June 13, 2023
We Don't Need no STEENKING Rule of Law
Carlos Velazquez
Interesting and thought provoking analysis of the Trump indictment by Alan Dershowitz. My one disagreement is that I don't think we are a nation of laws any more. We are more like Stalinist Russia that persecutes and censors political opponents and conservative journalists. And it's gone way beyond Trump. I strongly suggest reading the article before commenting.
"In 1940, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson warned against such selective targeting: 'With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.' "
What If Both Trump and His Prosecutors Are Guilty?
Tim adds:
Yes, it is so. This is the old Beria statement "show me the man and I'll show you the crime".
I disagree with Dershawitz here; there clearly is no longer the Rule of Law in America. We now have the kind of political prosecutions common in Latin America and in the Second World.
Dershawitz asks what would happen if a prosecutor only went after crimes committed by blacks. Here in St. Louis we had the opposite; a black Democrat prosecutor who would not prosecute crimes committed by blacks. The end result was chaos and a huge rise in crime throughout the city. It is only coming down now that the State of Missouri forced her to resign. She was a Soros-funded DA.
The Rule of Law requires even-handedness. Remove that and you upend society.
Interesting and thought provoking analysis of the Trump indictment by Alan Dershowitz. My one disagreement is that I don't think we are a nation of laws any more. We are more like Stalinist Russia that persecutes and censors political opponents and conservative journalists. And it's gone way beyond Trump. I strongly suggest reading the article before commenting.
"In 1940, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson warned against such selective targeting: 'With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.' "
What If Both Trump and His Prosecutors Are Guilty?
Tim adds:
Yes, it is so. This is the old Beria statement "show me the man and I'll show you the crime".
I disagree with Dershawitz here; there clearly is no longer the Rule of Law in America. We now have the kind of political prosecutions common in Latin America and in the Second World.
Dershawitz asks what would happen if a prosecutor only went after crimes committed by blacks. Here in St. Louis we had the opposite; a black Democrat prosecutor who would not prosecute crimes committed by blacks. The end result was chaos and a huge rise in crime throughout the city. It is only coming down now that the State of Missouri forced her to resign. She was a Soros-funded DA.
The Rule of Law requires even-handedness. Remove that and you upend society.
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I think it is very obvious that we are no longer a nation ruled by laws. The fact that Hillary Clinton is walking the streets freely proves that. Oh, yes, and James Comey too.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 14, 2023 12:40 AM (25F6q)
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Exactly right Dana. The Clintons, the Obamas, and now the Bidens show America has a different set of laws for the elites then for the rest of us.
I think they are going after Trump, trying to send him to prison, as reprisal for his saying "lock her up!" about Hillary. It's like "we'll see who gets locked up!"
America is now on a par with Venezuela.
I think they are going after Trump, trying to send him to prison, as reprisal for his saying "lock her up!" about Hillary. It's like "we'll see who gets locked up!"
America is now on a par with Venezuela.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 14, 2023 07:42 AM (IBxO/)
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I've been giving some thought about moving to Chile...
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 15, 2023 11:21 PM (25F6q)
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It's too chilly there Dana...
There aren't really any places worth immigrating to these days. The whole world has drunk the kool-aid.
There aren't really any places worth immigrating to these days. The whole world has drunk the kool-aid.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 16, 2023 08:07 AM (+OJrv)
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