The American justice system has devolved into two tiers over the years. It has always persecuted the poor and ignorant. That’s a simple statement of fact (I know, shocking coming from a conservative former cop, eh?) The past few years, however, have driven down the road of political prosecutions on a massive scale.
If you’re a white cop who screws up, you’re going to prison. If you’re a white pedophile with a big bag of money and fame, you’re getting a sealed document in court and a pass on human trafficking. If you’re a black kid who makes an honest mistake of some sort, you’re getting a criminal record to be sure. If you grope a bartender at a resort and force yourself on him as a wealthy black television personality, it’s all just fun and games.
The system is not rigged against black people except that most do not have great wealth and power. It is not rigged in favor of white people except when they have wealth and power.
The sealing of documents in the Maxwell trial is an abomination. The press releases tidbits in a slow drip, making sure that all ends of the political spectrum are indicted by smear. This way they can always say they were balanced, and refuse to actually investigate the story.
What do I want? I want that damned book published. I want prosecutors to send the people who raped kids, forced teens into sexual slavery, and subverted justice to go to prison for decades. Many decades. Let the cards fall where they may, if you were involved in this pedophiliac orgy of human misery, you go to prison and never again see the light of day. All your money is good for at that point is getting better commissary in the prison where you are serving time.
Being rich and powerful does not make you less guilty. In fact, it should probably make you more guilty since you had the ability to know what you were doing in a way that a stupid kid doesn’t understand at age 18 when she has sex with her 16 year old boyfriend. Both are rape in the eyes of the law, but circumstances…
Time for us to blow the lid off the justice system. Time for people who commit these types of crimes to do time. Time for a revision of our trial system to allow overturning clearly unfair/political verdicts without having to prove things in the very narrow window now allowed for such action.
Everyone is equal before the law in theory. Time to make it so in practice.
Exactly!