Well, he owns the US AG, anyway:Think about the fact that the president of the United States doesn’t know where the Battle of Concord was fought, had to have aides explain to him what Pearl Harbor is, and didn’t know that there’s a Kansas City in Missouri.— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 11, 2020
“[P]eople cannot enjoy freedom and achieve prosperity without the rule of law to protect them,” Barr told the America Winter Conference. “And there can be no rule of law without brave deputies and police officers on the front lines upholding it.”Ya mean, like this?
“But some state and local politicians have taken the precise opposite approach,” the Attorney General complained. “Rather than work together with the federal government to discharge our shared duty, they do everything they can to impede federal law enforcement.”
This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice! https://t.co/rHPfYX6Vbv— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2020
Or this?
DOJ makes representations to a court, Trump tweets, and then DOJ changes course.— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) February 11, 2020
I bet you think I'm talking about Roger Stone's sentencing? I'm not.
Remember this from last summer? https://t.co/YmMuPKxzCR
That case your DOJ not only lost, but got reprimanded for. Seems judges don't like misrepresentations of facts and law, as it tends to impede justice. Right? Like this, for example:
“The very purpose of these policies is to release criminals onto the streets,” he said.Yeah, except it's not that simple:
Physical presence in the United States without proper authorization is a civil violation, rather than a criminal offense. This means that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can place a person in removal (deportation) proceedings and can require payment of a fine, but the federal government cannot charge the person with a criminal offense. Likewise, a person who enters the United States on a valid visa but who stays longer than permitted may be put in removal proceedings, but cannot face federal criminal charges based solely on this civil infraction. Those who enter or reenter the United States without permission, however, can face criminal charges.
And you are saying: "Yeah, but 'illegal immigrants' entered the country illegally!" Yes, but then you have to prove it. If you catch them at the border, you can make the case. If you don't, it's an administrative proceeding because you can't make them testify against themselves as to how they got there (pesky Constitution!). So the U.S. Attorney General is making the same racist assertion as Donald Trump did in Trump Tower so many years ago (really, it hasn't been that long!): that people here without permission are criminals because they are brown. Europeans who overstay visas are fine; Muslims and Mexicans, however, should be kept out (and no, it's not all Mexicans; I went for the cheap alliteration).
And frankly, deportation makes more sense. "In fact, prosecutions for entry-related offenses reached an all-time high of 106,312 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019." That's a whole lotta people to have to find prison space for. Deportation makes more sense, if you absolutely positively can't stand to have them here.
Barr should be enough to entirely expose the fact that has been apparent all along, the theories that he and the Federalist Society and many law professors at too many of the elite universities are actually, really and not metaphorically, one-man-state, though more one party, fascists. And that is the ideology that has control of the Supreme Court when it's a Republican-fascist president they are aiding to rule as a despot.
ReplyDeleteThe Democratic Party has an enormous problem of the lunatics of the atheist-left who will never give up the delusion that they're going to put some species of Marxist, overt or covert, into the White House where they will rule. I'm convinced that is behind a lot of the worst of the "civil liberties" stuff that has been used by the fascists once they were handed those rulings.
The Republicans have their fascist majority, it would seem and it is the non-fascist right that has been as damaged by the era of uninhibited liberty to lie as the non-lunatic left is kept from power by the atheist-let.
I don't think I really understood how bad it is till this past week. The Senate rejecting acting as an impediment on Trump and Barr proving there is no depth to which he will not go in service of fascism and that the form of government of the United States that might have kept us from the worst of the peril we face now has failed completely to keep us from them continuing on.
We are cooked. That's my conclusion. Barring some miracle involving the removal of the play-lefties daddy obsession I don't see much hope of avoiding far worse.