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'."
I lived in Walla Walla, WA, which is almost on the OR-WA border; I routinely went into Oregon for personal business, to visit family, and to use a gun range. I was a board member and an officer in the club that ran said range. I also dealt with multiple state and local agencies while I worked for the feds.
ReplyDeleteAnd Oregon politics have long been trending towards outright fascism, longer than Washington. In fact, Oregon is definitely following in Kalifornia's slide into Third World Sh!thole status.
Hopefully, Mr. Cranston sees justice. But that's the same jurisdiction that saw repeated assaults on the Portland federal courthouse back in 2019, and an outright siege of the Portland ICE facility now ... ... with all-but-official support from the Portland government.
Yeah, you don't want to live there. Even the rural areas are being touched by this disease.
As for the vigilantism ... ... that's the inevitable (and well deserved) result of institutions losing credibility.
DeleteNo surprise that Northern Ireland is trending that way; I've always thought that the old terrorist organization was merely quiet, not gone.
We’re probably going to see more and more vigilantism, and the left only have to blame themselves.
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