by Travis Mateer
The other day I made up a term inspired by Montana’s Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, and that term is LAW-CUCK, which I define as allowing someone else to do the LAW job you are contractually obligated to do yourself.
For those on the left-side of the political spectrum, my use of the word CUCK could indicate my affiliation with the ALT-RIGHT, since that’s how the CUCK word has been recently deployed, according to Wikipedia.
Though I don’t consider myself alt-right, I am using this term in a similar manner, since conservatives like to ACT TOUGH when it comes to law and order, especially the ones who preside over the criminal justice system here in Montana, where Austin is framing himself as LEADING the opposition of 24 Attorney Generals across the country against the disastrous Supreme Court decision that enabled urban camping across the immense jurisdiction of the 9th circuit.
Here’s the latest from the AG website:
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 24 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief Friday in the case of Johnson v. City of Grants Pass which asks the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision prohibiting states and local governments from enforcing laws that prevent public spaces from becoming homeless encampments.
The impact of this court decision is further described by Montana’s AG a paragraph later. The emphasis is NOT mine:
“In Grants Pass, the Ninth Circuit doubled down on Martin and insisted again that, unless a community provides adequate shelter, the Eighth Amendment bars any punishment based on ‘engaging in involuntary, unavoidable life sustaining acts’ like sleeping on public property,” the attorneys general wrote. “Since Martin, homelessness has grown worse across the country, and especially in the Ninth Circuit, where more than 1 in 1,000 people are now homeless and most States have seen homelessness rise at least 25% in five years.”
The Ninth Circuit’s ruling has tied the hands of officials in communities across Montana and the western United States that are struggling to combat widespread homeless encampments.
That’s a lot of BOLD EMPHASIS for an Attorney General who is allowing Sheriffs, like Missoula Sheriff Jeremiah Petersen and T.J. McDermott before him, to create NO GO ZONES where much more than “involuntary, unavoidable life sustaining acts” are occurring.
If this was NOT the case, then the Montana Department of Transportation would NOT have been forced to use a lawsuit in order to get the Sheriff’s Office to do their job in the Reserve Street area of Missoula, something I saw up close as I volunteered to help remove TONS of trash from this area over the years.
For some visceral visuals, here’s a short video I produced during the spring of 2021 juxtaposing a virtue-signaling statement with on-the-ground reality:
Now, if I’m including our current Sheriff, Jeremiah Peterson, as an example of a Montana law-cuck, I should probably have something to back up this assertion, and thanks to a recent NBC Montana article about the job PRIVATE SECURITY is doing, I have just that, including what it costs Missoula County to have a law-cuck as a Sheriff. From the link (emphasis mine):
When the area was at its busiest, more than 100 people were camping around the Reserve Street Bridge, Steve Felix, with the Montana Department of Transportation, said.
U.S. Highway 93 and Reserve Street is one of the busiest corridors in Montana, Felix, the department’s Missoula-area maintenance chief, said. He said homeless activity in the area put the corridor at risk.
“Huge impact if something bad were to happen to the bridges due to some type of fire or propane explosion or certain things that we thought were really high risk,” Felix said.
The Montana Department of Transportation fenced off its land around the Reserve Street Bridge, and a cleanup followed in 2022, which Felix said removed around a couple hundred tons of materials.
The department contracted with Rogers International to monitor the area, paying the company a little more than $8,000 a month, Felix told NBC Montana. The area maintenance chief considers the changes a success that protect the infrastructure, environment and cuts down on the “lawlessness” previously seen in the area.
When you add it up, the annual cost of having a Sheriff’s Office that thinks the 9th circuit gave them an excuse to ignore things like non-compliant sex offenders peddling fentanyl-laced weed is $96,000 dollars, and that’s JUST from the need to rely on private security in ONE part of town. As Austin points out in this article, Missoula has encampments ALL OVER, and there’s nothing Montanan law-cucks can supposedly do about it. Here’s more (emphasis mine):
As of August 2023, Missoula had 60 separate encampments across its 400 acres of public parks. However, Knudsen says the city is restricted in its ability to combat the issue following the 2018 decision that said jurisdictions must have bed space that outnumbers homeless persons before enforcing an anti-camping ordinance.
Knudsen said residents are forced to deal with dirty and unsafe parks, vehicles “full of human waste”, and debris clogging the city’s irrigation and waterways. Missoula is not the only city in Montana dealing with these types of issues. Billings, Bozeman, and Kalispell are experiencing similar problems.
“It is States and localities that have the local knowledge needed to address the problem, and it is States and localities that ultimately bear the costs of homelessness and of homeless policy,” said Knudsen. “It should be States and localities that make the decisions.”
Do you REALLY want some “local knowledge”, Austin? No, I don’t think you do, because MY local knowledge exposes the slow implosion of our entire criminal justice system, and this implosion has become late-stage critical while badges bitch and moan about why they claim their hands are tied. This is law-cuck bullshit, and I prove it’s bullshit on a nearly daily basis by accurately describing the reality on the ground, as I see it.
Missoula has created PLENTY of emergency beds in multiple locations, and we have subsidized lots of housing, like the HALF-FULL Villagio, so why are NONE of these options enough to keep our parks from becoming open-air meth colonies? Why do we keep getting MORE worthless fucking excuses about why housing people is so damn hard?
While the property opened last year and continues to accept applications, filling the units has had its challenges.
“We have a few challenges here in this current market. We’ve processed a total of 420 applications so far and of those, 284 are either lost or disqualified applications,” said Oliver. “One of the questions we face frequently is how in the heck can you not be full immediately when we have such a community need.”
The Villagio, developed by Blueline with partial subsidies from the Missoula Redevelopment Agency, represents a significant influx of affordable housing into the local market. Together, the Villagio and Trinity projects provided a decade’s worth of affordable housing in a single year.
If Austin wants some more local knowledge, how about this recent post about the cancerous growth called BlueLine Development spreading across the northwest. I guess Montana’s petri-dish of failure is so impressive that we are now exporting the predatory business models that flourish when it becomes apparent your Top Dog in law enforcement is a law-cuck.
If you think I’m being too hard on our law enforcers, please explain to me why the ONE MURDER our Sheriff’s Office had to deal with last year has STILL not been charged 16 months later. Are you finally beginning to understand why calling Montana a failed state isn’t hyperbole?
Later today, less knowledgeable people than myself will be meeting to bang their heads against the wall while studiously ignoring the underlying dynamics of an imploding criminal justice system. Here’s a screenshot with some details about the bullshit you can expect to see, and when:
Will I be attending? Fuck no, I’m trying to NOT be a sadomasochist, so I’ll be doing something that actually PAYS, because exposing local corruption DOES NOT PAY THE BILLS, and constantly asking readers of my FREE content for a little financial help gets fucking old.
No wonder other locales don’t have truth tellers like me using their inside knowledge to try and improve their communities.