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Screaming for Vengeance Against Soros Stooges
In an earlier Ricochet post, “The Waukesha Murderer Is a Product of the Left’s Grievance Industry,” two members commented:
He is a monster, but much worse than him are the prosecutors and judges who are allegedly rational, but fail to keep monsters off of the streets because they think that these monsters are victims rather than victimizers.
We must insist that those people are also monsters. And yes, worse monsters.
Yes. AND. These prosecutors must be subjected to equal or more severe sanction, punishment. Or we, “conservatives,” are just posturing. There are a great many local, state, and federal officials who must be at least civilly tried and stripped of all assets, down to single-wide trailer and $2,000 vehicle level with no savings and all assets hidden in family/friendly shelters clawed back. If this takes a constitutional amendment to overcome the nine self-serving, black-robed masters, so be it. Generate the same level of lawfare, the same pushing of every vaguely colorable legal theory, to harry, to bankrupt, to punish by process and possibly by result. Do it all and always in the name of the children, the children murdered by Soros’ soldiers, the street thugs that are used to keep poor communities down, to keep them from getting ideas about personal, economic, and political independence, agency.
Oh, and George Soros must either be stripped of all assets, including those concealed in various “non-profit” fronts, or deported to a central European country that wants to try him for seeking to drag them back into socialist serfdom. It was one of Soros’ paid-for prosecutors who arranged the $1,000 bail two days before his latest violent crime.
Milwaukee’s District Attorney John Chisholm, one of a number of DAs around the country whose campaigns Mr. Soros has helped bankroll, has worked for the last 15 years to change the city’s approach to incarceration. In 2018, he tweeted how Milwaukee was making a commitment not to keep individuals held on cash bail in jail. When the pandemic hit, Milwaukee’s “woke” Community Justice Council recommended criminals needed to be let out of jail immediately. The city obliged, reducing its jail population by about 40%.
And what kind of predators do Soros stooges set loose on us, especially on the most vulnerable communities of black- and brown-skinned Americans? Here is a summary of Darrell Brooks, Jr. from Heavy, not a right-wing source:
In court during Brooks’ first appearance on November 23, 2021, the district attorney of Waukesha County, Sue Opper, revealed that Brooks also had a family violence arrest in Georgia while he was out on $500 bail in the first Milwaukee County case, which accused him of shooting toward a family member’s car after an argument. In addition, he had an active warrant from Nevada for non-compliance as a registered sex offender for the past five years. Despite those things, when he was accused of trying to run a woman over at a gas station a few days before the parade tragedy, he was released on $1,000 bail.
But, hey, you have to break a few eggs to scrabble up a socialist omelet. Just ask Soros stooge John Chisholm:
“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody?” Chisholm said in a 2007 interview with the Journal Sentinel. “You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”
Do not accept, do not fall for, the butt-covering paper the Soros’ stooge John Chisholm hung out after he and his paymaster were exposed to Americans’ outrage. Claims that mistakes were made in the bail recommendation and pretending that this was actually inconsistent with Soros stooges’ real policy must be tested against Soros stooges and their street soldiers real record.
Demand real justice. Demand vengeance from every Republican primary candidate. Refuse to support any RepubliCAN’T who trash talks vengeance and ducks hard promises upfront. Refuse to be fooled again, heads must roll even if it isn’t nice. Will we trample out the grapes of wrath into wine before they turn to bitter vinegar?
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Good question. It would not be pure rule of law, nor pure rule of men. I prefer the pure rule of law even to this hybrid.
Montgomery County Maryland was once the purview of former State Attorney General Doug Gansler when he was states attorney (DA). He upset the experienced staff by installing his less experienced mistress in a senior position and instituted what seemed like a quota system or scorecard approach for results that was awful.
Under his stint as states attorney for the county, I went to court to escort two of my then-teenage children who were called as witnesses in a case involving charges involving the sale and distribution of alcohol to minors at a party that they attended. (And yes, I was less than thrilled about that.) There was a huge delay because the lawyers were arguing what I thought must be some arcane point of law out of earshot of witnesses. Turns out that one of the charges was incredibly stupid.
There is a provision in Maryland law that establishes grounds for civil liability for selling alcohol to a kid or serving an obviously drunk person which results in a compensable injury. The statute expressly states that it does not establish criminal liability. You didn’t need to be Anton Scalia to grab that particularly clear meaning from the text. Nevertheless, the defendant was criminally charged under this non-criminal statute.
I spoke to the young prosecutor who explained that often the pleadings are centrally prepared in that office and then handed to the attorney handling the matter, sometimes at the last minute. And he has to argue whatever the boss assigned him to argue. Really professional operation, dude… And in this case, apparently, ceding a blindingly obvious point of law was a demerit or something equally bad. So we had to wait around because the States Attorney’s office insisted that a more senior lawyer be given a chance to come and argue the point. The judge said OK, waited 90 minutes then dismissed that charge, and thus my wasted morning soon became a wasted day.
Gratuitous hardball, especially for low-income defendants is bad.
The win-loss mentality often prevails. Judges can be equally defensive about bad verdicts. You look at some of the horrific instances in the Innocence Project (use of DNA and other methods to overturn wrong convictions) in which DAs go to the mat to defend really bad outcomes. I never had a criminal case but did get stuck with some pro bono matters for incarcerated clients whose cases I reviewed. An awful lot of underrepresented defendants (in jurisdictions without Soros-sponsored DAs) wind up with excessive sentences–there is much wrong with the plea bargaining justice market. Especially if a DA needs to rack up some tough-on-crime numbers for political reasons like our current VP once did.