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The Rule of Lawless, Newspeak Dept. 0

A former Federal prosecutor comments on the pardon of Rob Blagojevich. A snippet:

Get out of Jail free card

We have stepped through the looking glass, or entered George Orwell’s dystopia. Criminals are victims. Public servants are criminals. Truth is a lie, and lies told loudly and persistently carry the day. We are at a tipping point where the bedrocks of our society are under attack.

Elsewhere, Leonard Pitts, Jr., has a somewhat different interpretation, arguing that we are not, indeed, living in “post-fact America,” but rather in “post-integrity America.”

Experiments fail, even noble ones.

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