(05-10-2017, 04:05 AM)1984hasarrived Wrote: So let me get this right. Trump is under investigation by the FBI, so fires the Director and gets to appoint a new one who will hopefully continue the investigation on him.
And people are ok with that?
Got it. This must be Amuricah.
I dunno about "people", but I'm fine with it. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
The FBI became politicized under Comey, and no law enforcement agency should be politicized. It's not a political job, it's a job determining lawful and unlawful, and who gets prosecuted. Politicization leads to political favoritism. Mussolini, Hitler, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Fidel Castro, and a host of others have always had political law enforcement, and that has not turned out so well for the people in their countries.
My gripes with Comey started with his attacks on encryption, but didn't end there. Now the FBI talks out of both sides of it's mouth regarding encryption and the first through fifth amendments, while at the same time trying to destroy them. How can one both support and attempt to destroy something? Comey had a hard-on for people's privacy long before the Apple iphone debacle. Encryption is the only way in this day and age to keep your privacy private, and Comey assaulted that ability.
In a similar way in the matter of the Hillary investigation, he said, right out in front of God and everybody, that Hillary was guilty AND that the FBI declined to prosecute. That's not law enforcement, that is favoritism. That's a Very Bad Thing in the American political system. Sure, you may be happy with the results of a politicized investigation when YOUR boys are in control, but what about when the same thing happens when your political opponents are in control? Not so nice then, is it? LAw enforcement functionality supporting political opponents quickly turns "opponents" into "enemies". That's why politics absolutely HAS to be kept out of law enforcement functions. One cannot expect impartial law enforcement in favoritist environments, which is the sort of environment Comey was fostering.
So, yeah, I'm good with it. Should have been done long ago.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’