Law and a Shared Society

SteynonLine ^ | July 2, 2024 | Mark Steyn

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~A land of legalisms is not the same as a land of law - a vital distinction increasingly lost on Americans of both left and right. Thus, yesterday's Supreme Court decision on "presidential immunity", which was good-ish for Trump, was immediately seized on by Democrats as an opportunity to indulge their kinky and psychologically unhealthy murder fantasies:

Sean Davis on X: One of the lawyers for the fake Ukraine impeachment “whistleblower” just called for Biden to imprison his political opponents and then have them killed.

There was a lot of this about yesterday - including the penetrating insight that the Supreme Court had just pronounced it okay for Joe to drone its judges in their homes:

Tuskey man on X: There’s is actually nothing legally stopping Biden from drone striking Supreme Court justices as long as he claims it’s official act.

I am reminded of a famous observation, entirely unknown south of the border, by my late compatriot George Jonas:

When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were discovered to be punitively burning down the barns of Quebec separatists, the then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sneered that, if people were so upset about illegal barn-burning, maybe he'd make barn-burning legal. As George remarked, Trudeau didn't seem to grasp that barn-burning isn't wrong because it's illegal, it's illegal because it's wrong.