Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Partisan politics has gotten out of hand

These people don't seem to have a problem with an investigator who has not found a crime yet.

This is backwards.  You have the crime, then you hire the investigator to find out who did it, and then be able to prove it in a court of law.

For example, Jimmy Hoffa goes missing.  He is presumed dead, but there is no dead body.  How do you prosecute someone, then, if there is no body?

Try to imagine if Jimmy Hoffa had shown up somewhere after somebody was convicted of murdering him.  I know that Jimmy Hoffa never showed, but the point is still valid.  It is valid because of the fact that when you start investigations without crimes being established first, you run the risk of sending people to jail who haven't done anything wrong.

This is especially problematic when you do it with political motives.  The idea there would be to remove opposition.  Even if the conviction is overturned, the individual cannot be made whole again in the political sense.

It is a totalitarian tool.  This is not supposed to happen in a free country.

It is a danger to our system of government when such an investigation is allowed to continue for a single day.  Yet, this Mueller investigation has been going on for two years, and they are looking for crimes.

That's why this investigation must stop at once.

Partisan politics supports this usurpation of the rule of law.  If people were really concerned about the rule of law, they would be demanding this investigation to be terminated at once, and it would have bipartisan support.  Instead, it is justified on the basis of rule of law, and that is just not so.

Update the same day:

With respect to the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance--- obviously something happened.  You can even suspect foul play, and that would be reasonable.  The point is that you cannot prove murder by assuming that it was murder.  After all, it could have another explanation.

With respect to the Russian situation  ---- it could well be that Russia interfered.  But you don't start with the supposition that a conspiracy took place as a premise for an investigation.

First you establish certain facts.  I am sorry, but the Wikileaks thing was never fully established as a crime.   If it weren't for the Wikileaks thing, then why would there be an investigation at all?

You haven't seen much happening on the Wikileaks thing.  This should have been the focus of the investigation.  First, you establish the crime, then you have an investigation.  This hasn't happened.




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