So the Green Party’s 2024 presidential nominee has a warrant out for her arrest, and the same media machine that spent last year telling you she was a legitimate alternative to the establishment is suddenly very quiet about it.
Dr. Jill Stein, the professional activist who keeps running for president like it’s a hobby, failed to show up for her own court date Monday morning in St. Louis. Judge Karma Johnson issued the warrant. Stein’s lawyer didn’t bother showing either. Think about that for a second. A woman who wanted the nuclear codes couldn’t be bothered to appear for a misdemeanor hearing. Her attorney ghosted a judge. You or I pull that stunt, we’re getting pulled out of our house in cuffs before dinner. But Stein apparently figured the rules are for the little people.
Here’s what the charges actually are. Back on April 27, 2024, a protest rolled through Forest Park and onto the Washington University Danforth campus. The usual campus chaos. Chanting, tents in the library, the building evacuated. Officers gave the crowd a final warning at 7:41 p.m. The protesters locked arms and held the line. And Stein, according to court documents, grabbed a police bicycle. When Officer Moore tried to help, the bike hit him in the forearm. Then Stein allegedly kicked Moore multiple times in the right leg near the groin. The officer ended up with a forearm strain, a contusion on his leg, and a groin injury.
This is the woman the Green Party put up for leader of the free world.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Melissa Price Smith made a point of saying the charges aren’t about speech or assembly. They’re about the evidence. Which is the kind of careful, measured statement prosecutors make when they know the activist class is going to scream political persecution the second a charge gets filed. And sure enough, here we are. Stein ran an entire presidential campaign while these charges were hanging over her head, and nobody in the press thought that was worth more than a passing mention. The same press that fact-checks every syllable out of Trump’s mouth gave Stein a free pass on an active assault case.
Now she’s a no-show. The warrant is real. The silence from the networks is deafening.
And let’s not forget Stein’s greatest hit from the activist highlight reel. Back in 2016, she and her then-running mate Ajamu Baraka waltzed into a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site in North Dakota, where she grabbed a can of red spray paint and wrote “I approve this message” on a bulldozer. Baraka painted “decolonization” on another one. They got charged with criminal trespassing and criminal mischief. Stein’s response on Twitter: “The Dakota Access Pipeline is vandalism on steroids.” So in her mind, spray-painting heavy equipment is activism, but a pipeline is vandalism. The logic of someone who’s been running for office for twelve straight years and never gotten more than one percent of the vote.
The pattern is clear. Stein treats laws she doesn’t like as suggestions. She treats court dates as optional. She treats property that isn’t hers as a canvas. And the establishment that claims to care about norms and the rule of law can’t be bothered to say a word about it, because she’s on their side of the ideological fence.
If a Trump supporter kicked a cop in the groin at a campus protest and then skipped a court date, it would lead every newscast in America. Jill Stein does it, and it’s crickets. Funny how that works. No, actually, it’s not funny at all. It’s exactly how the system operates when it’s protecting its own.