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I’m not saying that the speculation implied by this headline is true, but, if this were related to the Epstein case, which explicitly involves the president, wh
by ForrestN 6y ago
I’m not saying that the speculation implied by this headline is true, but, if this were related to the Epstein case, which explicitly involves the president, who just commuted the sentence of one of his several criminal associates... I’m not sure why you’d imagine the government would act with moral force and clarity here.
- jariel 6y agoTrump is just one man, not the government. The Justice System as a whole will take such an attack 'personally' and everyone in the system will be 'on the move'. Imagine a corporation of people just 'doing their jobs' and punching out. Now imagine said corporation where everyone is personally, emotionally committed towards 'getting that special project done' and everyone is 'all hands on' and they 'really mean it'. There won't be internal fighting over who gets what, anyone who needs help from anyone else is going to get i because 'we're gonna get that guy'. To boot, they didn't kill the judge, they killed their kid. This just makes it a lot worse. Every cop, judge, detective, FBI agent is thinking about their families tonight.
- jacobush 6y agoI really hope you are right, but sometimes when people are scared, it feels safer to think of the victim as "the other". Someone which while maybe didn't quite got justice, got what was coming. This is one time I hope for esprit de corps to prevail, oddly enough.
- jariel 6y agoThis is 'revenge' (not quite that, but like that) - a very specific kind of 'esprit de corps' and very deep motivator. A lot of people joined the forces after 9/11, somewhat similar.