March 27, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
JUSSIE SMOLLETT and the Perversion of Our Justice System
Friends,
Even
some of the left wing mainstream media folks have been forced to take notice.
It was so blatant, so—how shall we say it?—outrageous that even Mayor Rahm
Emmanuel and his Chicago police chief, both of whom are black and by no stretch
of the imagination “conservatives,” were compelled to speak out.
Jussie
Smollett—after being charged with at least sixteen provable felonies—after
faking an attack on himself and charging that two thugs with MAGA hats did it—after
two Nigerian brothers (not likely to be MAGA guys, to say the least) admitted
that Smollett paid them $3,500 to fake the supposed attack—after writing a fake
“hate letter” to himself (Federal mail fraud?)—after going on national television repeatedly
and claiming that this was just the latest episode in “white hate and oppression”—after
all that, continues to maintain that what he claimed is true.
And now the
Cook County State Prosecutor, Kim Foxx—against overwhelming evidence,
confessions by the two brothers, and more than enough to put Smollett away for
years—has dropped the case, declaring that Smollett’s sixteen hours of
“community service”—stuffing envelopes with Jesse Jackson (done some time ago)—and
forfeiting $10,000 in bail was sufficient to completely settle up everything.
Case closed.
Ah, but
you see, Foxx is closely plugged in to the Obamas, specifically Michelle Obama
(who may well have interceded indirectly on Smollett’s behalf), and Smollett continues
to enjoy support from highly-placed persons like Democratic presidential
candidate Senator Kamala Harris of California, plus various Hollywood leftist
elites.
Not to
mention that Smollett is a millionaire in his own right; while forfeiting
$10,000 might be a crushing blow for any of us “deplorables,” it’s only a drop
in the bucket for Smollett (who could also count on his wealthy Hollywood
friends if need be).
Lord John Acton famously wrote in 1887 that “Power tends to
corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The Jussie Smolletts of
this world, and those like him and his friends and connections, form a new powerful
untouchable class, a new elite more authoritarian and ruthless than anything
the old pre-revolutionary aristocrats ever dreamed of. And it is far more
corrupt.
Smollett is a
part of the highest realm and most protected class of that new elite: he is
both black and gay. In other words, when it comes to the advancing the leftist
template of who are the favored elect, Smollett hits all the right buttons.
Talk about
“privilege”! Talk about “equal justice”!
This is symbolic of the
new narrative, the new social order dreamed of and put into place by the
fanatical social justice warriors of the left.
It has nothing to do
with real distributive justice. It mocks and degrades such a concept.
Its
advocates talk incessantly of “equality” and “democracy,” but push a
totalitarian straight-jacket social order that is strangling free speech,
corrupting all our fundamental institutions, and perverting our very language.
This
frenzied ideology is spewed forth by unelected, condescending elites, in
academia, in Hollywood, along the Potomac, and in board rooms on Wall Street.
It is globalist and bows down in fearful homage to a George Soros, while refusing
indignantly to stand for the National Anthem.
Patrick
Buchanan, in a series of fundamental books, sketched the existence of this
managerial and administrative elite, this Deep State, and their stranglehold on
our country back a few years ago; most recently Tucker Carlson, in his
eye-opening, Ship of Fools, did the
same thing.
Jussie
Smollett is their latest “golden boy.” But the outrageously “unequal” treatment
he has received even shocked some Leftists who, perhaps, haven’t moved along
fast enough to suit the advance Einsatzgruppen units of this madness.
Think
about it.
Perhaps,
just perhaps I should declare myself to be black (maybe I can find some small
percentage of African-American blood in
my nine generations on North Carolina soil—I’ll bet I could do better than
Elizabeth Warren and her native Americans!), then perhaps I’d declare I am a
transgender person. Let’s see, I could
then walk into a nearby Walmart and maybe spot an older man with a MAGA hat
on—he’d have to be white, of course—and loudly accuse him of a “racist attack”
(well, at least verbally) on me.
What do
you want to bet that the local NBC affiliate hereabouts, WRAL-TV, would give me
a sympathetic interview? What do you bet
that the various nutty “anti-racist” and “anti-fascist” groups–“SmashingRacism,”
Democratic Socialists of North Carolina, Workers’ World Party—would rally to my
side and organize demonstrations on my behalf and against the “implicit racism”
of Walmart for allowing that MAGA hat-wearing oppressor to even enter their store?
Maybe I
would be interviewed by NBC’s Today
program, or, what joy, by Chris Cuomo on CNN? The national outcry would
resound….Maybe I’d get invited to meet that ultimate nut case (and notoriously bad) actor
Jim Carrey!
Of
course, that would be unreal given my history.
But is not this the praxis that the vast Army of the Night, our social justice
warriors, have employed in so many
cases across the land?
Those
social justice warriors demand “democracy” and “equality,” and in the name of
those vacuous concepts they employ accusations of “racism” and “sexism”—those
watchwords of the lunatic left in their continuing revolutionary quest—against
the rest of us. In effect, those terms are mere linguistic cudgels used to shut us up, to humiliate us, to suppress us
and our views. In the end, it is power,
power over us, power to remake and reconstruct Western society, power to undue
two millennia of history and culture, which is the goal.
And that
demonic vision possesses a million times more terror and horror in it than Arthur
Koestler’s stark dystopian novel about Communist tyranny, Darkness At Noon, ever could evoke.
Jussie
Smollett has played his part in this continuing shadow charade—but he may have
gone a bit too far, at least for the moment.
But for
anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, the writing is on the wall all the
same.
What we will do to counteract it? Ballots or
bullets? Is there another choice?
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