On Monday, four members of a particular political party pandered for votes by showing they know how to “raise the roof” of the US House of Representatives and put their hands up while giving floor speeches, symbolizing the long debunked idea that Michael Brown was surrendering when he was shot.
As Reason discovered after on a little searching, not a single one of them has voted against a single measure that would have demilitarized police forces.
And in less “stupid” and more “dangerous” news, Richard A. Epstein writes at the Hoover Institute blog about how the demeaning of the rule of law is the actual goal of movements which push misinformation about stories such as Wilson/Brown and Zimmerman/Martin.
Demeaning the rule of law, like campaigning for I594 and telling everyone the more onorous parts won’t be enforced?
They have to demean it to weaken it, and once weakened finally disregard it with impunity. (see: AG Eric Holder, Obama, Hillary…etc.)