A much-deserved second chance

Right now, I wouldn't live in Oregon on a bet: "He Went to Jail for Defending Himself. Now Ian Cranston May Get a Second Chance."

The most extraordinary thing about the confrontation that wrongly sent Ian Cranston, an unassuming young man in glasses, to prison for a decade, is that there was very little argument over the facts because they’re amply documented and were caught on video.

But add a woke prosecutor and the BLM hysteria to the mix and you get something that is the opposite of justice.

Lock these stories away in your mind, and take the time occasionally to mull over the meaning of their cumulative impact. There are ideological inquisitors out there, as fierce as any that operated in Spain in the name of religion, who take pride in destroying the lives of good people just trying to live peacefully and inoffensively in their own communities, but who keep getting dragged into the spotlight by arrogant thugs who insist on intruding into their space and doing harm - thugs, moreover, whose sense of entitlement has been bolstered by the very system that props up an army of woke prosecutors bent on turning victims into criminals.

This phenomenon of elites at war with their own citizens is, of course, not limited to the United States, and it will ultimately result in vigilantism. There are already signs that this is happening: "Masked, Armed 'New Republican Movement' Threatens Northern Ireland Far-Left Politicians — Cites Mass Immigration and Child Indoctrination as Reasons They Are Now 'Legitimate Targets'."