Harassing Senators? "Part of the Process." Criticizing School Board Members? Domestic Terrorism.
Leftists and Democrats Seem to Have Double Standards for Everything. Otherwise, Would They Have Any Standards At All?
We’ve seen more double standards from our political elite over the past two years than the past 20 or more combined. Examples: “Rules for Thee Not for Me” politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom (D-French Laundry) or President Joe Biden calling Georgia’s fair election reform laws “Jim Crow on Steroids” while his home state of Delaware features even more strict Voter ID and other provisions. Especially the disparate treatment of January 6th protesters versus thousands of Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters in some 500 violent events in 2020.
We could go on. But we need look no further on the culmination of political double standards than Monday, October 5 news coverage of the harassment by left-wing activists of Democratic US Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) over the weekend. It was juxtapositioned with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memo to the FBI and US Attorneys to potentially treat parental criticism (“threats”) of school board members as possible criminal “Domestic Terrorism.” National Review outlines the latter:
Attorney General Merrick Garland has directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to investigate alleged threats being made against school board officials by a growing coalition of parents who are outraged by the imposition of racialized curricula and COVID-driven shutdowns and mask mandates in their local classrooms.
The order, announced in a memo released Monday, comes after a group that represents school boards urged the Biden administration to review whether confrontations by outraged parents over COVID restrictions and critical race theory violate the Patriot Act.
“The classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” read the group’s letter, which was obtained by Fox News. The letter doesn’t cite any specific threats but mentions one man who gave a Nazi salute during a school board meeting in Michigan and another incident in which a school board meeting was cut short because a man became “angry.”
Garland’s memo notably says, “Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values.”
Queue our aforementioned US Senators. Sen. Sinema, elected in 2018 after a brief stint in the US House, has been teaching a class at Arizona State University. Uneventfully, until now. Here’s a tweet from the George Soros-funded pro-immigrant organization’s activists who followed and filmed Sen. Sinema visiting a stall in a women’s bathroom.
Joe Biden thought this was not “appropriate” but just “part of the process.” The New York Post describes Biden’s comments:
“I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics but it happens to everybody,” Biden told reporters, before letting out a laugh.
He was also asked about moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) being confronted by a group of activists on kayaks while he was on his houseboat in Washington, DC, last week.
“The only people it doesn’t happen to are people who have Secret Service standing around. So it’s part of the process,” Biden said.
Chuckle, chuckle. Just a guess, but I suspect that neither Sen. Sinema nor the Capitol Police is finding it very funny. Neither should the ASU campus police. I’ve been a former House and Senate Chief of Staff; Sinema’s staff should have foreseen this possibility and alerted them through the Capitol Police in advance.
By the way, following, harassing, and filming someone trying to go to the bathroom, at least in Arizona, is a crime, a Class 5 felony. And officials are investigating. I’m sure Soros and his Open Society Foundation will be glad to provide bail money. One can only imagine the outrage and rending of garments had Republican activists followed and filmed a Democratic politician - especially a transgender person - into a bathroom stall.
Oh, and it didn’t stop there with Sinema. She was harassed at Phoenix International Airport and on the plane back to Washington, too.
Joe Manchin lives on a houseboat at the Washington Marina on the Potomac River just a couple of miles from the US Capitol when he’s not home in West Virginia. His floating home-away-from-home party boat is called “Almost Heaven.” They invoke the first words of the famous John Denver song that West Virginia natives love to sing. Including their national guardsmen on the way home from overseas deployments.
I don’t think this little engagement in the Potomac went any better for his alleged “constituents” on kayaks (no one believes that) than the harassment of Senator Sinema, unlike these national guardsmen returning from Afghanistan. And how many of you think this form of activism is effective? Maybe on former US Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), but he’s out of the office, the minds and the memory of most Americans.
Sadly, however, he is returning to the stage as Joe Biden’s nominee as Ambassador to Turkey.
Flake’s jello-spined cave to a Soros-funded protester over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme court also probably inspired the future protestors we’re now seeing in Arizona and on kayaks on the Potomac. They’ve no doubt found inspiration from other Democratic House and Senate members who have extolled activists to get in the faces of Republicans.
No sane person believes that these tactics will work on Senators Manchin and Sinema.
Note to activist parents at school board meetings. Don’t do this. That is, following Senators into bathrooms. Don’t, however, be intimated by threats that your peaceful but forceful protests are criminal. Even though some liberal media outlets think following recalcitrant Senators into bathroom stalls is just fine. They won’t if you follow their example.
Remember the double standards to which we are held.