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Because Alvin Bragg chose not to prosecute Donald Trump, the whingers are out again complaining about Merrick Garland, who last I checked was an entirely different person.
Ive copied the Key January 6 posts from my post showing what reporting on the January 6 investigation rather than simply fear-mongering to rile up CNN viewers or your Patreon readers really looks like below.
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There are multiple investigations implicating close Trump associates and the January 6 investigation is absolutely designed to incorporate Trump, if DOJ manages to continue building from the crime scene backwards. But thats not actually what people want. None of these verbs to investigate, to indict, to prosecute are the ones that whingers are really hoping to see.
And the verbs theyre hoping to see perhaps neutralize or disappear are not ones that happen as part of due process.
And none of the due process verbs investigate, indict, prosecute are likely to work unless people at the same time think of things like discredit.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/03/26/whinger-verbs-to-investigate-to-prosecute-to-indict/
At the end of the article are some really good links and each article (like this one) is well sourced. For all those who want to say that nothing is happening, this is an excellent primer to get into the things that are actually happening and understand the how and why of the investigation. There is a ton of information out there... People seem to prefer to trash Garland and call for his removal rather the looking at it... I do not know why.
Joinfortmill
(14,137 posts)I suspect they are lazy, and might like to stir the pot.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,286 posts)Recreational whining (whinging in Britspeak) is far easier and emotionally satisfying than reading well sourced information that runs counter to one's vegeance-driven outrage narrative.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,286 posts)But that goes to Atkins curious choice of the word prosecute here. I generally use the verb to refer to what happens after an indictment the years long process of rebuffing frivolous legal challenges, but for an organized crime network, prosecute might also mean working your way up from people like militia members guarding your rat-fucker to the militia leaders planning with your rat-fucker to the rat-fucker to the crime boss.
I think what Atkins actually means, though, is indict, or charge. But his entire post betrays a fantasy where one can simply arrest a white collar criminal in the act after he has committed the act.
erronis
(14,853 posts)I hope that everyone that sees Marcy's post keeps the URL somewhere that they can refer to when seeing yet another "why can't they prosecute/etc." or "they're sitting on their hands" or various conspiracies.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/03/26/whinger-verbs-to-investigate-to-prosecute-to-indict/
Please put this in a reply to whoever is currently whinging.