Crime, Law & Ethics

Ilana Mercer, March 4, 2021

  • “When in recent memory has the FBI stopped an attack on the homeland other than attacks originating in its own entrapment schemes, where a low-IQ Abdul is persuaded to purchase explosives from the FBI ‘for Jihad’ and then is ‘caught’ in the act. A presser follows.”—ILANA Mercer, “Enough About The Uyghurs! Speak Up About America’s Liberties Lost,” January 20, 2022.
  • “The FBI has no shame. As standard operating procedure, not a day goes by when FBI agents or local law enforcement don’t tell a supplicating white America that the loss of their beautiful sons and daughters to focused and furious black hatred is entirely random, merely a function of mental illness, as that murmured mantra goes. Lies.”—ILANA Mercer, “Enough About The Uyghurs! Speak Up About America’s Liberties Lost,” January 20, 2022.
  • “America has jurisdiction over Julian Assange because it has simply asserted it based on trumped-up charges equating his journalism with espionage.”—ILANA Mercer, “Extradited! Why Assange Fears Being ‘Epsteined’“, December 23, 2021.
  • Civil rights laws exist and are already enforced. “I see no reason to reject the application of civil rights solutions to wicked, woke bullies because existing laws that’ll never be repealed go against my core beliefs. What is libertarianism? The art of losing in life because of a slavish devotion to theoretical purity?”—ILANA Mercer, “Centralize Liberty: The Solution To Wicked, Woke Tech (Part 3),” September 23, 2021.
  • “Natural morality has been inverted. Good is bad and bad is good. Right is wrong and wrong is right. What a moral inversion it is to force U.S. law enforcement to process and pander to outlaw invaders, instead of stopping and expelling them in just the manner described.”—ILANA Mercer, “In Praise Of Whipping Horsemen: ‘Whip Or Rein’ Was Never The Question,” Sep 30, 2021.
  • “January 6: “The Democratic militia romped through America, in the summer of 2020, rioting, looting and leveling their countrymen’s businesses, causing billions in damages.Like locusts, these Democrat cultural revolutionaries descended on their neighbors to menace them in places where the latter shop and socialize, sadistically threatening, and often physically harming innocents, unless they knelt like slaves. In contrast, the ragtag renegades of the MAGA movement stormed only the seat of power and corruption that is the State. Once!”—ILANA Mercer, “January 6 Committee: Menstrual America Vs. MAGA America,” July 29, 2021
  • “Be they illegal voters, criminal aliens, or just good old vandals, rapists and murderers—the criminal class is now the armed wing of the Democratic Party.”—ILANA Mercer, “January 6 Committee: Menstrual America Vs. MAGA America,” July 29, 2021
  • January 6: “There is a difference between a crime and a coup. Crimes against innocent fellow citizens are acts of cowardice; a coup against the State can be heroic–just like the American Revolutionary War was a coup against Britain.”—ILANA Mercer, “January 6 Committee: Menstrual America Vs. MAGA America,” July 29, 2021
  • “Prosecutions now rest on he-said, she-said hearsay evidence, on facts that can’t possibly meet the rules of evidence (the ones the United States once abided), or be corroborated for the purposes of a just prosecution.”—ILANA Mercer, “Ghislaine Maxwell: Not Evidence-Based Law, But MeToo, Sexual Moral Panic,”
  • “‘Always Believe the Victim’ is a ditzy, made-in-Hollywood dogma that goes against the stellar Anglo-American common law legal tradition.”—ILANA Mercer, “Mad, #MeToo Matriarchy Ensnared Bill Cosby,” July 1, 2021
  • “The Law must engage in a search for truth. Ultimately, however, courts of law do not deal with what happened. Their judgments must rely on what can be proven to have happened.”—ILANA Mercer, “Mad, #MeToo Matriarchy Ensnared Bill Cosby,” July 1, 2021
  • “The matriarchy is merciless, and it has thoroughly feminized and twisted US law.”—ILANA Mercer, “Mad, #MeToo Matriarchy Ensnared Bill Cosby,” July 1, 2021
  • “AOC and her squad of progressive Democrats are not advocating ‘neutral principlism’—neutrality, objectivity, and equality before the law; the noble idea of ‘rules grounded in law, as opposed to rules based on personal interests or beliefs.’ Differently put, AOC’s theory of justice is not metaphysical but mercenarily political. Every event to her is an opportunity—AOC’s idea being to lower the burden of proof so that events that occur only in a woman’s head can be acted upon in law.”—ILANA Mercer, “AOC’s Coven of Spitting, #MeFirst Cobras Comes To Congress,” March 4, 2021.
  • “We live under the law of rule, not the rule of law. And the law of rule favors the criminal class.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Criminal Class Now The Armed Wing Of The Democratic Party,” January 29, 2021.
  • “Quislings such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter quickly colluded in flagrant violation of the American pro-competition sensibility, and flouting the spirit, if not the letter, of civil rights law, to financially segregate, banish and cripple irksome people and enterprises, Parler, in our example.”—ILANA Mercer, “Deep Tech: Locked Down And Locked Out, First By The State, Then By Silicon Valley,” January 14, 2021.
  • “Flouting Western judicial philosophy, Critical Race Theory says you are a racist without having committed racism, which is like being a murderer, robber or rapist without having murdered, robbed or raped.”—ILANA Mercer, “Critical Racist Theory Robs And Rapes Reality,” September 17, 2020.
  • “Collectively convicting an entire racial group for metaphysical crimes is the cornerstone of the Critical Race Theory, a ‘guilty if you do, guilty if you don’t’ pop-jurisprudence.”—ILANA Mercer, “Critical Racist Theory Robs And Rapes Reality,” September 17, 2020.
  • “In the case of criminal acts of aggression, racist thoughts or taunts that accompany the violence should be irrelevant. If all lives matter, then the targeting of one innocent because Jewish or black is not more egregious an offense than the harming of another innocent just because.”—ILANA Mercer, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!” August 20, 2020.
  • “The law, then, must mete justice, in accordance with the rules of evidence, proportionality and due process. Other than intent, references to the thoughts that accompanied the commission of a crime should be irrelevant—be they racist, sexist, ageist or anti-Semitic.”—ILANA Mercer, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!” August 20, 2020.
  • “Fact-finding is the essence of the law. The law is not an abstract ideal of imagined social justice, that exists to pacify sensitive souls. If ‘racism’ looks like a felony crime, then it ought to be prosecuted as nothing but a crime and debated as such.”—ILANA Mercer, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!” August 20, 2020.
  • “The law’s ambit is not to decide whether the offender is a correct-thinking individual, but whether he has committed a crime. About former Officer Derek Chauvin’s mindset, the most the law is supposed to divine is mens rea—criminal intention: Was the officer whose knee pressed on Floyd’s neck acting with a guilty mind or not?”—ILANA Mercer, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!” August 20, 2020.
  • “Neutered, coopted, infiltrated and compromised—the police force in 2020 is missing in action. In the rare event that they act in accordance with their constitutional obligation to protect innocent people and their property, the police are hobbled—prevented from deploying riot-control tactics and, thus, invariably ‘hurt and hospitalized.’”—ILANA Mercer, “Bring In The Feds! Protection Of Natural Rights Trumps Federalism,” July 24, 2020
  • “’To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely,’ said Edmund Burke, in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). To make cops love the communities they police, the communities they police ought to be lovely. Burke further reminded us that, ‘To love the little platoon we belong to is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections.’ But what happens when those little platoons are not so little and not so lovely? A country that is without a modicum of cohesion and is, by D.C. design, comprised of ever-accreting, competing factions—this kind of country cannot be lovely in the Burkean sense. In fairness to law-enforcement, communities in America must be damn difficult to police.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Barbarians Are In Charge: Scenes From The Sacking of America,” June 11, 2020
  • “As kids, we knew our local policeman by name. He patrolled our neighborhoods regularly and joshed around with us. He lived among us. Community policing, however, is a thing of the past.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Barbarians Are In Charge: Scenes From The Sacking of America,” June 11, 2020
  • “Kneeling and the George Floyd Riots: “The camera panned out across the country to reveal policemen and guardsmen caving. Against the backdrop of ‘Mad Max’-like dystopian destruction, men in uniform all collapsed to the pavements like yogis to the command of their black tormentors. One after another. They all Knelt.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Barbarians Are In Charge: Scenes From The Sacking of America,” June 11, 2020
  • George Floyd Riots: “The forces, police and paramilitary, all squatted like sissies. Isn’t there some code of conduct preventing uniforms from groveling? Police acquit themselves honorably by doing the job ethically. Activism is not in the job description.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Barbarians Are In Charge: Scenes From The Sacking of America,” June 11, 2020
  • “When all is said and done, the George Floyd riots are a law and order event. Nothing else matters in the overarching context of a failed state, in which ordered liberty is dead, and the law-abiding are utterly forsaken, even vilified.Yes, victims are now villains and villains are martyrs.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Barbarians Are In Charge: Scenes From The Sacking of America,” June 11, 2020.
  • “Punishment is a public declaration of moral standards. It is an extension of natural law. Descend into the anti-incarceration activist’s amoral abyss, and you abolish the very fabric of our ethical tradition.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Punishing Agenda Of The Anti-Punishment Movement,” American Greatness, January 10, 2020.
  • “At least among libertarians, the cause du jour should not be to reduce the involvement of the state at any costs, if it means freeing guilty offenders. Rather, it should be to reduce prison population by freeing innocent people whose activities, lawful by natural-law standards, the state has criminalized.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Punishing Agenda Of The Anti-Punishment Movement,” American Greatness, January 10, 2020.
  • “U.S. laws, immigration or other natural law, no longer represent a declaration of shared values to be enforced in the name of the common good. Law now stands for ‘systemic racism,’ or Nazism or fascism, or any of the other ‘isms’—nebulous political constructs all—deployed by idiots in this Age of The Idiot to trash patriotism.”—ILANA Mercer, “We Aren’t Americans; We ARE The World (Part II),” Townhall.com, July 25, 2019.
  • “Executive orders are Trump’s political power tool—justice’s Jaws of Life, if you will—to be used by the Executive to pry the people free from judicial oppression.”—ILANA Mercer, “Why The Mighty USA Must Beg Mexico To Police Its Border,” Townhall.com, June 21, 2019.
  • “In the legal penumbra in which the U.S. Office of Special Counsel operates, aggressively professing your innocence can amount to obstructing ‘justice.’ Fight an unjust conviction with everything you’ve got—and you risk being convicted of a crime. Fight an unjust conviction with everything you’ve got—and you risk being convicted of a crime.”—ILANA, “The Moral Of The Mueller Inquisition, Part 2,” April 18, 2019, Townhall.com.
  • “The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) can criminalize conduct—worse, it can criminalize speech—that is perfectly licit in natural law, such as verbally defending oneself against spurious accusations.”—ILANA, “The Moral Of The Mueller Inquisition, Part 2,” April 18, 2019, Townhall.com.
  • “In the title of his magisterial book, Fyodor Dostoevsky paired “Crime and Punishment,” not crime and pardons, or crime and ‘Civics lessons,’ amnesty and asylum”—ILANA MERCER, “The New Norm: Crime, But Not Punishment,” Townhall.com, November 16, 2018.
  • “In a population whose ignorance is growing, not diminishing, the basic and public acts of naming the transgression, identifying the transgressors, and arresting and prosecuting them are all essential in setting up an expectation of law-and-order.”—ILANA MERCER, “The New Norm: Crime, But Not Punishment,” Townhall.com, November 16, 2018.
  • “Punishment must closely follow a crime in order to be both effective as a deterrent, as well as to serve as a public declaration of values and norms.”—ILANA MERCER, “The New Norm: Crime, But Not Punishment,” Townhall.com, November 16, 2018.
  • “That many Americans no longer believe all are entitled to equality under the law reveals a great deal about the fault lines that mar and scar our country.”—ILANA MERCER, “GOP Betrayal: The Cross Examination That Never Was,” WND.com, September 27, 2018.
  • “Underpinning the legal protections afforded to an accused in our adversarial legal system are vital ethical imperatives in which our society is meant to share. We afford a man the presumption of innocence partly because the law instructs us to so do, but mainly because it is the right thing to do.”—ILANA MERCER, “GOP Betrayal: The Cross Examination That Never Was,” Unz Review, September 27, 2018.
  • “Consider: Republicans can’t even get a middle-of-the-road mind like Brett Kavanaugh confirmed!”—ILANA MERCER, “GOP Betrayal: The Cross Examination That Never Was,” WND.com, September 27, 2018.
  • “Repealing statutory, man-made law the Left, invariably, depicts as fascism, when in fact repealing positive law is often liberating; strengthening the natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”—ILANA MERCER, “Trashing Populism: Dim-Bulb Academic Vs. Deplorables,” Townhall.com, April 18, 2018.
  • “The object of creating bogus categories of crime is to leverage power over adversaries; to scare them.”—ILANA Mercer, “Flynn’s Sin Was Lying To Liars, Not Colluding With Russians,” Storia.com, December 6, 2017
  • “An easy way for the government to create criminality where there is none is to make it a crime to lie to its agents, in this case the FBI, which is Deep State Central.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Non-Crime of Lying To The FBI,” Mises.org, December 11, 2017.
  • “There was no man more valorous and courageous than Robert E. Lee.”—ILANA Mercer, “Sanctuary City Mayor Trashes An AMERICAN Hero, Robert E. Lee,” The Abbeville Institute, May 25, 2017
  • “Rather than uphold individual rights, most positive law regulates or criminalizes the business of life. The nullification of man-made laws comports with American freedoms just fine.”—ILANA (January 22, 2016)
  • “America has become a nation of thousands-upon-thousands of arbitrary laws, whose effect is to criminalize naturally licit conduct.”—ILANA (January 22, 2016)
  • “There is nothing sacred about every law an overweening national government and its unelected agencies inflict on the people.”—ILANA (January 22, 2016)
  • “The only laws that are naturally inviolable are those upholding life, liberty and property.”—ILANA (January 22, 2016)
  • On The Private Production of Defense: “To let the victim of a crime forfeit—or choose his own form of—redress for certain misdemeanors is fine. Many legal solutions are a result of mediation and other perfectly private solutions to non-violent offenses. To leave punishment for murder, rape and other violent crime to the vicissitudes of the victim or his proxies is, however, unacceptable. The likelihood that in a stateless state-of-affairs, a victim or her proxies will choose to let a violent offender go free in favor of financial restitution cannot be ignored or tolerated. It matters not that such an eventuality may be rare, or that similar injustices occurs under the state. These should never happen. Not under the state. Not under anarchy. Furthermore, does the voluntary forfeiture of just retribution not imply, in the case of murder, that the right to life is a right the victim’s surrogates may choose to alienate or relinquish at will? How else does one construe this position? The danger of reducing justice, in cases of violent crime like homicide, to a negotiated deal amounts to moral relativism and is a recipe for nihilism.”—ILANA Mercer, “Libertarian Anarchism’s Justice Problem,” April 10, 2015.
  • On The Private Production of Defense: “While the current criminal justice system is often egregious in its approach to victims, the libertarian’s characterization of the private production of defense as ‘victim-centered’ is misleading. It is client-centered. Again, that we suffer depredations under the state is insufficient an argument for making this state-of-affairs a viable, ‘principled’ option, which would likely be the case under anarchy.”—ILANA Mercer, “Libertarian Anarchism’s Justice Problem,” April 10, 2015.
  • “Fact-finding is the essence of the law—the law is not an abstract idea of imagined social justice that exists in the arid minds of the perpetually aggrieved.”—ILANA MERCER, “Ferguson: Thankful For The Founding Fathers’ Legal Legacy,” November 28, 2014
  • “Unlike the positive law, which is state-created; natural law in not enacted. Rather, it is a higher law—a system of ethics—knowable through reason, revelation and experience.”—ILANA (December 12, 2014)
  • “The government has a monopoly over making and enforcing law— it decides what is legal and what isn’t. Thus it behooves thinking people to question the monopolist and his laws.”—ILANA (December 12, 2014)
  • “Most matters previously subject to state jurisdiction have been pulled into the orbit of the judiciary. So much for Alexander Hamilton’s promise, in Federalist No. 78 (May 28, 1788), that the Judiciary would be the weakest of the three branches of his proposed government. ”—ILANA (January 24, 2014)
  • The media’s “Colosseum of court-room cretins” is an “Idiocracy elite that lacks the ability to separate the political constructs to which it is wedded (racism) from the facts of a case brought in a court of law. If the trial of George Zimmerman taught us anything at all it is that debate in mass media is monopolized by a noisy, all-powerful elite of idiots to whom reason is racism”—ILANA (July 19, 2013)
  • “A pesky detail has eluded all those invincibly stupid special interests who’re piping up for the privacy of the press, as opposed to fighting for the privacy of all Americans. There is nothing new about warrantless wiretapping—other than that the American people haven’t been particularly exercised about them. They’ve trusted Uncle Sam to go about this activity judiciously. … the government is reading over your shoulder—has been doing so for some time. It can spy on Americans without breaking the law.”—ILANA (May 17, 2013)
  • “Immoral acts that are forbidden severally cannot be sanctioned collectively. The citizen must not steal. Neither should The State.”—ILANA Mercer, “Do Perverts In Power Represent You?“,  July 12, 2013
  • “In a constitutional republic, The Law should apply to civilian and civil servant alike, with no exceptions. If a country’s legal code outlaws sexual assault—then the act of fondling an innocent and unwilling stranger, without probable cause, between her thighs and around her breasts, must be proscribed to all people, in all places. If, as we are told, the TSA’s touching is in furtherance natural rights—then, it should be perfectly proper for civilians, in turn, to pat these agents on their privates (repulsive though that may be).”—ILANA (July 20, 2012)
  • “Comprehending circumstantial evidence demands analytical and deductive thinking. These faculties are becoming rare in the Age of the Idiot now upon us, as was glaringly apparent in the deliberations of Casey Anthony’s jurors. The average individual seldom reads; he knows only what is palpable and perceivable—what he can see and feel. If he can’t picture something—see it happen on YouTube or on CSI—he certainly cannot think about it in the abstract. Circumstantial evidence cannot be grappled with absent an ability to think in the abstract.”—ILANA (October 7, 2011)
  • “While Western man works to rid himself of the most basic ethical instincts, like defending his kinfolk, animals remain true to their nature. Wild beasts intuit that their teeth and talons are meant for tearing flesh—any flesh, the easier the better. It makes perfect animal sense to attack a thing that is docile, slow, and passive, like the not-always sapient Homo sapiens.”—ILANA (Ocotber 8, 2010)
  • “Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.”—ILANA (May 21, 2010)
  • “The position that the law is always just because it was arrived at through majority vote is a species of legal positivism. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their healthcare, it does not follow that they have such a right.”—ILANA (January 1, 2010)
  • “The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.”—ILANA MERCER, “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?” May 28, 2010
  • “Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.”—ILANA (November 17, 2009)
  • “A procedural default such as the failure to apprise a defendant of his consular contacts is never a violation of a natural right. ‘Consular rights’ are of a piece with Miranda rights and the Exclusionary Rule—technicalities tarted up as real rights.”—ILANA (August 8, 2008)
  • “The-state-as-parent is a leftist legal doctrine that has been eagerly embraced by the rigor-mortis riddled Right.”—ILANA (April 25, 2008)
  • “The Spitzer piranha didn’t give law teeth; he used bad law to bite business to the bone.”—ILANA (March 17, 2008)
  • “Consistency is the touchstone of truth.”—ILANA (March 14, 2008)
  • On Plagiarism: “Why borrow what I may be able to best?”—ILANA (February 18, 2008)
  • “Murder subsequent to a home invasion is not a ‘robbery gone wrong,’ but is an organic extension of the invasion of a home. (And breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country’s laws).”—ILANA Mercer, “JOE HORN: WANTED MAN…AND A HERO,” July 4, 2008
  • “Sometimes the law of the state coincides with the natural law. More often than not, natural justice has been buried under the rubble of legislation and statute.”—ILANA (March 20, 2002)
  • “Can there be any doubt that civil rights laws coerce individuals, often against their better judgment, into involuntary associations?”—ILANA Mercer (January 2, 2007)
  • “Creepy is not necessarily criminal.”—ILANA Mercer, “Remember Reno!“, September 8, 2006
  • “As affable as he is, Judge Roberts regrettably, is no Janice Rogers Brown. Let’s hope, at the very least, that Roberts is a Rehnquist.”—ILANA (September 15, 2005)
  • “Their devotion (and dotage) prevents President Bush’s lickspittles from realizing that he too considers Janice Rogers Brown ‘outside the mainstream,’ to use the Democrats’ demotic line. Let’s hope, at the very least, that Roberts is a Rehnquist.”—ILANA (September 15, 2005)
  • “Restoring the people’s ‘unalienable rights’ may well lie in Jeffersonian interposition and nullification, whereby states beat back the federal occupier by voiding unconstitutional federal laws.”—ILANA (September 24, 2004)
  • Discriminate one must between “acts that are criminal only because the state has criminalized them (mala prohibita) as opposed to acts which are universally evil (mala in se).”—ILANA MERCER, “MARTHA VS. THE MOB,” March 12, 2004.
  • “The laws of the land can and often do diverge from the principles of justice. The facts of the law, however, should never make a discussion about justice moot. Call it reason, call it Natural Law, or call it the law that dare not speak its name, but a justice system that fails to be informed by its principles is an ass.”—ILANA MERCER, “Canada’s Absurd Notion Of Justice Triumphs Again,” July 25, 2000.

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