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A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83904/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #absolutepower #abovethelaw #assassination #civilization #despotism #greatergood #killing #lawlessness #morality #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence -
https://candeloro.substack.com/p/the-name-that-appears-12000-times?utm_campaign%3Dpost%26utm_medium%3Dweb=&triedRedirect=true
#rothchild #jeffreyepstein #peterthiel #leswexner #houseoversightcommittee #éliederothschild #southerntrustcompanyinc #virginislands #edmondderothschild #cso #childsexoffender #arianederothschild #edmondderothschildgroup #childsexualexploitation #wikileaks #lynnforesterderothschild #hillaryclinton #cherylmills #alandershowitz #billclinton #princeandrew #cindymccain #financialrepresentative #childsextrafficking #rockefeller #warburg #schiff #abovethelaw #control -
Movies of the day (4/8) 🎬 Soul Surfer(2011) 🎬 Above the Law(1988) 🎬 Valley Girl(1983) 🎬 Leprechaun 2(1994) © TMDB #SoulSurfer #AbovetheLaw #ValleyGirl #Leprechaun2 #Action #Comedy #Drama #Family #Horror #Romance #Thriller #Movie #MovieOfTheDay #OnThisDay #TMDB
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For it is clear that in a monarchy, where the person who executes the laws holds himself above them, less virtue is required than in a popular government, where the person who executes the laws is aware that he himself is subject to them and that he will feel their weight.
[Car il est clair que, dans une monarchie, où celui qui fait exécuter les loix se juge au-dessus des loix, on a besoin de moins de vertu que dans un gouvernement populaire, où celui qui fait exécuter les loix, sent qu’il y est soumis lui-même, & qu’il en portera le poids.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83090/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Montesquieu #abovethelaw #autocracy #democracy #equalprotectionunderthelaw #equalrights #immunity #law #monarchy #populargovernment #power #republic #subject #virtue
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PERICLES: Kings are Earth’s gods; in vice their law’s their will;
And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Pericles, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 108ff (1.1.108-109) (1607) [with George Wilkins]More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #pericles #accusation #king #law #monarchy #nobility #power #questioning #royalty #vice #immunity #abovethelaw
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It’s strange. As a paramedic for 18 years I never felt the need to punish or assault a person who caused harm to another person*.
So I have difficulty understanding why the police should consider it permissible for them to.
Oh, I know why it’s because #ACAB
*including when they assaulted me.
#canberra #auspol #Policing #policebrutality #abovethelaw #afp #act #actpolicing
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Die gute Nachricht
Manche beschweren sich, dass es hier zu viele Negativ-Schlagzeilen gibt. Kann ich nachempfinden. Deshalb hier mal eine #gutenachricht:
Rachel Cohen wird "Lawyer of the Year"
Sie stellte sich öffentlich gegen eine Reihe von Angriffen der #Trump-Regierung auf US-Großkanzleien und kündigte als Zeichen des Protests sogar ihren Job als Associate bei Skadden. Dafür wurde sie nun vom #Recht|smagazin Above the Law als Anwältin des Jahres 2025 ausgezeichnet.
"Sie hat den Angehörigen der Rechtsberufe neue Hoffnung gegeben, sich für #Demokratie und #Rechtsstaat|lichkeit einzusetzen, und verdient großen Dank von allen Anwältinnen und Anwälten in Amerika".
Ist das nicht schön?!
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“It is not to limit access to justice or constrain the right of individuals or communities to challenge decisions.” - Dept. Spokesperson, not named, chuckling to self (/s). #JudicialReview #AccessToJustice #AboveTheLaw
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"ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees"
Yes, you read that right.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/ice-detention-center-says-its-not-responsible
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@UnicornRiot murder in cold blood.
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Virginia State Bar Whistles Past Lindsey Halligan Ethics Complaint Claiming It's Not Their Job - Above the Law #TrumpCrimeRegime #TrumpCrimeSyndicate #AboveTheLaw
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@SueDiOh
You forget, #SCotUS made him unprosecutable. #AboveTheLaw #LawAndOrderMyAss -
There it is in plain English. We are not going to follow orders from judges. The law is what we think it is... #CriminalRegime #MAGA #AboveTheLaw #CriminalConspirity
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There it is in plain English. We are not going to follow orders from judges. The law is what we think it is... #CriminalRegime #MAGA #AboveTheLaw #CriminalConspirity
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@realTuckFrumper
I still haven't figured out the point of ANY court telling #TheOrangeMenace that he must do ANYTHING.#SCotUS placed #MafiaDon #AboveTheLaw. He can't be prosecuted... hell, he can't even be INVESTIGATED... for failing to comply with a court order. And the #GOP sure as hell would never impeach him (or even challenge him.)
And so far, he's ignored every other court order w/o consequence.
So why start now? 🤨
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Toss freedom for others, lose it yourself
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Self-Promotion at Taxpayer Expense
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#WarnerBros., #DCComics and More Sue #Midjourney, Says #AI Firm 'Thinks It Is #AbovetheLaw'
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#RightingWrongs aka #AboveTheLaw (1986)
Jason Chan, a lawyer angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys. He decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are murdered.
#GirlsWithGuns #CynthiaRothrock #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 -
#Trump's #Gestapo take another step in their relentless quest to achieve total un-accountability.
----#ICE Is Now Trying To Convince #Congress Members It Needs 72-Hours Notice Before Facility Inspections | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/23/ice-is-now-trying-to-convince-congress-members-it-needs-72-hours-notice-before-facility-inspections/
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@newsguyusa
Today's #GOP has decided it is #AboveTheLaw, and no Court can dictate what they can & cannot do.And a #ConvictedFelon is their (literal) king.
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Wingnut Texas Judge Overrules SCOTUS Trans Decision Because YOLO
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/05/wingnut-texas-judge-overrules-scotus-trans-decision-because-yolo/
#USPol #TransDiscrimination #TitleVII #JudgeKacsmaryk #Texas_v_EEOC #LGBTQIA+ #ATL #AboveTheLaw #LizDye -
"The Website Where Lawyers Mock ‘Yellow-Bellied’ Firms Bowing to Trump. #AboveTheLaw, a legal industry website with a long history of skewering the nation’s most elite firms, has found a moment and plenty of inside tipsters":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/politics/law-firms-trump-above-the-law.html
"The site urges readers to send us your leads, gossip, leaked documents, embarrassing photos or anything else juicy.” #lawfare #politics -
@tofugolem Due process failed to prosecute Trump, so why should he believe in it? #AboveTheLaw #DueProcess #Caprice #NoLawsUS #ElectingIgnorantPresidents #LiarsLaws
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"Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii":
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/politics/tulsi-gabbard-texas-hawaii-voting-residency-invs/index.htmlMatt McDermott: "In any normal administration, if the Director of National Intelligence committed voter fraud, it would lead to an immediate resignation and a criminal investigation."
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Sen. Chris Murphy: "The Signal scandal likely involves criminal behavior. If there is no Department of Justice investigation, then it will become 100% clear - if it isn’t already - that the law no longer applies to powerful people in this country."
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Arresting officers realize they can lie to secure confessions. Senior officers know they can exaggerate to lobby for bigger budgets. For some, a form of “noble cause corruption” is at play—a sense that any means will justify the ends of securing social order and making sure the bad guys go to jail.
https://thewalrus.ca/why-do-cops-keep-lying/#:~:text=Arresting%20officers%20realize%20they%20can,bad%20guys%20go%20to%20jail
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@jmjm
Ever since #MafiaDon packed the #SCotUS with sycophants who declared him unimpeachable & #AboveTheLaw, he has been taking full advantage, committing a string of #unconstitutional actions that would have gotten him #impeached a dozen times over *already* under normal circumstances.Best example: His *first* impeachment in 2019 was for attempting to attempting to withhold weapons "appropriated by Congress" for #Ukraine. Not an Executive power.
#DOGE is one giant violation of that power.
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Another #MAGA Judge Makes Shocking Legal Argument
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@thenewsdesk @news-thenewsdesk A Grand Jury recommends that the city of Hanceville, #Alabama #DefundThePolice because it acts like a criminal organization. ⬆️
Meanwhile the #POTUS believes he is #AboveTheLaw and has appointed an #FBI Director who promised to be his henchman. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-henchman-kash-patel-lawsuit/
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@VeroniqueB99
The #GOP packed the #SCotUS with his appointees who then ruled he's #AboveTheLaw.That was the #Republican long game. They only needed to fill 5 seats (they have 6). They (arguably) can't be removed, and enjoy lifetime appointments. And just look how much damage they've done in just a short time:
They abolished the 1965 #CivilRights Act.
Overturned #Roe.
And declared the #Potus is Above the Law & can't be #impeached.
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EVERY TIME A #REPUBLICAN (when asked about #IllegalImmigration) says the phrase: "We're a nation of laws", they need to be reminded WE JUST ELECTED A #ConvictedFelon & #AdjudicatedRapist PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and a Supreme Court packed with his OWN appointees declaring HE IS #AboveTheLaw and can't be IMPEACHED much less prosecuted for ANY crimes he commits while he's in office (or... arguably... while simply RUNNING for office.) 🤬 #MtP
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As we say good-riddance to 2024:
I NEVER thought this country would (and still not sure they did) elect a CONVICTED CRIMINAL #PotUS…
KNOWING a corrupt #SCotUS engaging in LEGALIZED BRIBERY would declare the president #AboveTheLaw.
A #WannabeDictator who quoted & defended NAZI'S 😵, whose incompetence cost over ONE MILLION Americans lives due to a #pandemic he helped spread, then blame the guy fixing his disaster over "how bad" the #economy was TWO YEARS AGO.
