by achrilock
law
Let me break it down for you, make it real simple. America itself is one giant prison, and the key to the lock is that bubble of ‘civility,’ of ‘civil society’ that Biden talks about, that the oligarchs and their politician pets, from the president down to the university administrator, use to dignify what is, at its core, an extremely exploitative and violent system. That’s what holds it together for them, and what allows them to commit so many crimes for which there are no enforceable laws.
And it is the same system, here or in Gaza, using the same command and control nodes and intelligence networks and financing and propaganda. Even now, the same mechanisms of the state, corporate and federal, that were used under Trump to attempt to crush the 2020 BLM and antifascist protests are being used to analyze, categorize, and disrupt opposition to the state and what the state chooses to do with your tax money. Right now, they’re taking names, infiltrating, mapping.
So there aren’t really political or legal solutions to this problem because both parties serve the same masters, and the system itself is a victim of its design. It will always be what it is, a machine that uses violence and intimidation to turn suffering into capital, here or abroad. What is needed is not to hide in bubbles of your own, but to expand. General strikes, non-payment strikes, everyone in the streets, every day, until their bubbles collapse to the size of a green zone in every city.
You, not genocidal old rich people, say what goes. If one climbs up onto a pedestal and starts threatening you or telling you what’s what, and you don’t like it, pull that person off the pedestal, and do it to the next one, and the next, and the next, and to any underlings they would send against you. When nobody’s brave enough to climb up there, destroy the pedestal. That’s what victory looks like. That’s what freedom looks like. Only then can you even start to imagine justice.
So, let me make sure I understand this correctly. The people doing the ethnic cleansing get more weapons to do it. The people providing the weapons get more money. The politicians backing it get political favors. The people protesting it get beaten down by police or ruined, and the court whose job it is to prosecute it faces retaliation if it does so? That sounds like a criminal conspiracy to me, like organized crime. Sounds like an entire political class that likes being above their own laws.
Come to think of it, it sounds a great deal like fascism, actually.
It would seem, however, that the Pussy Cum-a-lot-us Act is, for the time being, safe and sound 😅
And as to the question of “presidential immunity”? Let’s not pretend that this is some complex constitutional legal theory being debated. There are people who want an electoral dictatorship, which, historically, is the final step prior to a totalitarian dictatorship. If you do it, you aren’t doing future executives any favors. If the law is not universal then there is no law, only violence, and no practical recourse left to the people but violence. It’s a red line. Don’t cross it.