What Legal Rights are You Willing to Give Your Political Opponents?

In my American Thinker piece this week I raised the issue of Double Standards. Poor little diddums Hillary Clinton was given every allowance in an FBI investigation of her illegal email server. Donald Trump was hunted down by FISA Court warrants and a Special Prosecutor.

And you will search among liberal commentators a long while before you see a liberal that writes that this is a problem.

So this week, after the release of the IG report, there are a lot of conservatives writing that unless the government observes some sort of equality under the law, for liberal princess as well as for deplorable pauper, we are heading for the cliff. The Zman:

It does not matter what form of government is in place, the rulers, for example, have to maintain public order. Being the tribal chief is useless if your people and lands are in chaos. For that matter, having a tribal chief is useless if it means living in chaos. Therefore, one of the primary duties of all rulers in all times and all places is to maintain public order by enforcing laws and local customs.

Then there is Laura Hollis writing about "The Real Message Behind the Inspector General's Report."

The risk here is not that Americans will become disillusioned if some rogue FBI or DOJ or IRS agents are penalized for being bad actors or partisan frauds; the risk is that Americans will become disillusioned when they aren’t. Once a critical mass of people no longer believes in the basic integrity of the legal system, the doors are opened to widespread corruption. Power, not decency, becomes the objective.
When that happens, you’ve lost the rule of law. And when you’ve lost the rule of law, you’ve lost America.

 I don't think that our liberal friends have a clue about this right now. That's because they have all been taught that "activism" is the meaning of life, the universe and everything. They are utterly clueless that for millions of people the current political correctness reign of terror and virtue means that any careless word could lose them their job, or worse.

And do you know? People really care about that.

It's fine for liberals to string Trumpists up on the lanterns because the Trumpist microaggressed a woman or minority hardest hit -- and no safe space had been provided -- or a little child is in tears. But what happens if it's a liberal? What would liberals say if that DOJ employee and member of the Democratic Socialists of America that joined the mob harassing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson got fired? Hey! All she was doing was "peacefully protesting!" OK fine. So what do you call this political action? A mini-microaggression that doesn't rise to the level of genuine microaggression because the DOJ employee  in question is a woman? But wait! The target of the protest was a woman! What about her safe space?

I just think that liberals have no idea the deep waters they are getting into. And the solution is so simple. Merely read, learn, and inwardly digest the following maxim.

There is no such thing as justice. Only Injustice.

As I keep saying, we are in the middle of a rerun of the Sixties when lefties thought that they had died and gone to liberal heaven in the dawning of a new truly just world order.

Only the average working stiff in America hated it. Because the average working stiff just wanted a job, a car, a family, and a house.

And he and she still do.

Because, see above, the basic job of any ruler being to keep order. And that means a rough and ready policy to apply the law equally. Even equally-ish will usually do.

But our liberal friends believe in the saving grace of political power. Because if your objective is just then a few broken eggs don't amount to much in respect of the arc of history.

Nevertheless, liberals. Just what legal rights are you willing to concede to the evil racist sexist homophobe deplorables?

The world wants to know.