“I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday in yet another understandable expression of frustration at the fact that the investigatory wheels now seem to be churning into every aspect of his private, public, and business life.
Former Trump attorney and ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen unwittingly made some of Trump’s case for him during last week’s testimony, stating for the nation to hear that, while he did not believe Trump colluded with the Russians - the entire basis upon which the Mueller investigation was founded - he was sure that Trump has, at some point in his life, committed “illegal acts.”..........
"Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law," legal scholar Douglas Husak contends that even a citizen who desires to abide by law cannot possibly know what those laws are, much less how to follow them to the letter.
“Husak cites estimates that more than 70 percent of American adults have committed a crime that could lead to imprisonment,” writes Stephen Carter of The Chicago Tribune. “He quotes the legal scholar William Stuntz to the effect that we are moving toward ‘a world in which the law on the books makes everyone a felon.’”
And in a world where everyone is a felon simply waiting to be caught, those who put themselves in the public eye are bound to be “caught” sooner or later … oftentimes by political enemies just waiting to a pretext to comb through their every past action to find the “crime.”
“Show Me The Man, And I'll Show You The Crime” - former Soviet NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria...........To Read More....
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