August 7th, 2025
If you or I break the law, or make some poor judgment that results in someone else suffering substantial bodily harm or financial loss, we will be held accountable. No question about it, otherwise good people who make that once-in-a-lifetime bad choice or dumb mistake are grist for the criminal justice mill (even if habitual lawbreakers are strangely not treated so). The American justice system is set up to treat everyone the same, regardless of station in life or wealth, but it is being failed deliberately, with huge far-reaching results, by a small but effective group of rogue judges and DAs.
Accountability for one’s actions is a fundamental tenet of American law. Both for people who directly cross a line and break a law, and for those who fail in some key duty to prevent real harm from happening.
It is time to extend this same kind of direct criminal accountability to rogue, lawless judges and District Attorneys, as well.
Last year two parents were criminally charged because their teenage son went on a shooting rampage, and they did nothing to stop him or warn anyone beforehand. He lived at home with his parents, and they knew he had access to firearms. Despite directly knowing that he was having mental health issues (something common to teenagers everywhere to one degree or another), they were so disinterested, and so disconnected from him, and disconnected from the potential he held in his hands to do great harm to other people, that they did not spend any time monitoring him. Even when he had direct access to firearms.
These parents were held accountable for their failure, even if they did not directly act in a way that violated the law. They also failed to act to prevent something illegal from happening. Something they had every expectation of knowing could happen.
Rogue police officers are eventually held accountable by the criminal justice system, even if it seems that too much time passes between their lawbreaking and their eventual appearance in court as a defendant. Despite wearing a gun and a badge and being the cutting edge and ultimate image The Law and of law enforcement, cops who cross the line will almost always do the time.
Rogue lawmakers are sometimes held accountable for breaking the law, probably not enough, but it does happen here in America. Former congressman, now-senator from California, Adam Schiff, is under investigation for mortgage fraud. So is New York Attoney General Letitia James. Both cases look open-and-shut from the documents available on the Internet. Immediate past US Senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, is now in jail for bribery; the actual gold bars he took from Egypt were sewn up inside his clothing!
So what is the deal with these rogue judges and DAs across America, who deliberately flout the law and common sense, by releasing dangerous felons right back onto the street after their arrest? Or under-charging them? Why aren’t these officers of the court held to the same standard all the rest of us are held to?
They act as if they are above the law, with no consequences for the consequences of their terrible decisions.
If there is one prime example of these lawless judges and DAs putting society at grave risk, there are a thousand examples: Illegal immigrants arrested for rape, murder, DUI homicide, burglary, child molestation, all released right back onto the street with either no bail or crazy low bail. Despite being dangerous felons, who usually do go right back to committing more felonies and ruining innocent people’s lives forever, rogue judges and DAs keep letting them out of the criminal justice system on a revolving door.
Why rogue judges and DAs behave lawlessly is a whole other discussion, but it comes down to a belief in warped “social justice.” Whenever you see the word social added to the word justice, you are guaranteed to get everything and anything but actual justice. It is an evil cultural Marxism thing, very popular now with one American political party.
In fact, “social justice” means just one thing: Gross injustice committed at enormous cost and at industrial scale against innocent Americans.
Lawless DAs and judges motivated by social justice ideas see everyone else who is not white skinned as a supposed “victim”, and therefore deserving of not being held accountable for their actions, no matter how heinous and illegal. And so the rest of us innocent people must suffer terribly in order for “social justice” to be served. And suffer again and again and again as lawbreakers from around the world moved illegally to America to continue breaking the law here without accountability, not to mention our own home-grown street thugs and community organized terrorists.
Lots of innocent Americans have lost their money, died violently, or been permanently maimed from this social justice nonsense.
Lots of children have been sexually molested or raped because of this social justice crap.
It is time to start holding these rogue judges and DAs directly accountable for the lawlessness, criminality, and mayhem they have unleashed upon us. Nothing excuses the crimes being perpetrated against Americans from these judges and DAs.
No amount of professional discretion allows one person to both lawlessly destroy innocent people and up-end a well ordered society, while simultaneously hiding behind the law.
This catch-and-release woke law enforcement is a failure to fulfill one’s duty of office, it is not a matter of what you professionally believe. The law has certain basic expectations, and every single woke DA and judge is not meeting them by a mile.
If citizen voters and our elected officials are so weak that we lack the political willpower to remove rogue and lawless judges and DAs from office through the political process, such as impeachment, then the criminal justice system must be invoked. It is time for bad judges and DAs to themselves be criminally charged and prosecuted for their misdeeds.
When a judge releases a known felon right back into the community after being arrested, without any consequences, then they have every reason to expect that felon to continue on being felonious, and victimizing innocent Americans. Just like the parents of emotionally unstable kids who take family guns to school and shoot people, that judge must be charged criminally and put on trial for whatever mayhem results.
We, The People just cannot put up with this criminal behavior hiding behind somber black robes any longer.
March 22nd, 2015
Governor Tom Wolf nominated Marcus Brown to be Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner.
Brown is a deeply, amazingly flawed candidate whose poor record literally involved recent malicious vandalism and theft. That is, the most basic, lowest form of law breaking. It’s behavior far beneath the dignity of any professional, and even farther, unimaginable, really, for someone representing the pinnacle of law enforcement. Brown is under investigation and will probably be charged soon with the crime. It’s an awkward scenario.
Brown’s many other flaws are notorious and even kind of crazy, like shutting down an entire highway and having Maryland state police go car-to-car with their guns drawn. That’s insane. It’s patently unconstitutional behavior and obviously tyrannical.
Brown is a man who has gotten away with all kinds infractions and law-breaking his entire career. He’s got a huge sense of entitlement. He is not cut out to be any sort of law enforcement officer, need we say the head of the PA State Police.
I know what it’s like to be a nominee running into an opposing state senator. I’ve been there and it can be an unfair fight, especially when the senator will tell no one what his objection is. Nevertheless, that same state senator is now joined by many others in formal opposition to Brown’s nomination, for good reasons that are a matter of the public record, not some personal vendetta.
Wolf doesn’t need this headache. There are going to be worthy disputes and tests with the legislature aplenty in the next four years. Wolf should choose his fights carefully, and in my experienced opinion, this is a bad one for him to stand on. He’s not going to win. And he’s promoting someone, Marcus Brown, who is unworthy of any support at all, much less a taxpayer-funded job, based on his historic and recent law breaking.
July 4th, 2013
Your Private Property Rights: Born, and Possibly Died, on the Fourth of July
July 4, 2013
By Josh First
One hundred and fifty years ago today, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, America’s most hallowed ground was established. Over fifty thousand casualties among both Union and Confederate forces resulted from fierce acts of bravery and heroism on both sides over just a few days, including Pickett’s famous last-ditch assault on the Union center, into the teeth of point-blank cannon fire, canister, and grape shot.
The ferocious hand-to-hand fighting along Pickett’s front established the “high water mark” of the Confederacy, and produced the most focused military effort to date by the Union, the success of which gave impetus to the North’s final push to end a malingering war. To make those sacrifices and take those personal risks, you’ve got to really believe in something, a truth summed up brilliantly in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The fact that the battle culminated on Independence Day was not lost on either side.
Ten years ago, I had the honor of purchasing the last outstanding parcel of land on which Pickett’s Charge occurred, at the far eastern end of the field, where the Ohio 8th Regiment was dug in. Over the prior 19 years, the National Park Service had unsuccessfully pursued the “Home Sweet Home” motel, a 1950s-era no-tell hotel on two acres there. It paved over a hasty trench and a temporary field hospital where men from both armies had been treated, before archaeology became vogue.
By 2004, the motel and its blacktop were themselves things of the past, the site archaeology was done, and the final resting place of so many distinguished soldiers was returned to serene grass. It was one of the high points of my career, and I worked so hard on it because, like other Americans who visit Gettysburg, read the Gettysburg Address, and understand Gettysburg’s role, its meaning inspired me. Preserving the Union meant continuing and expanding the American dream. Protecting the Home Sweet Home site meant preserving Gettysburg’s symbolism, protecting that hallowed ground, and enshrining the American Dream of opportunity for all.
One of the most inspiring aspects of America, and core to the American Dream, is the universal concept of private property rights. Because of America’s unique private property rights system, generations of immigrants have moved across mountains and oceans to become Americans, toil hard, and take risks and make sacrifices to improve their standard of living. For hundreds of years, anyone who was willing to work hard could use their private property rights to shelter and feed their family, purchase an education for their children, and build equity for the day when their hands and back might no longer be able to physically toil.
But here in Pennsylvania, just days ago and, oddly, just days before Independence Day, the state legislature passed a two-sentence bill gutting the private property rights of landowners who have leased their land for oil and gas exploration. It was a shameful thing to do, and it is an echo of the midnight legislative pay-raise that cost so many incumbents their seats a few years ago. It is the shady act of some self- anointed few to enrich their political friends, at the huge cost of Pennsylvania’s private landowners.
As I understand it, Governor Tom Corbett is weighing whether or not to sign it into law. I hope he does not sign it. To enact such a law flies in the face of everything that is American. It is against everything that Independence Day stands for. It is against everything that the men at Gettysburg fought and died for, and against everything that America’s Founding Fathers and brave patriots fought for in 1776.
I wish you a happy Independence Day today, and in its spirit I ask that you call your state legislators, and ask them if they voted for this un-American oil and gas bill. If they did, vote them out of office, and show them that the Spirit of 1776 still stands strong. You deserve better, I deserve better, America deserves better.
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