Reply #140: This dualistic thinking has no place in the law. No matter how "slimy" a person they must be guilty

[McCamy Taylor]

of the crime with which they are charged and the evidence against them must be collected in a legal manner and they must be tried in a court of law in the prescribed manner. I am not a lawyer, but I know that it is our legal system that keeps us free.

What I have been seeing posted here at DU this past week is basically Blago is a scumbag that no one liked and we are all sure that he is guilty of something, so he should he punished and removed from office.

That is lynch mob mentality

When I try to point this out, people claim that I am cutting slack for Bush and Cheney, but that is not the same thing at all. There are mountains of evidence against Bush and Cheney. Plenty of legal experts have made the cases against Bush and Cheney in books, online, on television. They have been tried and convicted in surrogate courts over and over, since they will never see the inside of a real court, the same way that some of history's worst mass murderers like Stalin are tried by history. They can be tried, because their infamy and the wealth of knowledge about them makes it easy to study them.

None of us knows enough about Blago and the details of this case to judge it at this moment. This I don't like him, no sirree, so he must be guilty is a very American phenomenon, and it is exploited by the corporate class to bring down political leaders, civil rights leaders, union leaders and others whom they want eliminated.

Engels was exactly right. Americans rely too much on emotion and experience in making political decisions and they do not trust their reason and political theory. If we used the last two more, maybe we would already have national health insurance, paid maternity leave, equal education and clean air and water.