Janus, the two-faced Roman god, could look at a situation and have two different perspectives. It seems the politics of the left has embraced Janus, choosing the view that best suits their agenda. They abandon the truth in favor of their preferred reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not long ago the left was chanting \u201cNobody is above the law\u201d but those same people are now protesting against the removal of criminal aliens who have deportation orders. Not only are they protesting, they are advocating for, and inciting violence against law enforcement. What happened to nobody is above the law? It only makes sense if you understand they are really saying \u201cnobody we don\u2019t like is above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there is \u201cWe must save our democracy\u201d but when the democratic process does not go their way it is time for direct action protests against those that were democratically elected. They have no qualms about weaponizing the justice system to achieve their goals. What happens if you ignore a congressional subpoena to appear? Well, it depends who you are. If you are a democrat then nothing happens. If you are a Republican you go to jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The early 20th<\/sup> century slogan \u201cDirect action gets the goods\u201d encapsulates the left\u2019s \u201cends justifies the means\u201d mentality. Get what you want, whatever it takes. Protest, flout the law, incite violence, burn down a police station, take over entire areas of a city and face little or no consequence. They don\u2019t blame the violence and chaos on those committing the violence and chaos, they blame those trying to maintain order and protect life and property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We see this duplicity daily across the country but we only need to look in our own backyard for a clear example. The headline was that North Idaho College retains accreditation was welcome news, but why was accreditation at risk? What was the issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n First you have to know that the accreditation agency, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) has a monopoly on college accreditation and receives over one third of its\u2019s funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of grants that mandate \u201cinstitutional transformation for equitable results\u201d and achieving \u201cequitable outcomes\u201d which are the core of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Can MWCCU tolerate an accredited institution rejecting DEI when a critical portion of their funding depends on promoting DEI? Obviously not. Accreditation should be a function of academic achievement and financial solvency, but in the case of NIC it came down to adherence to a liberal agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because NC is a taxing district under Idaho law the trustees must be elected by the people. They are responsible to the people and oversee the budget, setting policy and hiring or firing exactly one college employee, the president. The president oversees all the elements that should be under the review of the accreditation agency. But the accreditation agency decided, unilaterally, that it would usurp the power of the voters and oversee the board of trustees directly. They could then use \u201cboard governance\u201d to justify a challenge to academic accreditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course NWCCU had direct action partners in their efforts. Protestors, students and facility would storm trustee meetings shouting, interrupting, pulling fire alarms and generally causing chaos and then complain about the chaos. One protestor was quoted as saying \u201cWhen endorsed political chaos put this college at risk, trustees, faculty, staff, students and the community stepped up to restore good governance,\u201d lying about who caused the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the current trustees was quoted \u201cwe must remember that the board of trustees is an elected body, chosen by the voters of Kootenai County.\u201d Translation: Democracy s only good when it goes our way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Janus would be proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s just common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Janus, the two-faced Roman god, could look at a situation and have two different perspectives. It seems the politics of the left has embraced Janus, choosing the view that best suits their agenda. They abandon the truth in favor of their preferred reality. Not long ago the left was chanting \u201cNobody is above the law\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":19466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[1567],"class_list":["post-19465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-janus","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19467,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465\/revisions\/19467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}