Fairness for the Netanayahus

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[Yomin Postelnik]

One of George H. W. Bush’s last speeches as president, derided the use of indictments to remove people from power and its use as a near assassin’s instrument of political change. “The proper venue” for same, “is the voting booth,” said the outgoing president, “not the courtroom.”

President Trump, who has so far, thanks to the One Above, escaped the hands of those who commit bureaucratic tyranny (and by definition, bureaucratic terrorism), has championed the recent overhaul of the US criminal justice system, because he recognized that the prison system was ensnaring innocents, was being overused in a way that threatened the good and had become recruitment central for terrorists seeking to gain the allegiance of young men who had had their lives shattered. The only thing it became good for was the making of career criminals out of first-time, young, non-violent offenders. Something had to change.

[Yomin Postelnik]

The same ones who've gone after Trump have done the same thing. It's dangerous for society, to state the obvious.