Thanks to government, we’re all criminals now, or soon will be
Installment 19 of The New Bossism of the American Left
As always, a reminder to new subscribers that this is the latest installment from my 2015 book The New Bossism of the American Left. I am serializing it because my forthcoming book, Globacracy: How a massive globalist bureaucracy is shaping a one-world state, builds upon this book.
Today’s installment concerns the increasing criminalization, and overcriminalization, of America. That’s not to deny the decay of civil order in this country, as violent crime increases in both urban and rural areas and, in areas where progressive district attorneys hold sway, go largely unpunished. Neither is it to turn a blind eye to the fact that more than half of all murders in the U.S. go unsolved. So much for the adage that you can’t get away with murder. And it is not to sweep beneath the rug what corporate media does sweep beneath the rug—that far too many sexual assaults of women take place in this country and few are prosecuted, even when prosecutors have probable cause evidence to go to court. It’s shameful. It’s disgraceful.
But there’s a brutal corollary to all this. While real crime is a threat from coast to coast, the government is ever busy cooking up new crimes for average Americans to commit, crimes only government agencies could believe are crimes, and they are not hesitating to throw the book at otherwise law-abiding citizens, even for minor offenses. Some of these are duplicative federal penalties that allow the government to evade double-jeopardy rules, like hate crimes, which are really other crimes already on the books, like murder and assault, just dressed up like time travelers who somehow stumble through a wormhole of evil thought and end up committing the same crime a second time. At least according to imaginative government prosecutors.
Many more are creatures of the administrative state. They’ve created so many regulations that you can’t help but be a criminal in their eyes. Here are just a couple of examples of how that works, thanks to the Cato Institute:
A river guide saw a teenager in distress and so left his boat and swam to save her. He was charged with “obstructing government operations” for not waiting for the search and rescue team. … Members of a Christian outreach group were arrested and prosecuted for feeding the homeless in a Ft. Lauderdale park. Local rules restricted food sharing.
These days you are more likely to get away with murder than you are a minor crime against the deep state, unless, of course, you are a member of a population group the government doesn’t like, in which case you’ll be tried twice, once for the murder and a second time for the hate.
Let’s take a more in-depth look: