AMERICA IN TROUBLE: 4.15.23 - America’s Justice System Is in Shambles

 America’s Justice System Is in Shambles – Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ The rule of law in the US is in a state of rapid disintegration. In many cities, the police don’t even bother to arrest certain criminals because leftist district attorneyswill quickly let them go. Many people don’t serve jail time because they simply refuse to return to court to receive their sentence. A California man was recently arrested 10 times in 31 days. They had him pose for 10 different mugshots. Since he only aged for less than a month, they should have film byjust using the first one. Keith Chastain’s first arrest was on Feb. 19, and his tenth was on March 21. He was booked by Clovis police six times and other agencies four times. Chastain, 38, faces 18 felonies and 15 misdemeanors. Charges include six stolen vehicles, vandalism, DUI, possession of a controlled substance, fraud, and more, accordingto authorities. One reason why we should put people in jail is so they cannot commit crimes against innocent people. I would be furious if I learned that someone who had stolen and wreckedmy car had been released from jail nine times. After the third time he got arrested, they should have kept him in jail to save the bother of booking him again. Even federal prisons have a revolving door for criminals. When disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti suffered two back-to-back convictions for fraud and extortion, I thoughthe would spend the rest of his life in prison. A few months after going to prison, he was let out because of Covid-19. He was living it up at a friend’s house. In Dec., Avenatti was convicted a third time for embezzling millions of dollars from four of his clients and given another 15 years, which adds up to 25 years. The way thesystem works, he could be free in eight years. If Avenatti is a good boy, a judge will likely cut 10 years off his sentence. A parole board could let him go at any point. The indictment of Donald Trump over hush money payments he made to Stormy Daniels, by Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, is a massive miscarriage of justice. Thepayment, at best, was a misdemeanor, and it was out of Bragg’s authority. With the backing of public opinion, a DA could indict a ham sandwich. While Bragg is busy going after Trump, the City of New York is being overrun by criminals. It was support from George Soros-type organizations that allowed him to become DA.He has decreased criminal cases by 40% and has sided with the criminals over their victims. A newsstand operator was being attacked by a deranged man. He stabbed the attacker and killed him. Bragg sent the guy straight to Rikers Island. Parking lot attendant MoussaDiarra saw a man looking into various cars to see what he could steal. Diarra told him to leave, and the thief pulled out a gun and shot the attendant in the face and chest. Diarra managed to grab the gun and shoot this dirtbag. The poor attendant woke upin the hospital handcuffed to his bed, and the crook was out on the street doing the exact same thing at a new location. Bragg dropped the charges in both cases after massive public protests. America has tried to solve its crime problem by locking people up. At 3% of the population, we have more people in prison than any other nation. It is extremely expensiveto house convicts. The shortage of beds creates a natural drive to come up with any excuse to let a convict go. Here in Arkansas, we have a 5,000-bed shortage. The new governor is planning on spending $500 million on new prisons. Our former governor Michael Huckabee granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons. His criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and another eight felonycharges in Washington state. He was released from police custody after posting bail for a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child. At one point, Clemmons was ordered to serve consecutive sentences totaling 108 years. Clemmons had applied for clemencyafter serving 10 years of his sentence. It was only a week after his release that Clemmons killed four police officers. He just walked up to them in a coffee shop and shot them in the head. Two days later, BenjaminKelly, a lone Seattle police officer, confronted Clemmons on a Seattle residential street, and when Clemmons attempted to pull a gun, Kelly shot him dead. The last I checked, death did not have a parole or clemency option, so Clemmons’ luck may have finallyrun out. We cannot fix our justice system without addressing the moral problem in America. In the 1950’s we would have a mass shooting event once a decade. Today, they occur everyfew days. The most wonderful thing about the rapture is meeting Jesus. Leaving this corrupt world behind has to be the second-best thing about the blessed hope. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then wewhich are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18). ------------------------- Media say Trump prosecution good for America - BillWilson � www.dailyjot.com Many leading media outlets have written stories suggesting that democracies routinely prosecute their heads of state and this is good for the democracy, they say. These storiesare no less an attempt to shape America�s public opinion that prosecuting President Trump is good for the country. America is a Constitutional Republic where the rule of law takes precedent over majority opinion. True democracy is majority rule, not necessarilyruled by laws. The law in the Republic is not supposed to be politically twisted or weaponized against anyone. We are equal under the law. Trump�s political opponents have raised false accusations and charges against him since his political journey began.None have stuck. Writers for The Washington Post, Newsweek, New York Times and Axios all say that America behaving like banana republics is a good thing. Of course, they all work for leftistpublications. They list out how the leaders of France, South Korea, Italy, Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia, Peru, South Africa, Taiwan, Japan, and, yes Israel have all been prosecuted and many convicted of criminal charges. Axios writes: �The big picture:In reality, leaders who left office since 2000 have been jailed or prosecuted in at least 78 countries�including in democracies like France, Israel and South Korea. Since 1980, around half of the world�s countries have had at least one such case, and that�snot counting impeachments or coups.� Not counting impeachments or coups? Coups are the meat and potatoes of tyranny. In its study of world leader prosecutions, Axios stated, �For obvious reasons, the countries that are least likely to be filled in on our map are monarchies or dictatorshipswhere leaders are long-serving and untouchable.� Those �obvious reasons� for not including untouchable monarchs or dictators are that it would undermine the authors� premise that such �prosecutions� are good for democracies. China is a �democracy.� So is Russiaand Cuba, for example. In those one-party, one-ballot type of countries political opposition is eliminated, often by execution, sometimes with show trials designed to rile public opinion against the leader on twisted interpretations of their so-called �laws.� Starting to sound familiar? Trump said that America was behaving like a third world country. Conservative and liberal commentators alike say the indictment is on shaky legal ground. Many believe thatthis prosecution is a tremendous form of politically-motivated election interference. And the news media is in an all-out effort to convince the American people that this sort of political assassination is a good thing because it happens all the time in other �democracies.� It will be a good thing until it becomes like Russia where the leader just has the journalists killed when they don�t agree with him. Always remember there is a double edge to the sword of tyranny. Meantime, as in 2 Timothy 3:13, �But evil menand seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.� Unfortunately, many are in the media and it�s, say it with me�Stupidocrisy. ------------------------------------