The left’s anger, fear and desperation cause misplaced actions

March 25, 2025

The situation of the resistance to everything President Donald Trump says and does has always been a bit crazy, but since he took office in January, this reaction has become even crazier.

Perhaps the best example of that is the reaction to the efforts to restore order and propriety to the use of taxpayer money that the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is doing. Specifically, the involvement in DOGE of Elon Musk, who owns X (formerly Twitter) and Space X, and is CEO of Tesla is problematic.

Musk has had criticism from all sorts of people, and even threats on his life, for his efforts to find and eliminate wasteful and improper spending of our money, something every American should support.

This criticism comes primarily from those on the political left. The left is concerned about the climate and the problems they ascribe to too much CO2 in the atmosphere. They heavily oppose the burning of fossil fuels, and heavily favor wind and solar power to replace them.

Musk has helped with that by owning the company producing the very popular Tesla electric vehicle (EV).

Some on the left who disapprove of DOGE’s activities have gone after Musk. And their idea of how to get even with him, in addition to direct actions and threats against him, is through violence, which includes destroying Tesla vehicles and charging stations, and even dealerships. 

Note to those leftists: Musk does not own the vehicles, charging stations and dealerships that you are bombing with Molotov cocktails and damaging through other means. Those vehicles are owned largely by people who agree with your position on the environment, believing EVs are beneficial to the environment. And the charging station and dealership properties are owned mostly by local businesses who provide jobs for local people and generally support their communities.

These violent attacks are suspected to not be spur-of-the-moment reactions, for the most part. Vice President J.D. Vance suggests that they are coordinated and paid for by someone.

"My guess is that if we do get to the bottom of this, we're going to find out that there are some very crazy, very deranged, but very wealthy left-wing people who are funding this stuff," Vance said.

Along that line of thinking, the FBI believes there is a “map” that supposedly charts the location of Tesla owners in the United States, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the bureau is investigating this. These actions have been described as a form of domestic terrorism by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The Daily Signal reported that “A website called ‘Dogequest’ claims to have published the personal information of Tesla owners across the country, and it turns the user’s cursor into a Molotov cocktail. The site’s operators, who also posted the exact locations of Tesla dealerships, say they will only remove personal information if the Tesla owners provide proof that they sold their electric vehicles.”

Townhall.com reports that three people have been federally charged for destruction of Tesla properties, using Molotov cocktails. They will "face the full force of the law" for allegedly firebombing Tesla cars and charging stations, according to a Department of Justice press release. The charges carry a penalty of from five years to twenty years in prison, if those charged are convicted.

"The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended," Bondi said. "Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars."

This attitude on the part of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are very welcome, after the long four years of selective prosecutions in the Biden administration. Violence, including setting fire to police stations and other properties — which the main stream media reported as “mostly peaceful” protests, as buildings burned in the background — were brushed off. 

However, parents complaining about their children’s education to their local school boards, and others carrying signs opposing abortions near abortion clinics, ranked higher with the DOJ, which labeled them “domestic terrorists.” 

And the squad of liberal prosecutors behaved like political operatives, instead of living up to their pledge to enforce laws to protect the public, for whom they work.

The country approves of and protects free speech, which often appears as organized protests. There seems to be many people who do not understand what protests actually are. And instead of peacefully protesting, they stoop to committing violent, destructive and dangerous acts. What they are doing is not protected speech; it is grounds for arrest and jail time.

Political actions and events are intended to persuade people to your way of thinking. The left’s misfocused thinking and dangerous violence only shows people how out of touch they are, and it turns people away. These illegal and dangerous antics must be stopped, and the perpetrators punished.

And what Trump and his administration are trying to do is to restore our federal government to its original design, which includes making government smaller, less controlling and less expensive. 

Why this should drive people to violence is difficult to understand, unless they believe that violence is the only path to get their way.

Will the far-left stop at nothing to impose its will on the U.S.?

July 19, 2022

We all heard, read and saw news items on the left’s riots in major cities such as Portland; Seattle; New York City; Chicago; Atlanta; Minneapolis; Richmond; Miami; Kenosha; and the District of Columbia during the summer of 2020. 

Government buildings and private property were damaged and burned, businesses were looted and vandalized. Damages reported totaled in the billions of dollars.

The U.S. edition of The Guardian reported that “At least 11 Americans have been killed while participating in political demonstrations this year and another 14 have died in other incidents linked to political unrest, according to new data from a non-profit monitoring political unrest in the United States.”

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and his wife were threatened by a mob in Washington, DC following a visit to the White House in August, 2020, and fortunately were protected from injury by DC police.

Yet, little was done to the organizers and participants of these riots, and much of the reporting here at home was, shall we say, carefully worded. To wit: With a fire raging in a building in the background, a TV reporter termed the event “mostly peaceful,” and that was the usual coverage by the highly liberal media outlets, and was also the attitude of other liberals. Indeed, Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris even bailed out rioters who were arrested.

Then this year, a draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion dealing with the Roe v. Wade issue, written by Justice Samuel Alito, was leaked to Politico by someone working in the Court, and published last May. 

Taking from the draft opinion indicating that the Court would overturn Roe, the left again rose up. Protests were organized at the homes of some of the constitutional conservatives on the Court. While these protests were noisy and otherwise unpleasant, unlike the “mostly peaceful riots,” they were mostly peaceful.

However, just like the criminal behavior in the cities in 2020, protesting at the home of Supreme Court Justices is against federal law. Section 1507 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code clearly states that it is unlawful to protest near a ‘residence occupied or used by [a] judge, juror, witness, or court officer’ with the intent of influencing ‘the discharge of his duty,’ adding that anyone who ‘uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.’”

Yet, while the justices were being harassed and intimidated, federal law enforcement, the Department of Justice and the head of all of that, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, sat on their hands and did nothing. To selectively enforce federal law is not what Garland is supposed to do.

But, it gets worse. Much worse.

An armed California man was arrested in the early morning hours on June 8th outside the Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He was carrying a gun, ammunition, a knife, pepper spray, a screwdriver, zip ties, and other gear when he was arrested, not by federal agents protecting Kavanaugh, but by Montgomery County Police Department officers.

Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, told police that he was going to kill Kavanaugh because he was upset about the justice’s positions on Roe v. Wade and the Second Amendment.

Fortunately, while the AG and federal law enforcement were sitting on their hands, the local authorities were doing their job. 

More recently, a group of protesters gathered outside an upscale DC restaurant, harassing diners, including Justice Kavanaugh, forcing him and his wife to leave via the back door.

In addition to the Attorney General, other federal officials have done nothing to stop this illegal behavior and protect the justices from intimidation and potential harm.

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. “I don’t have an official U.S. government position on where people protest.” She appeared unaware that the U.S. government has a law covering this.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, threatened Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, saying they will “pay the price” for their decisions.

After the Roe decision, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, in an email sent out to people, encouraged them to “RISE UP” against the “far-right extremists” of the Supreme Court.

And now there is this. Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, wrote the following on his website: “We recently discussed the Georgetown law professor who defended ‘more aggressive’ protests targeting the Supreme Court justices, but Harvard clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo wants to guarantee that ‘The 6 justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again.’ Accordingly, Caraballo is calling for people to accost them every time they are in public.’” Apparently, she does not understand how the Court works.

Those on the left, whether they be elected or appointed federal officials, federal employees, biased journalists, or people trained in the law, and responsible for properly teaching students about the law, do not care about the law, or right and wrong. All they care about is getting their way, whatever methods are required to accomplish their goal.

What has happened to the concept of integrity and honor in one’s work?