>>>>I am sure they now feel very good about themselves and those who find their findings valuable will get a little frisson of righteousness as well.
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>>>You're shooting the wrong messenger.
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>>Not shooting any messengers, just musing on soi disant judges of those with whom they do not share common interests, common goals or common responsibilities.
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>In any legal system, I don't see how the judges and the accused share any interests, goals or responsibilities. On most of those, they are on opposite ends.
This does not represent a legal system, it represents a self-appointed group who put on a show to validate "findings" which would better be described as ideological opinions. they are entitled to the opinions, just not the self-annointed righteousness. The people they are "indicting" are actual elected government officials with responsibilities only to the people who elected them. If you want to be legalistic, this kangaroo court has no "standing".
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
