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| Subject: Our entire system has become a form of cruel and unusual punishment Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:38 pm | |
| The term “cruel and unusual punishment” is usually applied to the death penalty and solitary confinement. Both are widely condemned by the left, as is incarceration for non-violent crimes. But the political left treats the sufferings of victims of crime as collateral damage, something that should have nothing whatsoever to do with justice. Likewise, the left turns a blind eye to those whom the government itself destroys.
The cavalier attitude towards victims of crimes is a quintessentially leftist position. It’s also partially the consequence of substituting the government as the aggrieved party in criminal cases, leaving the actual victim on the sidelines.
Unfortunately, this system makes it the government’s job to decide whether to prosecute a case. Often, the Department of Justice and attorneys-general across the country behave as though the law is irrelevant when deciding whether to pursue a case – to the point of being opaque, quixotic, and under the worst but common circumstance, political.
Honest people must admit there was sufficient evidence to bring to a grand jury to examine election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. But the Department of Justice, through AG Barr, protested that there was insufficient evidence to move forward. “Just stop talking about niggling details,” was their attitude! They seemed upset by the calls to investigate and the signed affidavits of election misconduct because the most important goal has been to stop Trump from exercising political power ever again.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/our_entire_system_has_become_a_form_of_cruel_and_unusual_punishment.html
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