The Beginning of the End?
American society rests on a delicate balance based on consistency and predictability. The Obama and Biden administrations came into office determined to upset that balance.
There's really not much of a need for the GOP to point out the two tiered legal system because the actions of the Biden/Garland DOJ are doing a pretty good job of demonstrating it.
Look, you have to be blind not to see the favoritism in BLM vs. J6, Hunter vs. pretty much anyone else who has ever faced a gun charge or a FARA charge (i.e. Mike Flynn and Paul Manafort), Trump vs. Hillary or SBF vs. Dinesh D'Souza.
And anyone who can't see the differences and understand this is wrong, is part of the problem. This is just a complete lack of honesty, and this "its OK when we do it" attitude is the complete opposite of what this nation should believe.
Perhaps the one thing that distinguishes Western forms of jurisprudence is the concept (and execution) of equal treatment under the law. That has been a constant in America for our first two centuries plus of existence. It provides society with stability through both consistency and predictability of how laws are expressed, enforced and adjudicated.
To tamper with this delicate balance is to risk throwing society into turmoil, then violence, then into revolution.
Too many Americans think morals and ethics are the same thing when they are not. Morals refer mainly to guiding principles, ethics refer to specific rules and actions, or behaviors. Something can be moral without being ethical or ethical without being moral.
The law allows prosecutorial latitude, largely based on morality. For example, someone may have technically broken a law, but for a good reason. In such a case, it is not unusual for a prosecutor not to prosecute. There are also cases where technicalities are used to prosecute when there is no moral basis to do so.
Once America and Americans understood the difference. This may be a little bit of a confusing concept, but the law has always been a weapon, but it was not always "weaponized" - by that, I mean in the same way we treat a firearm, we once viewed the law as a loaded firearm and never aimed it at anything unless that thing deserved to be shot.
Today, the law is waived around with the casual indifference reserved for a toy. Now, nobody gives credence to the target and pulling the trigger is indiscriminate - seemingly based on nothing more than favoritism.
We talked a bit about the concept of a "popular constitution" the other day when the two law professors wrote an open letter to Biden to encourage him to ignore SCOTUS rulings and form his own interpretation of the Constitution and that concept seems to have caught on regarding the law. It seems that all that is needed for prosecution is to be unpopular with the people in charge and they have no compunction about going all Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria on your ass in service of their political masters.
This is wrong, and everybody knows it is wrong, the problem is that there are just enough who don't give a damn about tearing the entire system down that they will do it anyway.
Want to stop our slide toward third world status - this weaponization of law is the first thing that must stop.
If you are going to prosecute President Trump, you damn well better prosecute Hillary (and Biden) as well. If you are going to fine and jail Dinesh for a 20 grand political contribution, you better make sure you do the same to Sam Bankman Fraud for his $40 million in contributions. Hunter needs to get the same treatment as Paul Manafort. The J6 people deserve no more and no less than was given to BLM protesters.
To not do that is to destroy the form, substance and faith of and in the American system of jurisprudence.
Which is why it is so very frustrating to watch the GOP hold their little hearings that lead to NO action. Ugh. Double ugh.
Sad but true. 😕