The great “gift“ Trump’s given to the GOP and conservative movement is the willingness and comfortability with playing the victim. It’s unreal. Not one word from the right about the woman coming out from a traumatizing medical procedure ( whether you approve of it or not it’s undeniable it is a traumatic medical procedure) who’s being harassed. No no that’s their rights to be there acting like a*******. But this guy breaking the law, he‘s the “real victim“.
Playing Victim = Expecting to be treated equally under the law.
I find this constant ridiculing of "playing the victim" when people insist the laws be applied equally to be a disgusting tactic. As a lawyer, I would expect you to respect the concept of a blind system of justice. But that is no longer an ideal that is important. Instead we are to worship at the alter of wokeness and screw equal protection.
1st- He was treated equally. He was arrested for breaking the law. Just like thousands of others on that day, many with multiple armed officers for relatively minor offenses.
B - My mother will be so proud to hear I’m finally a lawyer like she always hoped I’d become.
And 3rd- I don’t worship at any alter and certainly not the woke one (whatever that is). I’ve made my position on wokeness very clear around here over the years.
1st and foremost, he is not being treated equally. I posted an article on the previous page. There have been 58 attacks at anti-abortion clinics, 18 of which a left-wing group called Janes Revenge took credit for including a fire-bomb attack in Buffalo back in June. None of which are being prosecuted. But instead this Justice Department is resurrecting old instances at abortion clinics and only prosecuting and investigating those. The lawyers are known left-wing activists who are cherry-picking minor cases against conservatives and ignoring much more violent attacks from left-wing groups. Sorry, but that is not equal justice under the law. That is politicizing the office and abusing power. This is not a strong case and the Justice Department will likely lose, but not before using their Gestapo tactics to intimidate their political opponents.
Jon, I know you’ve got some very biased dug in viewpoints on this “weaponization” against conservatives, some of which is understandable based on previous transgressions. I won’t try to change that opinion, even if I disagree, as I know I won’t make a dent. But you also well know when looking at any one case it’s extremely easy to counterpoint how there are examples of the “other side” not being brought to justice and the system is unfair, regardless of one’s position.
While you’ve jumped to your conclusions on this situation many of us have not. Is that based on the fact I have more faith in the institution then you do? Almost certainly. But whether you end up being 100% correct here or not it doesn’t show an inherent or systemic weaponization against conservatives imo. It will just be another bad decision made within the overall system. A bad decision like others that have happened to non conservatives.
And on that front, what I find fascinating about your position is you are one of the stanches deniers of systematic racism or oppression within our current justice system toward minorities (something that’s undeniably been happening for hundreds of years).
Yet here you are now also claiming there is a systematic oppression happening with the system toward conservatives. That’s a ironic position imo. The system is either capable of systemic abuse or it’s not. It can’t be both.