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According to an excellent report today at the website Campus Reform, charges against more than 300 pro-Hamas rioters that illegally occupied and damaged campuses at eleven different universities nationwide have been dropped by prosecutors.

The list is discouraging, to put it mildly:

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 80 criminal charges were dropped
• University of Texas at Austin: 79 criminal charges were dropped
• Indiana University: 56 criminal charges were dropped
• Columbia University: 31 criminal charges have been dropped
• California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt: 27 criminal charges have been dropped
• University of Minnesota: 9 criminal charges have been dropped
• University of New Hampshire: 8 criminal charges have been dropped
• The City University of New York: 7 criminal charges have been dropped
• Northwestern University: 4 criminal charges have been dropped

The reasons why prosecutors have dropped these charges are manifold. In some cases (such as in California, Illinois, and New York), the prosecutors were partisan Democrats who approved of the riots, and thus acted to protect the rioters by dropping the charges. In several cases however the prosecutors expressed extreme unhappiness with their own action, stating that they did so reluctantly because they did not think they could win in court.

Travis County Attorney Delia Garza, who opted not to charge most anti-Israel protesters at the University of Texas at Austin, said during a press conference in late June that the criminal trespass charge couldn’t be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, according to the Texas Tribune.

Garza also criticized leadership at the University of Texas at Austin for their handling of the protest. “The decisions that were made in response to these protests continue to show, as I’ve said before, the severe lack of leadership we expect from our leaders, as they continue to prioritize extreme government overreach over actual public safety,” Garza said.

Garza’s problem was two-fold. First, officials at the University of Texas at Austin were on the side of the rioters, and were not going to give her any support during any trial she might bring. Those same officials did everything possible to protect those rioters from arrest and prosecution, during the riots. This same phenomenon occurred at almost all these universities, even in very conservative states. The faculty and staff at these universities are all leftists who agree whole-heartedly with all of Hamas’ claims, and thus supported the riots on a fundamental level.

Similarly, in many of the locales where a trial would be brought (such as New York, Chicago, or California), the general population is generally in agreement with the protesters as well, and will act aggressively to find these rioters innocent. And if any are not, expect them to back down to peer pressure, much as many southerners did in the South during the Jim Crow era.

Second, it was very clear before, during, and after the riots that a great deal of money was being provided to support the actions of these protesters. Money was clearly provided by someone to pay for tents, signs, and equipment. Money also was apparently provided to pay some agitators, who when arrested were not local and appeared to have been flown in for protest purposes. After the arrests it was also obvious that someone was paying for extensive legal support, including lessons for the rioters on what to say after arrest and then providing them high-powered lawyers to fight any charges against them.

Faced with an uncorporative victim (the universities), high-powered legal attorneys willing and able to fight any charges endlessly, and a local population often in league with the rioters, it became impractical to prosecute these cases.

The Constitution: Is there any way we can save it?

The daunting conclusion we must draw from this is that the left remains very organized and determined to maintain its ability to commit whatever violence it deems necessary without any fear of consequences. This is the same situation the Nazis managed to create for themselves in the 1930s. It is also the same situation the Democrats and its armed wing the KKK created for itself in the South after the Civil War.
They became immune from punishment, even as they rioted and persecuted both political opponents, innocent Jews, and innocent blacks.

Unless something changes soon, we face the same situation now in the United States. Either these very bad people will gain power and escalate their violence and lust for power to do the kinds of things the Nazis and the Democratic Party KKK did, or in reaction the rest of the country will rise up and impose martial law, abandoning our Constitution and the rule of law in a desperate attempt to restore law and order. This is what Romans attempted as their empire was failing, and it failed to work.

Both choices are bad ones. Both lead to tyranny, ignorance, and chaos. And I fear that is what we face now.