Bridget Anne Kelly to the People of New Jersey: Drop Dead

Bridget Anne Kelly. Remember that name. She’s an amazing person. Everything I’m about to write concerning her is factual. If someone ever wrote what I’m about to write, I’d be fuming mad. I’d threaten to sue, not that such threats would help me due to First Amendment protections. With Kelly, there is very little speculation to the crimes she committed and what she can be held responsible for. We’ve already got the slam-dunk proof in communications sent between her and then-Port Authority official David Wildstein. But it is worth recounting because she’s topped her September crimes with newer ones.

Over the course of several days in last September, Bridget Kelly, acting either on the behalf of a superior or at least herself, gave an impossible, treasonable order. She ordered lanes blocked connecting parts of the Garden State with one of its most important and vulnerable links to the national economy, the George Washington Bridge. Even more incredibly, the order was followed and a traffic crisis of Biblical proportions commenced. The plan for the jams: they were to have no end. It was only due to the attention they caused, particularly within the Port Authority itself and in the Legislature, that the blockages were lifted.

Tens of thousands of commuters lost countless hours of work and wages. Cars overheated. Local and interstate business deliveries were overdue. First Responders caught up in Kelly’s antics were forced to bolt their vehicles and reach their destinations on foot. Children waited in school busses for hours, while other busses got into accidents. One woman died awaiting an ambulance. Again, this all happened, it is all documented.

What’s more frightening is that Kelly’s antics left the entire Northeast corridor open for disaster as the blockages and subsequent delays overlapped with the anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Had the region experienced another attack on September 11, 2013 on par with the 2001 assault, the consequences could have been – would have been – cataclysmic. And if there is anything that Al Qaida specializes in aside from mass murder, it is anniversary attacks on major pieces of infrastructure, like bridges. 

Then the story got more twisted. Her boss, New Jersey’s governor, claimed total ignorance. He claimed betrayal and fired Kelly. He didn’t interview her. He didn’t order her immediate arrest despite clear evidence of her involvement. Strange, very strange.

Now Kelly has topped all of this. Her absolute contempt for the lives and property of the people of this state apparently knows no bounds. Earlier today, her lawyer said that she would ignore the requests of the State Legislature for her work-related documents. She would ignore the legal subpoenas of our elected officials because they might incriminate her.

The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution does not apply to documents or evidence. If the police have a search warrant, and find a bloody baseball bat with your fingerprints all over it, you are not entitled to say, “You can’t take that and use it against me. Because it could convince a judge or jury that I’m actually guilty.”

Of course, you can refuse to talk to them. That’s a protected right. That sends a strong message to the government that torture is an unacceptable practice, and no confessions made under duress are valid in a court of law.

Bridget Kelly is a criminal. This otherwise mild-mannered political hack, single mother of four, stepped way out of bounds last September. As far as I’m concerned, she’s more dangerous to my life and liberty than any gun-toting thug in one of our deteriorating cities. Carjackers? Yeah, they’re bad. Tax evaders? Sure, they’re a problem. Public officials that commit acts of war, of terrorism against the very people they’re pledged to protect? That’s Nuremberg stuff.

Lock Kelly up. Lock her up now, or none of us will be safe from wicked tyrants, both big and small, in positions of authority.