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better-dead-than-fed
08-26-2013, 01:15 AM
http://ablogonpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-prosecution-of-tsarnaev-invites.html

The Prosecution Of Tsarnaev Invites "Terrible Retribution"

Tsarnaev cannot receive a fair trial. The DOJ foreclosed it when they murdered a witness, Todashev, who believed Tsarnaev had been set up. According to CBS,


[Todasehv's father] said [Todashev] told him that he thought Tsarnaev had been set up to take the blame for the bombings.
According to the New York Times,


[Todasehv's father] said... that his son told them he did not believe the Tsarnaev brothers were guilty.

“[Todashev] did not believe the Tsarnaevs did this,” [the father] said. “[Todasehv] said they had been set up. These were his exact words.”

The DOJ can administer justice, or they can murder witnesses, but they cannot do both. Justice Brandeis warned:


Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means—to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution.

The U.S. should drop the case against Tsarnaev.

Note: From context, it is clear that Brandeis did not mean "anarchy" in the Rothbardian sense.

better-dead-than-fed
08-27-2013, 12:41 PM
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