Stupid Or Evil: The Only Possible Terminus

     Despite the dichotomy in the title, Leftist activists have all but uniformly decided that we in the Right are evil. And of course, when in combat with one who is evil, there are no rules. Anything is permissible. The most favored tactics are those that incite terror among the evil one’s supporters:

     Two family members of one of America’s top conservative voices were swatted last night.
     This morning, on “X,” Nick Sortor, who has over 900K followers on X, shared a chilling explanation of how his sister and his father could have both been killed last night during fake police reports that led to both of their homes being “swatted” by the police. “Swatting” happens when someone reports a made-up crime at a specific address. The police respond to the caller’s false crime with SWAT teams or Special Weapons and Tactics, placing the individuals inside the home in grave danger.
     When an individual or an individual’s family is “swatted,” it opens the door for an innocent person to be seriously harmed or even killed by law enforcement who have no reason to believe the caller has manufactured the crime.

     Please read the whole article.

     Such use of law enforcement against innocent persons, in a way calculated to get them maimed or killed, is a crime. (Much to my surprise, it’s not always a felony.) Yet it can prove difficult to discover and pursue the initiator. Leftists are themselves too cowardly to do violence themselves. They favor SWATting their ideological adversaries for those reasons and others.

     The whole conception of the “no-knock / explosive entry” SWAT raid is dubious. It violates the Constitutional protections found in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. And of course, a number of such raids have targeted mistaken addresses where wholly innocent persons abide. But the ability of political lunatics to use such raids against those they dislike seals the argument against them, the “exigent circumstances” rationale notwithstanding. They must end.

     Needless to say, there would be a hue and cry against any public figure who would make ending the SWAT raid his personal cause. Police chiefs would argue for retaining them, no matter how often they’d gone wrong in the past. Politicians would natter about “drug houses” and “kidnappings,” without bothering to calculate the risks of using heavily armed raids against even verifiable villains. And of course, the Left’s use of such raids as political terror weapons would go unremarked.

     So the abuses – which are inseparable from the SWAT raid as conceived and practiced – will continue. Sooner or later, innocent persons will die. Who will be blamed for those deaths? Will left-wing politicians, who’ve edged ever nearer to explicit advocacy of lethal violence against us in the Right, be held to account? Will any of them even deplore the tragedies?

     I wouldn’t bet on it.