Peruvian strongman Oscar Benavides once famously said “For my friends, everything; For my enemies, the law.”
Once, such a thing might have provided a succinct summary of the practice of privilege in its literal sense of “private law.” There were laws for the Aristos and others for the commoners and still others for non-citizens and slaves. Such ideas date back to time out of mind before stone was placed upon stone in Giza & Uxmal and stood as absolute expectation and norm in most of the world until quite recently (and pertain in many parts of the world even today). The idea that “all people should be equal under the law” was a radical alteration to social order, a repudiation of the divine right of Kings and Aristos with their birthright of monopolies on property and violence. The literal idea that land could be owned by a commoner was an astonishing upheaval of established orders. It was also the freeing move that allowed for the West to rise and flourish and prosper, unlocking its vast human potential. One might think that people would be happy about this and cherish and protect this most foundational idea that serves as cornerstone to civilizations of liberty and plenty……………You must be new here.
Now there have always been groups that sought to be the Aristos and who demand their privilege by divine right restored. The problem is that there is no longer sufficient Western belief in ideas such as “God made me King so do what I say” nor for “We are your betters and should have our own law different from your law.” “Equal before the law” stuck as a codification and the days of “Lord Chomondley-Warner may carry a blade and use it against any grubby commoner who impugns his honour but any commoner so carrying shall be put to death” are (at least in the West) just plain gone. So just what is an aspiring Aristo to do?
Such would-be gentry face several challenges:
- They must have one codified set of laws for everyone
- Like Benavides they want them applied to some and not to others
- And they themselves cannot be seen to be the ones doing this lest they not only have to get their own hands dirty but also wind up being the ones dragged to the scaffold on clearance day.
The way to do this is to use proxies to assert your privilege, scapegoats to deflect the blame and arouse the populace against itself, chaos and threat to keep the demos fearful and clamorous for authority, and an unrelenting attack on the idea of the social norms of equal application of justice by perverting the basic concept of what is just.
This boils down to two very simple and cost effective techniques:
- The law is not what the pieces of paper say. The law is what is applied. Control the application of the law and you can ignore the statutes and codes: it’s all about who is charged and who is convicted.
- Incentives matter and people respond to them in predictable ways. If you control the application of law, you control incentives and if you sufficiently control incentives, like Archimedes, you now have a lever long enough to move the world and the fulcrum upon which you place it becomes simple and obvious: Prosecutors and Judges.
Welcome to 2026. You’re not going to like it here.
Say what you will about the Soros clan and their manifold machinations, organisations, and James Bond villain level plotting, but Georgie boy may be the greatest investor in human history. Not only did he break the Bank of England and use ideas like reflexivity to amass massive hedge fund fortunes, but he found perhaps the greatest political value investment of all time and damn near cornered the market on it, all while basically no one noticed. He figured out that you can buy the political classes for next to nothing and that once you have control of these Offices, the Law is what you say it is.
It no longer applies to your friends and it becomes savage “process as punishment” and selective prosecution for your enemies. You can open borders, legalise stealing, robbery, rape, and plunder all while criminalising complaints about it. Your hate becomes speech, their speech becomes hate and faster than you can say “clowntopian calamity” you are perfectly positioned to enforce as a matter of applied law the absurdities that enable and encourage those who believe in them to commit atrocities. See how that works? The law creates “protected classes” and scapegoat everyone else as “Teh bad guy” but this is inversion; they are creating an Aristocracy with rights that you don’t have, through the uneven and capricious application of law. They are also keeping you so hopelessly busy protecting your own family that you have no time to notice or oppose the rest of what they are doing and pretty soon “maybe we do need internet controls” seems like a path to safety instead of serfdom.
All of this is of a piece.
When a law is not applied to you (vide BLM/Gaza protests) this creates an incentive for certain people to break it. A trickle becomes a flood. And civilisation is lost. The rage is at the police and the courts where it does no good. Maybe it works up to the politicians, but never to the real Aristocracy. The political shotcallers remain insulated behind NGO’s with names like “The Sparkle Unicorn Love is Love Association” and practices that would have made Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili complain of dishonesty and excess. The plan is working and this Aristocracy has carved out for itself outlandish wealth and privilege again, in the sense of private law. The camouflage is astonishing. Whilst there has been a fair bit of rollback in the US (though far from enough) but make no mistake, this game is still monstrously active, especially in Europe, which seems to have less resistance or inclination to oppose aristocratic domination, perhaps simply as a result of long historical acculturation or perhaps due to a drain of the people who most stridently opposed such things to the new world. One may debate that one. But one thing is certain: everywhere Clan Soros crops up, this disease spreads. they are the plague rats of institutional and incentive capture and like them or hate them, they are incredibly effective.
Spain looks to be in real danger of falling as a nation. They created a mass amnesty for illegal immigrants from places that do not believe in Spain but only in tribe and who do not believe in rights but only in who may dominate whom. If one seeks to be a wrecker, it’s a brilliant incentive. Pardon a million and give them access to your social safety networks and welfare payments which fund a lifestyle far in excess of where they came from (and the right to vote for more) and the next wave is already packing its bags to come. Spread enough jam and you can attract an infinite number of hornets……….. The US was well on its way to running this playbook (and likely has approaching 40 million illegals to show for it) before it was stopped. Overnight. The astonishing bit was how easy it was to shut this off.
You
just
cut
off
the
incentives.
No more free stuff, no more amnesties, no more free hotels/HMOs , and no more permission to stay until the overwhelmed & gamed court system can have a hearing. It’s really that simple. Due process becomes rounding you up and sending you home, not giving you a nice place to live for the 3 years until your case is heard. And it ALL comes down to prosecutors, courts, and agencies. Immigration law has become irrelevant not because the law changed but because its enforcement did. The NGO Bond villain has been running the table for the past 20 years, and are moving into overdrive before the populist right forces they are giving reflexive rise to can take control.
Ceuta is an amazing example. This small Spanish enclave in North Africa is a holdout from Berber times, a once extremely Christian enclave conquered by Islam in the 7th century and retaken during the tail end of the Reconquista, first by the Portuguese in 1415 and later by Spain in 1580. Morocco recently quite literally just invaded – not as a nation to nation war but as a response to incentives and legal enforcement. Basically, Spain gave such invaders a reason to believe they could naturalise and no reason to fear anyone would (or could) do anything about them. The invasion was organized on Facebook. And as ever, when you dig, yup, it was the courts. The cause is a recent Spanish court ruling that migrants entering Ceuta by sea cannot be returned to Morocco without due process.
This combined with a “no child deported” claim set off a flood. 80,000 people have flooded into Ceuta, many by “swimming” 10 feet around the end of fences and the rest by pretending they did. Reports indicate that many are criminals fleeing prosecution in Morocco. Most seem to be military age men or boys slightly younger. The full population of Ceuta is 80,000 so this was a 1:1 insurgency. I doubt the Spanish courts had any idea what this would unleash. (but I’ll wager that Team Soros did) The media is, predictably, either ignoring this or pretending it’s a purely temporary humanitarian crisis of families and babies. It’s not. This is nearly all men.
To be continued
© DJM 2026
