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2020-05-18 Home Front: Culture Wars
Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate
it's Kurt
Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt Dem/foreigner collaborations exemplified by the payoffs received by stripperphile and Bolivian folk medicine enthusiast Hoover Biden.

No one.

Well, maybe Mike Flynn himself will. Since his judge is now making up the law as he goes along — in law school they taught us that the judicial branch didn’t prosecute, but that was before the Trump Exception™ to existing principles — I actually expect that the next time the General shows up in court the judge will sentence him on his coerced plea to a "crime" that never happened and order the marshals to immediately take him into custody. And, as we have seen far too often since the advent of the bat biter blues, too many LEOs simply obey, apparently never having got the 411 on how the Nuremburg defense of "just following orders" is unsat. Flynn will get pardoned instead of exonerated, so he’ll get sprung from stir, but he will have no civil recourse for resurrecting his reputation or savings, which is the plan.

We have two justice systems, one for them and one for us, meaning we have no justice system at all.

Sorry to have to break this to you. I know it makes you sad, but how do you think I feel? I spent 27 years helping defend this country and voilà — here we are, a flippin’ banana republic. Turns out our elite is perfectly cool with treating our Constitution like Charmin.

You do understand that to the establishment, this dual track system where they ignore the law and we get the law dropped on us — including through active framing, as with LTG Flynn, to keep us in line — is how they want it, right? This is not an unintended consequence. They are for this.

They are actively for the abuse of the legal system to persecute their political enemies. You adorable naïfs come to me thinking that I, as a lawyer, will assuage your gnawing fear that something is rotten in the state of America. "Kurt, but this...this isn’t right? How can some people be prosecuted but other people with connections get away with crimes?" Well, the answer is simple: that is how many of the people with their grubby paws on the levers of power want it.

They want to use the government to stifle dissent, as the IRS did to Tea Party groups.

They want to make people afraid to oppose them by threatening them with crushing legal fees and maybe jail if they dare join the opposition — look at the trail of bankrupt Trumpworld folks after Obamagate.

They want to frame people working for their enemies and ruin them and put them in prison, a la LTG Flynn.

This permeates liberal culture. Did you know that the ACLU — the Alleged Civil Liberties Union — just sued Betsy De Vos because she ordered reforms to campus man-witch trials that gave men such radical due process rights as the right to know the charges, to have time to respond to them, to not be judged by the same person who is prosecuting them, and to confront their accuser? The ACLU came out against these things — at least in cases where ole Grandpa Badfinger’s not the accused. And speaking of that handsy old weirdo, how about all those lib luminaries leveling with us that even if he did what Tara Reade said he did, eh, no biggie. They’ll vote for him anyway, and that whiny broad should stop crying all over their beautiful progressive narrative.

...You need to prepare yourself. No one of any significance is going to jail for any of this. Ever.

...I’d love to be wrong. Maybe I am. Maybe the unbroken track record of injustice we’ve seen over the last decade will suddenly break. And maybe my pet unicorn Chet will be the foreman of the jury when one of these slugs somehow gets called to account.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-18 05:08|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 If I were a betting man, I'm afraid I'd have to go with Kurt.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-18 05:55||   2020-05-18 05:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Right until the Left sets fire to the place. Then all bets are off and payback will be a mother.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-18 08:08||   2020-05-18 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 The sleeping giant is waking up. All bets are off.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-05-18 08:58||   2020-05-18 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 After Trump's re-elected, the odds will shift. More time, more resources, more heretofore silent desk jockeys willing to come forth and offer smoking-gun evidence.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-18 11:03||   2020-05-18 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 He certainly could be right, we'll see. On a personal level, No Surrender-not an inch, no more faux 1-way compromise, and if need be no quarter should it come down to it.
Posted by Cesare 2020-05-18 12:50||   2020-05-18 12:50|| Front Page Top

#6 This will boost OrangeMan's re-election prospects, maybe also Repubs' odds of taking back the House this fall.

Take care of politics first, and then the legal system.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-18 13:12||   2020-05-18 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Quarter? Never heard of it. Got some handy railroad spikes for nailing enemies to things.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-05-18 15:06||   2020-05-18 15:06|| Front Page Top

#8 ....aka "nailing him down", a little known but exotic technique to reduce recidivistic behavior.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-18 15:30||   2020-05-18 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Some people figured this out years ago.

Welcome to the party, Kurt.

And hey--- "Trust the plan, amirite?!"

Bwahaha.
Posted by charger 2020-05-18 15:58||   2020-05-18 15:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Barr says he does not expect criminal investigation of Obama or Biden as result of Durham probe
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-18 16:00||   2020-05-18 16:00|| Front Page Top

#11 This will boost OrangeMan's re-election prospects, maybe also Repubs' odds of taking back the House this fall.

The GOP had "control" of the House during Trump's first two years. How much really changed?

I'm fine with taking Nancy's claws off the gavel, but I don't kid myself that much will change with Kevin McCarthy of California as the new Speaker.

Posted by charger 2020-05-18 16:06||   2020-05-18 16:06|| Front Page Top

#12 I think GOP had both Houses under Clinton at one time. It's overrated. Very overrated. Of course, there are quite a few GOPers sans/ backbone.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-18 16:21||   2020-05-18 16:21|| Front Page Top

#13 The Dems have already announced they will pursue Trump after he leaves office. Let them set the precedent, then hang that albatross around their neck. Yes Obama deserves it, but that was never in the mix.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-05-18 17:01||   2020-05-18 17:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Obama could have been in the mix a couple of years ago were it not for the dilly-dallying by the Senate, et al.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-18 17:45||   2020-05-18 17:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Apparently, it's OK to investigate a sitting President for made up crimes, but beyond the pale to demand answers from the former President who got the whole scam rolling in the first place.

Becuz muh precedentz and muh Normz!

Posted by charger 2020-05-18 20:00||   2020-05-18 20:00|| Front Page Top

#16 Can Barr, arrest Wray for obstruction.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-18 20:12||   2020-05-18 20:12|| Front Page Top

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