Nearly 250 years ago, John Adams chose to defend the British soldiers who perpetuated the Boston Massacre in court after every other lawyer in the city refused to. Adams was widely reviled for this because the Bostonians wanted to see the soldiers hang, but he made his decision on the basis that under English jurisprudence, everyone was entitled to a fair trial, legal representation, and the presumption of innocence.
The rule of law is the most fundamental aspect of a functioning civilization. Without the rule of law, you get rule of the mob, the rule that predominates in the third world.
The United States no longer has rule of law. 50 percent of the U.S. population believes that the presumption of innocence, fair trials, and the right to legal representation are artifacts of America's "racist," "Nazi" past. They believe that any case where a white person is accused of a crime---or a white person is accusing a non-white of a crime---should be turned into a kangaroo court in which white privilege and whiteness are punished, no matter the facts.
This belief is so strong that this portion of the population is willing to let a murderer walk---even when the evidence clearly shows he is guilty---solely because they hate white people and want to punish them.
Not only that, whites accused of crimes are having a harder and harder time finding adequate legal representation. For example, Christopher Cantwell cannot find a decent lawyer to defend him against the charges that Charlottesville made against him. Charlottesville---the home of Thomas Jefferson, another Founding Father and lawyer himself---does not have one attorney who recognizes that while they may find Cantwell's views repellent, he is entitled to the presumption of innocence and legal representation like everyone else. He had to hire Elmer Woodard, a lunatic who dresses like a Revolutionary War reenactor and operates his practice out of an abandoned gas station.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Elmer+...79.3676244
It's a testament to how bogus the charges against Cantwell are (and what lying scum his accusers are) that even this guy was able to get all but two of them dropped.
Much of the judiciary
itself believes that the rule of law is outmoded and racist. Another example: James Edwards, the host of the radio show the Political Cesspool, recently sued the Detroit Free Press for libel after they called him a "leader of the Ku Klux Klan," despite the fact that he's never even been a member of the KKK. Again, you don't need to agree with Edwards' politics to acknowledge that the Detroit Free Press made a clearly defamatory statement. The court ruled against him on the basis that “a man is known by the company he keeps,” stating that being pro-white and having right-wing views is the same as being the leader of the Klan.
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2017/11...white-men/
This precedent means that fake news media journalists can now make any defamatory statement they want against right-wingers and get away with it. I hope Edwards appeals.
A country cannot survive when one-half of its population believes the other half is unworthy of even the most basic civil rights and legal protection.
If you're still in the U.S. and you're outraged by the Steinle verdict, you better start getting involved in local Republican politics: phone banking and pamphleteering for MAGA candidates, networking with party officials, maybe even running for office yourself. If you don't and the left gets back into power, they are going to round up and possibly kill all of us.
I'm not coming back to the U.S. anytime soon.