Monday, December 14, 2020

Suspicious behavior

Proponents of 'stop and frisk', essentially the on right, claim that the policy is justified by reasonable suspicion that those they target (non-whites) are more suspect than others (whites).  But those same advocates are outraged when that logic is applied to "one of their own" (even if he wasn't really). 

Trump's long history of disregarding the rules made his actions in the run up to the 2016 election look highly suspicious; indeed his actions then and subsequently all appear to reaffirm his intent to do whatever it takes to achieve his ends irrespective of their legality, let alone their inappropriateness. Without enumerating all his transgressions here, one simply has to remember that he lies almost constantly, starting with crowd size and ending with voter fraud. 

So if law enforcement had to make a call as to whether to look into the Russia collusion matter or give him the benefit of the doubt, any reasonable person would have erred on the side of caution and investigated. Stop and frisk is "justified" because "African Americans are inherently suspicious" but when a white millionaire with a history of shady dealings does something that most would think is suspicious, well "that's not something we should be looking into"? Please!

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