Prosecution and Prejudice

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There is a flip side to the way progressives have perverted the concept of prosecuting crime.

It is just as insidious as the now-familiar delirium that non-prosecution is the best prosecution.

The flip side is equally the fallout of politicizing state police power.

It flows naturally from the conceit that the point of prosecution is to run interference for the Left’s favored groups while penalizing those who oppose progressives.

It has only disdain for the quaint idea that we prosecute for the purpose of upholding the rule of law, so society as a whole can flourish.

The flip side is this: When today’s cutting-edge prosecutors do deign to prosecute, the target is ideas, not acts.

The objective is not to neutralize those who prey on society, but to frame their acts as part of a morality play: the progressives cast as the guardians of “our values,” and the criminals drawing out contempt more for what motivates them — or, at least, what progressives say motivates them — than for any evil they have done.

This is exemplified by the Kyle Rittenhouse prosecution.


https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/prosecution-and-prejudice

 

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The fact that Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, shot and killed people was not decisive in making his prosecution a national story.

More people are routinely shot in Chicago than were shot in Kenosha on that night.

And, though not as sedulously suppressed as news of black-on-black violence is, white-on-white violence is usually far too humdrum for the media-DEMOCRAT complex to take much notice.

 

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Rittenhouse was prosecuted not for what he did but for what he represented: a white, non-woke, police-supporting teenager exploiting his Second Amendment right to bear arms and his underlying natural right to use his rifle in self-defense.

Worse, he engaged in social-justice interruptus.

By contrast, the acts of rioters who violently burned down the town were deemed irrelevant, even benign, by the Powers that Be.

After all, they rioted in the holy cause of opposing police who shoot knife-wielding, arrest-resisting felons who happen to be black.

 

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Rittenhouse occupied the villain-role of white supremacism.

We were supposed to see his attackers, all white left-wing radicals, as honorary oppressed black men.

You think I’m kidding?

Well, Congressman Jerry Nadler, the New York DEMOCRAT, is urging the Justice Department to indict Rittenhouse on civil-rights charges.

That would make sense only if the shootings were motivated by racism.

The notion that that Rittenhouse violated his attackers’ enjoyment of their First Amendment rights was rendered moot by the jury.

 

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In sum, we have prosecutors who won’t prosecute the “wrong” people for their crimes, and prosecutors hell-bent on prosecuting the “right” people for what they symbolize.

They tend to be the same prosecutors. And unlike rule-of-law prosecutors, what moves them is not evidence.

 

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In recent years, radical left-wing lawyers, many supported by billionaire George Soros, have won elected office across America.

They have become district attorneys and state’s attorneys in many major American cities. These Soros prosecutors, or progressive prosecutors, have betrayed the public trust and made our communities less safe.

Instead of fighting crime, they are abetting it.