Law & order; the basis of our ability to live together.
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”If the President Does It, That Means It’s Not Illegal” - Nixon
“What we have, in the last eight years, is not merely a case of individual and isolated law breaking. It's a declaration of war on the whole idea of a law itself, on the idea that our political leaders are constrained in any way by the limitations of the American people imposed through our Congress. The rule of law has essentially ceased to exist. And that I do think is quite new.” - GLENN GREENWALD
Bill Moyers should represent America’s common sense. The amicable, knowledgeable uncle that cuts trough non-sense to bring it down to verifiable facts and analyze them cold headed with the best of the nation at hearth.
This week’s program did just that, again, but the level of dismay with America’s political landscape seemed overwhelming. Words like, tragedy, were used as a matter of fact.
GLENN GREENWALD:
“We know that the president and his top aides have violated laws. The facts are indisputable that they've done so. And yet as a country, as a political class, we're deciding basically in unison that the president and our highest political officials are free to break the most serious laws that we have, that our citizens have enacted, with complete impunity, without consequences, without being held accountable under the law.”
“And when you juxtapose that with the fact that we are a country that has probably the most merciless criminal justice system on the planet when it comes to ordinary Americans. We imprison more of our population than any country in the world. We have less than five percent of the world's population. And yet 25 percent almost of prisoners worldwide are inside the United States.”
“What you have is a two-tiered system of justice where ordinary Americans are subjected to the most merciless criminal justice system in the world. They break the law. The full weight of the criminal justice system comes crashing down upon them. But our political class, the same elites who have imposed that incredibly harsh framework on ordinary Americans, have essentially exempted themselves and the leaders of that political class from the law.”
“They have license to break the law. That's what we're deciding now as we say George Bush and his top advisors shouldn't be investigated let alone prosecuted for the laws that we know that they've broken. And I can't think of anything more damaging to our country because the rule of law is the lynchpin of everything we have.”Law & order; the basis of our ability to live together.
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