The Left's head fake on Cuomo
The Friday Letter / No 452 / Orlando, Florida
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. -- Henry David Thoreau, from “Civil Disobedience”
Even the Democrats-can-do-no wrong New York Times had to admit that Andrew Cuomo is in trouble – but only with his party. The criminal accusations being bandied about in the state's AG office are only so much noise. They will lead nowhere, as usual, except as a way to pile onto the growing clamor for him to resign or be impeached. Cuomo says he isn't going anywhere.
The brouhaha isn't about Cuomo's responsibility for the death of thousands of elderly Wuhan coronavirus patients he forced into nursing home death camps. There is a lot of noise there, also, but that will die down. He's a Democrat, after all.
The brouhaha is about his feeling up a female state trooper and some other women, 11 of them so far on the record. It takes a rule-of-law constitutionalist to point out that he's entitled to a fair trial, even as the evidence appears to confirm the New York Post page 1 screamer on Wednesday, “It's Official: Cuomo is a Creep.”
Cuomo may or may not ride out the storm. Either way he will join Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, and Ralph Northam in the Compassionate Democrats Hall of Fame. In the Left's make-believe world, his statements years ago that sexual abuse of women is intolerable are what count – not the caustic environment for women in his administration today, not the groping, the unwanted kisses, the vulgar sex talk. That's how the Left “thinks.”
What is going on here is a distraction from the growing China menace but more urgently the collapse of our southern border. Only Joe Biden, the nominal president, and his vice president don't seem to comprehend the gravity of the situation: A nation without borders is no longer a nation. Period.
The Socialist-Democrat Party's media partners understand the problem but are so welded to the party that they can't abandon the party line. So let's whip up some tabloid trash on the governor and the stupid people who vote for us will forget about that border thing.
On its first day in office, the Harris-Biden regime relinquished control of a secure southern border handed over by President Trump. Immigration Reform reports that the Border Patrol caught 188,829 people illegally entering our country in June, the most in more than 21 years, when Bill Clinton was president. Of those, 62 percent were single adults – not the poor, downtrodden refugees with wives and babies as the media want you to believe. The total number of illegal invaders in FY 21 now tops 1 million. One million – mostly unskilled drags on the national treasury and our institutions, eventual Democrat voters. How many slipped through uncaught is anyone's guess. Our border is now as effective as a screen door in a submarine.
And 34 percent were repeat trespassers, a condition that says a lot about foreign criminals' respect for our law. A three-year federal prison sentence followed by deportation (again) for these people and the promise of life without parole for strike three, and we might start to make an impression on these invaders. A nation without borders is no longer a nation. Ask the Lebanese.
But just so you won't run out of things to keep you awake all night, with no legal authority the Centers for Disease Control, headed by a former professor called Rochelle Walensky, for the fourth time extended the moratorium on rental evictions. The moratorium was set to expire July 31 after the Supreme Court granted the third extension in June. In that ruling, Kavanaugh joined the Court's four liberals – Roberts, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan – in upholding the ruling challengers say is costing landlords $13 billion a month in rents.
If this order is not overturned, it will be yet another dangerous step toward elimination of property rights under the rule of law. Property rights are one of a free society's foundational building blocks – right up there with free speech, the right of assembly and the right to defend oneself – without which a society cannot survive.
The order carries stiff fines and prison sentences. But as Charles W. Cooke notes in this National Review piece, the courts demand that we follow the law, but this order is a dictate, not a law.
“Among those who can safely ignore the moratorium,” Cooke writes, “are everyone: landlords, collection agencies, the police, state legislatures, governors, the media – everyone. There are, of course, an enormous number of laws that Americans do have to follow, but this isn't among them, because unlike those laws, this isn't a law. It doesn't count. It isn't authentic. It has no force. It's a dead letter. At best, it's a wish; at worst it's theater; but what it is most certainly not is – yes, that's right – a law.”
Meanwhile, Biden's handlers ensure a continuing fresh supply of unvaccinated illegal aliens invading across our southern border. While the rest of us face a new federal order to wear obedience masks in public, two classes of people appear to be exempt: illegal aliens and Obama's closest 500 friends.
The best way to confront this likely new federal order is to ignore it, and refuse to do business with compliant business establishments eager to please the rulers. When a shopkeeper says you need a mask to enter, take your business elsewhere. A little Thoreau-like civil disobedience is in order here. Obedience mask orders are dictates by fiat, not law by legislation. Ignore them.
Short takes on the news
The National Education Association is suing a Rhode Island mother because she inquired about the curriculum in her daughter's kindergarten class, The Federalist reports. In an email to the school principal, Nicole Solas wondered if her daughter would be learning about critical race theory and gender theory. In return, Nicole was greeted with a lawsuit and a bill for $74,000 to cover the cost of a public records request. . .
From the Good News Department: Missouri Gov. Mike Parson pardoned Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who defended their home from leftist thugs who threatened to kill them and burn down their house. Soros-backed Marxist prosecutor Kim Gardner had charged them with unlawful weapon use, fourth-degree assault, and second degree harassment. – From a story at American Greatness.
Presidential quotes
“The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own.” – Donald Trump
“You’re always straight up about what you’re doing, and the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are … Why can’t the experts say, 'We know that this virus is, in fact' … Excuse me, we know why the drugs are approved or not.” – Joe Biden, interviewed by CNN propagandist Don Lemon.