Yeah, so I'm guilty. Fuck 'em.
Eric Holder, guilty as sin, nonetheless sits on the top of the heap of law enfofcement, and is backed by the President of the USA. He doesn't fear the law, he needn't respect the law, he IS the law.
Too big to fail, I guess. Wadda you gonna do...ship him to 'Nam?
When the US Legislature writes laws and then exempts itsef from those selfsame laws?
Too big to fail, I guess. Wadda you gonna do...ship him to 'Nam?
President of the United States refuses to fulfill his job description? Declines to carry out his sworn duty?
Too big to fail, I guess. Wadda you gonna do...ship him to 'Nam?
Good lord but this pisses me off. I'm minded of the Clinton administration and the billing records. "No idea", "Must have been a clerical error".
Or that other great ruler Josef Stalin, wo said "Fuck the Pope. How many divisions does HE have".
Moral authority is not enough when the Law is not done.One the great lines of modern theater comes to mind:
" Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
"The law must not only be done, it must be seen to be done".
From the dawn of law, the essence of law is that it applies to all, that there is no "privilege", no "private law" that man is equal under the law.
* That was a common response to petty legal harassment when I was young. The choice between a vindictively harsh penalty for a minor infraction and enlisting in the military Service, It still exists, but to a l
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