The law is an ass except in the USA where it is an attack dog

I have intimated here, 'many a time and oft', that subsequent to the fairy-tale trial described by the late Ms. Harper Lee in her book To Kill a Mockingbird, my opinion of American 'justice' has declined more than somewhat.  It has taken the malignant polit-bureau of Hussein Obama to drive my deep suspicions of it even further down the drain.  Only someone as irredeemably thick as 'Dim Dave' would have agreed to an arrangement whereby British subjects can be hauled off to the USA on the whim of some jumped-up prosecutor trying to make a name for himself to face their 'Cocklecarrots' without a similar quid pro quo being applied to US citizens.

Lest you think my strictures on the US 'legal' system are overdone let me urge you to read today's editorial at The National Review.  It summarises the action of various Democrat party, State attorneys-general who are determined to use (what passes for) the law to intimidate anyone who expresses doubts concerning the rationality of so-called Anthropological Global Warming (AGW).  Leading the charge of the light-in-the-head brigade is the attorney-general of, er, the US Virgin Island - and, no, I couldn't actually stick a pin in a map to show this bit of the American empire.  Needless to say, the man behind this il-legal onslaught is Al Capone, oooops, sorry, I mean Al Gore, a man who has trousered millions of dollars paid for by US tax-payers who invested at his urging in various alternative energy companies which day by day are now going tits up!

Their main aim is the Exxon Oil Company which has used its shareholders' money, which as a private company it is entitled to do, to help support various groups who persist in pointing out that AGW has virtually no scientific support.  They have demanded 10 years of correspondence details from Exxon - what a pity the Obama polit-bureau seems unable to produce any of the documentary evidence from the various scandals to which it has been party!  Of course, the main aim of the exercise is to put the fear into the anti-AGW movement and it is a technique used before by the Democrat party hierarchy, as the The National Review points out:

The case has unmistakable parallels to the shakedown of Chevron, in which a cabal of U.S.-based lawyers, left-wing activists with connections to the administrations of Barack Obama and Andrew Cuomo, working in conjunction with corrupt judges and officials in Ecuador attempted to extort billions of dollars from the energy giant. That case continued to advance until a federal judge threw it out as fraudulent — among other things, much of the evidence was manufactured — and recommended that a racketeering case be made against the defendants.

Let us all hope that another upright judge can be found to chuck this heap of bilge back into the sewer and thus recharge my rapidly fading admiration for American justice.

 

Comments

[JK]

What?!!! You mean "they've" finished with BP?

[Whitewall]

I told people the Cold War didn't end. It merely paused, changed continents and has carried on in English under the guidance of the Soviet proxy-Democratic party. Red shake down artists.

[Antisthenes]

Obama I believe was before president a community Organiser in Chicago a city dominated by the Democrats with one of the highest rates of gun crime in America. I have often wondered if Community Organiser(synonymous with local enforcer) was the PC name for gangster because he and his cronies on so many occasions appear to act like them. Did not the IRS also use strong arm methods to intimidate Republicans.

He and his administration stink worse than rotten fish. Waiting in the wings is of course Hilbilly not exactly a gangster although she does display some of there attributes plus she is very incompetent and she will be quite prepared to use their same tactics when she enters the White House. So one terrible presidency will be followed by one even worse especially as it can capitalise on the rotten system built by the previous one and be used by a bumbling moron.

[Pat]

I thought that Blair/Bush did the deal on giving the US the power to arrest British citizens. I'm afraid Dave is not the only dodgy character to have occupied downing street- he may well be one of the less dodgy ones, though somewhat lacking in courage.

[Whitewall]

Hillary is not a gangster but she is totalitarian. If she moves in to the White Mosque at 1600 Pa. ave., look for a hammer and sickle flag over head.

[Uncle Mort]

Al Gore on 13 December 2008: “The entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years”