Prosecutor to reconsider the meaning of the word “justice”

Here's the word from the "first Black US Attorney in Western Washington" Nick Brown, 44, is the perfect prosecutor for the Biden Moment. 

His solution is shake things up within his office, urging his prosecutors to reconsider the meaning of the word “justice” and to “empower my people to push law enforcement into a different way to look at crime.”

Hey, guy. You have one job. It is to prosecute. Redefining "justice" is the job of priests and moralists. Pushing law enforcement around is the job of elected politicians, pal. Not appointed US Attorneys.

Look, I feel sorry for our liberal masters. A century ago they were going to manfully reform and redirect the United States in a progressive direction. With educated, evolved politicians and administrators they would shepherd us into a new age of justice and efficiency. And now look: Crime is up; the Sacred Negro is a mess. And the the progressive response to a normal coronavirus epidemic is to shut the place down and put tape on little kiddies in school. And don't you dare object or you will be deplatformed from social media.

All the nonsense about pronouns, the desperate lurch for another ratcheted expansion of the welfare state, the Soros prosecutors, the DEI frenzy in universities and corporate HR departments, the mad wokeyness in the entertainment world: all this means that the glorious vision of a century ago is failing on all fronts. It is falling apart.

And our progressive masters can't believe it. They are frantically sitting at the controls of World HQ hitting all the buttons and all that happens is that everything they do Makes Things Worse. And like Captain Kirk, they are always asking Scotty for more power.

Think how you would feel in their place. You are the best, the most educated, the most evolved, the most sensitive, the most caring. And yet everything is going wrong.

For me, no problem. You see, I don't believe in "objective reality," or "reason and logic." I don't believe in "justice" or "progress." I believe that all knowledge is a narrative, a myth, a story. And I know that, at bottom, I don't know nothing. Now, our present scientific narrative is a very good narrative; it predicts that when you put radioactive uranium in a reactor -- very carefully -- you get heat and you can use the heat to run a turbine generator. Karl Popper calls a working nuclear reactor "objective knowledge." Because it works.

But we still don't know the thing-in-itself behind all this. And we still don't know how the universe came into being and how it will end, if it ends. Our present creation narrative, our Genesis, our founding myth, says that the universe was created in a Big Bang. And before the Big Bang? Good question, senator.

The thing about narratives -- the "tell" -- is when things start to go wrong. For instance, if the results from our public schools don't change even as we change from No Child Left Behind to Common Core and I know not what, and Bill Gates comes up with a new idea every month, maybe Houston We Have a Problem. And guess what: progressives have been in charge of education the whole time.

If blacks still aren't getting into the middle class half a century after the Civil Rights Act and are committing half the murders in the country, and the highest and best thing that young black males can imagine is being an "aspiring rapper" maybe Houston We Have a Problem. And guess what: progressives have been in charge of race relations the whole time.

So maybe the problem isn't racist-sexist-homophobes or whatever the pejorative du jour favored among our ruling is. Maybe the problem is the ruling class itself.

Actually, maybe the problem isn't the ruling class, but its crazy ideology.

Hey, here's an idea. It comes from the Nazi Carl Schmitt, so you know what to do with it. Schmitt wrote that the political is this:

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be traced is the distinction between friend and enemy.

OK. Maybe that is a bit to thick and treacly. How about this:

Politics is about friends vs. enemies. Period.

In other words, you oughta be a bit careful before you bring an issue into politics. Because politics is about friends vs. enemies, and in the extreme case, conflicts with the enemy are possible. Possible?

Moreover, there is the little problem that

Government is war followed by loot and plunder.

This is noticeable in our glorious elections, which are a sham fight for the keys to the kingdom, or the security code on the money printer go brrrrr.

Do you see the point, dear liberals and progressives and newly minted US Attorneys?

I am saying that as soon as you make a difference between humans into a political issue you are defining it in terms of the friend/enemy distinction. And that means already that "conflict" or killing is a possibility, what certain chappies in the 20th century said would be a "final solution."

So the progressive idea that educated evolved people presiding over the nation in charge of the government is what they call a category error. Because a political leader is is fact the guy in charge of protecting us from our enemies. He is not the guy in charge of resolving all our little disagreements. Indeed, his skill is exploiting differences between people -- maybe even suggest that those deplorables over there are engaged in "domestic terrorism" so that he can win the next election.

You will notice that liberals and progressives absolutely hated it when Donald Trump was president. Just as now conservatives and deplorables absolutely hate having Joe Biden as president.

Hey, I know. What if the president were just in charge of defending the borders, and had nothing to do with education or race relations or crime or non-binary genders?

But try telling that to your liberal friend and see where you get.