Hamilton, Ontario Well, I’ll be writing and recording this report from Canada and then flying to Mexico, but reading Attorney General Pam Bondi’s internal memo two weeks ago about her plans to launch investigations on what she and her boss, the president, see as an oppositional network of sorts, I will probably have to go turn myself in, when I get back in country. It is a small comfort that I may not be alone. From the looks of how wide she wants to throw the net; there will be a long line of hordes of us.
Reading the Washington Post¸ while safely situated on the 7th floor of a hotel in Hamilton, the old Ontario steel town along the Great Lakes, I’m out of the weather and away from the Bondi storm for now, but here’s the scattershot approach to her investigation:
Bondi’s Dec. 4 memorandum, which was first reported by journalist Ken Klippenstein and later confirmed by the Justice Department to The Washington Post, listed “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” “anti-Christianity,” “opposition to law and immigration enforcement,” “radical gender ideology,” and “hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality” as some of the political agendas espoused by the individuals who might merit investigation.
Keep in mind that her memo directing the investigation was originally labeled as part of the administration’s holy war against the nebulous “antifa.” Who and what they might be has never been established, since there is no such organization, office, bank account, or membership list that would help them find this ad hock bogeyman of the left, that the administration wants to blame for all of its problems that they can’t hang on Biden or Obama. Since they are essentially chasing ghosts in this so-called investigation, her memo makes a certain perverse sense as she tries to put a face on this mythical menace. She solves that by essentially authorizing an investigation against almost everyone who might have embraced contemporary American life in 2025, rather than 1950.
I know I’m guilty, when I look at this list. I’ve got big questions about capitalism, corporate greed, billionaire robber barons, and the wealth divide. Guilty as charged. “Opposition to law and immigration enforcement,” well, yes, that too, along with what polls indicate is a majority of the American people at this point. “Radical gender ideology,” well, I don’t think so, but if she’s talking about a willingness to understand gender fluidity across the spectrum, maybe guilty there, but why would that be a criminal or political offense, I have to wonder? Then there is “hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality,” oh, darned, she has me there as well, not because I’m hostile, but because I don’t hold “traditional views.” In fact, as opposed to Bondi and Trump, I’m tolerant of a wide range of views, actually including “traditional” ones, but those views certainly aren’t necessarily mine.
That the chief law enforcement officer in America now believes and authorizes potential investigations on people with “political agendas” embracing any of this might now be worth investigation, is likely illegal and unconstitutional on its face. It also is a clear indication of weaponizing the Justice Department in a way that makes McCarthyism seem weak tea. Pretty much most Americans are guilty of some of her allegations, and many, like myself, wear them proudly.
Look at your calendars and let’s see after the holidays if we can’t pick a day early in January where we all go to our local US attorney, FBI, and police departments and help the government save some money and turn ourselves in.