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The Politicization of Prosecutions
The latest kerfuffle over the sentence that Roger Stone should receive is a symptom of a much larger problem: the subjective standards of punishment and indictments. The issue speaks to a much larger problem in the entire justice system. For some time now, we have been at the mercy of subjective law enforcement.
As a police officer, I never asked anyone I arrested who they voted for, or the political party they had selected on their voter registration card. Their motivation was not my main concern for a crime that was committed. My only concern was this: did the elements of the law that met the definition of a specific crime had been committed?
Roger Stone is not a rapist or a murderer. The actress Lori Laughlin of the USC scandal is not a danger to society.
While I worked as a police officer there were times that someone offered a rationalization for some action they took that lead to their arrest. Hate crimes fall into this category for me. No matter what the motive for an assault, the injury inflicted carries just as much pain for the victim whether or not it concerns religion, race, or creed.
The politicization of law enforcement allows for a subjective standard that means it’s not the action that matters. What matters is who the perpetrator is, and who the victim is. Other than cheating in the election process, I cannot think of a faster way to tear a nation apart.
As a former police officer, my advice to my fellow citizens would be we need to get off this road now.
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The DOJ already is political. It’s now ideological, and the ideology is inimical to the Republic.
That’s a distinction I’m going to remember. Thanks.
In general politics creeps into any group endeavor, whether it’s a church, or the Elks Club as examples.
But with simple politics, there can be some humility in dealing with someone you disagree with, in that you might be wrong.
We still don’t know whether the prosecutors formerly involved in the Roger Stone case were ideological or not. I’m less inclined to give federal prosecutors the benefit of the doubt.