Peanut: the authorites will murder an illegal squirrel but won't check on the health problems of illegal migrants (not to mention their crime status) or indeed even prevent them from crossing the border

What is amazing about the left's double standards is how quick they are willing to insist that it was normal for the authorities to send half a dozen policemen to show up to check on Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon (but the rabies! it was for the rabies!), while having no compunction about letting in millions of illegal aliens on the Southern border — without ever monitoring the latter for tuberculosis, Covid (which got American citizens demonized and fired), and other types of diseases such as those that have been eradicated in the First World (the plague?!), not to mention for being criminals, rapists, and murderers let alone belonging to vicious Latin American gangs.

Win It For Peanut and Fred writes David Strom:

This story is viral--it has taken over Twitter/X in fact--because you either see the evil or you don't. It is about bureaucratic indifference, government overreach, setting priorities, determining what "helps" or hurts society be better. If you think killing a pet squirrel and a pet raccoon whom people love makes things better, then look in the mirror and ask why murderers are set free but squirrels raising money for animal rescue get killed. 

 … Peanut was not "just" a squirrel, and Fred was not "just" a raccoon. They were companions. And bureaucrats killed them. 

The outpouring of grief from MAGA is partly for their saviors, but equally it is driven by rage at the faceless of a government that doesn't care about people and instead worships power. Many liberals shrug and say "this is the law" and they killers were just doing their jobs.

A day earlier, David Strom explained Why Peanut the Squirrel Matters: 

In the midst of the decisive election campaign of our lifetimes, why talk about Peanut the Squirrel? Aren't there more important issues like the polls, turnout, shenanigans, and all the day's news?

Yes, all those things matter. But the story of Peanut matters because it is a microcosm of what we are facing. A nameless, faceless, and merciless bureaucracy with no sense of proportion or empathy can, at a whim, upend people's lives over what amounts to nothing. It can seize a beloved family pet, the mascot of an organization that does enormous good, just because some nanny-stater decides they don't approve. 

 … Peanut and Fred died over paperwork.

The streets of New York City are filled with criminals and migrants, billions are spent on hotel rooms for illegals, drugs are ravaging our communities, and lawlessness is spreading in ways that degrade our civilization. Those are big problems that are difficult to deal with, so the government turns its Sauron eye to Peanut because it can overwhelm the little guy with no problem. 

Improving people's lives is hard. Killing a squirrel is easy. 

 … It's like organizing a manhunt for a jaywalker or executing a search warrant for tearing the tag off the mattress. Going after dangerous criminals is hard; instead, go after the low hanging fruit of good people who won't resist. 

As Elon Musk retweeted a meme saying "If they will raid a house for a squirrel, they're sure as shit going to come after you", John Carter jumps to the conclusion:

The obvious line to take on this is that the government can’t seem to prevent illegal migrants from pouring across our various borders (indeed, it subsidizes them), while it will go all hands on deck to assassinate an illegal squirrel and his raccoon friend, but this is just anarchotyranny for you. This story isn’t really about the prefix of that portmanteau. It’s about the suffix.

We live in a society in which a vengeful busybody on the other side of the country can anonymously harness the implacable machinery of the state to ruin the lives of people they’ve never met, who are generally powerless to do anything to obtain satisfaction from the faceless bullies hiding within the miasma of the permanent bureaucracy.

We live in this kind of society because we have allowed our natural liberties to be nibbled away at, a little bit here and a little bit there, until there is practically nothing left of them. Like Gulliver, we are held down by thousands of tiny threads, a net of laws and regulations, all of them enacted ‘for our safety’.

We have put Safety First, and if safety comes first, it necessarily follows that everything else comes after safety. There is no price too high for safety, and so we pay everything for it.

💥💥KAMALA IN HER OWN WORDS💥💥THAT WITH THE SWIPE OF MY PEN I COULD CHARGE SOMEONE WITH THE LOWEST LEVEL OFFENSE, AND BECAUSE OF THE SWIPE OF MY PEN, THAT PERSON COULD BE ARRESTED, THEY COULD SIT IN JAIL FOR AT LEAST 48 HOURS, THEY COULD LOSE TIME FROM WORK AND THEIR FAMILY… pic.twitter.com/Cbmoc2qIcS

— 5DME81 (@5dme81) August 19, 2024