Doug1943
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Well, wonderful. You're saying that we should uphold the Rule of Law, and not have selective prosecution based on political beliefs. I agree 100%. The Rule of Law is a precious conquest of civilization, and absent in many countries.I am not interested in your hyper-partisan distortion of American jurisprudence.
I support law enforcement and fair and impartial adjudication.
E.g., Trump has brayed that his being indicted will increase his support. That may well be true, but our judiciary cannot consider that a factor in whether to prosecute.
When the George Floyd riots took place in the summer of 2020, most of the Left were silent, or apologized for them. (I'm not talking here of the extreme Left, like the people at It's Going Down, or AntiFa, who took part in them.) Kamala Harris urged people to send bail money.` And she's far from being on the left end of the liberal/progressive spectrum.
Why did the Left have this attitude, instead of demanding "fair and impartial adjudication"? Because they saw the rioters as motivated by a desire for justice, they saw them as their own. They may have been embarrassed by the violence and looting -- as well as knowing it would be a political liability -- but they were still not neutral as between the rioters and the police. We on the Right and the 6 January rioters, same same. Let the law take its course, but be fair.
However, the reality is, the legal system is not some objective, impartial quasi-mathematical function: drop in a crime, out comes a punishment. What people get charged with a crime, and at what level, or released without being charged is a subjective -- and on occasion-- political decision. Judges take into account "mitigating factors". Was the rioter motivated by misguided idealism, or just a thug looking for some action?
Progressive DA's don't want to set bail for Black shoplifters unless they've really stolen a lot. And progressives have managed to raise the limit legally, in many states -- what was a felony is no longer, thanks to our friends on the Left -- with predictable consequences [ Why shoplifting is soaring across the US — and will only get worse ]
We can expect that progressive judges and progressive juries will have the same attitude. It would be naive to think they wouldn't. (White judges and juries in the South certainly didn't apply the law equally, a few decades ago.)
In fact, the Left came up with the concept of "Critical Legal Theory" a few decades ago, to attack the whole idea of 'impartial justice' in the US, and their ideas have metastisized throughout our body politic, especially in the educational system. [ critical legal theory ]
But even before that, the Left's attitude towards the law was summed up in Anatole France's famous observation that the law forbids both the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges. So contempt for the Rule of Law is baked into leftist ideology.
This is just political reality, and it's going to get worse as our country slowly disintegrates.