Pardon Me: The Wall Street Journal and Forgiveness of Sins
Santa Rosa, CA
October 31, 2017
by Rich Scheck
Talk about Chutzpah! The Wall Street Journal editorialized yesterday what a great idea it
would be for President Trump to use his executive power to pardon everyone involved in
the various Russian scandals including Uranium One.
Fascinating! So without demanding any admission of guilt or responsibility, the newspaper of the Capitalists is suggesting that the alleged criminal activity by the powerful of both parties parties be forgiven for any of their sins.
Wow! This is great. One doesn’t even have to go to confession or say a few Hail Adam Smiths (or whomever the Masters of the Universe pray to these days: Gordon Gecko, Jeff Bezos?) and boom, you’re given a get out of jail card without even asking.
Maybe we should all convert to the new religion of Mammon. But I’m gonna pass. This idea to ignore the rule of law and let serious crimes go unpunished is beyond silly.
Imagine had the Rosenbergs said, forget about national security. We were allied with the Russians during WWII so pardon me. Or Osama bin Ladin: this knocking down of the World Trade Center buildings provided jobs for construction workers and soldiers so pardon me!
You get the idea……….its ridiculous. All those petty criminals sitting in prison right now are recalculating their behavior to go big and steal large so they can write to the WSJ and say pardon me!
Those Occupy Wall Street folks who have morphed into ANTIFA are gonna love this idea. It will really mollify their intense sense of outrage at the legal and political system when they hear about this=NOT!!
So unlike President Clinton who ignored the crimes of Daddy Bush after the Iran-Contra Affair or President Obama who ignored the crimes of W after 9/11 or Attorney General Sessions who appears to be ignoring the crimes of the Obama Administration, the WSJ editors think Trump should be pro-active to shut down Special Counsel Mueller’s Russia probe in bi-partisan fashion by issuing a blanket pardon to all.
No truth and reconciliation; no attempt to deal with the dramatic national security issues related to the sale of Uranium to the Russians; no concern about the implications for electoral politics regarding the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election: just let everyone off and turn the sticky issues over to that body of high competence and achievement, the US Congress.
What are they smoking or drinking over there in lower Manhattan. Even the Wolf of Wall Street was required to fess up and do some hard time if I recall correctly. But not these folks who are alleged to have stolen the hard-earned tax dollars of US citizens or used their charitable foundation to plunder impoverished nations like Haiti or transferred 20% of our uranium supplies to the Ruskies.
Just say the magic words, pardon me, and their will be forgiveness of sins. As the late great and dearly missed comedian George Carlin used to say: BULLSHIT!
I know it’s Halloween but this trick or treat is just that: BULLSHIT!
If those who penned this article think that such a presidential gesture will “secure harmony in the body politic “they are sadly mistaken. Even stringing up the evil-doers at the top of the political pyramid seems unlikely to appease the ANTIFA militants who plan a nation-wide rampage scheduled to begin this Saturday, November 4th.
Issuing a blanket pardon of the type suggested by the WSJ will only exacerbate their sense of outrage and provide them further justification for their belligerence against a system they see as totally corrupt.
References:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/begging-your-pardon-mr-president-1509302308