I declined to comment on the recent news that Hillary Clinton has been allowed to get away with crimes that would land anyone else in jail, since it's merely a small sample of the rampant lawlessness in American government that I've been discussing for years.
The recent explosion of what appears to be a private war against police officers, though, demonstrates that the other shoe is now dropping. As I've quipped on several prior occasions, if government doesn't obey the law, why should people obey the government? I emphasize that I do not celebrate the violence unfolding in the streets; instead, I view it as a natural and foreseeable consequence of discarding the rule of law, which is meant to restrain both the government and the governed alike.
You cannot let the genie of lawlessness halfway out of the bottle. The moment American government decided it would make its own rules and unleash violence on the people at its own discretion, was the moment that a private campaign of violence against government became inevitable. There are of course many other issues in play here, such as the degeneration of race relations, the militarization of police, and unremedied incidents of police brutality, but they all boil down to the same thing -- America is now a Third World Country where power is for the taking and might makes right.
This dovetails with the problem of unrestricted immigration, namely that importing the rest of the world into America has made America become like the rest of the world, but that's for another post.
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