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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54443/jeff-sessions-immigration/This Is What America Means to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
Justice is none of his concern.
By Charles P. Pierce
Apr 11, 2017
We're going to have to make a semi-regular daily feature on the doings of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, presently the Attorney General and the only man in America who thinks Birth of a Nation was a documentary. On Tuesday, he visited the border and, by way of encouraging the law-enforcement types gathered there, according to Tiger Beat On The Potomac, these were his prepared remarks:
"Depravity and violence are their calling cards, including brutal machete attacks and beheadings," he said. "It is here, on this sliver of land, where we first take our stand against this filth."
Nobody I know is in favor of depravity and violenceat least outside the studios of Fox News, anywaynor is anyone I know in favor of machete attacks and/or beheadings, although some of our staunch allies elsewhere are rather high on the latter. But when you've got the attorney general of the United States planning to refer to other human beings, no matter how criminal they are, as "filth," you've got the Department of Justice descending into the status of a Breitbart comment thread, and that is never good for anyone. When it came time for the speech, Sessions ultimately did not say "filth" out loud, but the Department of Justice doubled down on the word in a statement.
There was more. Again, from TPOTB:
Sessions avoided mention of the torrent of Central American unaccompanied children and families who have arrived at the southern border in recent years, fleeing gangs and poverty in their homelands. Instead, he highlighted U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel, who he said risk their lives to regulate immigration, and local ranchers who "work the land to make an honest living." As part of the motivation for his immigration push, Sessions referenced Kate Steinle and Grant Ronnebeck, both of whom are believed to have been killed by undocumented immigrants.
Those unaccompanied children, about whom JeffBo hasn't yet summoned the nerve to call names, don't matter to him. What matters to Sessions is putting lots of "brown people" in cells. He doesn't care how many or where. Maybe it's through his idiotic revival of the "war" on drugs. Maybe it's through these E-Z-Bake cook'em-and-eat'em immigration courts he's establishing at the border. Doesn't matter. To Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, America means locking up "brown people." Period.
Meanwhile, while the AG takes his neuroses out for a stroll in the desert, he's making sure that federal law enforcement has less accountability than it had before. One major characteristic of the current administration is its deep and abiding terror of expertise in general, and outside expertise in particular. For the past four years, the DOJ has partnered with a panel of outside experts called the National Commission on Forensic Science, a group created by President Obama to look at how the FBI develops and uses forensic evidence in the nation's courts. As we have learned to our horror here in the Commonwealth (God save it!), one cop in a lab coat can wreck your entire criminal justice system for quite a while.
This does not matter to JeffBo. He'd rather not have people looking over his shoulder. From the WaPo:
Several commission members who have worked in criminal courts and supported the input of independent scientists said the department risks retreating into insularity and repeating past mistakes, saying that no matter how well-intentioned, prosecutors lack scientists' objectivity and training. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of New York, the only federal judge on the commission, said, "It is unrealistic to expect that truly objective, scientifically sound standards for the use of forensic science . . . can be arrived at by entities centered solely within the Department of Justice." In suspending reviews of past testimony and the development of standards for future reporting, "the department has literally decided to suspend the search for the truth," said Peter S. Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, which has reported that nearly half of 349 DNA exonerations involved misapplications of forensic science. "As a consequence innocent people will languish in prison or, God forbid, could be executed," he said.
This is another thing that does not turn the head of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Attorney General of the United States.
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This Is What America Means to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. IF we had "worst human search" instead of "Star Search" and you scoured
the land for a year looking for the worst group of people to put in power, these would be what you would ultimately settle on.
No group represents more death and destruction than this group.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)2. Recommended. When prisons are privatized the profit motive will ensure that prisons are filled.