Rule of Law

WRAL reports that neither Democrats nor Republicans think that Thom Tillis' Midnight Madness will be much of an issue in November. The source of the Democratic lament is none other than David Parker, who, unbelievably, blew his shot at re-setting the agenda:

State Democratic Party chairman David Parker isn't sure voters will care much about the process question, either, since it happened so fast that no one knew what was going on.

Pardon my French, but what a bunch of horseshit. The proper response to Laura Leslie's question would have been:

Pardon: correctio, Salon vs HuffPost.
There is an interesting article at:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/18/cheney? The vindication of Dick Cheney
By Glenn Greenwald

Obama’s failure to rescind Bush policies or prosecute the Bush administration criminals has (1)decimated the rule of law, (2) abrogated fundamental
constitutional rights and civil liberties, and (3) given the Government (FBI, NSA, DoD, Homeland Security, etc.) unlimited powers over ordinary citizens with no right of redress). This is a dark, dark stain on Obama’s presidency. He has been captured by (1) corporations and (2) executive departments which he is to lead and manage. He has invited back in many of the major miscreants from the Bush and Clinton administrations.

If Obama loses in 2012, it will because he has conceded to so many Republican demands that there is no need for a Democrat in the White House (same way the Blue Dogs lost big in 2010).

We've all seen a number of cases where manifestly guilty defendants have ended up walking because either the police or the prosecutors wound up shredding the Constitution in order to get convictions. Well, it seems that mentality has trickled to the local level. Recently, a Charlotte cop was forced to resign after it emerged

NC newspapers are rightly taking the Governor to task for her blatant pandering to citizen fears over releasing prisoners who have earned reduced sentences through good conduct.

In Greensboro:

Perdue's poll ratings have climbed since she took up this cause in October. Her problem, though, is that she's appealing to emotions rather than reason. In fact, this issue shows that the courts are working exactly as they should -- rendering decisions based on law, not what's politically popular.

Where There Is No Rule Of Law, There Is No Law And Order (Iraq in Chaos)
by Marshall Adame
January 18, 2007

The US plan for Iraq did not, until very recently, put any great emphasis on establishing, or reinstating the Rule of Law in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussain, particularly in Baghdad, the capitol city of Iraq. For almost four years a sense of anarchy has reigned in Iraq. Bush administration policy, through Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provincial Authority in 2003, dissolved, without any forward planning, the very institutions in Iraq that could have represented a structural sense, or perception of Law and Order after the chaos initiated by the fall of Saddam.

The immediate aftermath of a government having been toppled is usually lawlessness, crime, mayhem and chaos. From the onset of the occupation of Iraq it was evident that little or no planning had been done regarding, post Saddam, civil order or civil welfare actions for the Iraqi citizens.