“OK... what do I have to say again in order to not go to jail for 10 years? Could you please remind me?”
“OK... what do I have to say again in order to not go to jail for 10 years? Could you please remind me?”
Survival and self preservation are wired into the DNA of human beings. Most people ultimately default to act in their own self interest when their lifestyles are threatened. Few humans throw themselves on a grenade when there is another option. It would actually be contrary to human behavior for Cohen to meekly be sent to prison if there was a deal of any kind to be negotiated with his persecutors, particularly if he is guilty of actual crimes.
Our founders feared tyranny and tried to develop a government structure and system of laws that restricted government’s ability to oppress individual citizens or groups of citizens. Unfortunately the judicial system today is often tyrannical when focused on an individual. Few people have the financial resources to fight the government in a court system controlled by the government, particularly when the officials of the government are determined to persecute that individual. When government singles out an individual citizen for the full weight of prosecutorial power, few can afford to fight back, much less psychologically endure the years of limbo extended litigation with the government may impose before a sentence is rendered. As we have seen with Paul Manafort, a zealous prosecutor and compliant judge have the ability to take away ones liberties without the due process of law guaranteed by the prosecution.
The politicization of the judicial system in our era has resulted in the tyranny of unaccountable judges who literally determine the fates of individuals based on their own opinions. Sandy Berger steals and destroys records from the National Archives with no consequences. Paul Manafort is on trial for actions Tony Podesta was involved in at the same time, yet Podesta has no fear the government will pursue him. Michael Cohen is persecuted due to his relationship with Donald Trump. Meanwhile the Clinton Foundation is the greatest influence peddling pay-to-play scheme in US history yet no one associated with it is in any jeopardy.
Engraved above the entrance to the Supreme Court building are the words, “Equal Justice Under Law.” We the people should today attack the building and remove those words from it in the same way the students and agitators at the University of North Carolina tore down the Confederate statue yesterday. There is no equality under the law in the United States today. There is certainly no even hand of justice. If one is not a billionaire, or extremely well politically connected, the federal government can destroy a citizens life using the court system and the millions of statutes on the books which no single human being can know. We live under the tyranny of the omnipotent bureaucratic state politicized to drive a leftist world view.