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Overnight Open Thread (4-20-2015)As with sexuality, we're regulating parenting according to the obsessions of neurotic upper-middle-class white women. And that's not working out very well. Wisconsin's Shame: 'I Thought It Was a Home Invasion' Ace already covered this but read the whole thing if you haven't. This is what fascism landed in America looks like. For the family of "Rachel" (not her real name), the ordeal began before dawn - with the same loud, insistent knocking. Still in her pajamas, Rachel answered the door and saw uniformed police, poised to enter her home. Note that the only reason we know about the 'John Doe' raids in the first place is because one of the victims eventually violated the gag order. How Lois Lerner Evaded Charges Despite fairly obviously being in contempt of Congress. The Obama Administration's latest gift to the former IRS tax-exempt chief came recently when U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen informed the House of Representatives that he would not file charges on its formal contempt citation against Ms. Lerner. This absolution, which shields Ms. Lerner from a grand jury probe, came on Mr. Machen's final day on the job. The people who perpetrated this in Wisconsin were Milwaukee district attorney John Chisholm and Judge Barbara Kluka. And in the IRS case it was Lois Lerner and US Attorney Ron Machen. All of these people should be in prison and/or disbarred. But almost certainly they will get away with their actions without any real consequences. We have a system of justice in this country but more and more it's clear that it no longer can provide any justice in the cases of partisan government officials using government harassment and thuggery against citizens who merely hold opposing political beliefs. Of course a judicial process regarding their actions is always followed and the proper procedures seem to be checked off, yet no actual justice is delivered. If an outside observer who knew nothing at all about life in Czechoslovakia were to study only its laws, he would be utterly incapable of understanding what we were complaining about. The hidden political manipulation of the courts and of public prosecutors, the limitations placed on lawyers' ability to defend their clients, the closed nature, de facto, of trials, the arbitrary actions of the security forces, their position of authority over the judiciary, the absurdly broad application of several deliberately vague sections of that code, and of course the state's utter disregard for the positive sections of that code (the rights of citizens): all of this would remain hidden from our outside observer. The only thing he would take away would be the impression that our legal code is not much worse than the legal code of other civilized countries, and not much different either, except perhaps for certain curiosities, such as the entrenchment in the constitution of a single political party's eternal rule and the state's love for a neighboring superpower. And when the justice system has failed or become merely a procedural sham what then? It's a common conceit among lawyers that our legal system is the justice system - which is not fully true: It's a justice system and a pretty good one at that but it's not the only system of justice. So there's an assumption that if the legal system is manipulated and even blocked, then there's simply no recourse at all for those on the receiving end of this treatment and so they'll just accept it. Which is clearly what the above people and their allies seem to believe. Well out of inertia of trust in the system this is true up to a point - but only up to a point. Given that people have had their lives destroyed for merely making a bad joke on social media, wearing the wrong shirt, answering a hypothetical question about catering incorrectly, and using the wrong ordering of words in a phrase, not to mention threatened with jail for the act of committing politics, I see no reason that Chisholm, Kluka, Lerner, and Machen who have done far worse should be able to walk the streets and go through life comfortably and carefree.
Kevin Williamson: With Hillary, Appearances Are Everything. Sharon Stone, the Clintons, Scooby-Doo, the man-feminists of the New York art scene, the just-one-name-like-Sting-or-Cher thing: That Hillary Show has a distinctly retro feel to it already. We have seen this movie before: Last Vegas, The Bucket List, About Schmidt, John Podesta and Paul Begala starring in Grumpy Old Men. Once more unto the breach. The Lion in Winter, with all the domestic friction and succession drama but no lion. Also: NYT's Frank Bruni on Hillary's and Huma's 'Marsupial Relationship' The Grexit Approacheth: Greece Government Confiscates Local Cities' Funds to Pay Bills Note that this is from Zero Hedge so divide by two and subtract 3. But still this is an expected step on the way to full-on 'capital controls' i.e. the Greek government taking control of all money in Greek banks. Taking too many vitamins 'increases risk of heart disease and cancer', study warns A perfectly useless article from the Daily Mail. Note that it fails to list what vitamins at which doses or even link the study cited. Actual actionable information present in the article: 0.00 Deaf Activists Protest Hearing They're not going to accept your audism genocide any more. Oklahoma Approves Execution by Nitrogen Gas Since anti-death penalty activists pushed for lethal injection as a more humane execution method and then made it effectively impossible to administer through lawfare and pressure on drug manufacturers, states have been going back to old-school methods that are not so easily blocked by the activists. Bad day for the crew. Maybe a future bad day for Iran as well. Iowa Lottery Official Charged with Hacking Random Number Generator To Score Winning Ticket I was lucky to discover a Buddy Holly greatest hits album in my father's collection during high school which I played the crap out of despite being a bit uncool at that time. I was even more amazed to later discover that he had written, produced, and recorded every song by age 22. And before his untimely death in 1959 he had already inspired teenagers Robert Zimmerman and Michael Jagger as well as two lads in Liverpool to start writing songs. Of all the musicians who have died prematurely Holly is the one that I wonder most about what could have been. The Yahoo AoSHQ group - it's got electrolytes. And my twitter thang. Tonight's post brought to you by meanwhile in Germany - the sausage vending machine: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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