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PS: Sorry for the O/T post but they brought back nice memories :)

Well, legitimate justice against a corrupt prosecutor is impossible right now.

I expect to begin hearing about prosecutors being assassinated any day now.

Yeah, you never know the way things are going. But if you stick to public sidewalks for pickets and you avoid anything that sounds like a threat in your speech and/or correspondences then they would really have to get creative in court.

I don’t disagree with what you say, but how long will it be before these completely legal actions are labeled as acts of domestic terrorism?

You have the Blue Wall of Silence, and then you have the Pinstripe Wall of Silence.

I think, paradoxically, the reason we don’t see more Jim Bell type solutions is the same reasons the injustices are perpetuated in the first place. People believe the government works. They believe the justice system actually peruses justice and that any vigilante action would be punished severely. The first belief isn’t true just by any means, but its a pleasant fiction people maintain. The second one is untrue mostly because the police really aren’t that good at catching dedicated criminals, especially the ones that have little problem firing on cops.

The problem is that most of the people out there are decent. They’re not all good, or kind, or caring, but they’re decent enough to where they wouldn’t kill somebody. Even when their lives are threatened by government force few every consider challenging their attacker directly. The cops beat them, the prosecutors and judges lie to them, and they spend decades in prison because they played by rigged rules. But even after all that they mostly just want to be left alone. The thought of actively resisting the government actors that wronged them is beyond consideration. The morality of everyday people is the means by which they are oppressed.

It’s a terrible Catch-22; no matter how terrible your government is only the worst kind of people are actually willing to do something about it. There just aren’t enough sociopaths out there willing to kill on principle alone. The few that exist seem more drawn to work for the government rather than resist it.

They may be the only means of redress approved by lawyers and the justice system, but lawsuits are only one of many possible tactics. Public shaming and even harassment of such officials is another possible tactic. Blogs like The Agitator are a part of this. More up close and personal tactics might include pickets of the officials workplace (the court house, the police department, the federal building, etc) or even their residence. Let this person’s co-workers, neighbors, friends and even their families know what they have done. These tactics are completely legal and apparently need to be employed more often, since going through “additional channels” is not enough. Unless absolutely necessary, threats should be avoided, because then they will turn it all around on you.

Direct action should become the tactic of choice if state and corporate entities continue to thumb their noses at “the rabble.”

Actually, no, there are other means of redressing wrongs against the system. They’re very unpleasant to contemplate, but given that the system has run absolutely amok, these alternate means might soon become the norm for those who realize that they will get no justice whatsoever under prevailing conditions.

There’s a reason you don’t hear that much about prosecutorial misconduct in the UK compared to the US… (Indeed, it’s a system which works a lot better than our police or judiciary)

Those who run the system understand perfectly that they are invulnerable, and people who are not held accountable for wrongdoing eventually will run off the rails.

The end result is vigilante justice against said people. That’s less bad than them just running rampant, but it does lasting structural damage to society.