Derek Chauvin, Human Sacrifice

That's the title of Ann Coulter's latest. Hey, human sacrifice is as old as the hills. And its provenance is explained by René Girard's concept of the scapegoat, that societies come together after a division by sacrificing a scapegoat to the gods.

But Paul Craig Roberts simply calls the Chauvin trial a show trial.

[The prosecutor] is not going to let facts get in the way of Chauvin’s conviction. Neither does the judge want the vilification that a fair trial would bring. The jurors all understand that if they let Officer Chauvin off they will be outcasts and suffer violence to themselves and their property. The entire community knows that unless Chauvin is convicted, their city will again be looted and burned. Indeed, the many cities that experienced the George Floyd protests feel the same way.

Yeah! What better way to bring us all together, Girard-style, than by sacrificing a policeman to the Gods of the Woke?

For Roberts it's the end of the justice system.

In former times when America had a justice system and a responsible media, media was careful not to convict a suspect or defendant prior to the jury doing so. To be convicted by the media was reason for dismissing the charges on the grounds that there was no prospect of an objective jury. But in America today, it is conviction that is the focus, not innocence or guilt.

Because the whole point of a justice system is to cool the jets of the mob.

So why is our ruling class so happy to dump the justice system and encourage the mob, their own special Sturmabteiling of BLM/Antifa? Of course the day came in 1934, the Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler didn't need his SA any more. Or maybe wanted to make sure there was not going to be any trouble from his once-useful street thugs. Hey who needs street thugs when you have the Army and the police?

You would think that our ruling class would be perfectly happy to have the police to enforce their power. Why are they proposing to Defund the Police? We know, of course that the armed forces are not a problem for the regime. The recent deployment of the National Guard in Washington DC to protect Our Nance proves that.

Well, we know the answer to that. Regimes institute Reigns of Terror and witch-hunts when they think that the natives are too restless, when the regime has failed to create the promised Heaven on Earth. Trouble is that the reigns of terror and cultural revolutions and icon-busting often gets a bit out of hand, and starts to destroy the ruling class itself.

We can see that there are literally millions of people that are perfectly delighted to start beating up their fellow citizens for heresy, toppling statues, and declaring the classic music notation is colonialist.

Now, I read a while ago that witch hunts are great fun when they are stringing up crotchety old women from out of town that are living alone. But when the witch hunt starts to engulf high-status respectable women, that's when the ruler call a halt.

I wonder what will cause our present rulers to cool the jets of the Cancel Culture and BLM/Antifa. Not for a while.

For instance, in my view the Biden economic policy is going to cause serious hardship to the average person in the US, and maybe even to nice liberal ladies living in nice gentrified suburbs. So the Bidens may want to amp up the Cancel Culture in response to reports that the natives are restless.

I dunno. I just have a nasty feeling that things are not going to be too much fun in America over the next few years.

I fear that Derek Chauvin is only the first of many sacrificial scapegoats.