Americans are repulsed by the news of the murder of Putin’s political opponent, Alexi Navalny. Following imprisonment, Putin had the Kremlin’s political opponent killed.
The type of tyranny that results in outright death hasn’t occurred in the United States, yet. But the increasingly authoritarian and corrupt actions of the current White House and the progressive movement should produce concern that we are heading in that direction. The politicalization of the American justice system to punish political foes of the current White House and its leftist supporters is increasingly leading to the demise of an objective government and court system.
Biased state attorney generals and district attorneys have engaged in blatant and outrageous assaults on those they disagree with. The U.S. Department of Justice, charging both Trump and Biden with similar crimes (although Biden lacked a key defense that Trump can use) decides to prosecute Trump and ignore Biden. Absurd charges about actions that had no victims and for which no individual or business complained formed the basis of a show trial, so similar to those used in dictatorial regimes across the world, to bankrupt Biden’s probable electoral rival.
Consider the charges that led to Navalny’s fate. He was accursed of “extremism,” leading to a sentencing of 19 years imprisonment. Biden constantly refers to “Maga extremists,” Donald Trump being the prime, but not only, target of that charge.
In the years preceding Biden’s election, federal courthouses were attacked, police stations invaded, cities were burned, and shops were looted for months by progressive activists and Black Lives Matter. Independent zones that proclaimed themselves free of federal, state and local law were set up. Some on the left, notably the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, raised funds, not to compensate victims, but to help the perpetrators. The word “insurrection” was not mentioned by the leftist media. The losing candidate for governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams, continually proclaims that was cheated in her election. No charges have been (or should be, she has a right to her views) brought. Trump is continually harassed for his views on the 2020 election.
The Attorney General of New York State campaigned on a pledge to “get” Donald Trump. Not much has been said about the propriety of a candidate for a law enforcement position promising to get an individual.
The judge in one politically-motivated case, Engoron, has displayed behavior so outrageous that there have been calls for his disbarment. In a letter to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Rep. Elise Stefanik states: “Simply put, Judge Engoron has displayed a clear judicial bias against the defendant throughout the case, breaking several rules in the New York Code of Judicial Conduct. Last year, Judge Engoron told President Trump’s attorney that the former president is “just a bad guy” who Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James “should go after as the chief law enforcement officer of the state.”1 At the start of the trial, Judge Engoron infamously smiled and posed for the cameras.2 After the defendant won an appellate ruling against Judge Engoron on the appropriate statute of limitations in this case, the judge simply ignored the ruling.”
Trump lost a civil trial (the charge couldn’t be successfully prosecuted in criminal court) based on a woman’s unproven complaint that he molested a female 30(!) years ago. Meanwhile, a very serious charge by Tara Reade against Biden has not resulted in charges being brought against the current president. Instead, she has faced harassment from the government.
In the hyper-partisan environment that currently characterizes the nation, the intent to win at any coast, and without regard to the long-term damage to American law and rights, unfortunately takes precedent over the truth, scruples, or respect for the principles upon which the U.S. was founded.