Anarcho-Tyranny and It's Discontents

Heard a term yesterday that I didn’t know existed describing a phenomena I only recently became aware of.  It’s sort of akin to if you went to the hospital with a serious injury and someone else with paper cut received priority and attention. 

It’s called “anarcho-tyranny” and is defined as “the dehumanizing state of affairs whereby the state refuses to stop violent crime, yet still vigorously enforces even the most unjust and petty laws against ordinary people.”

Really eye-opening since I had no idea this sort of thing was “a thing” until the way the Jan. 6rs were treated versus the BLM rioters.  The treatment of the Jan6rs could have been a shining example of our legal system playing no favorites but became the exact opposite. 

Instead of charging them to the fullest extent of the law and sentencing them based on those laws the DOJ has spent over a year now making them sweat either with home arrest or in D.C. jail, understanding well that the process is the punishment.  

One person, who did no violence and merely trespassed in the Capitol,  recently committed suicide after hearing the DOJ is asking for 50-70 months in prison. (“Consistency in sentencing” is the goal of the DOJ they say, which essentially means, “pretend there’s no difference between violent offenders and trespassers”.) 

We’ve come a long, long, long way from when the future president John Adams defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre simply because even they had the right to a fair and speedy trial. 

We’re seeing in realtime how the decline of a virtue plays out in a nation, namely in a lack of adherence to due process. I would not expect that from judges, who are supposed to be impartial and “above the fray”.  They are supposed to be the best we have and now that they’ve lost virtue well... Katie bar the door. 

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More on anarcho-tyranny in Revolver News:  

“Anarcho-tyranny is why downtown D.C. was abandoned to a rioting horde last summer, most of whom will never be brought to justice, yet the largest manhunt in history seeks every person who walked into the Capitol on January 6. Anarcho-tyranny is why St. Louis only made an arrest in 29 percent of murders last year, but still brought felony charges against the McCloskeys for simply holding guns in the face of a braying mob.”

The term originated in the early ‘90s by Sam Francis, who was a Patrick Buchanan advisor back in the day and predicted that someone like Trump would come along sooner or later given the behavior of the elites.  On the term: 

He used it in the context of the crime wave of the early nineties, when armed drug gangs freely roamed American streets even as big government plotted to grab guns from regular Americans and ensnare the bourgeoisie in its regulatory and tax bureaucracy. It is a situation in which government does everything but what it is supposed to do, namely protect life and property.