I am still trying to wrap my mind around the newest foolishness sweeping our nation.
In September, Charlie Kirk, a man who was a firm but gentle voice for Christianity, was assassinated by a coward. The left celebrated.
Literally celebrated.
Halloween costumes, really tasteless memes on social media, threats to other conservatives and Christians, the whole thing. Talking heads said Charlie Kirk brought it on himself with “hateful” rhetoric, even twisting quotes or making them up out of the whole cloth to drive home their point.
Last week, Renee Macklin Good, a woman with a criminal history, refused to cooperate when asked to get out of the way of law enforcement. She drove her vehicle at a federal agent and was shot. She is being lauded as some kind of hero.
At the risk of being accused of “deadshaming,” I cannot help but point out that the woman killed in Minneapolis lived in another state, and her mother paid her bills. The father of her children is dead. She was a mother who for some reason was out of state during the workweek, harassing law enforcement officers, even laughing about it on video, while the one child of whom she does have custody was a couple hundred miles away.
Court records show the woman’s female partner was previously charged with putting out cigarettes on the arms of two other children.
The sole surviving parent of a child was not at work.
She was not at home.
She was trying to prevent law enforcement officers from arresting criminals.
No matter how you spin it, someone who is in this country illegal, however nice of a person they might be, regardless of whether they have committed any other crimes, regardless of how much good they do: that person is a criminal.
Renee Good was asked, then instructed to put her vehicle in park. Instead, she opted to drive toward at least one, possibly two Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers. The officers who shot and killed Good was himself recently injured by someone using a vehicle as a weapon.
Six LEOs were struck and killed by vehicles last year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund. Depending on the source, anywhere from 20 to 100 were struck intentionally and injured.
If someone is turning a vehicle toward a cop, after being told to stop, there’s a better than average chance that individual isn’t planning to share a plate of homemade cookies.
Good and her female companion – who can be heard on the video telling Good to “Drive, honey, drive!” – spent the morning following LEOs, honking the car horn, yelling at them and dancing, recording those moments for social media. Good’s companion is seen on the video challenging one of the officers to “come at” her.
All this in defense of immigrants in a city that is now being shown to be rife with corruption that benefits many of said immigrants.
Millions and millions of tax dollars were going to that city to fund everything from daycares and “learing centers” (their spelling) without children to a lumberyard based in a restaurant. It was a lumberyard with no lumber, no sawmill, and no heavy equipment. Just three people from Somalia, one of whom cannot even speak English, who have the same last name and share the same residential address.
The reaction of state officials in Minnesota when feds move in to arrest illegals and investigate fraud? Gov. Tim Walz opts to declare, or at least threaten, open war with the U.S. military.
Walz was possibly the whackiest vice presidential candidate in history, and still seems to think he can be president. He was the one who put feminine hygiene products in boys’ bathrooms in middle schools; Walz had fully-kitted SWAT teams in armored vehicles performing “Covid patrols,” chasing people from their porches while refusing assistance for police and even private property owners during the George Floyd riots. Walz claimed the majority of gunowners are willing to give up their firearms, and that his son was victim of a mass shooting (because the son in question had gone to a gym on the same block where a gang shooting occurred, but not when the shooting took place).
Walz has declared he would order up the National Guard to defend immigrants from ICE agents, and hinted that he would instruct the Guard to defy the U.S. military if the president sent any to Minneapolis. Never mind the fact that no governor is actually “in charge” of any state’s National Guard.
It seems to me the entire issue of using the National Guard to hold off the U.S. military was previously decided, as well as the rights of a state (or city) to secede from the Union. That resulted in something many of us Southerners have never forgotten, a disagreement known as the War Between the States, settled in the courts and the battlefields, if not our hearts and minds.
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail – a movie is only marginally less farcical than the current state of affairs in the Minnesota governor’s mansion – King Arthur has to explain to a peasant named Dennis that he, Arthur, was declared king by the Lady of the Lake, who gave him the sword Excalibur.
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government,” Dennis replies, unimpressed.
Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. I’d be willing to bet had some strange woman lifted a sword from below the cold waters of one of them, she would have made a better pick than those who voted for Walz.
But seriously.
The same people who celebrated the death of a gentle man, one who was willing to debate without rancor, one who truly spoke out of love to all men and women, even while hating their sins – those same folks are the ones calling for the leftist equivalent of sainthood for a cursing, screaming woman who abandoned her child to defend illegal immigrants and attack law enforcement officers while being egged on by her female companion.
These same people are organizing protests as they did for a drug-addict who shoved a gun in a pregnant woman’s belly, passed counterfeit money, assaulted another woman and sold drugs. He was a sorry excuse for a man who did not deserve to die as he did – but he sure as heck didn’t deserve a statue, murals and riots in his honor.
I was angry when Charlie Kirk was assassinated; as one commentator put it, he was the nicest one of us, the one many aspired to in terms of calm and grace under verbal abuse.
Christians and those on the right didn’t riot when he was killed and his death mocked.
We didn’t burn. We didn’t loot. We didn’t spit on those with whom we disagreed, block streets, throw frozen water bottles through car windows or paint vulgar graffiti. No stores were looted when Charlie Kirk was killed. No buildings were burned by those on the right (although a couple of memorials to Kirk were burned by those on the left).
Instead, thousands of people dug deeper into what was so important to Kirk, and some have tried to emulate him. They sought what he had inside. Many still seek that spirit of love and peace, and hope that all will come to salvation (or at least a lack of hatred for others).
Yet we on the right are the dangerous ones, because we believe in law and order.
We are the dangerous ones because we support those who put their lives on the line to stand between our families and criminals. We are the dangerous ones because we dare to expect mothers and fathers to protect, nurture, discipline and raise their children, and keep them from being mutilated or sexualized as toddlers.
We’re the dangerous ones?
Trust me, folks.
If the average American who wants decency, fairness to all and the rule of law were dangerous, those on the left would have found out a long time ago.
I am reminded of the big dog chained inside a fenced yard, a dog who was tormented by schoolchildren every day. He just wanted to be left alone, but the kids threw rocks and sticks, yelled at him, barked, and generally teased him. One day the dog had finally had enough, so he broke his chain and chased the miscreants.
The chain is straining, folks.
Let’s pray the grownups get the idiot children under control before someone gets bitten.
