Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump last year with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
This just further cements that there are multiple different levels of law depending on your money/wealth/power/influence. Any normal individual does this, with this much proof, and they would’ve seen the inside of a jail cell before the cuff-marks faded away.
Clavell’s novel Noble House woke me to this. It’s about the English occupying Hong Kong and the drama between them and the Chinese, the cultures and economies.
This Chinese dude is bitching about the fucking stupid English notion of “equal before the law, rich or poor”.
“Why else would I strive to be rich if I’m to be treated as a peasant?!”
Much to think on there.
(Clavell wrote the Asia Saga books, starting with Shogun. I highly recommend them.)
If the rule of law doesn’t apply to him then does the rule of law apply at all? It makes it all seem meaningless when you look at it.
This just further cements that there are multiple different levels of law depending on your money/wealth/power/influence. Any normal individual does this, with this much proof, and they would’ve seen the inside of a jail cell before the cuff-marks faded away.
Always has been, always will be.
Clavell’s novel Noble House woke me to this. It’s about the English occupying Hong Kong and the drama between them and the Chinese, the cultures and economies.
This Chinese dude is bitching about the fucking stupid English notion of “equal before the law, rich or poor”.
“Why else would I strive to be rich if I’m to be treated as a peasant?!”
Much to think on there.
(Clavell wrote the Asia Saga books, starting with Shogun. I highly recommend them.)