AIDING AND ABETTING

Have you ever heard the expression “aiding and abetting?” One usually hears it associated with criminal acts. If you watch cop shows on TV you will hear it a lot. You’ll see a person lying about hiding a fugitive in their house. Or possibly providing funds to help someone escape punishment or arrest. Of course, aiding and abetting a criminal is also a crime. Regardless of the crime, the aider/abettor can be arrested as an accessory after the fact to the crime itself.

I bring this up because of an event that just made the news. It has been reported that ICE will start gathering up convicted criminals right away. The criminals they are after are illegal aliens who have been adjudicated by a court already and ordered deported. They have refused to leave. They are now fugitives from justice. 

Well guess what? Some individuals on the left have apparently decided that this is not a particularly heinous crime so they should aid and abet these criminals in their escape from justice. There’s a problem here. We don’t get to decide what laws we should obey, regardless of who we are. When we assist a criminal and help him escape the law, we are just as guilty of the crime as are they.

That includes every official in every so-called “sanctuary city” or “sanctuary state” in existence today. But it also includes such luminaries as Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and that darling of the left, Hillary Clinton. Pelosi, on the floor of the House of Representatives, issued instructions to would-be arrestees on how to escape arrest. She advised that if the ICE officer doesn’t have a warrant signed by a judge, they don’t even have to open the door or answer any questions. In other words, she was teaching fugitives from justice how to continue to escape justice. Pelosi, the law maker, was instructing criminals in the art of law breaking. 

Hillary Clinton tweeted out instructions, in Spanish, directed to these criminals on how to beat the system. What both of these women are saying is that if you don’t like a particular law, it is perfectly okay to violate it. And we will even offer you instructions. We will aid and abet your escape from justice because we are powerful and above the law. So, now both of these women are just as guilty of the crime as the original criminal, and they should be arrested. 

Where is law enforcement? Where are the local police? If Nancy Pelosi doesn’t think violation of a deportation order by a judge is a criminal offense, then she should use her position as a law maker to pass a new law making it legal. In the meantime, she and Hillary should be arrested and face a judge for their violation of law. 

Here is a fact. We are either a country with borders, enforceable borders, or we are not. Here is another fact. We absolutely cannot feed and house every person in the world who wants to come to America. Can you imagine what would happen if the Democrats got their wish and removed any border enforcement? We would be invaded by tens of millions of people from all over the world. In a matter of days we would be out of food and housing for everybody. 

One of my regular readers calls the Dems dims. He is definitely onto something. If they cannot see what their stupidity would cause they have to be dim, dimwitted.

In my several years on this earth I have learned one inescapable truth. There is a price to be paid for excess. We have laws so that we will have order. We have enforcement because some refuse to obey laws. We have penal institutions to punish, not necessarily to rehabilitate. If and when we aid or abet criminal acts, we contribute to lawlessness. 

Ron Scarbro