“Show me the man, and I will show you the crime" Lavrentiy Beria. “In Amerikka, everyone has the right to a trial to prove his innocence” Nancy Pelosi
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The following explanatory paragraph about who Baria was was written in 2018; it was already outdated then, but its status as “no longer operative” was only made clear yesterday:
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” was Beria’s infamous boast. He served as deputy premier from 1941 until Stalin’s death in 1953, supervising the expansion of the gulags and other secret detention facilities for political prisoners. He became part of a post-Stalin, short-lived ruling troika until he was executed for treason after Nikita Khrushchev’s coup d’etat in 1953. Beria targeted “the man” first, then proceeded to find or fabricate a crime. Beria’s modus operandi was to presume the man guilty, and fill in the blanks later. By contrast, under the United States Constitution, there’s a presumption of innocence that emanates from the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments, as set forth in Coffin vs. U.S. (1895).
Like my global warming friends, I’ve been dreading the tipping point, a line that, once crossed, would put the country irreversibly into a swift descent into tyranny; with yesterday’s indictment of a former president by a local prosecutor, done with the consent and at the urging of his Democrat bosses, we may have just crossed the Rubicon.
This is who they are, this is what they do. Believe them when they tell you so.
“It’s a celebration of the law!”
