One law for the rich, another one for everyone else?

Posted by Pointman on May 23, 2020 · 15 Comments 

The blogosphere, as I call it, is an incredibly rich headspace to explore. It goes from taking the perfect photograph at the perfect time in the day of an orchid at morn opening to yawn up at the rising sun, to raving far-left sites which’re so determinedly anti-fascist, the Nazis would be proud of them in terms of their Final Solution to dealing with those people they viscerally hate. I’ve nothing against the former, and have spent most of my life fighting against the extremist latter of whatever political stripe.

At end of day, I’m like one of those men operating alone outside the perimeter wire in the darkness with a big knife in my left hand and an old motorbike chain in my right one, prepared to do violent and terrible things through the night to protect the orchid growers from the crypto Nazis, but knows when I come back in out morning mist and sit down to eat the hearty, unhealty breakfast Cookie knows I love, the orchids will be looking daggers at me because I’ve got some blood splashes on me. I’ll shit, shower and shave later, but grubbing up comes first, so screw them and their sensibilities. At one time, you were destined to be an orchid grower yourself, but circumstances by necessity changed, as did you.

There’s a lot to be said for being a free ranging roaming spirit, which I am by natural inclination, but at some point, the practicalities assert themselves. You do realise you have to bend the knee a little, kiss the big king’s pinkie ring and conform, or at least pretend to do so. If you don’t, you’ll end up as that sorry old bastard who lives on the margins of the village, and that’s not a good result for a life well run.

You can’t pick and choose which orchid growers you’re going to protect. It has to be all or none. Even, decent, fair. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said words to the effect that the law is only there to protect the people from their own government, and when you think about it, it’s very true. In a perfect world, the law should operate in that even handed fashion, but over the last couple of decades, it’s become obvious that the law has become a two track process. There’s one law for us little people, and another law for the rich and powerful.

If you get pulled over for some traffic violation, you pay the damn fine. If you delete 33,000 incriminating emails like Hilary Clinton did, you get to walk away. If you get caught being economical with the truth on your tax return, you get a penalty fine whereas if you sell 20% of your country’s stockpile of Uranium to its mortal enemy Russia, you get to walk away with a multi-million contribution to what’s laughingly called your foundation, which is fancy code speak for your private tax-exempt piggy bank. Two weeks after her defeat at the hands of Trump, it closed its doors permanently, because the monetary fruits of corruption had been safely banked and in all likelihood that revenue stream had just dried up abruptly.

It made basic sense, because who’s going to keep sending graft money to someone who’s failed to become president?

If you mutter a vague threat online about some high ranking politician who’s really pissed you off, you’ll soon have the FBI knocking at your door, and that’s the same FBI led at it’s highest level by people who plotted a coup to oust a democratically elected president. In the good old days that would be called treason and after a short shrift trial, they’d be walking up the steps to the gallows, but the chances of them ever appearing in a court of law, never mind jerking spasmodically at the end of a necktie party range from remote to slim. They’re all lawyered up and will get a walk.

There’s a matter of personal experience there. When you find out someone has been abusing their power, it’s always disturbing, but what you’ll always find is that the abuse has been more extensive than you originally thought. The unfolding lesson of the last few decades is that the rule of law has been anally raped wholesale, and they all got away with it.

Unless people start appearing in criminal courts to answer for their misdeeds, fuck you and your rule of law. The alternative is something as simple as me and my motorbike chain coming at you to crack your skull.

©Pointman

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