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Hold rogue judges & DAs criminally accountable

If you or I break the law, or make some poor judgment that results in someone else suffering substantial bodily harm or financial loss, we will be held accountable. No question about it, otherwise good people who make that once-in-a-lifetime bad choice or dumb mistake are grist for the criminal justice mill (even if habitual lawbreakers are strangely not treated so). The American justice system is set up to treat everyone the same, regardless of station in life or wealth, but it is being failed deliberately, with huge far-reaching results, by a small but effective group of rogue judges and DAs.

Accountability for one’s actions is a fundamental tenet of American law. Both for people who directly cross a line and break a law, and for those who fail in some key duty to prevent real harm from happening.

It is time to extend this same kind of direct criminal accountability to rogue, lawless judges and District Attorneys, as well.

Last year two parents were criminally charged because their teenage son went on a shooting rampage, and they did nothing to stop him or warn anyone beforehand. He lived at home with his parents, and they knew he had access to firearms. Despite directly knowing that he was having mental health issues (something common to teenagers everywhere to one degree or another), they were so disinterested, and so disconnected from him, and disconnected from the potential he held in his hands to do great harm to other people, that they did not spend any time monitoring him. Even when he had direct access to firearms.

These parents were held accountable for their failure, even if they did not directly act in a way that violated the law. They also failed to act to prevent something illegal from happening. Something they had every expectation of knowing could happen.

Rogue police officers are eventually held accountable by the criminal justice system, even if it seems that too much time passes between their lawbreaking and their eventual appearance in court as a defendant. Despite wearing a gun and a badge and being the cutting edge and ultimate image The Law and of law enforcement, cops who cross the line will almost always do the time.

Rogue lawmakers are sometimes held accountable for breaking the law, probably not enough, but it does happen here in America. Former congressman, now-senator from California, Adam Schiff, is under investigation for mortgage fraud. So is New York Attoney General Letitia James. Both cases look open-and-shut from the documents available on the Internet. Immediate past US Senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, is now in jail for bribery; the actual gold bars he took from Egypt were sewn up inside his clothing!

So what is the deal with these rogue judges and DAs across America, who deliberately flout the law and common sense, by releasing dangerous felons right back onto the street after their arrest? Or under-charging them? Why aren’t these officers of the court held to the same standard all the rest of us are held to?

They act as if they are above the law, with no consequences for the consequences of their terrible decisions.

If there is one prime example of these lawless judges and DAs putting society at grave risk, there are a thousand examples: Illegal immigrants arrested for rape, murder, DUI homicide, burglary, child molestation, all released right back onto the street with either no bail or crazy low bail. Despite being dangerous felons, who usually do go right back to committing more felonies and ruining innocent people’s lives forever, rogue judges and DAs keep letting them out of the criminal justice system on a revolving door.

Why rogue judges and DAs behave lawlessly is a whole other discussion, but it comes down to a belief in warped “social justice.” Whenever you see the word social added to the word justice, you are guaranteed to get everything and anything but actual justice. It is an evil cultural Marxism thing, very popular now with one American political party.

In fact, “social justice” means just one thing: Gross injustice committed at enormous cost and at industrial scale against innocent Americans.

Lawless DAs and judges motivated by social justice ideas see everyone else who is not white skinned as a supposed “victim”, and therefore deserving of not being held accountable for their actions, no matter how heinous and illegal. And so the rest of us innocent people must suffer terribly in order for “social justice” to be served. And suffer again and again and again as lawbreakers from around the world moved illegally to America to continue breaking the law here without accountability, not to mention our own home-grown street thugs and community organized terrorists.

Lots of innocent Americans have lost their money, died violently, or been permanently maimed from this social justice nonsense.

Lots of children have been sexually molested or raped because of this social justice crap.

It is time to start holding these rogue judges and DAs directly accountable for the lawlessness, criminality, and mayhem they have unleashed upon us. Nothing excuses the crimes being perpetrated against Americans from these judges and DAs.

No amount of professional discretion allows one person to both lawlessly destroy innocent people and up-end a well ordered society, while simultaneously hiding behind the law.

This catch-and-release woke law enforcement is a failure to fulfill one’s duty of office, it is not a matter of what you professionally believe. The law has certain basic expectations, and every single woke DA and judge is not meeting them by a mile.

If citizen voters and our elected officials are so weak that we lack the political willpower to remove rogue and lawless judges and DAs from office through the political process, such as impeachment, then the criminal justice system must be invoked. It is time for bad judges and DAs to themselves be criminally charged and prosecuted for their misdeeds.

When a judge releases a known felon right back into the community after being arrested, without any consequences, then they have every reason to expect that felon to continue on being felonious, and victimizing innocent Americans. Just like the parents of emotionally unstable kids who take family guns to school and shoot people, that judge must be charged criminally and put on trial for whatever mayhem results.

We, The People just cannot put up with this criminal behavior hiding behind somber black robes any longer.

 

 

Lotta covid19 pain? Better be lotta gain

For all the pain we are all experiencing from the Chinese covid19 flu “lockdowns,” shutdowns, economic activity coming to a screeching halt, businesses laying off people, orders drying up etc., there had damned well better be a lot of gain when all is said and done.

Meaning, all our sacrifice and loss and crushed civil rights should damned well have happened for a good reason. A lot of people should have lived who were going to die or get very sick. etc.

When the most mild mannered attorney friend texts me out of the blue yesterday “Are you worried about our civil rights?” I knew that the felt pain was cutting deep.

Our text conversation last night was brief, but it covered all the territory a person might expect, given its premise. My friend reports that many of his other friends are starting to get pretty fussy about this government-imposed suspension of civil liberties. He wrote “It is one thing to cooperate and volunteer to move less in public, but to be told we must stay in our homes…?”

This guy who wrote these texts to to me is a solid religious person, a respected family man, a well regarded attorney, pretty staid and non-excitable, perhaps even at times a boring personality (hope he is not reading this). It would take a lot to get him to write something like this civil rights text. And yet by now it is doubtful we can find any American who has not also felt a lot of pain from this covid19 China Flu business, so his texts to me are probably indicative of a lot of other Americans’ restlessness. A chafing at the bit. A natural inborn resistance to being told what to do, as opposed to being asked to volunteer as free people.

Really at the center of all this lockdown/shutdown/ Big Coercive Government vs Smaller and Smaller Citizen are two factors: 1) The philosophy of governance held by the various mayors, governors, and federal disease experts, and 2) a sense of duty to nation and to one another held by Americans.

A natural tension always exists in our republic, between effective government decision making on the one hand, and citizens’ rights on the other hand. Our founding documents (Constitution, Bill of Rights) are all about this tension, and how to strike a balance between the trade-offs of having an effective government and also having a free citizenry. No doubt that Communist China has a really effective government, but on the other hand its citizens have zero freedom. Americans want maximum freedom, so we naturally reject the kind of government it takes to be really effective.

However, many if not almost all of the Washington, DC, careerists are inured to the notion of a strong federal government. An overpoweringly strong and coercive government, need be. And why would they not have this mindset? It makes them maximally relevant and powerful. So enter Washington bureaucrats Fauci and Birx, and their approach to the Wuhan China covid19 flu has been to at first pooh pooh it, and then when it becomes a big issue, to take the opposite tack – everyone lock yourself in your home and do not come out until we experts tell you to.

Back in January and February, Fauci was quoted many times pooh poohing and disavowing the China covid19 flu. Can’t happen, won’t happen, not a big deal. Oops, now it is happening – everyone run and hide, to hell with the economy.

Add to this message coming out of Washington bureaucrats the naturally authoritarian nature of many elected officials around America, and we get some pretty authoritarian abuses of power. In Malibu California the other day, a guy simply paddle boarding out in the surf was actually cut off by two police boats and then arrested for not self-social-distancing. While he was literally all alone out on the water, near no one, hurting no one, putting at risk no one. And of course the ACLU is nowhere to be found for him, because the ACLU is not about civil rights, it is about destroying America.

Here in Pennsylvania, our governor, the mild mannered and generally friendly Tom Wolf, has issued a pretty wild declaration, a dictatorial ultimatum, that has suspended our civil rights and shut down most businesses and the families who depend on them. While many of us have a strong sense of duty to our fellow humans, and we are happy to make personal sacrifices in order to protect our neighbors and our communities, at a certain point we begin to chafe under the dictatorial approach to applying law.

A lot of pain is being felt across America, and certainly here in Pennsylvania. Many of the businesses I regularly interact with are in increasingly bad shape. Much of this has to do with their diminished cash flow and uncertain banking situation. So if the banks are eventually made whole, then the rest of these businesses will be made whole, and the whole economy will come roaring back to where it was or stronger. In the mean time we all have families to feed and bills to pay, and the pain of Wolf’s lockdown is becoming intense.

Is this pain worth it, is it justified, people are asking.

Everyone I know has a real commitment to doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do. They do not need to be told what to do, just asked. But now the pressure and resentment to being told what to do, at great personal cost, without a lot of evident gain, is beginning to build up. This would naturally be expected. The sacrifices we are all making seem to be much greater than would normally, reasonably be expected. We cannot really see the fruits of our sacrifices.

Americans die every day from all sorts of maladies and accidents. A regular flu season sees about 32,000 Americans die nationally, from just the regular old flu. We take that number of deaths as a matter of fact, a cost of being alive. And yet we are not seeing that same result from this covid19 coronavirus thing. Not even close. In fact, so far, just the opposite.

If it turns out that Wuhan China covid19 Chinese Flu actually results in very few deaths, and yet the entire nation’s economy was thrown out the window for little or no gain in health, then there is going to be hell to pay.