Greetings, Dear Reader,
I’m four beers deep, ‘bout to grab a fifth. It’s Sunday night. I’m lecturing my first day of class tomorrow at the National Journalism Center (my main job), so I have to keep this tight and get it in the night before.
I can’t get this idea out of my head.
BUILD MORE PRISONS. THEN FILL THEM
I love all the things you’re allowed to do in this country. You can get pulled over for speeding and call the cop a “gay fa**ot” at the top of your lungs and the only thing he can really do is cite you for speeding.
I love that, I really do. By the way, try that with the Taliban, see what happens.
Upping the ante: If you were to see Trump out on the street, you could say hey, Orange Man, gesture toward your groin, and go, “Suck it,” and basically nothing will happen to you. You can be a complete ass to the most powerful man in the world and he can’t so much as touch you. Not allowed.
You know what else isn’t allowed? Impeding federal officers in the execution of their jobs.
Live-action Garden Gnome Adam Kinzinger is using the death of Renee Good to send the exact opposite message.
“I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks.
i.e., they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against,” he tweeted.
In other words, Kinzinger, a gutless twat, is encouraging others to do exactly what Good did.
The Hamas wing of domestic American politics – by that I mean Democrats and men who cry often in public like Adam – need more civilian casualties for their PR campaign. They know that the sub-100 IQ horde of blue-haired they/thems just needs a little pushing.
The primary issue with Kinzinger’s advice here is that it’s wrong.
Before she earned a few new holes in her head, Good was violating 18 U.S.C. § 111, which prohibits “assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers.”
A non-violent impediment to federal officers in the course of their duty is pretty light, but still stings. Average is one year in federal prison. If there’s any kind of “physical contact,” which includes “pushing, grabbing or wrestling,” oh boy, now we’re looking at eight years in the pen.
Lastly, if the violation includes “using a deadly weapon” and/or “causing bodily injury,” well then you’re looking at a cool 20 years max.
Does ramming a federal officer with your car count, Kojak? Indeed it does.
The reason I’m taking you on a trip down U.S. Code lane, Dear Reader, is that I’m sure if you’ve watched even 10% of the protest videos I’ve seen since Good punched her ticket, then you know that most of them contain routine, often gleeful violations of these laws.
Up until recently, officers have seen fit to give endless warnings to these scumbags. But the tide has slowly started to turn.
Federal officers ripped a guy out of his car at a gas station in Minnesota. The whole thing was caught on video. They ripped another lady and her cohort out of their car earlier in the day to the dismay of onlookers.
I’m not sure if it’s been a paperwork thing until now or what, but more of this, please.
Thousands of them can be arrested, easily. Prosecuted and put behind bars. Even a year would be life-altering. Just sit in there and think.
It doesn’t stop there, though.
There’s also 18 U.S.C. § 371 — “Conspiracy to commit offense against the United States,” which carries five years in prison.
Ever wonder how these unemployed freaks have so many resources? You too, Dear Reader! Me also!
How do these snazzy handbooks get made and distributed?
Well, it turns out you can donate to the effort through ActBlue! Democrats’ primary fundraising arm.
There are dozens of other groups, sporting donors as familiar as George Soros, Tides and Ford foundations. These groups produce booklets and training materials and even host seminars about how to best impede federal officers, which, again, is a felony.
They also build social media meetup sites in order to coordinate operations.
Dang, sounds a whole lot like conspiracy, does it not?
I know, or at least strongly suspect, people in Trump’s orbit read this newsletter from time to time. So it’s without hesitation, even impatience, that I say: Arrest more people. Arrest thousands more.
You are not going hard enough. The vast majority of normal people see this kind of behavior and abhor it. They often wonder: What the hell do these people do for a living that they can be out in the middle of the day chasing federal officers, harassing them, blockading them?
You’d be doing us a huge favor. Arrest the idiots in the streets. Do it aggressively. Film it and distribute it on social. Fill the prisons, build more, then fill those too. Make it a nationwide initiative. Think of the jobs even. Someone’s got to make sure to get the inmates their daily slop.
Don’t stop there, either. Infiltrate, surveil, investigate, then arrest the entire funding apparatus. Get the lieutenants, sure, but also the generals.
Enough defense, dear boys, go on offense.
The public will love you for it.
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