I have trouble with the Federal government controlling anything.
It is the same reason I'm against them controlling health care.
When abuses occur, which they will as with all man made institutions, who do you run to?
In my view, the Federal government role is to play referee amongst the states instead of running with the ball.
Honestly. You won’t like my answer. But here it is.
It is why you need a Liberal leaning court. Not just Supreme. But at every level. Here is why.
Let’s take Criminal first. It is widely acknowledged that the reason for all the restrictions on police or LEO’s is to protect the rights of the citizens. Courts and crime make up a majority of the Bill of Rights. And all of it says what the Government, not just the Feds, can’t do to you.
Without those rights, and the Federal Courts to enforce them. The police in your town would still be beating confessions out of people.
The problem is that Law and Order types hate these rights. Look at their rhetoric about the Jan 6th prisoners as one example. Another thread just today. How many people posting there have said that we coddle prisoners and waste money on their comfort?
We have to decide what kind of Justice System we are going to have. We have to decide if we are going to presume guilt or innocence.
Liberal Courts are more likely to error on the side of your rights than a conservative court that is likely to excuse and justify the abuses we are now railing against.
It isn’t an easy fix. But it can be fixed. We lack the will to do so. Because we want “them” to suffer. We want the people we hate to suffer.
And yes. Liberals are just as bad as Conservatives about that. Ken Lay of Enron? Remember him? How many Liberals were outraged that he died before he could be abused in prison?
None of us are serious about reform. We just don’t want the abuses to be used against Us or Our side. It should be used against them.
But. If we disband the FBI and all that. We will create a new organization that is just as bad. Probably worse. We got rid of the OSS after World War Two. A year later we created the CIA.
We blamed the departments for not sharing information after 9-11. And we created a monster in the Department of Homeland Insecurity. They spy on us worse than the most egregious examples since Watergate. And we are reluctant to reign them in. We fear being blamed for a successful attack more than we do violating a right.
But history shows that we will find ourselves jumping from the frying pan directly into the fire if we try and disband them.
