Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Great Reset
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin and Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity and Vanguard Since 1971

America Has Crossed a Dangerous Threshold with Trump Indictment

April 6, 2023 By Richard C. Young

President Donald J. Trump addresses his remarks during the coronavirus update briefing Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

In Spectator World, Ben Domenech warns that America has “crossed the threshold into new territory for the targeting of elected officials by prosecutors restrained only by what their ambitions will allow.” He writes:

It was a bright blue-skied July day in 1861, so the Washington elite decided to have a picnic and take in a battle. They brought sandwiches and opera glasses to admire the scene of Union recruits, who had signed up for ninety-day enlistments, march by in their unblemished uniforms to put the rebels down. But the Confederates at Bull Run had other ideas. They brought reinforcements — and by the afternoon, a rout was on. Union soldiers threw down their weapons and fled, as picnicking senators tried ineffectively to block the road and threatened to shoot deserters. They came out expecting a lark, and instead saw the nation torn asunder. This would be no ninety-day war, after all.

Media networks played up yesterday’s indictment of Donald Trump as a circus. There were the protesters on either side, separated by metal barriers, yelling insults at each other and waving signs and Trump flags. There was the man himself, stone-faced and grim, glaring at Alvin Bragg in the courtroom. A masked and gloved black female cop became an item of joy for the left. Business Insider notes the drama, if you can call it that, of no one holding the door open for the former president. Commentators compared the coverage to O.J. Simpson’s Bronco chase. The legal analysts, frustratingly for many anti-Trump viewers, called the indictment unimpressive, but never mind: the whole thing was played up as tabloid spectacle — and what a spectacle it was.

What should worry us is what lies beneath that spectacle. The indictment of a former commander-in-chief on the flimsiest of charges, incentivized entirely by the partisan makeup of an overwhelmingly blue city in a blue state, we have crossed the threshold into new territory for the targeting of elected officials by prosecutors restrained only by what their ambitions will allow. Any semblance of bipartisanship, comity or neighborhood with our ideological adversaries is now viewed as weakness. The question in the ears of law enforcement officials across the country will now be: why aren’t you fighting back? Why aren’t you finding a way to charge this or that politician? They should be in jail, don’t you think? Find a way to make it a reality.

This is not a sustainable approach within a republic. We promise our citizens a government of laws, not men — but not only is that now not what we are delivering; we aren’t even pretending to deliver it. Nancy Pelosi’s off-putting remark about trials existing to prove you’re innocent isn’t just a slip of the tongue; it’s a reordering of the relationship between the government and the citizen. The law is just a game, a pathway of rules to be twisted and ignored, and the only thing that matters is getting what you want out of it at the end.

Read more here.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Trump Makes America Great in Dallas
  • Midterms: Trump Working for America
  • How Trump Helps America Achieve Greatness
  • Donald Trump “I Am America First”
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Richard C. Young
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • AARP Sponsors Latest Rolling Stones Concert Tour - December 1, 2023
  • MAJOR ENDORSEMENT: Tucker Carlson Endorses Donald Trump - December 1, 2023
  • The Kings of Onlywood, Key West, Florida - December 1, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • The Three Best Retirement Decisions I Ever Made
  • Meet Me at Freddy’s June 2022
  • ENERGY FREEDOM ACT: Ted Cruz Introduces Bill for Energy Independence
  • What Do You Know About Rho-Kinase?
  • To Me There Isn’t a Better Way to Live
  • RAPPOPORT: War Applauded by “Stone Cold Utopians”
  • Boom—Your Life Changes
  • The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope
  • “An Epic Struggle Over the Definition of America”
  • Are You Looking for Investment Counsel? 2 Questions

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Evil
  • Are Investors Ready to Pounce?
  • Can the Supreme Court Stop Wealth Taxes Before They Start?
  • Could Argentina Spur Global Hard Currency Adoption?
  • Losing Sleep over Losing Sleep
  • What Murray Rothbard Knew about the Kennedy Assassination
  • Illiberal Centers of Mediocrity and Intolerance
  • What Do You Know about Glycine for Virus Treatment?
  • Biden Team Eager to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
  • Two Potent Antioxidants for Seasonal Health Support

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Stop America’s Zombie Apocalypse before It Starts
  • Connecticut Concedes the Fallacy of Banning Internal Combustion Engines
  • AI Running a Smarter More Efficient Inventory for Retailers
  • EVs Have 79% More Problems, and Biden is One of Them
  • $2 Billion Advanced Semiconductor Facility Planned for Arizona
  • Locking In a Generational Opportunity in Fixed Income
  • World’s Largest Container Shipper Sued for Exploitative Pandemic Behavior
  • First Class Mail Takes Backseat to Amazon Packages
  • It’s California vs. Florida in the Big State Debate
  • China Proposes Massive Integrated Super Port Across Islands

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Stop America’s Zombie Apocalypse before It Starts
  • Survive and Thrive November 2023: A Word or Two about Your Survival Guy’s Money
  • Small Government Just Works
  • Locking In a Generational Opportunity in Fixed Income
  • RIP Charlie Munger: Keeping It Simple Never Goes out of Style
  • Explosion in Gun Ownership Creates Difficulties for Progressives
  • It’s California vs. Florida in the Big State Debate
  • Shiffrin Brings It Home with World Cup Win at Killington
  • Prepare for Solar Storms in 2024
  • Can the Supreme Court Stop Wealth Taxes Before They Start?

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Five Year Treasury Yield

“The Economy Is Buried Under Trillions in Debt”

Too Late to Reform?

Stop America’s Zombie Apocalypse before It Starts

AARP Sponsors Latest Rolling Stones Concert Tour

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives