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Save the Rule of Law By Destroying It?
Front Page Magazine ^ | Sept 01 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/01/2023 10:05:45 PM PDT by texas booster

Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land.

Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to pre-civilizational wastelands, millions exiting blue states to red, an FBI and DOJ gone rogue, the normalization of violent theft and assault, biologically born men sandbagging women’s sports and their locker room privacy?

We are reaching the point where the once unbelievable has become the banal, as a single generation has done its best to undo the work of a prior 12 generations. Consider the following:

Three leftwing prosecutors are criminalizing politics with more than 90 simultaneous indictments of Donald Trump, the ex-president and currently the leading Republican primary candidate. While New York prosecutor Letitia James is hounding Trump with a $250 million state lawsuit against the Trump organization and family, on the pretense of supposedly Trump overvaluing his real estate and filing inaccurate financial statements.

Is there any Mafia don, mass murderer, or terrorist who has faced so many indictments or suits in so many jurisdictions at almost the same time?

The prosecutors’ immediate lawfare agendas seem transparent enough. They wish to bankrupt candidate Trump with endless legal costs, and humiliate him with his mugshot blasted over the Internet, and put endless Lilliputian legal ropes over a shackled candidate Gulliver, and inflate the ego and agendas of local prosecutors, and purportedly earn Trump empathy enough to win the nomination only to be hemorrhaged with still more indictments, gag orders, and court appearances to bleed him out in the general election.

Americans ask themselves questions whose answers are never given. Why are all these Trump prosecutors leftwing or with Democratic connections?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; vdh; victordavishanson
Would any of the 90 something indictments for “crimes” of years past have been lodged against a citizen Trump who had retired from politics?

Why are these indictments of alleged wrongdoing of years ago now in summer 2023 suddenly being synchronized in leftwing jurisdictions of New York, Washington, Miami, and Atlanta with the beginning of the 2024 election cycle?

Are any of the indictments against Trump also applicable to others?

Alvin Bragg’s charge of campaign finance violations (Hillary Clinton, 2016)?

Jack Smith’s allegations of encouraging mass civil unrest (Kamala Harris, 2020)?

Illegally removing and possessing classified federal documents (Joe Biden 2009-2022)?

Letitia James’s lawsuit alleging financial irregularities and fraud (Al Sharpton 2009-2014)?

Fani Willis’s claim that Trump was seeking to sabotage the constitutional duties of state electors (Martin Sheen, and an array of B-list Hollywood actors, 2016) and colluding to interfere with an election (Fani Willis 2023-4)?

1 posted on 09/01/2023 10:05:45 PM PDT by texas booster
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Will any losing Republican candidate in a contested election any longer question the integrity of questionable balloting—in the manner of Vice President Al Gore in 2000, Sen. Barbara Boxer and 32 Democratic congressional representatives in 2004, candidate Jill Stein or Hillary Clinton in 2016, or Stacey Abrams 2018—and thereby risk financially and career-crimpling indictments?

Will conservative district attorneys in places like Wyoming, Alabama, or West Virginia now seek to indict a Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Gavin Newsom to earn notoriety, to weaken the opposing party, and to leapfrog to higher office in the manner that we should expect a Fani Willis or Alvin Bragg to be currently planning?

When Republicans retake the Congress and White House, will they begin indicting all the weaponized prosecutors who colluded to exempt a grifting Hunter Biden for five years? Will they try Joe Biden as a private citizen for his prior corruption over the last 15 years?

Why would Donald Trump believe the 2020 election was “rigged?” Was he cribbing that belief from liberal journalist Molly Ball’s braggadocious 2021 Time essay? After all, she outlined what she called a leftwing “cabal” and “conspiracy” to change voting laws, turn on/turn off the 2020 Antifa/BLM street protests, absorb the work of registrars, and suppress unwelcome social media news.

Was it more morally suspect to question the ethics surrounding the election year 2020 or for Mark Zuckerberg to infuse $419 million to absorb in asymmetrical fashion the work of the registrars in key swing precincts?

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2 posted on 09/01/2023 10:08:33 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

We have not lived under the “Rule of Law” since the Government refused to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her many crimes.


3 posted on 09/01/2023 10:12:57 PM PDT by sport
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To: texas booster

That’s what you do when you have a revolution, destroy the existing society in order to rebuild a new one.


4 posted on 09/01/2023 10:18:24 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: sport

Indeed, the Rule of Law was abused during the Clinton presidency.

And further back, the Nixon administration was plagued with dirty tricks by the deep state and Congressional staffers. How quaint that time now seems.

Ha! Worried about a heterosexual prostitution ring. Pikers.

And back past FDR, past to the early Republic, and before that to ... the beginning of recorded history.


5 posted on 09/01/2023 10:28:31 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

“Rule by Decree is the only way to save Our Democracy.”


6 posted on 09/01/2023 10:30:45 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

We are not a Democracy. We are/ was a Constitutional Republic.


7 posted on 09/01/2023 10:36:54 PM PDT by sport
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To: texas booster

Not to save it. To replace it.

Thats what socialists do. They replace whatever with socialist solutions and CLAIM they saved/reformed it.


8 posted on 09/01/2023 10:42:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: texas booster

Americans ask themselves questions whose answers are never given.

Then they go back to playing Cookie Jam on their phones.

You have only look at the results of 2022 to see the trouble we are in.


9 posted on 09/02/2023 3:03:08 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: texas booster

There was an article in the NY Times yesterday about a fire in a building in Johannesburg that killed 74 people.

Affluent nation states can be brought low by foolish policies.


10 posted on 09/02/2023 3:46:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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PENAL CODE
TITLE 5. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON
CHAPTER 19. CRIMINAL HOMICIDE
Sec. 19.01. TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE.
(a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the death of an individual
....
Sec. 19.06. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN CONDUCT. This chapter does not apply to the death of an unborn child if the conduct charged is:
(1) conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child;
(2) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent, if the death of the unborn child was the intended result of the procedure;
(3) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent as part of an assisted reproduction as defined by Section 160.102, Family Code; or
(4) the dispensation of a drug in accordance with law or administration of a drug prescribed in accordance with law.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm

“No state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”

Amendment XIV, Section 1


11 posted on 09/02/2023 3:53:23 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: texas booster

To legally terrorize a man who only sought to Make America Great Again is sickening.


12 posted on 09/02/2023 3:56:16 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: texas booster

Trump had a Republican Congress.

Republicans could have curtailed the reach of federal law and ensured penalties were proportionate.

Jack Smith quoted Trump a number of times.

What goes around comes around.


13 posted on 09/02/2023 4:13:28 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: texas booster

If we no longer have the power to vote the scoundrels out of office, we are finished and the fascists will prevail. That may very well be where we are.


14 posted on 09/02/2023 6:37:00 AM PDT by Spok (You can always trust your enemies to be your enemies. Your friends not so much.)
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To: texas booster

Bttt.

5.56mm


15 posted on 09/02/2023 10:23:27 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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