The Hard Truth about âLâAffaire Chauvinâ
A week or so ago, I received an email from an old friend in the intelligence communityâletâs call him âSmileyââcommenting on my research into the case of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in ...
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9 Jun 2025 ~~ By Jack Cashill
A week or so ago, I received an email from an old friend in the intelligence communityâletâs call him âSmileyââcommenting on my research into the case of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in April 2021 of murdering chronic felon and drug abuser George Floyd a year prior.
Said Smiley, âTime for you to write a âJâaccuseâ piece--naming names.â He was referring to the powerful public letter French author Emile Zola wrote in 1898 damning the people responsible for the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus four years prior.
A few days later, I received a providential email from American Thinker founder Thomas Lifson, a man whose opinion I have always respected. âI need to tell you,â wrote Lifson, âthat your work, and that of John Dale Dunn, rectifying the injustice of Derek Chauvinâs convictions, makes me proud to know you both. Chauvin is the Alfred Dreyfus of our era, and that makes you the Zola. I mean that emphatically.â
John Dunn, I should note, is a doctor and an attorney, and a frequent collaborator.
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The parallels between LâAffaire Dreyfus and LâAffaire Chauvin are strong, not in the nature of the âcrimes,â but in the motivations of the accusers and the reaction of the public. Human nature, when allowed largely free rein in a democratic republic, seems to be a constant.
In brief, Captain Dreyfus stood accused of betraying his country by secretly sharing French artillery secrets with the Germans. As evidence, the accusers presented a letter allegedly sent by Dreyfus detailing the terms of the exchange. In the Chauvin case, the equivalent evidence was the autopsy report.
In each case, the real crime was the race/ethnicity of the accused. Headlines in the French media routinely spoke of âle Juif Dreyfusââthe Jew Dreyfusâjust as the American media
never failed to identify Chauvin as âwhiteâ and Floyd as âblack.â
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What made Zolaâs letter so effective, as Smiley suggests, was his willingness to name names, each name preceded by âJâaccuseââ âI accuse.â Smiley helpfully included the list of people and institutions deserving their own moment of infamy. Among them are the following.
I accuse the media, national and local, of fanning the flames of unrest through their universally uncritical acceptance of the Black Lives Matter narrative based on no more than a snippet of viral video.
I accuse Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of preserving the narrative by gratuitously withholding the exculpatory police body cam footage until being forced to do so by judicial order.
I accuse Black Lives Matter, Benjamin Crump, and other âcivil rightsâ grifters of encouraging the $2 billion of destruction that followed the videoâs release.
I accuse every public official who âtook a kneeâ of assuring that Chauvin and his colleaguesâTou Thao, Alex Kueng, and Thomas Laneâwould never find justice in a Democrat city in a Democrat state.
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I accuse Gov. Tim Walz of letting the rioters burn down much of Minneapolis, including a police station, while he hesitated to send in the National Guard for fear of offending his progressive base.
I accuse Gwen Walzâshe who boasted of keeping her windows âopen as long as [she] couldâ during the riots to smell the burning tiresâof encouraging her husbandâs craven behavior.
âIt is all the more odious and cynical that they lie with impunity,â said Zola of those accused. âThey stir up France, they hide behind its legitimate emotion, they close their mouths by disturbing hearts, by perverting minds. I know of no greater civic crime.â
Zola continued, âWe are horrified by the terrible day that the Dreyfus affair has just thrown into it, this human sacrifice of an unfortunate, a âdirty Jewââ!
As Zola might have said about Lâaffaire Chauvin, âPlus ça change, plus câest la mĂŞme chose.â
Commentary:
Well said!
A shameful episode and still waiting for the beginning of justice.
If he survives, thereâs a good chance Officer Chauvin will one day be a wealthy man. But we will see more such travesties until weâre willing to actually charge and imprison public officials who do these things.
Mr. Floydâs toxicology report showed he had ingested a fatal cocktail of drugs and alcohol, the fentanyl alone being three times the lethal dose. His chemically induced death was merely a pretext for the Democrat Party to spark an orgy of hate and destruction before the 2020 election.
Although this is not an election year, Neo-Marxist Democrats are hoping for a replay of 2020âs mindless violence, this time using ICE arrests of foreign criminals in Los Angeles as their pretext. The inflammatory rhetoric of prominent Democrats is by design. This has to stop.
Maybe justice for Chauvin will finally arrive one day. Sadly, I have my doubts. All of the names Jack Cashill has mentioned and their malfeasance has already been reported in various columns with no effect. His cataloging them here can only help.
Letâs hope that naming names in this case encourages others to speak out in similar incidents and helps the majority to realize, âAs Zola said,
âMy duty is to speak, I donât want to be an accomplice.ââ.
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