In his last day in office, Joe Biden strangely pardoned people who have not been convicted of crimes. Does his pardoning imply that they did something worth a presidential pardon? Are they bad guys like his tax-evading, lying-on-a-federal-form, recipient of China-Ukrainian-Russian bribery-scheming son? Are they murderers?
No? What then? For what has Biden issued a pardon?
Does he believe that Fauci, Chaney, assorted Congressional Committee members, Capitol Hill officers, and General Milley have done something illegal that is provable in court?
Although I believe that Fauci, as head of NIH, committed no crime, I also think he was guilty of bad judgment born of his $400,000 salary, long tenure, fawning media, and connections to foreign research, I do not believe he committed a provable crime. Celebrated by the liberal media, publishers, and Democrat elected officials, Fauci is an ostensible example of hubris raised to the Nth power. “Mr. Science” told us masks were unessential, one mask was essential, and then two masks were prudent. He had apparently been at least peripherally complicit in joint gain-of-function research conducted in China. His guidance misled teachers who believed they were in dire jeopardy. His positions fostered the panic among organizations like the NCAA and professional sports leagues. His advice fostered the push in the military to expel long-serving soldiers with war experience if they rejected the vaccine. He pushed for a liberal use of vaccines that state governments and educational institutions then advocated as prophylactics for the young even when little kids were not demonstrably at risk and he backed the banning of medicines that might have diminished risk to the infected—think Ivermectin, D3, and zinc. But was he guilty of a provable crime? Was there a need for a preemptive pardon?
And Milley? Under Biden he was the consummate martinet with regard to the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He supposedly disagreed with his Commander, but did so weakly as I see it. Criminal? Treasonous? Instead, maybe at fault for not voicing vociferously his concerns that a complete withdrawal of troops under Biden’s misreading of the Taliban and the Trump agreement and therefore, also at fault for not arguing for removing billions of dollars of military equipment from Afghanistan. In need of a pardon? Where’s the record of the Courts Martial? Where’s the conviction and sentencing to pardon? What does the pardon do? It makes me and others wonder if Biden knows something about Milley that puts him in a category with Hunter.
Is There a Lesson Here?
I am not convinced by the Left’s rhetoric during and following the 2024 election of an impending Naziism. I am not convinced that the Trump DOJ will violate citizens’ rights as the Biden DOJ obviously did. The Left continues to voice its concerns about retribution most likely because it knows what it did over the past eight or nine years. In doing so, many liberals have demonstrated their penchant for psychological projection and hypocrisy. And that projection presents us with a lesson: Do not assume either intentions or actions that characterize your life also characterize others' lives.
A second lesson: There's no fear of "what goes around, comes around" if there was no initial going around. A ball has to be thrown if it is going to bounce off a wall.
Joe's Legacy
Isn’t the presumption of innocence the most fundamental philosophy underlying American justice? I’ll assume the pardoned people are innocent, but I will suspect that they might have done something that requires pardoning. Thanks, Joe, for assuming that the DOJ will continue the policies it had under your administration. You seem to have given more weight to the belief of conservatives that your administration was, in fact, the true manifestation of Fascism, Naziism, and Third World politics.
No? What then? For what has Biden issued a pardon?
Does he believe that Fauci, Chaney, assorted Congressional Committee members, Capitol Hill officers, and General Milley have done something illegal that is provable in court?
Although I believe that Fauci, as head of NIH, committed no crime, I also think he was guilty of bad judgment born of his $400,000 salary, long tenure, fawning media, and connections to foreign research, I do not believe he committed a provable crime. Celebrated by the liberal media, publishers, and Democrat elected officials, Fauci is an ostensible example of hubris raised to the Nth power. “Mr. Science” told us masks were unessential, one mask was essential, and then two masks were prudent. He had apparently been at least peripherally complicit in joint gain-of-function research conducted in China. His guidance misled teachers who believed they were in dire jeopardy. His positions fostered the panic among organizations like the NCAA and professional sports leagues. His advice fostered the push in the military to expel long-serving soldiers with war experience if they rejected the vaccine. He pushed for a liberal use of vaccines that state governments and educational institutions then advocated as prophylactics for the young even when little kids were not demonstrably at risk and he backed the banning of medicines that might have diminished risk to the infected—think Ivermectin, D3, and zinc. But was he guilty of a provable crime? Was there a need for a preemptive pardon?
And Milley? Under Biden he was the consummate martinet with regard to the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He supposedly disagreed with his Commander, but did so weakly as I see it. Criminal? Treasonous? Instead, maybe at fault for not voicing vociferously his concerns that a complete withdrawal of troops under Biden’s misreading of the Taliban and the Trump agreement and therefore, also at fault for not arguing for removing billions of dollars of military equipment from Afghanistan. In need of a pardon? Where’s the record of the Courts Martial? Where’s the conviction and sentencing to pardon? What does the pardon do? It makes me and others wonder if Biden knows something about Milley that puts him in a category with Hunter.
Is There a Lesson Here?
I am not convinced by the Left’s rhetoric during and following the 2024 election of an impending Naziism. I am not convinced that the Trump DOJ will violate citizens’ rights as the Biden DOJ obviously did. The Left continues to voice its concerns about retribution most likely because it knows what it did over the past eight or nine years. In doing so, many liberals have demonstrated their penchant for psychological projection and hypocrisy. And that projection presents us with a lesson: Do not assume either intentions or actions that characterize your life also characterize others' lives.
A second lesson: There's no fear of "what goes around, comes around" if there was no initial going around. A ball has to be thrown if it is going to bounce off a wall.
Joe's Legacy
Isn’t the presumption of innocence the most fundamental philosophy underlying American justice? I’ll assume the pardoned people are innocent, but I will suspect that they might have done something that requires pardoning. Thanks, Joe, for assuming that the DOJ will continue the policies it had under your administration. You seem to have given more weight to the belief of conservatives that your administration was, in fact, the true manifestation of Fascism, Naziism, and Third World politics.
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