As old as judges themselves, today’s topic will be the slippery slope of ‘pardons’…which may or may not be made public…at the discretion of the, er, ‘co-conspirators’.
Which is to wonder aloud, how much would you be willing to bet W. hasn’t been prosecuted for ‘war crimes’ BECAUSE he already has a ‘pardon’ in his pocket, issued by the sitting ‘jellyfish-in-chief’?
I mean his Dad (H.W.) ‘pardoned’ Reagan for his crimes against the state, so pardoning your predecessor is probably something that comes with the turf…done ’automatically’ on an ‘as needed’ basis.
But it begs the question, what does this say about our justice system?
One beneficiary, Burton Waldon, killed an 8-month-old boy in an alcohol-induced crash in 2001. Mr. Waldon, a high school senior at the time, pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence. He is a member of the prominent Hill Brothers Construction Company family, big-money political donors who give mostly to Republicans, including Mr. Barbour. An uncle of Mr. Waldon, Kenneth W. Hill Sr., sought and received a pardon from President George W. Bush in 2006, erasing a federal income tax conviction.
It is in this paragraph that we see the, er, ‘rationale’ behind the very existence of the, er, ‘executive pardon’…bad things sometimes happen to RICH/well-connected people.
(The understanding is seldom do you find a rich individual who IS NOT also ‘well-connected’…although the ‘soon to be bankrupt’ lottery winner is the only possible exception that comes to mind.)
Thus is it well-known THROUGHOUT HISTORY, that a ‘rich man’ will never see the inside of a jail cell…and, thanks to the rich man’s ‘connections’, he can also have the public record of his, er, ‘misfortune’ sponged clean…
To which I ask, Is THIS ‘Justice’?
You KNOW it’s not…but you can’t argue with (worthless) money, can you?
(This is one of the principal reasons why there will be no way to transfer funds between individuals under A Simple Plan.)
Equally as disturbing to some of you is that you will be judged ‘on your record’ your whole life through. If you’re a ‘miserable bastard’, difficult to get along with and do the absolute minimum required of you, don’t be surprised if you ‘reap what you sow’ come promotion time.
But I digress, we were discussing our badly broken justice system (and I get sidetracked when the opportunity to point out changes presents itself!)
I treat this subject delicately because people have an unfortunate tendency to ‘transfer’, they put themselves in the position of, er, ‘being able’ to buy justice…and it makes them more tolerant of the practice!
A pardon doesn’t make you a ‘better person’ it merely enables you to ‘pass yourself off’ as one.
How ironic is it that people (often the only ones) who venture into the public spotlight (not as ‘pop stars’ but as politicians) have the, er, ‘connections’ to, er, ‘sugar-coat’ their public images.
As we have witnessed, often these people’s private lives are, er, ‘exposed’ by those privy to the existence of such skeletons.
What we don’t know is how susceptible to ‘blackmail’ these people are. Who or what would they betray to keep their secrets, secret?
Because that’s where this sort of bullshit leads to.
It is also not the kind of thing you want ‘hidden’ in a decision maker’s closet.
(This is why this power will no longer rest with ‘select individuals’. Those who must live under the law will vote directly on the law!)
Legislators are TOTALLY UNNECESSARY! (In fact they are an impediment to Liberty!)
YOU cannot be ‘free’ if you are denied your ability to choose!
But again I digress! (Sort of a ‘hobby’ [although others may consider it a ‘fault’] of mine it seems.)
The very first ‘pillar of civilization’ is ‘equality’, the second pillar is Justice…to the point that we expect NOTHING LESS than ‘EQUAL JUSTICE under the law…and this ‘pardon bullshit’ makes a mockery of that!
I admit, it’s ‘nice’ to think that were we prosperous enough, we’d have the ability to ‘sanitize’ our pasts but I’d rather know about somebody’s skeletons than find out about them ‘after the fact’…(usually AFTER you’ve been sold down the river!)
Yet another ‘grievous flaw’ of our current political system.
But let’s back up a step or two and return to the ‘did he or didn’t he’ question of if Mr. Obama pardoned Mr. Bush?
Does the idea itself piss you off?
It should.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Oh, and if you want to alter the course of the current clusterfuck then your ongoing support for ASP would be appreciated.
Step one is to ‘spread the word!’
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