Thoughtcrime & Speechcrime for Me but not Thee

If you believe that you have not broken any federal laws, think again. Federal statutes are a bit like the King James bible's Old Testament, if you read long enough, you can find something that can be contrived in such a way that it can be used to persecute the innocent. For the crimethink of failing to anticipate all of the many deceitful interpretations of statutes and regulations that government lawyers can invent to suppress freethought and individual expression, people are being bankrupted and imprisoned.

The underlying philosophy of the government's persecutors is that the accused are assumed to be guilty of crimes in general for which they must be punished. The mere accusations are proof of guilt in and of themselves because the state would not squander precious resources persecuting the innocent.

First, the accused are publicly discredited by compliant media sources; this threatens their livelihoods. Then, their finances are depleted by legal expenses as they are further discredited in court. Only the very wealthy or fortunate are exonerated on appeal to higher courts; nonetheless, even then, they are left destitute by the expense of appeals trials and face limited earning prospects and even greater difficulty clearing their names. To be accused is to be punished.

We have entered an era in which citizens are being oppressed by government for insufficient pandering. The insufficient part of this formula is a classic example of the cerebrally challenged notthink of question begging. Leftist politicians and their bureaucratic lackeys take the position that citizens should be obligated by law, policy, and regulation to facilitate the ignoble aims of self-proclaimed professional victims, regardless whether whether they are merely victims of their own choices. This should come as little surprise with O-BigFibber leading the way.

Whereas people were once ostracized for lying, we have now elected a prevaricator-in-chief who is completely in sync with the national education guild that reveres dishonesty as critical thinking. His ideological twin Pelosi the Pink has told more lies in the last year than both Clintons combined. Add to those lies the ones spewed by Red Harry Reid, and there is enough deception to send the entire Democratic Party to hell. Unfortunately, one result is that the country is on the road to ruin along with them.

May your gods be with you.