Manhattan Justice: America's Judgement at Nuremberg

By Rich Kozlovich

“Judgment at Nuremberg remains a thought-provoking exploration of justice, morality, and the aftermath of one of the darkest periods in history".............."A court is more than a courtroom.  It is a process and a spirit. It is the House of Law!   They distorted, they perverted, they destroyed justice and law in Germany.  They withheld due process of law, eliminating the right to appeal.  They share with the leaders of the Third Reich responsibility for the most devastating crimes in the history of mankind.  Hopefully the day will come they will receive the justice they've deprived from others, based on evidence, truth, justice and the American way."

The rule of law is now and has always been foundational for a civil society.  Laws passed, enforced, and ruled on by people who swore oaths to do so without malice, bias, or prejudice. Truth, justice, and the American way.  That's always been foundational to American culture. That's changing rapidly, and rabidly so.

Naturally it's expected in any system there will be some who just won't follow the rule of law.  But it never occurred to Americans that would become the consensus in America's justice system, but now we know better.  The justice system in America has devoted itself to destroying Donald Trump in order to prevent him from becoming President once again, and there's no level of corruption they won't embrace.  It's justice by tyranny, and that's not anything new. 

First, let's take a look at this piece by Lee Cary that appeared in the Canada Free Press, Lawlessness can coexist, even thrive, with laws, lawyers, judges and courts.  The Third Reich

This is a picture that was taken on October 1936 of Berlin judges swearing an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler saying:

“I swear I will be true and obedient to the Fuhrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, observe the law, and conscientiously fulfill the duties of my office, so help me God."

The problem is obedience to Hitler had nothing to do with the observance of justice.  Jews were found guilty simply because they were Jews, and many sentenced to death.  Some movies are so profound and so provocative they hang with you for the rest of your life, and for me Judgement at Nuremberg was one of them.  Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster starred in what I considered to be some of their finest work, and given what's going on in America's justice system today, every American needs to see this movie, which is streaming for free on TUBI. 

I think the underlying principles are applicable to the judicial corruption, commonly called Lawfare, that's happening right now in America.  The vile misuse of laws, the twisted logic, the clear corrupt political intent behind these actions, and the outrageous judgment against Trump in New York by Judge Engoron, and the prosecutorial misconduct of Letitia James exemplify that corruption.  

At the end of the trial Spenser Tracy portraying Judge Dan Haywood reads the rationale for his judgement against Nazi Judge Janning played by Burt Lancaster saying:

Judge Janning to be sure, is a tragic figure. We believe he *loathed* the evil he did. But compassion for the present torture of his soul must not beget forgetfulness of the torture and death of millions by the government of which he was a part. Janning's record and his fate illuminate the most shattering truth that has emerged from this trial. If he and the other defendants were all depraved perverts - if the leaders of the Third Reich were sadistic monsters and maniacs - these events would have no more moral significance than an earthquake or other natural catastrophes. But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men - even able and extraordinary men - can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination. 

No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget. The sterilization of men because of their political beliefs... The murder of children... How *easily* that can happen! There are those in our country today, too, who speak of the "protection" of the country. Of "survival". The answer to that is: survival as what? A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. 

It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult! Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what "we" stand for: justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!

Later in the movie Judge Janning attempts to explain to Judge Haywood why he did what he did in an attempt to ameliorate the vileness his actions saying:

“Judge Haywood… the reason I asked you to come. Those people, those millions of people… I never knew it would come to that. You must believe it!”

Judge Haywood responds:

“Herr Janning, it ‘came to that’ the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent.”

We're seeing justice turned on it's head with corrupt prosecutors, for political gain.   And they're being supported by the media and powerful people who want to see the end of the Constitution, but in order to do that they need to destroy the only man in America capable of preventing that.  Donald Trump.  

Yeah, I know, shocks me too, but there it is, and it's a fact.  And he has nothing to gain from all this abuse he and his family are suffering except a keen desire to prevent America from being destroyed by leftist monsters wanting to impose a tyrannous worldwide system of governance, with China leading the way. 

In 2021 I published this piece,

A Stranger in Town, 1943, noting the dramatic difference between Hollywood, academia, sports, the media in general and the political "leaders" in the nation today, and much of which is worth reprinting now.

Morgan plays a Supreme Court Justice on vacation, and incognito, who gets involved in a small town's politics because of the corruption, hence the theme of this movie is the need to fight those in power who are "acting contrary to the interests of the country".  

At the end of the movie the corrupt mayor demands to know who this stranger is that comes to his town causing trouble.  After John Josephus Grant (Morgan), an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court identifies himself, to the chagrin of his detractors, he then answers:

It's only right that you should know why I, a stranger, have become involved in your affairs. Believe me, it's not because I am a Justice of the Supreme Court. It's because, like all of you here, I am a citizen of this country. That is no little honor. 

Men have fought revolutions, have died, to be called "citizen". And as citizens, we carry a burning responsibility. It means that when we elect men to public office, we, we cannot do it as lightly as we flip a coin. It means that after we've elected them we can't sit back and say: "Our job is done. What they do now doesn't concern us." That philosophy of indifference is what the enemies of decent government want. If we allow them to have their way to grow strong and vicious, then the heroic struggle which welded thousands of lovely towns like this into a great nation means nothing. Then we're not citizens, we're traitors. 

The great liberties by which we live have been bought with blood. The kind of government we get is the kind of government we want. Government of the people, by the people and for the people can mean any kind of government. It's our duty to make it mean only one kind - uncorrupted, free, united.

I believe Mayor Connison, that I’ve answered your question. 

What I believe is the foundational values that created America are being destroyed, and America is in crisis.  We've allowed those who hate the American identity, the American culture, the American economic system, and the Constitution to assume power at all levels of government, education, the media, and a judiciary filled with political hacks such as Judge Austin Harkley in this movie.  A judiciary that's completely lost any sense of balance or understanding, and in so many cases is stunningly corrupt, and I include the Supreme Court of the United States.  

We have failed to call to task the elected officials who are clearly enemies of America, enemies who claim conservatives are destroying "our" democracy.   What democracy are they talking about?  The one like the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea?  Because that's "their" Democracy, but that isn't American Democracy, and it isn't "our" democracy, hence the line:

"Government of the people, by the people, and for the people can mean any kind of government."   "It’s our duty to make it mean only one kind uncorrupted, free, united."

Let's try and get this right, at least once.  Their "Democracy" destroys our "Republic"!

We no longer know or understand history.  We substitute real history with leftist propaganda and call it history.  No one reads books any longer, especially history books.  We are an entire population that's been beguiled by the main stream media that's either too corrupt, or too lazy to find out the truth.  Yet because of the internet we have access to more information from more sources than any population in history.  Through a "philosophy of indifference" we've foolishly allowed these enemy citizens of America "to have their way [and] to grow strong and vicious"!  

And we wonder:  How did it all go wrong?