Which means we did without them for roughly 150 years. As for your argument "America bears no resemblance" to that world, you're wrong. People haven't changed. Only technology has. Tax dollars can be used to fund investigations in the states instead of the black hole of federal law enforcement. All we get from them right now is abuse of …
Which means we did without them for roughly 150 years. As for your argument "America bears no resemblance" to that world, you're wrong. People haven't changed. Only technology has. Tax dollars can be used to fund investigations in the states instead of the black hole of federal law enforcement. All we get from them right now is abuse of the justice system and partisan political investigations. Why in God's name would we *keep* funding them at this point? Feel free to enjoy prison as a "domestic terrorist" under this DOJ, but I can do without them and absolutely believe we should. There's more than two ways to skin a cat and we need a new way to provide oversight of your injustice system. Abolishing this cesspool is a good first step. Plus, I don't see you dropping any solutions to these problems. If you've got a better idea then continuing to fund the administrative and politically beholden state, I'm all ears.
People are the same, but their behavior is not. Federal law enforcement sprang out of 2 needs: 1) the post-war civil rights amendments being enforced in the South; 2) increasingly easy interstate travel.
Contra what the Democrats would like people to believe, the first of these has largely abated. However, the second has risen astronomically. In 1865, the majority of Americans still died in their birth state and many in the same county.
I agree that there needs to be additional oversight of DOJ and a major housecleaning. But I just can't see how a society as mobile as ours can function without some type of federal law enforcement.
Honestly, that's just a lack of imagination. I worked in the legal field for nearly 3 decades. With a few new rules regarding interstate crime, it could easily be managed. Regardless, there's no other way to rein in the corruption and weaponization currently dogging the nation's justice system. Once that bridge has been crossed, it falls into the ravine below. We warned the Democrats against opening that door and instead of heeding us, they merrily traipsed through it. We're on an uncharted side of the Rubicon. It's time to burn it to the ground and start over or we're going to see both sides going tit for tat and a whole lot of innocent people are going to pay the price. A few growing pains is worth it if it means we get back to neutrality.
For the record, I didn't mean that in a hurtful way. I'm just saying this arrangement was the easy way to do things. If we can find people who aren't afraid of a little hard work, I believe it can be done.
Oh, I didn't take anything you said personally. I love discussions like this. I learn something. And I would like nothing better than to be wrong on this point.
Glad to hear it. I sincerely believe that with Congress abdicating its duties to the Administrative State, reform is an unreachable goal. It's already easier to escape from hell than fire a federal employee and as long as we have ideologically captured bureaucrats running our government, we'll always have widespread corruption. Low level corruption is an inescapable fact of life in any government, but if the people can't vote federal employees out, prosecute them or fire them, reform is impossible. It's sad, but that's where we are in America today.
Which means we did without them for roughly 150 years. As for your argument "America bears no resemblance" to that world, you're wrong. People haven't changed. Only technology has. Tax dollars can be used to fund investigations in the states instead of the black hole of federal law enforcement. All we get from them right now is abuse of the justice system and partisan political investigations. Why in God's name would we *keep* funding them at this point? Feel free to enjoy prison as a "domestic terrorist" under this DOJ, but I can do without them and absolutely believe we should. There's more than two ways to skin a cat and we need a new way to provide oversight of your injustice system. Abolishing this cesspool is a good first step. Plus, I don't see you dropping any solutions to these problems. If you've got a better idea then continuing to fund the administrative and politically beholden state, I'm all ears.
People are the same, but their behavior is not. Federal law enforcement sprang out of 2 needs: 1) the post-war civil rights amendments being enforced in the South; 2) increasingly easy interstate travel.
Contra what the Democrats would like people to believe, the first of these has largely abated. However, the second has risen astronomically. In 1865, the majority of Americans still died in their birth state and many in the same county.
I agree that there needs to be additional oversight of DOJ and a major housecleaning. But I just can't see how a society as mobile as ours can function without some type of federal law enforcement.
Honestly, that's just a lack of imagination. I worked in the legal field for nearly 3 decades. With a few new rules regarding interstate crime, it could easily be managed. Regardless, there's no other way to rein in the corruption and weaponization currently dogging the nation's justice system. Once that bridge has been crossed, it falls into the ravine below. We warned the Democrats against opening that door and instead of heeding us, they merrily traipsed through it. We're on an uncharted side of the Rubicon. It's time to burn it to the ground and start over or we're going to see both sides going tit for tat and a whole lot of innocent people are going to pay the price. A few growing pains is worth it if it means we get back to neutrality.
I'll trust your expertise on it then. I still have a hard time seeing it, but perhaps, as you say, that's my own lack of imagination.
For the record, I didn't mean that in a hurtful way. I'm just saying this arrangement was the easy way to do things. If we can find people who aren't afraid of a little hard work, I believe it can be done.
Oh, I didn't take anything you said personally. I love discussions like this. I learn something. And I would like nothing better than to be wrong on this point.
Glad to hear it. I sincerely believe that with Congress abdicating its duties to the Administrative State, reform is an unreachable goal. It's already easier to escape from hell than fire a federal employee and as long as we have ideologically captured bureaucrats running our government, we'll always have widespread corruption. Low level corruption is an inescapable fact of life in any government, but if the people can't vote federal employees out, prosecute them or fire them, reform is impossible. It's sad, but that's where we are in America today.