The following is a reposting here of one of the Web’s classics, an anonymously produced article which had been at the washingtonsblog site, which site was closed down in October 2019. Some of this article’s links no longer function; so, I have updated those in order that all of its links are current as-of 24 […]
For those still deluded enough to believe they’re living the American dream—where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are keepers of the peace, and where the law is applied equally as a means of protecting the rights of the people—it’s time to wake up.
We no longer have a representative government, a rule of law, or justice.
Liberty has fallen to legalism.
Freedom has fallen to fascism.
Justice has become jaded, jaundiced and just plain unjust.
There aren't many times when a real-life legal case unfolds like a TV courtroom drama. However, one case involving the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission and a local liquor retailer ended almost as well as an episode of Perry Mason.
Charlie Gard is less than a year old and he is terminally ill. British doctors say that there's no medical recourse but Charlie's parents want to take him to America for an experimental treatment. After a public and emotional battle in court, Charlie's parents will not be permitted to try to save their son's life.
A banner sits around the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, May 13, 2017. (AP/LM Otero)
There’s one new law on the books intended to help police in Texas that has gotten less attention than several others in a year when lawmakers touted their “back the blue” bills. It’s a measure that will allow counties to create pretrial diversion programs for first responders who commit crimes because of job-related mental health issues.
Joe Biden's niece Caroline Biden just avoided jail for a $100k credit card fraud. When I first read this, I was outraged. She should go to jail like everyone else! But then I thought about it and realized, Isn't this better for her and us?
There is life and then there is government. The whole thing seems decades out of date. Literally, 30 years. It is almost untouched by the digital revolution and completely unchanged by the new service ethic that is sweeping the world. I don’t believe this can continue. Government has become the great anomaly. It’s outrageously conspicuous. The pressure to change will not go away. The change will surely come in time.
The Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against portions of President Trump’s Executive Order that bans entry of individuals from six African and Middle Eastern countries. Luckily, the court's opinion have been citing Cato's sound reasoning about the legal and constitutional problems with the order.
Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination — employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service — are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.
– Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
There is a crisis of access to justice in Canada. It is a crisis of systemic judicial partiality against ordinary citizens who cannot afford brand-name “justice”.1
