by achrilock
united states
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.
Every administration is the same, though. Like a boy on his first night at a brothel. Can’t decide where to stick it, or if the order of the day is poon, ass, or mouth, and no accounting for the messes that get made. Trading favors and ladder climbing for that big payout or idyllic, protected existence afterward. Fuckin’ Walmart doesn’t have this much incompetent turnover, and runs better for it. What a great idea. Let’s concentrate nearly all power with a bunch of unaccountable political hacks.
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.