“My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.” – Sonia Sotomayor
The term “justice” is simple for most people to understand. However, there is a host of groups and individuals who want to confuse the word in order to change people’s perception of what it is. “Social Justice” has been inserted into the culture’s vocabulary. That term is not easily understood and seldom defined except when showing our history in the most negative light.
Those that want to destroy our Constitutional Republic, seek to do so by obscuring the meanings of widely accepted ideas, words and phrases. For instance they have promoted the interchanging of the words equality, (which means an equal opportunity for all), with the idea of “equity”, (which in their usage means the equal outcome, regardless of effort, skill, talent or intellect).
Along with these verbal gymnastics, a movement to reform our criminal justice system has taken place in the last three decades. A thinly veiled effort to federalize local law enforcement seems to have started with federal consent decrees. The one result of these federal encroachments on local policing is to place burdensome documentation requirements on those departments. Officers have to waste time justifying stopping, talking to, or arresting individuals, as well as recording the race, sex, location and time of the contact. Other police employees are required to collect, collate and distribute this information. This, no doubt, has contributed to a diminishing of proactive police work and an increase in crime.
The evolution of our country from an ordered society toward anarchy continued with the move to depopulate our jails and prisons. No matter what the elite, leftist, globalists say, the fact remains that more criminals incarcerated, means less crime on our streets. Whenever the reformers point out how many tax dollars are saved by closing prisons and keeping offenders out of jail, it pails in comparison to the price citizens are paying in the loss of life, health, property and a sense of safety and well being.
Next came the virtual decriminalizing of what used to be felonies. Car theft, burglary, battery and some crimes against persons are now either misdemeanors or treated as such. In addition, legislators and voters were convinced to eliminate cash bail for many offenders with the argument that rich people could afford to put up cash while poor people had to stay in jail until they went to court.
Then, George Soros funded District or County Attorneys refused to prosecute or drastically reduced prison sentences for criminals convicted of serious felonies. When running for office, these so-called top law enforcement prosecutors promised compassion for petty criminals but would vigorously prosecute dangerous criminals. Once in office, it appears that they prosecute few crimes, unless the accused are law enforcement officers.
The best example of their duplicity is the lack of enforcement of gun laws. The most draconian gun laws are in our most populous, liberal cities. Yet, the Soros funded prosecutors are consistently under charging or failing to prosecute the violators of the gun laws.
How do we turn around this lawlessness? First we need voter initiatives or strong public pressure on our elected official to change our laws back to punish ALL crime. We need to build or reopen and populate our prisons and jails with the recidivist criminals who have been going through our revolving door criminal justice system. Then we need to vote out every elected prosecutor and judges who favors the criminals over the victims. Once those things are done, we need to enact laws (and Constitutional Amendments) that get us back to the principals of our Founding Fathers. Private property was a tenet they wanted to ensure. It has since been eroded. Remember when there was a natural disaster or a riot and police were ordered to shoot looters on sight? That order was rarely used, but it worked.
