The Evil Spawn of Mikhail Bakunin

 It will be unnecessary to defund the police or order them to stand down.  They will stand down on their own because of government policies.  This will have disastrous results.

19th Century Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, “The brigand is the true and only revolutionary in Russia.”

Throughout the Trump Administration whenever the President was contradicted by a member of the bureaucracy it was remarked that "a member of his own Justice Department" or "a member of his own intelligence community" disagreed with him.  These government agencies were never part of "his" administration.  They were controlled by the Deep State and for some strange reason he often appointed members of the Deep State to run these agencies.  U.S. presidents depend upon approximately 2 million federal employees to carry out the agenda voters elected them to implement. Donald Trump was frequently criticized for having more faith in Vladimir Putin than his own intelligence community.  Yes, that intelligence community that was attempting to have him impeached.

One of the most powerful branches of government is the Department of Justice.  This department is largely composed of "progressives."  This is revealed by the fact that its employees donate overwhelmingly to progressive organizations.  One of President Trump's greatest accomplishments was his nominating a large number of judges to the federal judiciary.  He appointed three justices to the Supreme Court. Recently we have witnessed how ineffective that has been.  The judiciary both federal and state has been compromised and this will have disastrous results. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in crime and this is only the beginning.  Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, N.Y., Alice Vachss, commented on this problem in the justice system in the early 1990s: "There is a large, more or less hidden population of what I later came to call collaborators within the criminal justice system."

There are two aspects of judicial system corruption: a sympathy for criminals and a hostility toward conservative groups.  David Horowitz describes the former in his book, Radical Son: "The prison movement that Fay (Stender) founded was built on the common radical premise that outlaws were rebels, that there are no criminals, only political prisoners."  That latter can be described as the Cardinal Richelieu technique:  Richelieu asserted, "If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men I will find something in them with which to hang him."  Every attorney who defended Donald Trump, every individual who signed an affidavit on voter fraud and the President himself will be prosecuted.   Innocence is no defense as Senator Ted Stevens, General Michael Flynn and many others have learned.  Many of the innocent will confess to various crimes as Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev did during the Stalinist show trials.

The situation in the state and local level is possibly worse.  San Francisco's District Attorney Chesa Boudin is the son of members of the domestic-terror group Weather Underground.  He has adopted rules making it harder to prosecute suspects.  He allowed a repeat offender on parole which resulted in the death of two women. Last August five District Attorneys published an op-ed in Politico.  They proclaimed, “Our criminal legal system was constructed to control Black people and people of color. Its injustices are not new but are deeply rooted in our country’s shameful history of slavery and legacy of racial violence. The system is acting exactly as it was intended to, and that is the problem. We should know: We’re Black, we’re female, and we’re prosecutors. We work as the gatekeepers in this flawed system. And we have some ideas for how to fix it.”  Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey sees riots in a positive light: "Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow."  She blames "institutionalized racism" for the violence.  Multnomah County's District Attorney Mike Schmidtdropped charges against hundreds of people arrested for offenses like interfering with cops, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and rioting.  Philadelphia's Assistant District Attorney Isabella Aguilar believes, "Two party systems are for maintaining a white supremacist patriarchal colonial state" and Mitch McConnell has spent his "entire career blocking process and marginalizing oppressed communities. F**K YOU."

Deep State DAs view looting as a free speech issue.  Looting is actually a very constructive activity.  Vicky Osterweil, the author of “In Defense Of Looting,” argues that “looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society” and is a way to undermine the “white supremacy.”  Osterweil claims looting is a tool for justice that doesn’t really harm anyone.  Looting allows rioters to “demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.”  Progressive DAs appear to share this sympathetic view of looters.  Seattle's city attorney Peter Holmes claims, "No city prosecutor is interested in sending an impoverished new parent to jail for stealing baby food."  Holmes appears to be mimicking Maxine Waters who said after the Los Angeles 1992 riots, “There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. Maybe they shouldn’t have done it, but the atmosphere was such that they did it. They are not crooks.”  Prosecutors must now consider looters’ “needs” when weighing criminal charges.

The compassion expresses for looters does not extend to the general public.  Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón had to apologize for telling the mother of a murder victim “It’s unfortunate that we have people who do not have enough education so they can keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk.”  DAs can be determined to get a conviction depending on the crime or the obvious innocence of the target.  The case of Mark and Patricia McCloskey is illustrative.  The lead St. Louis police detective investigating McCloskey refused to sign two versions of a court documents prosecutors had drafted.  His investigation revealed that the mob threaten the McCloskeys, was armed, and broke the gate to get onto their private property.