Wednesday, November 01, 2023
Police State
I just watched the Dinesh D’ Sousa documentary, Police State . In reviews of the film one will find the usual smattering of leftist resentment — in comical hyperbole. What I found weird about that is that the basic premise of the movie is that America is becoming a police state. Numerous valid examples are depicted or re-enacted. Why would any reasonable person have a problem with addressing such an issue?
As a film, the work is okay. I’d give it a seven out of ten (probably because I prefer science documentaries). It’s reasonably professional in the usual criteria of editing, cinematography, etc. There are some conservative cliche’s (‘doesn’t mean they aren’t true) but on the whole, the message is important.
Again, I’m rather shocked that so many reviews coming from the left are so distraught in seeing some pushback to the agendas of those who truly are seeking to impose the elements of a genuine police state.
The second half of the film drives the point home as it depicts actual heavy-handed FBI SWAT team attacks on people who dared oppose abortion (in one noteworthy case, the victim’s “crime” was pushing someone harassing his son by an abortion clinic — the prosecution wanted a sentence of eleven years in prison. Other “crimes” against the Democrat-controlled state are, protesting school district promotions of pornography in public schools and, of course, walking through the Capitol rotunda on January 6th. There were people who weren’t even in Washington DC on that day that have been harassed by the thugs and shameful underlings at the FBI.
The rule of law and equality before the law in America are dead. While some opposition hangs onto some authority by a thread, most of the apparatus of government, media, education, and even the corporate world are completely controlled by the beliefs of Democrat party and other assorted extreme leftists (formerly called what they are, communists).
A host of traditional liberals (center-left) have seen the writing on the wall. People like Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, and Bill Maher have recognized that this new statist philosophy is something far above and beyond “liberalism.” From “cancellation” to prosecution, to restricting who will be allowed to appeal to the voting public for president, there’s a new sheriff in town and he is no fan of America’s constitution.
In the French Revolution, the Girondists initially supported policies that we might call “liberal” today. They wanted a freer more democratic society but their goals did not include beheading their king. Haveing occupied the right side of their new legislative chamber, they exemplified the lable still used today — right wing. On the left of the chamber were the same rabid thugs we see today on the Left, ready to upend society and unleash mass-chaos and bloodshed.
American’s are just inches away from resurrecting some sanity into their historical era, or descending into just another period of historical collapse. After that, there will be no place to hide.
