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Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
The apologists for capitalism are always whining on about the “Rule of Law”. We are hearing it a lot these days after the U.S. Justice Department reversed itself and recommend a shorter prison sentence for the Predator in Chief’s longtime friend Roger Stone. Four federal prosecutors resigned after hearing about the decision.
The apologists for capitalism are always whining on about the “Rule of Law”. We are hearing it a lot these days after the U.S. Justice Department reversed itself and recommend a shorter prison sentence for the Predator in Chief’s longtime friend Roger Stone. Four federal prosecutors resigned after hearing about the decision.
“We are
witnessing a crisis in the rule of law in America,” said Chuck
Schumer, the New York Democrat who is the Senate Minority Leader.
"The
Rule of Law is gasping for breath, being suffocated by Trump and his personal
henchman Bill Barr," says Harvard professor Laurence Tribe
It
sounds good doesn’t it? “The rule of law.” Has a certain impressive ring to it.
But
like any law or laws, whether they are good or not depends on who makes them
and who enforces them; in other words, they have a class bias. The definition of
this term “Rule of Law”, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is:
"The authority and influence of law in society,
especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional
behavior; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including
those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal
codes and processes."
So
it’s basically the same as when we hear people in power say that “no one is above the law”. We all know that
is a load of bollocks and don’t need to have a college degree to understand it.
If you have money you can get away with murder. We all know in our gut that there's one set of laws for the rich and one for the rest of us.The billionaires in the US
Congress, and most of them are either billionaires or multi millionaires, are
whining a lot these days about the “Rule
of Law” with regard to Trump.
I
have stated many times that the major problem with Trump from his class colleagues
point of view is not that he is a rapist or racist or basically a gangster,
it’s that in his position as president he is undermining the institutions of capitalism. He has undermined
and discredited the capitalist mass media, the universities, the so-called
electoral process where we get to vote every four years for candidates from one
of the two capitalist parties that will decide what laws constitute this “Rule of Law”.
He’s
“attacking the rule of law” they are
whining now because his justice department, apparently with the support of his Attorney General has just done a favor for Trump’s long time thuggish
friend by reducing his prison sentence.
He
has been accused of influencing the decisions of the justice department for his
own personal interest. “What! Me?”
says Trump. He categorically denies such a slander. All he did was claim the
government was treating his friend harshly and sent out a tweet saying the
sentence Roger Stone received was “horrible
and very unfair.” and that “cannot allow this miscarriage of justice.”
He’s
just an ordinary guy expressing his opinion. He never for one minute thought he
might be influencing the US Justice Department.
But
it’s very dangerous ground he’s treading on. It’s what his base likes about him
because everything he’s doing, the crookery, the bribery, the lying, the wheeling
and dealing, is the norm in the US body politic. What the hell is lobbying but
bribery pure and simple!
Mary
McCord a former head of the Justice Dept. under Obama is worried that the
reputation of the department will be harmed by the Predator's interference
saying, “The department has to seriously
consider what impact a reversal that appears to be in response to the
president’s displeasure will have on its credibility and reputation in the
courts,”
Working
people have faired well when we stick the rule of law where the sun doesn’t
shine; we don’t make the laws. Unions were illegal, Slavery was legal; it was
illegal for persons of different ethnic backgrounds to marry or have sexual
relations.
What
Trump is doing in a way is similar to what Julian Assange has done. Assange
revealed the hypocrisy that exists within the capitalist state apparatus. He
pulled the mask off their phony diplomacy and revealed it for what it is, a
sham. Wikileaks organization through its leaks of thousands of cables and
documents, in particular the famed Collateral Murder video showing the barbaric
activity of the US military in Iraq, made a social fact of what we all really
know is true.
The
difference is that Assange and Wikileaks pulled the mask off the charade for
the benefit of all of us. Trump mocks the game for his own personal gain.
The
“Rule of Law” was not on the minds of the US Congress as they applauded the
charlatan Gaido when he was a guest of theirs last week. There appears to be no
reverence for the “Rule of Law” when it comes to Bolivia. And what about the
murderous Zionist regime that tortures and kills children? There are about
600,000 Jews living in settlements built since Israel's occupation of the West
Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967. These settlements are considered illegal under
international law. But the US government supports and encourages this. These
illegal settlements and the illegal occupation could not occur without US
government backing. “The Rule of Law” doesn’t enter in to it.
Marx
pointed out that the state (government) is the executive committee of the
bourgeois as a whole. It is the governing body that defends and advances the
interest of the capitalist class and the capitalist system. Trump is
threatening the very institutions that are meant to maintain stability in an
inherently corrupt and oppressive system and it seems inevitable that if their
elections fail to remove him, he might be removed by other means.
The great Irish socialist
James Connolly was not far off when he wrote: "Capitalism
teaches the people the moral conceptions of cannibalism are the
strong devouring the weak; its theory of the world of men and
women is that of a glorified pig-trough where the biggest swine gets
the most swill.”
One thing we can thank Trump
for is he is giving the world a glimpse of how capitalism really works.
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