The Center for Medical Progress and Our Broken Rule of Law

redstate.com ^ | July 30th, 2015 | Leon H. Wolf (Diary)

[Morgana]

The ongoing Planned Parenthood scandal is a fascinating story that has a lot of facets that illustrate many disturbing aspects of American society. Although it is difficult to do so, I’m going to ask readers here to set aside the horrifying aspects related to abortion and the sale of baby parts for a moment to focus on one particular aspect that has largely gone unnoticed.

The investigation of the Center for Medical Progress by the Department of Justice has rightly been decried as a transparently political move by the right, but it illustrates a much larger truth: the rule of law, especially with respect to Federal prosecutions, is an absolute illusion in America today.

Instead of the rule of law, we now have the rule of almost totally unfettered prosecutors.

I think most people like to believe that in America today, what determines whether you face the crushing weight of a Federal criminal prosecution is some basic overarching principle of justice wherein prosecutors seek out legitimate evildoers and seek to right wrongs. In reality, that just absolutely isn’t true.

If you want to be fully disabused of this notion, I would highly recommend that you purchase and read Harvey Silverglate’s watershed book Three Felonies a Day, which sets forth a number of important points that people like George Will and Orin Kerr have been trying to raise on the right for years. First, the extraordinary proliferation of federal criminal statutes – and, worse, federal regulations that carry criminal penalties for noncompliance – has resulted in a federal criminal regime in which the average American citizen likely unknowingly commits several felonies a day.

[5th MEB]

I try to keep track of the federal felonies I commit on a daily basis.
I try real hard to commit no more than ten a day, they are real addictive you know.

[marktwain]

“The investigation of the Center for Medical Progress by the Department of Justice has rightly been decried as a transparently political move by the right”

I see that the Author meant that the Obama administration Department of Justice is engaged in a transparently political fishing expedition against the Center for Medical Progress.

This was predicted by Rush.

But the wording in the sentence quoted made me wonder if it was the right that was doing the political move.

I hope this makes the sentence a little clearer.

[faithhopecharity]

“center for medical progress” — funded in part by Soros (you may recognize some more of their donors)...
Soros the young Nazi or Nazi-helper in the 1940’s....
when the Nazis went on to murder millions of innocent people including terrible slaughters of little babies

and now Soros and company are funding what?
IMHO, the terrible slaughters of little babies...all over again!?

am I missing something here or is this guy and his pals maybe pursing a consistent pattern of Nazi=style assaults on little innocent babies, or what?

[semaj]

"Understand this well: basic fairness and justice often don’t come into the equation when Federal prosecutors come knocking on your door."

If this is the case, you'll probably experience less hassle if you just shoot them. /sarc

[grey_whiskers]

“I ask the reader to set aside the Einsatzgruppen and Auschwitz, and focus on the revival of national spirit, and Autobahns.”