What Are You Going To Do About It? by Robert Gore at STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC
Justice and equality are inseparable. Equality here does not mean the fatuous and impossible equality of outcomes that animates collectivists, but equality before the law. Equality of outcomes in all its collectivist guises obliterates equality before the law, the foundation of which is the concept of individual rights. For that concept to have any meaning, each individual must have the same rights, which receive the same protection from the government. Individual, equal rights must be the basis of the law, and when they are not, no justice is possible.
Law instead becomes a tool wielded by those who control the government against everyone else. Yesterday’s announcement by FBI Director James Comey that the FBI would recommend against charging Hillary Clinton in the email matter is the government wielding the law to protect its own. The fix has been in since at least 1913, when it gave itself permission to steal its constituents’ money (the income tax) and to begin the process of profitably substituting its scrip for gold (the Federal Reserve Act). The Clinton fix is business as usual. The exempt-from-the-law class expect outrage and contemptuously ignore it. Indeed, disclosure of the Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton meeting may have been designed to rub the noses of the not-exempt in it. Yes, it looks terrible, but we run things, you don’t. You don’t like it? Tough shit, what are you going to do about it?
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Law instead becomes a tool wielded by those who control the government against everyone else. Yesterday’s announcement by FBI Director James Comey that the FBI would recommend against charging Hillary Clinton in the email matter is the government wielding the law to protect its own. The fix has been in since at least 1913, when it gave itself permission to steal its constituents’ money (the income tax) and to begin the process of profitably substituting its scrip for gold (the Federal Reserve Act). The Clinton fix is business as usual. The exempt-from-the-law class expect outrage and contemptuously ignore it. Indeed, disclosure of the Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton meeting may have been designed to rub the noses of the not-exempt in it. Yes, it looks terrible, but we run things, you don’t. You don’t like it? Tough shit, what are you going to do about it?
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But I don't think it's fair to protest that "the statute does not require intent" as if that were a moral principle. The law ought to require intent for all felonies. Otherwise you get tragedies like Aaron Swartz and outrages like the Martha Stewart prosecution.
Demonizing the likes of Clinton and Obama, on the other hand, is both necessary and right.
Carelessness with classified data is criminal action and the statute does not require intent only the action.
"Tough shit", indeed.... I hope the 'American sense of smell' has not degraded beyond the ability to distinguish what is palatable.
A few of my past echoes:
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I think President Obama and Hillary Clinton are excellent at managing a country with an expensive and intrusive central gov't. That's not a good thing. But buying into the political game of their opponents and demonizing them, IMHO, actually hurts the cause of liberty.
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