Ambition Has Prevailed Over Justice

Ambition Has Prevailed Over Justice

Paul Craig Roberts

For the entirety of my life I have believed that without justice there is no security and no life.  Justice is more important than national defense, education which today works against justice, and even health.  Justice is based in love, which is why injustice is hated. The problem of our time is that we live in injustice, not in justice.

In the 1980s and 1990s I began reporting on specific cases of injustice. There were the frame ups of child care centers, parents, and grandparents accused of sex abuse of children. I played a role in exposing some of the frame ups, especially the Wenatchee child sex abuse orchestration.  When legislators create a new statute, prosecutors find a way to make hay with prosecutions that boost their all important conviction rates.  When they passed a law that a man could be guilty of raping his own wife, that created a new avenue for women to get rid of unwanted husbands.  

The asset forfeiture laws created an entirely new range of offenses for which an American could be dispossessed of his assets despite the fact that he or she had committed no crime.  Police agents could commit a crime by holding a drug sting on your property and then steal your property for “facilitating a crime.” Your car could be confiscated if you picked up a hitch-hiker who had drugs in his possession.  And so on endlessly.  If you were stopped by police and searched and had more than $100 cash, your money was regarded as intent to buy or sell drugs and could be confiscated.  There were more cases than I could report.

In 2000 my research associate and I published with a division of Random House a book that the publishers titled, The Tyranny of Good Intentions. It sold well for a serious book and a paperback edition followed.

The book establishes many things.  Perhaps the most important is that justice has been subordinated to prosecutorial success.  Prosecutors want high conviction rates, which they get with coerced plea bargains.  Judges love plea bargains, the self-incrimination of which they never challenge because plea bargains clear their courts from time-consuming trials.

I thought the book would have a large impact.  A federal appeal court  cited the book in a ruling, as did a federal district court. And there may have been others of which I am unaware. However, as both the left and the right are committed to using law to get someone, the book did not resonate with the legal profession.  

To be honest, today the justice system should be called the Injustice System, because injustice is what it produces.  Injustice is the product of the system because prosecutors and judges are unconcerned with innocence and guilt.  The prosecutors’ concern is a high conviction rate, easily secured with coerced plea bargains.  The judges’ concern is a cleared court docket. According to official statistics, 97% of all felony cases are settled with plea bargains.  Consequently, the police and prosecutorial evidence against a defendant is never tested in court.  Obviously, defendants and defense attorneys regard juries as tools of prosecutors and understand that the risk of a jury trial is extremely high and that a jury conviction brings a worse sentence than a negotiated plea.  In other words, few defendants expect the system to deliver justice.

As the “justice system” is loaded against justice, this gives power to evil people and to psychopaths.  Any charge they bring will be seen by prosecutors as another conviction.

Let me give a recent example. A man happily married to a woman for 27 years was accused 5 years ago by his wife’s son from a former marriage of sexually abusing him 20 years ago.  The woman has stuck with her husband, not with the son, who has animosities against his stepfather.  No one in the family believes the charges.  

The accused has spent 5 years fighting the charges and the family’s assets have been exhausted with the approval of the family.  The lawyer of the accused has bled the family dry, and then told the accused to plead guilty to a 12 year sentence or otherwise it would be life.  

The accused, abandoned by his attorney, was given 24 hours to self-incriminate, which is what a plea agreement is.

The “evidence” against the accused is a recorded telephone call between the son and the accused.  The son accuses the stepfather of sexual abuse.  The accused, acquiescing to pleas from his wife to try to bring her son back into the family, said that he apologized if he had been less than a perfect stepfather and that the family would welcome his return.  According to the prosecutor, the stepfather’s apology is an admission of sexual abuse, not a general apology for somehow having failed in some way as a parent.

The lawyer of the accused knew of the call for 5 years and did not tell his client of its status as evidence against him until he pressed his client to accept the plea deal.

The accused had an expert analyze the recorded telephone call.  The expert was able to show that there were 16 minutes missing.  These were minutes when the accused took exception to the accusations.

Confronted with the expert evidence, the judge said he would listen to the expert’s report but would nevertheless allow the truncated conversation to be used as evidence.

There you have it.  This is American justice today.  It can happen to you tomorrow.

The injustice is not limited to the stepfather.  The injustice extends to the wife who is left devoid of resources and without a husband.  In twelve years, both will be elderly. Indeed, the entire family is being punished.

Every day more scientific reports appear showing that the Covid “vaccines” are killing and injuring large numbers of people, and that government agencies and medical organizations deceived the public about the “vaccine” risks and prevented effective treatments in order to maximize vaccination.  Yet nothing is done about these enormous crimes.  Instead, the “justice system” focuses on coercing people into self-incrimination.  This is not a society that can ever be made great.