How do you enforce the rule of law in an era where any move you make can be so easily distorted???
Firstly, you need good people. But there will always be some rotten apples in the mix…
But surely, when you go into battle and those you are up against are using human shields (i.e. hiding behind a crowd) you have to adopt a very different strategy right? I am not going to stand in judgement of Donald Trump; the guy is over 70 years old and has never been incarcerated for any crime. He has been twice impeached as president, been investigated so many times but never locked up. So, what really is the point in both sides (Trump and his supporters and the folk on the other side pursuing him) carrying on, when others are the ones paying the price? The people who lost their lives during the Jan 6 storming of the US Capitol, the guy shot dead last week as he tried to storm an FBI office etc. Trump apparently said: “people are angry, temperatures are rising, how can I help turn the heat down?”. Well, how indeed? When a sitting president of the United State holds campaign style rallies while in office (those should be banned by the way) and incessantly tweets (all presidential comms while in office should be via a professional press office, vetted properly before release, as the impact is so significant), the result is simple: you get a cult following that becomes a very convenient human shield. Now, it doesn’t matter whether this was by design or just an unfortunate coincidence, but the minute people are prepared to take up arms on your behalf and are prepared to die for you and what you say, for the love of god! you must moderate what you say!!!
As for those in pursuit of Trump, be it the Attorney General or anyone else: FBI, Special Counsels (Mueller previously) etc. I believe these are all decent, honest people trying to do a decent job. They are not on a witch-hunt, BUT, when you gauge public opinion and rightly or wrongly, so many Americans are being told and believe Trump is being unjustly persecuted, to avoid a situation where Americans become a human shield and begin dying as they get caught in the middle, the strategy CANNOT possibly be to keep on with a standard modus operandi such as raiding Mar-a-lago regardless of the efficacy of such move! If they are worried Trump is about to hand Nuclear data to the someone or that some enemies could access the data he has there, then setup a sting and use that to demonstrate how unsafe it is, for him to have those documents. Don’t go charging into his home to retrieve documents he has held for months and then say you can’t provide detailed explanation right now, as it may prejudice your ongoing investigation! Seriously? Have some duty of care to your country men & women whom you know will be prepared to pick up their guns when he puts out his next statement that he is being persecuted – rightly or wrongly, we know that is what he will do. So, for goodness sake! why endanger lives? Trump supporters may be as rigid as people say they are, and won’t listen to reason, but they are still American taxpayers!
It is foolhardy to continue as it is! Either be ready with real data and proof etc., or stop this madness! The timeliness is crucial or more American lives will be wasted
Gone are the days when just doing what we think is right is enough. Look at the matter of asylum seekers and illegal refugees crossing the English Channel in droves – you can’t have countries with no borders (it is where human being should aim but at present, it is not advisable) because of compatibility of religion, way of life, need for integration, application of laws etc; you simply cannot have thousands of people walking in without due process. Unfortunately, the people who should look for sensible, humane and lasting solutions are busy flogging populist idiocy like sending people to Rwanda, which clearly isn’t really going to work. We need a global response: an end to silly wars that displace so many people, global biometric systems that are mandatory for everyone (so that nobody can turn up anywhere without identification) – the money being wasted on Rwanda can be spent on getting biometric recognition set up in all countries where majority of the refugees tend to come from etc. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but surely, we can do better…, also Look at the matter of increasingly uncontrollable knife crimes in the UK or school shootings in America. These are all matters requiring guile. If 70% of knife crimes are committed by a specific demographic, you don’t just jump in there and start strip-searching just those folk on the street! Populism, public opinion and twitter will turn it all ugly, no matter how needful or urgent the actions are. Throw in the mix, the truthful concern that some rotten apples in the mix, could also exploit the situation to wrongly profile and target some folk. You have to make a clear case before taking any steps, because the wrongful manhandling of even just one individual is not good and cannot be written off as collateral damage; lives are impacted significantly by such traumatic experiences. Just put yourself in the shoes of a 5 year old seeing his parent slammed against a car and searched needlessly..
We have to rethink this..
Presently, we continue to repeatedly get this wrong.
The human shield pay the price
Fingers crossed that America don’t get dragged down a disastrous path. This is 2022 and some mention of civil war has been made. Seriously?!!!
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