Mad Dog Mattis lives up to his nickname

General Mattis has served his country his whole life. It's too bad that he's decided to work against it now.

For some odd reason Mattis chose this moment in time when anarchy threatens and modern Brown Shirts, Antifa, are trying to burn our cities down to condemn Trump for things Trump hasn't done.

Here's Mattis's diatribe:

I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind.

We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.

The first paragraph says things that we all do agree with including President Trump.  Further with George Floyd's killers behind bars and awaiting trial it's unclear how there is even a hint of unequal justice in this case.

Even if we assume that the police targeted Floyd for being Black, even though there is absolutely no evidence that was the case, the way the justice system has reacted is better than what it would have done if Floyd was white.

We know this because in 2016 in Texas 3 police officers killed a white man under extremely similar circumstances and those officers were back on the job in a month.

That one or even 4 cops murdered someone because they were Black isn't a failure of the justice system.  Now if they got away with it like cops did who killed Blacks in the Democrat run South a case could be made that unequal justice was happening. But not in this case.

These protests aren't about an unequal justice system they're about people pretending that America is systemically racist.

But the second paragraph is the truly insane one.

Mattis knows that Mao said that "The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea."  Hence he knows that even if only a small portion the "protesters" are trying to kill cops they can only get away with it if the majority of the "protesters" provide them shelter.

Hence once bricks are being thrown the options are that the peaceful protesters help subdue the brick throwers, they leave the area, or they collude with the brick throwers by providing cover and concealment.

Therefore it is living up to our values, our belief working out our differences with words not bricks, to aggressively take on brick throwers.

Which is precisely what the Park Police did. They used smoke and pepper balls, not a whiff of grapeshot, even though many cops were injured by the rioters.

No protestor was stopped from peacefully protesting. They were told to move a little bit away so the President could peacefully walk over to a church the "peaceful" protesters had burned down and tell America that we won't stand for that.

Note too that if the crowd was left near the President and they surged at him they would have been gunned down.  By moving the rioters, and protesters, without hurting any of them the Park Police were actually saving lives.

Either Mattis has taken leave of his senses or he's auditioning for Joe Biden's Secretary of Defense.