Who said fairy tales never come true? Remember the story of "Chicken Little?"
"Once upon a time there was a little chicken. Everybody called him--
'Chicken Little.' One day, while he was out walking, a bird flew over and
it dropped an acorn that bopped 'Chicken Little' on his head. 'Chicken
Little' looked up, and didn’t see anything. And when he didn't, he
panicked and began yelling, “Help, help the sky is falling! The sky is
falling! I have to tell the King!” And he went running down the road,
looking for the King."
Chicken Little, it seems, is alive and well. In fact, it appears he has taken employment within the Biden Administration, and is now running the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Here is the Department's version of "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
"Some ideologically-motivated extremists with objections to the exercise of
governmental authority and presidential transition ... could continue to mobilize
to incite or commit violence."
But wait, It's not only DHS that's gone bonkers! Our esteemed Governor, J. B. Pritzker (D) is dispatching 500 Illinois National Guardsmen to augment the 7000 National Guardsmen from sister states who are already in the District to insure that the Bogeyman (a/k/a former President Trump) and his minions (who haven't been seen or heard from since President Biden's Inauguration) don't rise out of the Washington Tidal Basin on a fogey night, and drag President Biden from the White House basement, and tow the Capitol building off to Texas with their pickups.
Now if only the Guardsmen can set up a few hundred machine guns in concrete pill boxes on the Capitol grounds, behind the concrete wall, "unscalable fence," and the guardhouses that have already been erected, our fearless Congressional representatives should be safe, from the hordes of "insurrectionists" wearing MAGA hats, their constituents, and time-wasting future elections.
For four years, the Democrats in Washington have been on a non-stop rant against President Trump's "despicable" southern Border Wall with President Biden leading the charge. That wall, designed to keep illegal aliens, drug dealers, and narco-terrorists out of the country, was an unnecessary "abomination." Ordinary Americans have been told they had to take their chances with drug dealers and murders who crossed out border illegally. The pleas of parents of murdered children were ignored in the halls of Congress. But now, the rule is different for Congress. Our esteemed Congressional representatives must protected with concrete walls, unscalable fences, and 7500 armed soldiers.
it dropped an acorn that bopped 'Chicken Little' on his head. 'Chicken
Little' looked up, and didn’t see anything. And when he didn't, he
panicked and began yelling, “Help, help the sky is falling! The sky is
falling! I have to tell the King!” And he went running down the road,
looking for the King."
Chicken Little, it seems, is alive and well. In fact, it appears he has taken employment within the Biden Administration, and is now running the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Here is the Department's version of "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
"Some ideologically-motivated extremists with objections to the exercise of
governmental authority and presidential transition ... could continue to mobilize
to incite or commit violence."
But wait, It's not only DHS that's gone bonkers! Our esteemed Governor, J. B. Pritzker (D) is dispatching 500 Illinois National Guardsmen to augment the 7000 National Guardsmen from sister states who are already in the District to insure that the Bogeyman (a/k/a former President Trump) and his minions (who haven't been seen or heard from since President Biden's Inauguration) don't rise out of the Washington Tidal Basin on a fogey night, and drag President Biden from the White House basement, and tow the Capitol building off to Texas with their pickups.
Now if only the Guardsmen can set up a few hundred machine guns in concrete pill boxes on the Capitol grounds, behind the concrete wall, "unscalable fence," and the guardhouses that have already been erected, our fearless Congressional representatives should be safe, from the hordes of "insurrectionists" wearing MAGA hats, their constituents, and time-wasting future elections.
For four years, the Democrats in Washington have been on a non-stop rant against President Trump's "despicable" southern Border Wall with President Biden leading the charge. That wall, designed to keep illegal aliens, drug dealers, and narco-terrorists out of the country, was an unnecessary "abomination." Ordinary Americans have been told they had to take their chances with drug dealers and murders who crossed out border illegally. The pleas of parents of murdered children were ignored in the halls of Congress. But now, the rule is different for Congress. Our esteemed Congressional representatives must protected with concrete walls, unscalable fences, and 7500 armed soldiers.
But how can the same political hacks who supported the "defunding of police" all last summer as stores were being burned and looted, as people were being shot, and as neighborhoods were being declared "autonomous zones" by mobs of leftists, now demand extraordinary "police protection" by armed National Guardsmen?
And why, at the same time as the Left demands a re-writing of the Second Amendment to take weapons from ordinary law-abiding Americans, are our elected representatives hunkered down en masse behind National Guardsman with "assault rifles?"
Don't chose to misunderstand me. I don't in the least approve of a mob bursting into the halls of Congress and stealing or destroying the property of the American people — or causing death or bodily harm. They should be prosecuted. But what about the rioters — euphemistically described by the press as "mostly peaceful protesters" — who sacked Target Stores, burned down neighborhoods, and assaulted and shot people? Do they not deserve equal justice?
The press labels the miscreants who desecrated the Capitol as "insurrectionists." So why aren't the miscreants who established "autonomous zones" in American cities and set up their own "governments" labeled "insurrections?" Why aren't the rioters who destroyed priceless American statues, and who burned and looted businesses labeled "rioters." If "the book" is to be thrown at the reprobates who trashed the Capitol, why is it not thrown at the reprobates who destroyed cities, businesses and homes? If the police and the FBI are going to "come down with both heels" on rioters at the Capitol, why aren't they coming down with both feet on rioters in the hinterlands?
Unless there is "equal justice" for all, President Biden is going to have a devil of a time reuniting the country. You can't punish one group for insurrection and/or riot riot, and not the next.
Our First Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law respecting ...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The word "people" includes Republicans, Democrats and even Communists and Fascists. But the the Constitution no where guarantees anybody the right to engage in insurrection or riot, to harm or kill their neighbor, or to destroy public or private property.
Our First Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law respecting ...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The word "people" includes Republicans, Democrats and even Communists and Fascists. But the the Constitution no where guarantees anybody the right to engage in insurrection or riot, to harm or kill their neighbor, or to destroy public or private property.
First Published in the Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus on February 7, 2021
Copyright 2021
John Donald O'Shea
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