Canadian publisher and investor Conrad Black interviews Mark Steyn. Conrad Black describes the U.S. Justice Department as the world’s largest organized crime organization. As evidence of the collapse of America’s criminal courts, Black discusses the conviction rates of the U.S., Canada, and the UK: 99 percent conviction rate in the U.S. 61 percent in Ontario, …
Category: pro-government courts
Oct 28
Two Schoolboys Criminally Charged with Insulting Turkish President
Every government ultimately comes for all freedom, all property, all money, and to kill all who resist. Only the vitality of the private sector stands in their way. Now two small children in Turkey are being criminally prosecuted for tearing down a poster of their purported government master, Erdogan. During the past two years, artists, …
Oct 23
Losing the battle on science, governments increasingly seek to “settle” the global-warming question in court
You know governments are losing the battle in the field of science when they seek to create judgments and “findings of fact.” They did it to Socrates. They did it to Galileo. Now, increasingly, governments and socialist promoters of the catastrophic-manmade-global-warming-by-human-released-CO2 theory are resorting to the strong arm of government venues, such as courts, commissions …
Sep 06
Government continues waging war on pain doctors and their patients
For years, government drug investigators and prosecutors have sought to act as “supervising physicians” over the medical profession–indicting and imprisoning doctors (and often, their patients) whom the government deems to be dispensing or using too much pain medication. Pain is a symptom, not an illness, and no two doctors or health experts agree on pain …
Jul 17
Judges are increasingly dismissing civil cases.
As many legal commentators have noted, jury trials are virtually vanishing. Prosecutors file complicated multi-count indictments, expecting that every defendant will be forced to plead guilty to something. Increasingly, only a fool would risk his life by taking such cases to a jury. Almost every error is a crime and almost every crime is a …