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the rule of money rules the rule of law

3/30/2019

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"​Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,
 and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
To turn aside the needy from judgment,
    and to take away the right from the poor of my people…" (Isaiah 10.1-2)
Give Caligula the kind of defense attorney, the kind of jury, and the kind of “rule of law” that two African American men charged with murder had, and we will convict him of Russian Collusion, obstruction of justice, and dozens of unethical and illegal business crimes in about 15 minutes.
 
But, no, as we have complained before, evidentiary rules for white collar crime of any sort, written principle by WASPs, are so impossibly high that white collar crime conviction is nearly impossible. But not so for non-white collar crimes.
 
Case in point.*
 
Two women are shot while in bed. One dies, the other lives to testify. The survivor testifies that these two black men stood at the foot of her bed and repeatedly shot their guns into the women’s prone bodies.
 
The evidence at the time shows that there was only one weapon used in the shooting and that the shots came from outside the house. No witnesses other than the survivor are called for the prosecution. “Circumstantial” evidence suggests the women’s testimony is suspect. The “defense” attorney is inept, calls no witnesses, offers no defense, and does not present the evidence that would call survivor’s testimony into question. The prosecution offers no testimony but that of the survivor, and minimizes the weakness of the circumstantial evidence. The jury convicts after less than 8 hours of trial and half an hour of jury deliberations.
 
After 40 years in prison, the two men are finally released from jail for false conviction.
 
This is the American judicial system in a nutshell. Two different systems: one for criminals like Trump, another for innocent poor people. The latter we reward by sending them to “The Big House” for 40 years. The former, the American Electorate—represented principally by “Christians” who are to obey, not the rule of men, but the rule of God—sends to pollute and blacken the White House.
 
As I have said so many times, how in the world is it that America’s poor are not in a constant state of rioting in the unjust streets of America?
 
*Keith Allen and Jay Croft, “Florida clears two men after 42 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit,” cnn.com
"​Do not act with inequity in any legal procedure. You are not to give advantage to the vulnerable, or show favoritism toward the influential. You are to adjudicate each citizen’s case with justice” (Leviticus 19.15 author’s translation).
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