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I have extensively written about Tucker Carlson’s 2-hour long interview with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on LinkedIn after intently watching it for its geopolitical significance.
As the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Christopher Walsh writes in the attached repost, Russia’s, China’s, and in many countries around the world, due process of the law is dismal.
The legal system is, for all practical purposes, sham and corrupt.
In my view, America’s determination of degree of guilt or innocence depends on your financial capacity and your ability, if you have limited financial capacity to retain expensive legal help, to use the government to obtain justice even if you are not a lawyer, without taking matters into your own hands, by keeping faith in the system and its core values.
Basic civics and Lexis Nexis can work wonders for all Americans if only they can dispense with their fear and know their rights.
Otherwise, rights gather dust on the shelf and people will lose them if they do not use them.
The victim of injustice and of disease is the best guide for his lawyer and doctor. It is they who know their case best. The rest is procedure, diagnosis, treatment, and justice.
It takes patience, time, persistence, honesty, and levelheadedness without bitterness but it will work.
Vladimir Putin is a wounded animal, wounded by the post-Cold War mismanagement of the West in aspiration to be Roma and Brittania instead of America.
Rather than using the due processes of international law, a body of law developed after 1945 with the founding of the United Nations to prevent another disastrous such war, and Russia’s significant presence at the United Nations, he is taking matters into his own hands to obtain vigilante justice because United States has frittered away the good faith the world has put in it after 1989.
Go it alone, whether in economic policy or foreign policy, among the community of first among equal sovereign nations, no matter their level of global influence, let alone economic and military power, will not work.
Just as there is the rule of law and not men, as John Adams said about the United States, there is also a rule of law and not men among nations.
The same principles, form and function, the architecture of governance as in America, also apply everywhere.
This equality under international law, its equal application, is what the rest of the world wants.
United States must make amends to get there as articulated by George H.W. Bush after 1989.
Power, no matter the political or economic or social system, always inevitably flows from the people to their government in the hierarchy of any government.
The consequence of the explicit explication of this truth about human nature is United States of America.
"In the United States, reasonable people may question the justice system periodically, and thankfully they have channels like an independent media, civil society, and individual activism to enact reform and right injustices.
Unlike the United States, credible due process is doubtful in Russia because the entire system answers to a single man who holds complete and arbitrary power." — Bush Institute's Christopher Walsh
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Ornate facades can't mask Putin's murderous system | George W. Bush Presidential Center
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1moWe’re a violent society. Violence is unacceptable. Unnecessary We need to learn to be more united, less divided. No one has the right to shorten someone’s life, let alone control every aspect of it. Violence is anarchy. Praying for peaceful solutions. Here and everywhere. While we still have choices, friends.