Posted on 05/10/2020 1:56:20 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Amid the great political divide that seems to have gotten drawn during the coronavirus pandemic and the response to it, there’s an awakening of sorts. In some cases, it separates right from left. But sometimes, it’s where left meets right. It has to do with liberty and double standards.
Not since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has our society been so severely tested in terms of how far we believe our government must go, can go, should go, or dares to go when it comes to controlling us for “our own good.”
A persistent problem is the public’s recognition that, as the government takes action, it is neither omniscient nor always benevolent. It doesn’t always know what’s best. Yet, it seizes the authority to command us, to act upon its beliefs and misconceptions alike, and to impose solutions and controls, whether right or wrong.
All of this is neatly encapsulated in the outrageous case of the Texas hair salon owner
And our court system, which surely was once envisioned as the great equalizer in America between the powerful and the powerless, is too often what the Texas salon owner discovered: a place where common sense and proportionality are tossed aside. Where the law is used in a power play to slap down those gone awry of the influential. Some courts, it seems, serve to punish us and bleed us dry of our resources for having dared to challenge the status quo or authority.
To many Americans, some of the government responses to coronavirus are proving their worst fears about what our society and republic have become: a place where there are two systems of justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
A good READ
At least in Cuba you have one dictator...here we have fifty...
2banana’s Law:
Conservatives are more than happy to live under the same laws an taxes they want for everyone else.
Liberals/Progressives expect to be exempted from the same laws and taxes they want for everyone else.
In most, if not all, of her examples, the parties whose crimes were ignored were DemocRats.
Common law has been dead for years.
The longer Trump keeps yakking, the longer the economic disaster. He should have shut down the daily circus a month ago.
SHARYL ATTKISSON has been a great roll with her opeds
To many Americans, some of the government responses to coronavirus are proving their worst fears about what our society and republic have become: a place where there are two systems of justice.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Must read this.
That judge needs to spend the rest of his life in jail. 18 USC 242.
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