Was This Our Last Fourth of July?

[Fishrrman]

https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2020/07/12/was-this-our-last-fourth-of-july-n2572321

Was This Our Last Fourth of July?
Townhall.com
July 12, 2020
Wayne Allyn Root

Was this past weekend the last time we will celebrate the Fourth of July? Right now, that certainly looks possible.

In 2014, I wrote the book "The Murder of the Middle Class." Don't look now, but sadly ... tragically ... it's really happening. The left is crazy, extreme, radical, violent and ready for civil war. The Republican right -- outside of President Trump -- is a bunch of pathetic wimps ready to raise the white flag. We are the closest we've ever been to losing America.

Have you ever seen as many spineless Republican politicians as we see today? Black Lives Matter is a Marxist group that is said to fund the Democratic National Committee. Republican Sen. Mike Braun says he supports Black Lives Matter. He also supports eliminating qualified immunity for cops. That's the end of police in America. With Republicans like him, who needs enemies?

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney marched with Black Lives Matter. How can anyone be such a dupe?

Republican Sens. Ron Johnson, James Langford and John Cornyn want to replace the federal holiday Columbus Day with Juneteenth? Talk about spineless cowards.

We are in the midst of a war to save America, and clearly, these are not people you want in your foxhole. So, let's ignore the Republican politicians. They're useless. Now is the time. You either stand for America or stand against America. There is no middle ground.

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[libertybele]

I'd say that's a very real possibility.  It is very difficult to focus on the positive -- not a whole lot of positive things happening in this country right now.    Oh, there is a rare endangered gorilla that is due to give birth fairly soon....let's see ... well .... I'll keep looking...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/07/endangered-gorilla-in-new-orleans-expecting-1st-baby/

[EasyAce]

Sen. Mike Braun . . . supports eliminating qualified immunity for cops. That's the end of police in America.

"Qualified immunity" is a large part of what protects instead of punishes rogue cops who personify what can and does happen when cops entrusted to uphold the law become lawbreakers themselves. Holding rogue cops and those within their departments who enable them or at least fail to discipline them accountable does not mean the end, but rather the resuscitation, of police.

Fundamentally, the job of law enforcement—meaning police, prosecutors, judges (in their sentencing role), and prison officials—is to hold citizens accountable for their misconduct . . . [T]here are behaviors that threaten the very fabric of civil society, including murder, violent assaults, theft, and fraud. As a result, we must have some mechanism for declaring that certain things will not be tolerated and that people caught doing those things will be punished. Properly conceived, that is the job—and the only legitimate job—of criminal law.

Given that mission, it is difficult to imagine anything more delegitimizing than a law‐​enforcement community that insists upon being held to a vastly lower standard of accountability than the one it imposes on ordinary citizens. But that, unfortunately, is precisely what we have. Even more tragically, it is an unforced error caused by a misbegotten blunder into judicial policymaking by the Supreme Court.

. . . [Q]ualified immunity is a legal doctrine that was invented from whole cloth by the Supreme Court in open defiance of Congress’s decision to provide people with a federal remedy for the “deprivation of any right” at the hands of a state actor. Misconstruing both historical practice and the realities of modern of law enforcement, the Court effectively amended our main civil rights law, known as Section 1983, by inserting the words “clearly established” between “any” and “right” so that a would‐​be civil rights plaintiff must show not only that her rights were violated by a government actor but also that there is a preexisting case in the relevant jurisdiction with nearly identical facts. Not surprisingly, that turns out to be practically impossible, which means police and other public officials routinely escape liability, even when everyone agrees they’ve acted unlawfully.

---Clark Niely, Cato Institute.

[Smokin Joe]

Nope. It won't be the last unless He comes back.

[roamer_1]

Nah. It surely ain't mine...