The Patriot Post® · Senate Staffer Avoids Punishment With 'Rainbow Privilege'

The Left dogmatically preaches about such things as “white privilege” and “the patriarchy” as if these are undeniable facts of life on par with water being wet and the sun being bright. But the Left also imbues these phony dogmas with moral absolutes. In other words, it’s not enough just to acknowledge these views; instead, one must fully acquiesce and be committed to fighting against these “evils” or be deemed morally evil. Or worse, be “on the wrong side of history,” as Barack Obama loved to assert.

This is one of the reasons that some folks view wokeness as more religious than political. And yet at the same time, this wokeness, this neo-Marxist ideology, has almost completely taken over the Democrat Party so as to be nearly indistinguishable from the party’s political platform, which could be likened to a theocratic treatise with wokeness as its god.

This may seem a stretch, as Democrats are always warning against some ill-defined or totally undefined bogeyman of “Christian nationalism” on the Right. But as is so often the case, they are engaged in projection. They are the party most ardently seeking the compliance of the American public to their worldview, their woke religion.

So, what does all this have to do with the recent decision by the Capitol Police to avoid criminally charging Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the former staffer of Democrat Senator Ben Cardin? Recall that Maese-Czeropski resigned after it came to light that he had filmed himself having sex with another man in a hearing room of the Hart Senate Office Building after hours. His deviant act was discovered on an Internet site for gay men. Hmm … how might it have ended up there?

As constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley observed, Maese-Czeropski likely violated a number of DC criminal laws, not to mention code of conduct rules within the Senate. Just one example would be Section 22-1312 for lewd, indecent, or obscene acts, which states in part, “It is unlawful for a person, in public, to make an obscene or indecent exposure of his or her genitalia or anus, to engage in masturbation, or to engage in a sexual act as defined in § 22-3001(8).”

The crux of the issue there would be the question of “in public,” which the Capitol Police noted as part of their rationale for refusing to issue any charges. “Although the hearing room was not open to the public at the time,” said the Capitol Police, “the congressional staffer involved had access to the room.” So, the argument is that it was only part-time public. But he shared the video of the act on the Internet, which is a public forum. Otherwise, the public would likely have never known this incident took place.

Furthermore, if he wasn’t in a public place, wouldn’t he be guilty of trespassing? As Turley notes, “Under 18 U.S.C. 1752, trespass covers anyone who ‘knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so.’” Indeed, trespassing was one of the primary charges leveled against the hundreds of individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol building riot.

It’s hard not to see yet another instance of a double standard being applied by Democrats to their privileged class: members of the LGBTQ community.

The reason this story is so shameful — beyond the now-public sexual deviancy of a Senate staffer — is the blatant undermining of the foundational principles of our legal system. Treating any identity group as a privileged group for which the laws of the land are not enforced equally and without prejudice is to do injustice. Furthermore, arguing that because these groups may have suffered past injustices, they now deserve special treatment makes a mockery of the equal application of the law and further erodes confidence in our justice system.

Maese-Czeropski broke the law — likely several laws — but has gotten off scot-free because he is a member of a leftist special “victim” group. Maese-Czeropski’s “rainbow privilege” is why he has suffered no legal consequences for his illegal actions. Of course, he is an even bigger “victim” now because he lost his job, but, they say, that’s only because of “homophobia.”