Looks like this country needs to get rid of a lot of District Attorneys.
Do they have to swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States when they’re sworn into office? Just asking.
Over the recent years I have lost more and more respect of local prosecutors. They are in one of the most vulnerable positions for corruption and abuse of power and I see more and more of them viciously prosecuting individuals who are powerless to fight back, some even being killed by overly agressive tactics of law enforcement in the furtherance of corrupt government agendas, even involving private property being siezed for public agencies.
I remember a CA prosecutor who did nothing to stop the ill advised raid on a Mr. Scott over near Ventura County, not too far from that liberal singer Barbara Striesand and he ended up being shot to death in his own home in Ventura County by an LA County Sheriff's Deputy. It is strongly suspected he was set up because he wouldn't play ball with the Santa Monica Mountains CONservancy in becoming a "willing seller" of his prized property to these GovernMental EnvironMental whackos!!!
The CA prosecutor who did nothing and wouldn't even investigate this miscarrage of justice as CA AG, subsequently ran against Gray Davis for Governor as an arch CONservative and lost, bigtime!!! Now he's a US CONgressman from the Sacramento area.
There was an article in a major CA magazine a few years about "The Greening Of The Prosecutor's Lobby." I watched in horror as US Attorney's and CalEPA Bureaucrats worked furiously to recruit CA DA's into an "EnvironMental Crimes Enforcement Task Force in 1995, 1996 and 1997 here in the rural sierran counties. They promised these DA's resources and headlines as heros for busting small businesses/employers for outrageously over-blown "crimes" against nature deliberately designed for nothing but garnering extra funds and self-agrandizement. It was obscene!!!
This is another reason I simply cannot support Rudy Giuliani or any other prosecutor anymore as they are given far too much latitude in whether to prosecute, or not, and it gives them god-like power over their fellow man and they cannot resist the infatuation that power gives them. It's becoming as bad a situation as judges creating law from the bench, a task not given them by either the federal or state constitutions they all swear to uphold and defend!!!