This whole Federal prosecutor scandal should highlight a much larger scandal: the “justice” system is political and the whole blind justice concept is nothing more than a sad myth. It is hilarious that Congress is absolutely up in arms that there may have been a political motive behind firing a whole slew of politically appointed […]
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This whole Federal prosecutor scandal should highlight a much larger scandal: the “justice” system is political and the whole blind justice concept is nothing more than a sad myth. It is hilarious that Congress is absolutely up in arms that there may have been a political motive behind firing a whole slew of politically appointed prosecutors. OF COURSE THERE WAS A POLITICAL MOTIVE…the whole system is political. Prosecutors are among the most powerful political animals in existence. By definition, they are all lawyers and they are in jobs that don’t pay a whole lot relative to other jobs in their profession but they have the same DNA so instead of money they seek power, influence and fame. They use their offices to prosecute people who are unfortunate enough to become famous and who might make good “perp walk” candidates. There are too many laws that are too confusing to figure out and the government never actually thinks about what is involved with actually enforcing all these laws. So, prosecutors have their pick. There is no way for them to enforce all the laws so they pick and choose based on what will move their careers forward. Elliot Spitzer (a former state AG in New York) used his office to get himself elected as Governor of that state. Rudy Guliani is another former prosecutor who used his office to bully himself to national celebrity.
Democrats are just doing what the Republicans would have done had the situation been reversed. They are siezing on something that is perfectly legitimate but smells funny in order to hammer the administration and, quite frankly, the administration has not done themselves any favors (did they think nobody would ask any questions!?!?!). This issue is purely a political power play over some fake notion of justice that is, in fact, no less political than the whole stupid scandal and developing Constitutional crisis.
The real issue is that we should eliminate most of the unnecessary intrusion of the Federal government into our lives and focus on core laws and regulations that make sense and that we can actually enforce with reasonable resources. I wish that we would fire more prosecutors and deal with the real issues rather than have our political process hijacked by ridiculous political scandals.
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