But Mosby's way of proceeding so far is pretty devoid of objectivity.
As Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) sheriff David Clarke told FNC's Neil Cavuto, the formulating and announcing of charges was notably rushed:
Look, I’m an experienced and a veteran homicide detective. I’ve had — I’ve participated in charging conferences. There is no way I have ever gotten a criminal charge within 24 hours after taking over all the reports and evidence to a prosecutor. A prosecutor who is thorough needs several days to sift through hundreds of pages of reports. They usually want to interview some of the witnesses themselves, in person, and they have to sift through all of the evidence, piece by piece, and they have to wait for some of the forensics evidence to conclude, to come back and that’s why I say on a minimum, three to four days. She just got this case yesterday. This is political activism. She’ll never prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, and I’m not going to silently stand by and watch my brother officers, offered up as human sacrifices, thrown like red meat to an angry mob, just to appease this angry mob.There's the shaky rationale behind charging Goodson with second-degree murder. He was
someone who was walled off in the driver compartment of the vehicle and unable to reach – or for the most part even see – Freddie Gray.
Particularly creepy to me was her inclusion in her presser of the business about hearing the call of no justice, no peace. That's singling out one position within society and making it the central voice that she is hearing.
There's also her marriage to the Baltimore city councilman who represents Gray's district, and the fact that the Gray family attorney donated $5000 to her campaign and served on her transition committee.
Of course, the race-baiters have the threat of more and more intense rioting if there are acquittals, and we have seen that that can be effective. Cowardice can be a powerful thing.
Still, if I were one of the six defendants, I would not be at all hopeless. Their lives have been greatly complicated, but not ruined.
Almost Taoist in this action's ability to placate the people, although I never heard Mark Levin carp so loudly. What I need to do is search the Tao Te Ching for is what it says about delayed effect. In the event of either an acquittal or a conviction. I guess that's why we don't rush to judgment. Our Constitution is kind of our Tao Te Ching, in a way. Not at all sure all will trust the rule of law, regardless.
ReplyDeleteThe Constitution as our Tao Te Ching . . . interesting concept. And I can see it, in the sense that the C is based on the immutable way things are, just like Lao Tze's set of carefully crafted observations.
ReplyDeleteIt's a blueprint for a prosperous, tranquil society of free individuals.
Not a bad comparison.
It does appear that the founders thought deeply about freedom and, even more amazing was their agreement on these self-evident truths. 2 plus centuries later, though, all the people kinda want to be cut in on that prosperous tranquil society of free individuals. I know, they must fight hard for that. There has been a trend, however, in the other direction again. Those at the top of the capitalistic pecking order often do little or no work and continue to rake it in. I know they're often smart and glamorous and great at lying through their teeth but they are often , on the inside, but as the Lao Tse-type who called himself God and the only way, life and truth, once reportedly stated, "inwardly they are ravening wolves." Maybe mass advertising can can make us enjoy the ride on our journeys to hell.
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