When Justice is corrupt, who you gonna call?

According to the Wikipedia dictionary:

hench·man

Noun

A faithful follower or political supporter, esp. one prepared to engage in crime or dishonest practices.

So let's take minute to look at Eric Hold'em's record as Attorney General and head of the US  Department of Justice. Or, as Hold'em seems to regard it, the Department of Social Justice {DOSJ).

Right out of the box Hold'em refuses to prosecute a member of the New Black Panthers who was standing at the doorway of a polling place in Philadelphia, waving a billy club and yammering on and on about "crackers" and "whitey." Hold'em couldn't see how that could be construed as voter intimidation. After all, a black guy was doing it, and to Hold'em, crimes against white people don't seem to count.

Then there was the so-called Fast & Furious operation, where at least three -- and possibly more -- agencies in the DOSJ were "encouraging" smugglers to get AR-15s and similar weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Apparently this was so that the Comrade and fellow travelers could make a case for gun control in the USA. So Pelosi or Durbin could go, "My God, these weapons are ending up in the hands of Mexican drug lords!" But mainly all that resulted from Fast & Furious was two border guards being killed by Mexican gang members, as well as God knows how many Mexicans who might also have gotten in the gang's way.

Hold'em didn't know anything about this, except, possibly, it was something he inherited from the Bush administration. (Sound familiar?)

Then there was Gibson Guitar Company, which was more or less surrounded by armed, jack-booted law enforcement of some kind -- because Gibson was using imported rosewood in building guitars. Gibson had gone through the whole gnarly legal process to import the exotic wood, but it seems that just wasn't good enough -- not when the owner of Gibson Guitar was known to contribute to Republican candidates.

I understand Gibson was forced to cough up about $300,000.00 for not breaking the law in any way at all, and the company now is suing the DOSJ. Good for them. Hope they win big.

There's been a whole bunch of cases about trying Islamist terrorists in civil courts rather than by military tribunal. That's a legitimate debate -- whether you consider Islamist terrorism an act of war or a simple crime, like shoplifting or something. But really.... picking up a terrorist in Afghanistan or Yemen or someplace and reading him his Miranda rights. Really? Laughing so hard my coffee's shooting out my nose.

I'm sure I'm overlooking a few things, but let's get to the snooping on journalists thing.

It seems a couple years ago, someone -- apparently someone in the FBI, a DOSJ agency -- suspected that journalist James Rosen, from Fox News, was asking people in the federal government for information about North Korea's nuclear program. So the FBI got up a warrant under the 1917 Espionage Act, claiming that James Rosen needed to be spied on -- phones and emails tapped or snooped on somehow -- because he was: A.) subject to potential criminal prosecution (for spying?); B.) a flight risk (he's going to flee the USA with info about the North Korean nuclear program?); C.) I suspect mainly because Rosen is a highly-regarded investigative journalist who once wrote a very thorough and carefully researched and documented book on the Watergate scandal. And he works for Fox.

So Hold'em signed off on these accusations, endorsing them, and due to this, a judge issued the warrant.

Hold'em told congress last week that he never had anything to do with spying on journalists. What journalists? Are there journalists in the United States? Where? When did this happen? And in fact, in another case, when one of the DOSJ agencies wanted to snoop through the phone records of about 100 AP journalists, Hold'em recused himself and had a deputy sign off on it. ("Oh no, you're not getting me to take any responsibility for that one.")

But the fact remains, no matter why or how, Hold'em lied under oath to congress about the James Rosen warrant. As Judge Napolitano on Fox pointed out, either Hold'em lied to the judge who issued the warrant about Rosen, or he lied to congress last week when he said he had nothing to do with it.

And it's just a really weird coincidence how all the lies, dissembling, omissions of duty, bizarre interpretations of the law and everything else this blockhead has done, seems to support the concept of shutting down the opposition -- not even the opposition. Let's just say, these activities all point to keeping any truth or facts from leaking out about the operations of the federal government -- and actively penalizing any remotely possible political opposition. And I should add -- lying and covering up the really nasty stuff like Fast & Furious.

Now Hold'em says he has some kind of "creeping remorse" What the hell is that? Anything like "a thrill up your leg?" Or like Ted Bundy? "Gee, I'm so sorry I got caught."

This bastard needs to go home -- or better, to jail.

We do need law enforcement. We really do. But apparently the DOSJ is so busy strewing rose petals in the Comrade's path that it can't be bothered engaging in the pursuit of real justice. And I'm almost afraid to ponder what "justice" might mean to Eric Hold'em and the Comrade. Who knows what goes on in their heads? Fantasies of marxist policy under sharia law?

I've said it before -- you can't judge them by what they say; you have to watch what they actually DO.