A very good analysis:
McCulloch stood there, and described an execution, then in the next breath said there was nothing to see here. He didn’t sound like any prosecutor I have heard before. He sounded much more like a defense attorney, the defense attorney for Darren Wilson. A prosecutor wants an indictment when they go to a grand jury so therefore in the almost non-existent cases where they don’t get one, they are distraught, just as they are when they lose a case in court. McCulloch hardly seemed upset about the decision, in fact he seemed vindicated, just like a defense attorney would be after they got their client off.
Exactly. A prosecutor who couldn’t get a grand jury to indict is a prosecutor who failed to do his job. He should be contrite and apologetic. American justice system is an adversarial one. Its entire success hinges on it being adversarial. And “adversarial” means that a prosecutor is opposing the defense. He should be motivated to win against the defense, not do the defense’s work for it.
First, Wilson takes the people’s money and fails to perform his job duties, whining about his fee-fee-feelings. Then, McCulloch fails to do his job and flaunts his incompetence as a badge of honor. And somehow, after all this vaunted incompetence neither is subjected to public firing and shaming for being so inept. What is it with this worship of incompetence?
I don’t understand why people are not angry about this. If you failed this badly at your job, would your employer keep you around? If your employees fucked up this bad and this publicly, would you be keeping them on the payroll? This situation is an insult to everybody who brings home an honest paycheck.
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An antidote:
http://www.foyleswar.com/foyles-war-episode-guide
Sorry I can’t comment directly on the issue.
Mike was telling me yesterday that a three-star general had been speaking in the manner of a normal guy, with a normal portion of common sense, saying that the US entry into Afghanistan and Iraq was doomed by the fact that Americans could not speak these Middle-Eastern languages. Mike noted that even though bin Laden was only a business manager, he was able to play the US state like a charm by drawing them in, so that they would have to deal with a situation they could not understand, which would lead to the creation of many more jihadis.
It’s nice when a three-star general can speak, many years afterwards, in the manner of an oridinary guy imbued with common-sense.
Add a bit of political and/or strategic thinking to this mix and I swear you are onto a winner!
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Right now I made a scary realization. Is the grand jury actually a real thing in America? Do they really let ordinary people decide in the case of serious crimes? Fuck, till now I was 100% convinced it was just a fiction which was made up for the sake of movies.
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There was a jury that released a very vicious murderer because its members didn’t “believe in DNA.” That was a very famous case. That case is part of the reason why it’s impossible to convict Darren Wilson today.
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