tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post7447889824543412032..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: 10-14-15 HodgepodgeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-69709790624227949092015-10-25T03:41:04.861-06:002015-10-25T03:41:04.861-06:00C.,
Thanks for bringing up the problem of immunit...C.,<br /><br />Thanks for bringing up the problem of immunity, and for mentioning possible remedies, one of which is at least available now for particularly brave and conscientious individuals. The bigger problem, of he public acceptance of improper government, is one requiring cultural change to solve.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-16536221384109372082015-10-25T03:34:09.762-06:002015-10-25T03:34:09.762-06:00Note: I am posting this comment on behalf of C. An...<i>Note: I am posting this comment on behalf of C. Andrew, who was experiencing problems with Google's comment moderation system.</i><br /><br />Once again, immunity for government actors is the problem here. Police officers who execute these kinds of searches, knowing them to be exercises in political oppression, should either refuse to do so - given that the Nuremberg 'defense' of "Just Following Orders" is not valid in the face of such abuses - or face civil and criminal penalties for their malfeasance. The same (only more so) goes for prosecutors and 'crats who initiate such proceedings.<br /><br />The minimum punishment for these folks should be a felony charge and a bar from serving in any public capacity for the rest of their lives. I think that it is instructive to note that Lois Lerner, of IRS police state fame, was pulling this same kind of political crap when she was with the FEC; telling one GOP candidate that she would stop the harassment and her 'investigation' if he promised to not run for office again. She essentially inflicted a life-time ban by bureaucratic fiat and justice demands that the same be imposed on her.<br /><br />And yet the DOJ, with the complicity of a callous and supine eGOP, has decided to close the IRS investigation without filing any charges. I imagine that the same will happen in Wisconsin.<br /><br />My brother, who works in the belly of the beast in DC, points out that most 'crats are not risk-takers. (This is something that von Mises points out in <i>Bureaucracy</i>.) Can you imagine, then, how comfortable these guys must be in their lack of accountability to so routinely violate the rights of the citizenry? I'm with Voltaire on this one, without the irony. A country should be able to shoot a few 'admirals' just to encourage the others. It would not take very many instances of abusive 'crats being properly prosecuted for their violations of civil rights under color of law to get these low-life scum back into the parameters of law-abiding behavior. And I include the police officers who act as the enablers in these abuses within the general category of 'low-life scum'.<br /><br />But the Establishment GOP is not going to do this job. (And their conservative base won't do it vis a vis the abuse of the citizenry by police officers.) Because they would rather eat the scraps from the Democrats' table of corruption than actually do the job of proper governance for which they were elected.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.com