Dear Friends,
It seems to me, when government refuses to prosecute it’s own, but is zealous about prosecuting anything they can dredge up from an outsider’s past, law has become a tool of oppression. When some are not subject to the law, especially laws they enforce on the rest of us, they have become a political over class. Like the Pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm. They are more equal than the rest of us. Which is to say… we are less equal than them. There is a term for people who are less equal… slaves. Some would take umbrage at the term but I would point out that there are degrees of slavery. Nietzsche recognized the slave mindset of Europeans, and we see that mindset operating in the jailing of the outsider Tommy Robinson, in a super max prison, for reporting politically inconvenient truths.
Arbitrary rule is the crime under which one was Ostracized in Ancient Athens. When Athens faced an existential crisis, Solon was elected to solve it… and make sure it never happened again. He did, with both wisdom and fairness. After solving the pressing exigency, Solon set himself to solving the greater issue… that of keeping the problem from happening again. So he created the Ostracism. If anyone became too powerful, or they favored “Arbitrary rule,” the people would vote on Ostracii, pieces of broken pottery, either to ostracize or not. The person ostracized would be banished for ten years, their property, wives, etc… kept safely for their return. Solon immediately called for himself to be ostracized. He had become a threat to polity and Solon would not enforce a law on others he was not bound by.
The rule of law requires all be treated equally… else it is not law but a means to oppress. That is a self evident fact. If those who apply law, do so with an eye to something other than justice, law does not serve justice, but whatever is in the eye of those who wield it. Those who apply law are universally in government, thus they exist within the political realm… and so politics is usually the apple of their eye. That is why the Special Prosecutor law was enacted. So an Executive could not control an investigation into his own wrongdoing. Clearly, that would be a conflict of interest, and if he found himself innocent, there would always be doubts. If on the other hand, a prosecutor controlled by the opposition faction finds him guilty, there will always be questions if the whole thing was political.
The reason the US founding Fathers didn’t want government fishing for crimes, rather than responding to them, is that people without political favor will become a favorite fishing hole, while those with political favor will be posted. The inevitable result of allowing angling for politically motivated prosecution is tyranny. Moreover, exploiting one’s authority over the law as a means for political advancement, is open oppression. Since the US Founders were leery of all forms of tyranny, they made it clear in our Constitution that the Law is a means for Justice… nothing else. That it has become something else, is clear evidence we have ceased being a Constitutional Republic, and have entered a post Constitutional Phase… As Rome did when Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
Recent history shows that the US government engages in fishing expeditions against outsiders, holds insiders to no standard whatsoever, and exploits law as a tool of oppression. If you or I destroyed subpoenaed evidence, we would, by default, be prosecuted for destroying evidence. Hillary Clinton was not… regardless of any other crimes she is clearly implicated in. James Comey has prosecuted people for mishandling classified information, yet he knowingly leaked classified information, to start a hoax investigation, bottom trawling for anything to destroy an outsider. Yet, prosecuting that hypocrite would be “vindictive,” according to the Attorney General’s Office. Proving the US has a political over class, who are above the law, and wield law as a political weapon… How progressive.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
