#143 Unsk

Agreed with caveats. There must not be any hint of plea bargaining, special handling, country club detention centers, or anything but the same level of treatment and degradation [and that is part of the process, as you are no longer anything special and your position or former position should mean nothing before the law] as in the normal criminal justice system, applied strictly. There admittedly may be a problem in defining what is a ‘normal’ criminal justice system the longer it takes to re-establish the social contract.

Strict Nuremberg rules. They must be held responsible for the actions of their subordinates, even if it results in a capital sentence. And subordinates are not excused from activities that are a violation of the Constitution based on orders from above. Those charged and convicted must not come out with any sort of celebrity or social standing. They are traitors and felons.

There is a part of the Rule of Law that must be pondered. If this regime feels it has the upper hand, there will no doubt be the equivalent of thoughtcrime and political crimes established and punished. And they might well be capital, as that is the trend in totalitarian states. Using the Rule of Law existing, they could possibly be charged with the same thing as their victims. That may not be appropriate for the revived civil order; or conversely it might be thought necessary to account for the worst crimes. Once again, we are looking through a glass darkly. For myself, I think that a charge equivalent to High Treason, being defined as the deliberate overthrow of the rule of the Constitution by someone in a position of Federal power and trust [president, vice-president, members of the cabinet or those appointed to positions of executive power outside the Constitution (think Czars), members of Congress, and members of the Federal Judiciary] might serve both to punish the guilty then and be worth retaining on the books in the new civil order. And for that, I [who am not a nice person] would recommend a penalty involving hemp rope and “cervical one-point vertical dynamic suspension”. But that is a matter for the survivors of the interregnum to decide.

The point is, there is to be no reconciliation with criminals and enemies. Those who have committed and are convicted of crimes, those who abet the High Treason noted above, are literally not our countrymen. No kiss and make up. No giving them another turn at governing. If they once betray the Constitution, I would be leery of accepting their word in swearing renewed allegience afterwards. And if they would not, I do not mind the concept of denaturalization and permanent exile.

I expect brickbats to be incoming, and have donned the Nomex shorts and Kevlar codpiece in preparation.

Subotai Bahadur