euthanize Children Without Parental Consent

The remedy to false or ugly speech is more speech, not censorship…

Ban on Knowingly False Statements During Emergencies Struck Down on First Amendment Grounds

“…From Judge Pedro Delgado-Hernández’s opinion today in Rodriguez-Cotto v. Perluisi-Urrutia (D.P.R.):

Article 5.14(a) criminalizes, after the Governor of Puerto Rico has decreed by executive order an emergency or disaster, to knowingly, purposely or recklessly: (1) give a warning or false alarm, knowing that the information is false, in relation to the imminent occurrence of a catastrophe in Puerto Rico; or (2) disseminate, publish, transmit, transfers or circulate through any means of communication, including the media, social networks, or any other means of dissemination, publication or distribution of information, a notice or a false alarm, knowing that the information is false, when as a result of that conduct it puts the life, health, bodily integrity or safety of one or more persons at imminent risk, or endangers public or private property. Properly read, Article 5.14(a) does not survive strict or intermediate scrutiny….

The court reasoned that the proper remedy was generally for the government to rebut false rumors, not to criminalize them:

[T]he Government did not prove why counter-speech in the form of increased transparency, would fail to accomplish its interests. The Government states that during the state of emergency, a person caused disruption in the food supply chain by falsely announcing that the government would close the food markets, and that although the Government clarified that this was false, the damage was done. But the Government did not submit evidence on who, when and how it sought to address the false message to which it has referred in order to allow the court to gauge the effectiveness of the response. Inversely, plaintiffs submitted clippings of articles about a message regarding closure of supermarkets on the island due to coronavirus, showing the Government has failed to demonstrate that increased transparency would not accomplish its objectives…”

Doug Santo