Surely you've noticed the ominous cone of silence around the DOJ and the FBI as rumors of "accountability" mount against well-known figures who used government to make war against its own citizens. That is exactly what happened, by the way, in case you're baffled by the news. The agencies aren't leaking this time, especially not to the mendacious scribes that infest The New York Times and The WashPo, who function as vanguard to the corps of traitors in the rogue fourth branch of government called the Blob. So, the silence begs you to ask: Are they doing anything in there?

Yes, they are making cases. And they are not yapping idly about it in the news, legacy or alt. They are preparing evidence for grand juries that will decide if probable cause exists to indict those well-known figures — several of whom have become cable news performers, foolishly, if obliquely, advertising their own culpability for years now. You'll just have to wait, though perhaps not for long. It is August, after all, the horse latitudes of the year when things go still.

You are lectured incessantly and sanctimoniously by these same suspects about the rule of law (in "our democracy"). Many of these characters are maestros in the dark arts of lawfare, which, paradoxically, is the practice of using law to pervert and dishonor the rule of law. Lately, you are introduced to a similar sounding phrase, under color of law, with a related meaning. Understand it and you will see what has been behind virtually all the mischief in our public affairs this past, vicious decade.

Under color of law has deep roots in Anglo-American jurisprudence because law, by its nature, lends itself to abuse and nefarious misuse. The law's "nature" is that it is a set of rules to decide matters of consequence, both personal and public, where much is at stake: ownership of property, liberty, life itself. At times, actions are taken in the name of the law to unjustly deprive persons of life, liberty, and property, usually for the benefit of other persons.

The phrase, life, liberty, and property, derives from John Locke's Two Treatises on Government (1689), which argued that these are natural rights, God-given, and that it is government's duty to protect these rights, government being the practical application of law. The phrase life, liberty, and property deeply influenced America's founders. Thomas Jefferson changed it up a bit in the Declaration of Independence as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," with a eudaimonian twist to inspire America to flourish on its own, off England's leash. It was also Jefferson's way of detaching the Declaration from the issue of slavery, where "property" could refer to human beings.