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Yes. And yet the people will not apply the same indefensible yardstick to the FBI improperly investigating his mother, and instead will rally round the FBI as u
by retrogradeorbit 13y ago
Yes. And yet the people will not apply the same indefensible yardstick to the FBI improperly investigating his mother, and instead will rally round the FBI as upstanding people just trying to do a tough job.
"And if it’s legal when it’s done to me, it’s going to be legal when it’s done to FBI Agent Robert Smith—who is a criminal."
This is his mistake. There is no Rule of Law in the US anymore. It's one rule for them... and another rule for everyone else.
[edit: added rule of law comment]
- ferdo 13y agoExactly. Our speech is criminalized but their actions aren't. The head of the NSA can lie to Congress with impunity and nothing happens to him. Let any of us try that and see what happens.
- dlss 13y agoIn case you haven't heard the term before, the thing you're talking about is called Noble Cause Corruption. "Noble cause corruption is a police crime in which police officers violate legal or ethical standards in pursuit of what they perceive to be the benefit of society at large." http://essayonnoblecausecorruption.blogspot.com/ http://essayonnoblecausecorruption.blogspot.com/ http://www.patc.com/weeklyarticles/print/noble-cause-corruption.pdf http://www.patc.com/weeklyarticles/print/noble-cause-corrupt... The police/prosecutor/authority figure believes that their immoral behavior is acceptable because they are the "good guy". The disturbing thing (as you point out) is that regular people who read a story like this also become corrupted. "The accused did one bad thing, therefore all the bad things the police did don't count."
- antihero 13y agoIt's not a moralistic argument, it's a strategic argument. Threatening FBI agents the same way they threaten you could be morally ok, but not tactically.