bushwa

 I have my doubts about it how applicable that law is, seems a bit of a stretch to me, seems like under the prosecutor's application, a lot of criminal acts could be considered terrorism, but I guess that will be for the lawyers to wrangle.  Funny that we haven't heard anything from Fieger.  Usually in a big time case like this the lawyers for both sides want to get a lot of what their argument is out early before the jury is chosen so as to influence their opinion.  Or that's what they say in the movies.

But my question is why the prosecutor is doing it.  She seems to be claiming that this will make it justice for all the kids not just the ones that were killed, which I am not buying.  I suspect she is doing it so as to be seen to be throwing the book at the kid, as being tough on crime and er, terrorism so people will be sure to vote for her next election day.

And the reason that we have police and courts is so that justice is meted out for all of us.  It may not work out that way in all cases, but that is the theory.  It's so that people don't have to mete out that justice on their own, which satisfying as some people find that, is destabilizing for government.  

When the kid is convicted of whatever charge goes down, that will be justice for all of us, this terrorism charge is just a bunch of bushwa.

When Texas wrote that abominable abortion law they meant to keep it out of the courts by giving individual people the right to sue people they thought were abetting abortion, the dodge being that then the abettors would not be able to sue the government for redress because it was Mr Soandso, not the government that had been bringing the case against him.  Strikes me also as so much bushwa. 

And now the governor of California is going to use the same principle to prosecute ownership of assault rifles.  And as strongly as I feel that this country would be a better place without Mr Soandso packing those things, I deplore this future California law for the means.

But if the right is going to use it on abortion for their purposes, isn't it only fair that we use it for our purposes?