WR, I know very well that there will be no trial. No public inquiry either, no public access to any relevant information, and no questions asked of The Authorities. Of course there won't be. The USA has been post-legal and post-real at least since the start of the The War on Terror. This is not news, nor is it even a secret; people just prefer to forget, ignore or suppress that knowledge. That's why they live in their TVs, And they often get really annoyed if you have the temerity to remind them of anything that happened more than five minutes ago, because you're
spoiling their fun with all that
context shit and that
history bunk.
Give the government a chance, man! Not EVERYTHING is a conspiracy, y'know! Take every case on its merits!The post-real, post-legal principle now in operation is:
"If you're dead then you're guilty of whatever we choose to accuse you of, and we need adduce no evidence whatsoever in support of our accusations." I am not exaggerating, not even slightly. See San Bernardino for perhaps the most crassly brutal application of that principle before Orlando.
WR wrote:Why would the prosecution be sharing evidence with the general public?
Why indeed? Why are they telling us, for instance, that Omar Mateen called the police to announce his support for ISIS? Why are they telling us that his wife said she loved him on the night of the massacre? Why are they feeding this stuff to the nation, and to the planet, and why anonymously? The answers aren't hard to guess.
In any case, exactly who
is "the prosecution", in this post-legal post-real era? It appears to consist entirely of nameless "sources". "The prosecution" is a government whispering campaign conducted through the mass media, and precisely nothing else. (So much for the division of powers.)
WR wrote:The people actually tasked with the burden of proof are not the team that's leaking "anonymously sourced" politicized talking points to, you know, *snickers involuntarily*, uh, "journalists."
I don't quite get your point here. Who is, then, tasked with the burden of proof? What people are those? (Maybe I'm just missing a joke.)
"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
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