That's America's justice system in a nutshell: the President who deliberately and knowingly violated our 30-year-old law making it a felony offense to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants has the entire political and media class eagerly defend him against prosecution. Those who enabled him -- in both parties -- block investigations into what was done. Ruth Marcus and Cass Sunstein and friends offer one excuse after the next to justify this immunity. But the powerless and defenseless -- though definitively courageous -- public servant who blew the whistle on this lawbreaking is harassed, investigated, and pursued by the DOJ's Criminal Division to the point of bankruptcy and depression, while the lawbreakers and their enablers stand by mute and satisfied.The justice system in the United States is in shambles.. We have the highest number of persons incarcerated per capita in the entire world. The virtually trivial is punished with the utmost severity, and the destruction of the rule of law at the highest levels is ignored... but not only ignored, insisted upon that it be ignored as some sort of virtue. The vast expanses of white collar crime goes unpunished.. while a kid busted with a bag of pot goes to jail, tainting his record for life.
It's really not a joke at all, and it's not a secret. The core fundamentals of our Republic have been shattered, and we dutifully ignore it. Ignored, except to the very few who are horrified by the prospect of a lawless government.
I suspect, however.. that only the Bush administration qualifies for this exception. I expect a very detailed examination of every Obama policy in the future. That's fine, and as it should be.. but it seems that everyone wants to just wash away the stain of Bush with zero accountability for anything.
Give Greenwald's post a read. It's outrageous and an indictment of America for abandoning American principles of justice. In the world of the Loon Brigade, America is being destroyed by the homos.. and not by violations of the rule of law by our very own government.
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Who gets thrown in jail for just smoking pot? I'm a little incredulous that that happens with any sort of regularity.
I just googled pot and texas to see exactly how my home state does it, and came across this;
http://austinist.com/2007/08/28/texas_relaxes_w.php
so ya.. it's getting a little better in Texas (officer "discretion"?), and I saw that some other state changed it to more like a traffic ticket, but probably not so much in other states.
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