The Department of Homeland Security watches. That’s a given. After all, we learn from an inscription in the wall outside the National Archives in Washington, DC, that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.â€Â But something is gravely wrong when the vigilance itself makes us less free. That is how it has been since last…
Removing statues is not erasing history. They will still be around, still be viewable. History will still be on the books. There is no memory hole for things about the Confederacy.
Prosecutors have discretion to low-ball charges as justice requires, and are ethically bound to do so. Sessions says to throw the book at suspects instead. This is bad for decent-minded prosecutors and corrodes public trust in government.
Though there are plenty of tests for bigotry, I’d like to add one more: being quick to demand that given members of group condemn wrong-doing by others in that group.
George W. Bush’s National Security Security Advisor Richard Clarke remarked in an interview yesterday that his old boss is liable for war crimes.
