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Dr Russ Jackson explains it all:
Ever noticed how right-wingers who claim they are 'the victim of a political witch hunt' are among the most horrible, cruel, selfish, deliberately offensive, pompous, condescending, divisive, bigoted, pig-ignorant attention-seeking ideologically extreme lying sociopaths on earth? pic.twitter.com/zjzYAZN3Rv
— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) February 22, 2024
~The degeneration of "a land of laws" into a land beyond law continues. It is good to see Newt Gingrich weigh in on this, because far too many top-rank Republicans appear to have accepted the Governor of New York's assurance that once Trump is beggared and gaoled everything will go back to normal. Newt writes:
The concept of a fraud trial with no victims, no complaints, and no money lost is an example of political prosecution in disguise. The punitive scale is astonishing. According to The New York Times, there is a $450 million fine (which must be paid to enter the appeals process). Further, the President and his two sons are exiled from doing business in New York for three years — and no New York banks can lend money to pay or post a bond during the appeal.
The US "justice" system has long been somewhat anomalous among Common Law countries. But its capacity to rain down total ruination was at least fairly capricious: You were chugging along, everything ticketty-boo, and then the feds show up; could happen to anyone. But these last three years the courts have been purposely weaponised against one-half of the country's political preference. Latest wrinkle from the corrupt Judge Engoron:
Judge rejects Trump's request for delay in enforcement of civil fraud penalties
In other words, pay that $355 million now or we're taking Trump Tower:
Letitia James says she's prepared to seize Trump's buildings if he can't pay his $354M civil fraud fine
I see the US media are, characteristically, in lockstep in characterising this as a "civil fraud" case - as if it's Smith vs Jones. There is no Smith - "no victims", as Newt puts it. It's the Ruling Party vs its Political Opposition - as the press well knows. Saying "civil" every five minutes is intended to obscure that.
~My own legal focus post-cruise will reorient itself towards the King's Bench Division of the English High Court, which in June will hear my suit against the UK state censor Ofcom over their rulings against my coverage of the Covid vaccines.
GB News will not be joining me in court, which is probably just as well given their woeful descent into a Tories'n'trivia channel. I notice that viewers who miss the old GBN keep posting little clips from my show that, to be honest, I had entirely forgotten. But, if I do say so myself (which I do), they stand up quite well:
What a brilliant guy instead of more like him they scrape the bottom of the rotten barrel pic.twitter.com/G6rhkwSpgQ
— Ben Jones (@BenJoRS2017) February 19, 2024
The above illustrates why the Ofcom rules on "due impartiality" are just a racket. I loathe, to one degree or another, all the parties represented in the Palace of Westminster, but, as you can see in that clip, I especially despise the faux-Conservatives who've utterly betrayed the nation. Ofcom strictures on "balance" aren't really relevant to the approach I took - which kind of gives the game away: Media "regulation" is designed to create a pseudo-balance in which nothing that might discombobulate the uniparty pabulum ever gets discussed.
Mark's international bestseller America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. If you haven't read the book during its first seventeen years, well, you're missing a treat. It's still in print in hardback and paperback. (Buy it at a 77% discount by clicking here or order in KINDLE edition at a 47% discount by clicking here. Sales help fund JWR)
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Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist. Among his books is "The Undocumented Mark Steyn: Don't Say You Weren't Warned". (Buy it at a 49% discount by clicking here or order in KINDLE edition at a 67% discount by clicking here. Sales help fund JWR)