America Is Not Immune from Brown ShirtsCorrupt institutions could do nothing if there were no members of law enforcement, from the local police to FBI agents, willing to act as the brute enforcers of state dictates.
By Rod Thomson
June 28, 2022
In this moment of hope emerging from the almost unbelievable set of constitutionally informed Supreme Court rulings on freedom of religion, gun rights, and abortion, it’s easy to imagine the tide has turned. America is back!
Alas, even rulings as monumental as those of the past week are no antidote to the generations of cultural poison that continues to be mainlined into American society. The best we can do is to call upon the words of Winston Churchill after England had survived the Nazi air blitz: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
At best. Because the poisoning is extensive and follows the veins such poisons find most suitable. And so, we are forced to belabor the obvious for a moment in which too many mostly college-poisoned Americans have a slippery grasp on reality.
Human nature is the same across races, ethnicities, and nationalities. There was nothing uniquely evil about the German human in 1939 or the French human during Napoleon’s reign or the Russian human under Stalin or the Chinese human under Mao or the Mongolian human riding with Ghengis Khan.
What was different in these situations were the culture-supported systems, or lack of them, put in place that allowed all of the worst of human nature to flourish. America, acknowledging the essential depravity of human nature, had once put in place systems designed to check the worst impulses of our nature. But with those American institutions breaking down under relentless leftist, anti-American assaults over more than two generations, we are seeing what was always true: American human nature is like all others.
And so in the past two years we have seen something many of us probably thought “can’t happen here”: The rise of the Brown Shirt within American law enforcement communities. This is particularly painful to acknowledge for those of us with beloved family members who are in law enforcement and are the opposite of Brown Shirts. But it nonetheless remains a truism that is denied at our own peril.
As a recent example, we saw Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro arrested for not responding to a subpoena from the dubious House January 6 select committee. He was scooped up at the D.C. airport soon after arriving from his D.C. home, and cuffed by a full team of FBI agents. Navarro is 72 years old, 145 pounds soaking wet, and lives within three minutes of FBI headquarters. He has cooperated with federal investigators as far as executive privilege allowed him to do. But with Donald Trump claiming executive privilege, Navarro was ethically bound to not respond.
FBI agents could have walked to his home, or asked him to turn himself in, which he says he would have done and his history suggests is the case. But they chose to make this a very public arrest, a strikingly unveiled threat to others who refuse to comply with state narratives.
Coincidentally—by which I mean not coincidentally at all—Navarro had filed a civil lawsuit against the government days earlier for violating his civil rights. Their response was swift and humiliating.
At the airport, Navarro, a smart lawyer, said he wanted to call his lawyer. He demanded to know the charges. But the lead agent took his phone and disallowed it and Navarro was taken into solitary and, he says, strip-searched. That’s multiple constitutional violations, which just don’t seem to matter to most American institutions, including the FBI.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/28/america-is-not-immune-from-brown-shirts/
