It seems like every day now we are seeing how dangerous it is to let no-STEM-degree secular leftists run the police and federal law enforcement. In this post, I look at a couple of recent articles showing you how bad it’s getting.

First one, from Daily Wire… it’s Matt Walsh:

Two years ago, a woman named Shayla Workman was driving in her car with her two children, aged 3-years-old and 1-year-old, near an apartment complex in Nashville, Tennessee. That’s when a man in his 20’s, Shaquille Taylor, opened fire. He shot the roof of the car at least two times as Workman drove away. The attack was not random. In fact, the motive couldn’t have been clearer: Workman had recently testified against, “Someone he cared about.” What was that man’s crime? As Workman put it, “His brother was locked up for shooting at me initially in May.” A few months later, on August 2nd, Taylor found Workman at the RiverChase apartments and also started shooting at her: “The bullet hit the top of my car and bounced off. Had I not been driving, it would’ve gone through the window and shot my son in his head.” Authorities then arrested Taylor, and he confessed.

[…]Shaquille Taylor, after shooting at a moving vehicle with a mother and her children inside, apparently in retribution for that woman’s testimony in a criminal proceeding, did not go to prison for the rest of his life. He didn’t receive any kind of lengthy prison sentence at all, for that matter. Incredibly, Shaquille Taylor never even went to trial. Instead, in May of this year, less than two years after he started shooting at Shayla Workman’s car, Shaquille Taylor was released from jail and his charges were dismissed. The judge who made that decision was Angelita Blackshear Dalton, who happens to be a Democrat and the first black woman elected to a judgeship in her county.

[…]It didn’t take long for the consequences of the judge’s decision to become very clear. A week ago, on Tuesday — just about six months after his charges were dismissed — Shaquille Taylor shot and killed an 18-year-old freshman music student at Belmont University named Jillian Ludwig.

There’s a video about the woman in the article:

More:

That report — and most reports on this case — manage to undersell Shaquille Taylor’s criminal history. The shooting incident involving the mother and her children happened two years ago, but it wasn’t the only serious crime that Taylor committed. According to the local news channel, WSMV-4, “Taylor’s background also includes charges for vehicle theft, robbery, handgun possession and multiple aggravated assault charges. One affidavit … said he shoved a man to the ground .. back in 2015 before stealing money from him. Taylor’s most recent aggravated assault charge was in May of this year, but the District Attorney’s Office did not prosecute.”

[…]Speaking of that career, just a few weeks ago, on September 21st, Taylor was arrested in a grocery store parking lot driving a Ford-150 that had been carjacked a couple days earlier. Prosecutors charged him with felony auto theft, but then a judge let him out of jail on just $20,000 bond. This is after he shot at the mother in her car, and after he was caught in the stolen F-150. Of course, Taylor then missed his court appearance, and went on to kill a college freshman.

Will the judge who released this career criminal face any consequences? Probably not. The judge is a woman, and a minority, and the motto of America these days is “don’t judge”. In fact, “don’t judge” is probably how this judge got through her non-STEM degrees, and onto the bench. According to her bio, “Judge Dalton… received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Lane College in 1993 and her Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Toledo College of Law in 1997.” ENGLISH.

I’m a visible minority too, but my degrees are STEM degrees – in computer science. You can’t get out of STEM programs by parroting the opinions of your woke professors. You have to do math. You have to write code that compiles and runs. You have to read requirements. You have to solve problems.

Here’s another example from yesterday:

I guess the lesson for conservatives here is “don’t live in a blue city, in a blue county, where your law enforcement is chosen by far-left billionaire George Soros.” Your education, career, and finances all have to be carefully chosen in such a way as you don’t live in a place that is run by the “don’t judge” people. They won’t protect you from evil, even though you are paying their salaries with your taxes.

Next article. This is from the New York Post:

The gunman who killed Texas SWAT Officer Jorge Pastore in a shootout that also left two hostages dead was wearing body armor and night vision goggles — and was on the FBI’s terror watchlist, according to reports.

He was on the terror watchlist, but why was he allowed to commit a crime? Oh, maybe it’s this:

[…][A] local organization called the Round Rock Area Muslims said they were all family members of a “beloved brother” who was well-known in the local community.

They were mom Eman Ahmed El Nemr-Nassar and two of her sons, Ahmed Mohammed Nassar, 35, and Riad Mohamed Nassar, 32, according to a group member’s since-deleted post shared by the Daily Mail.

Just like the law enforcement in Britain, our law enforcement does not want to enforce the law, if they will appear to be “racist”. After all, the top priority of the Biden administration, in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack, is cracking down on “Islamophobia”. After all, according to the Biden administration, the real criminals are concerned parents and elderly pro-lifers. Those are the REAL “domestic terrorists”, Democrats say. And we are paying their salaries. Is it worth it?

Be careful where you live.

I’m a proud evangelical Protestant who thought very highly of Pope Benedict. But I don’t like Pope Francis at all. In this post, I will link to two recent stories that explain two of my reasons, although I have many more beside these.

First one, reported in NewsMax:

Conservative Catholics have launched a barrage of challenges to Pope Francis before a big Vatican meeting, with five cardinals demanding clarifications on same-sex couples and other issues, and a women’s group saying only men should vote at the event.

The cardinals from Asia, Europe, Africa, the United States and Latin America said on Monday they had sent the pope a set of formal questions, known as “dubia” (“doubts” in Latin), about the gathering.

In an open letter to Catholics, they said they had announced their challenges “so that you may not be subject to confusion, error, and discouragement but rather may pray for the universal Church.”

The action was the latest latest clash between the pope and minority conservatives, who have accused him of undermining a number of traditional precepts.

And I thought this was very interesting:

Church leaders have been preparing for this week’s closed-door meeting – known as a bishops synod – for the past two years, asking Catholics around the world to share their vision for the future of the Church.

Topics will include the role of women, greater acceptance of LGBT Catholics, social justice and the effects of climate change on the poor.

Conservative Catholics are definitely unhappy:

Last week, the conservative U.S.-based Catholic women’s group Restore Tradition decried the fact that women were given a vote at the meeting equal to that of a cardinal or bishop, saying some of the women had advocated “heretical doctrines” against tradition.

“We wish to be represented only by bishops,” the group said, citing “divine law” that only men could receive sacramental ordination.

The international conservative group, “Tradition, Family and Property,” sent participants a 100-page booklet calling the gathering a dangerous “Pandora’s Box.” In the forward, Burke says he fears the synod will sow “confusion and error and division.”

As a Protestant, I know that when denominations move away from the text of the Bible, and cater to the feelings of the “don’t judge” compassion crowd, then doctrine gets watered down. That’s the way it is in mainline Protestant denominations, and that’s why their numbers are declining, while conservative evangelical Protestant churches are thriving.

While the Pope is very friendly to the secular left on social issues, conservative leaders in the Catholic church are getting punished.

Church Militant reports:

Pope Francis has removed a Texas bishop from his office, a move shocking many in the Church.

[…]Known by some as “America’s bishop,” Strickland is one of the few U.S. Catholic bishops to be vocal in his support for the Church.

He was the only U.S. bishop to attend the June 16 protest against the Los Angeles Dodgers for the team’s support of the blasphemous Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. It created something of an embarrassment for L.A. Abp. Jose Gómez and his auxiliary bishops.

Strickland was also outspoken against COVID mandates, which were promoted by Catholic leaders. (Where is that in the Bible?)

Strickland is not the only one:

Pope Francis does have a record of removing bishops who claim to be merely following the Catholic faith.

In March 2022, Pope Francis ousted Daniel Fernández Torres as bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, because he allegedly “had not been obedient to the pope, nor had [he] had sufficient communion with [his] brother bishops of Puerto Rico.”

Torres refused to sign a joint statement urging the moral obligation of COVID-19 vaccinations, a stance he defended as a conscientious objection recognized by the Church. The bishop noted, “I have opposed what I consider to be using episcopal ministry to advance political agendas.”

He was disobedient to the Pope, so he had to go!

I have some friends who are conservative Catholics, and I’m so curious to know how they see their commitment to that organization shaping up in light of these changes. As a Protestant, I pick the denomination that adheres most closely to the teachings of the Bible. But conservative Catholics seem to be stuck with this Pope. What will they do now?

I wrote a post previously explaining why I am not a Roman Catholic.

A couple more interesting stories about the FBI today. First, the pro-life family that was pre-dawn raided by the FBI is suing the DOJ. Second, the FBI and DOJ refuse to label the Nashville school shooting as an anti-white hate crime, even after the manifesto emerged (against their wishes) showing exactly that. Are taxpayers getting good value by hiring the FBI to enforce the laws?

Here’s the first story, from The Federalist:

Pennsylvania family the FBI raided last September over the father’s pro-life advocacy filed two claims today for a total of $4.35 million in damages due to the FBI’s unconstitutional, “malicious,” and “corrupt” use of “excessive force.”

Mark Houck and Ryan-Marie Houck say in their legal filings obtained by The Federalist that their seven children continue to suffer as a result of the FBI raiding — with battering rams, ballistic shields, armor, and long rifles — the home of a nonviolent pro-lifer who didn’t own any guns and whose seven children were just waking for breakfast.

The Houcks “have lost three babies from miscarriages due to the stress of the FBI’s conduct and resulting prosecution” and subsequently been diagnosed with infertility, Ryan-Marie Houck’s filing says. She says she still cries for hours and the family’s high anxiety provoked by the raid has caused them to install security cameras and rarely leave home.

In the Sept. 23, 2022 raid, “Government agents aimed rifles and handguns at Mr. Houck from his porch and from behind vehicles in his yard and driveway,” Ryan-Marie Houcks’ complaint says. “They also aimed their weapons at Mrs. Houck, who slowly walked down a staircase to approach the Houcks’ front door. Mrs. Houck approached after Mr. Houck had already walked peacefully outside with his hands up. Any bullet that missed Mr. Houck could have struck Mrs. Houck or her children, who were stirring throughout the house and had gathered behind her on the staircase. The entire family was located directly downrange.”

The sunrise raid that included approximately 20 law enforcement officers was conducted after Mark Houck’s lawyer had informed the Department of Justice he would voluntarily turn himself in if requested. Mark Houck’s complaint says his 9-year-old daughter was terrified to find two officers dressed in black carrying rifles looking into their home through a back window.

The Houcks’ lawsuits say that, as a result of the “unnecessary” raid, “The children continually come to her [Ryan-Marie] crying and suffering from nightmares.” Ryan-Marie and their five oldest children, ages 7 to 13, now must take medication “to get a few hours of sleep” each night.

“Joshua was six years old at the time he saw his father taken away at gun point,” says Ryan-Marie’s complaint. “He cried the entire time and yelled to the FBI, ‘Please don’t take him he is my best friend.’ To this day, any time someone brings up the raid or tells the story, he starts to cry as if he is reliving the day all over again. He constantly worries that he will lose his father or mother.”

Their 4-year-old has started sleepwalking, the claims say. The entire family seizes up with anxiety any time they have an unannounced visitor. Once, a friend showing up unannounced gave Ryan-Marie a panic attack, her filing says.

The accused man was found not guilty by a jury.

A Pennsylvania jury acquitted Mark Houck in January on all charges the Department of Justice brought against him. The DOJ argued Houck had violated a federal law that prohibits physically obstructing abortion facilities. Houck and his son were 100 feet away from the facility when they were accosted by a pro-abortion escort.

The laws are not being enforced impartially:

Mark Houck’s complaint notes that, except for one single recent case, the DOJ has prosecuted only pro-lifers for alleged violations of the FACE Act used against him. The law is supposed to apply both to abortion supporters and pro-lifers, but the DOJ has almost exclusively used it against pro-lifers.

Was this FBI action political persecution of Biden’s enemies? I guess we’re going to find out.

Anyway, here’s another story of FBI failure, also reported in The Federalist:

On March 27, 2023, Audrey Hale, a woman masquerading as a man, shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian grade school before local police took her out.

[…]Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters shortly after the massacre that it was a “targeted attack.” However, MNPD, along with the Tennesse Bureau of Investigation and the FBI, repeatedly refused to release the manifesto detailing Hale’s motives.

It was only this week, more than nearly eight months after the shooting, that conservative media personality Steven Crowder leaked three of the manifesto pages. The publicization of the bombshell writings put seven MNPD officers on administrative leave but exposed the reasons Hale decided to shoot up her former school.

[…]Hale claimed she planned to murder Covenant schoolchildren because she hated their white skin, light features, and “privilege.”

[…]When The Federalist asked the nation’s top federal law enforcement agencies, which had access to the notebook ever since March 27, if either had plans to classify the shooting as an anti-white hate crime or political violence spurred on by the proliferation of left-wing racism in schools and government, the DOJ ignored the request and the FBI claimed it did not have a comment.

The DOJ and FBI’s silence on the issue sharply contrasts how both department and agency have treated other race-based shootings.

When a gunman in Buffalo, New York, opened fire in a grocery store, killing 10 in 2022, the DOJ used the shooter’s racist social media posts as justification to deem the act “a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism” worthy of several federal hate crime charges. The Justice Department extended the same treatment to Dylann Roof and the Texas mass shooter who killed 23 people at an El Paso Wal-Mart.

Yet when it comes to investigating the Nashville shooting, which was rooted in the shooter’s disdain for people based on their skin color, as a hate crime against white Christians, the DOJ and FBI refuse.

We can fix these problems with the FBI and DOJ when we have our next election. We just need to elect someone with integrity. I think Ron DeSantis would be able clean up these problems.