I prosecuted in a very heavily White area.
Jury trials aren't only failing because of ethnic tribalism.
They're failing in large part because a jury's expectation of evidence is cartoonishly high, completely divorced from reality. They expect *everything* to be on video nowadays.
They're also failing because juries are more prone to nullification than ever before. Not for any principled reason, such as believe the crime was just, but that they simply don't trust the state to charge and punish people properly and/or they don't care.
E.g., I've had DUI cases where someone who was OBVIOUSLY guilty was acquitted. Multiple. In one of them I spoke to the jury afterward and they flat out told me "All the evidence was there." They just felt bad for the defendant and wanted to go home.
They're also failing because judges and statutes are more pro-criminal than ever before.
Judge Example: In a prosecution for DV Assault, I was prohibited from introducing evidence the Defendant having assaulted the victim previously, despite the fact the law in our jurisdiction explicitly allows for this, because the judge felt it was "too prejudicial."
(Btw, this Defendant testified and confessed to every single element on the stand and the jury still returned a verdict of Not Guilty.)
Statute Example: I prosecuted a woman for stealing $400,000. By law, I could not even ask for jail time because it was her first offense. The Judge had no power to grant a sentence of jail time.
If you try to break the collapse of the justice system down to being only an ethnic/tribal thing, you're going to fail, because that's not anywhere near the only issue.
So, this weekend our new edition of The Camp of the Saints was the subject of a long hit piece in Le Monde, France’s newspaper of record. Its author: Olivier Faye.
Faye’s interest is not limited to Jean Raspail. He recently co-authored (with Gaspard Dhellemmes) a “biography” of another one of our authors, Renaud Camus. I had heard a great deal about this book and then read it. I was not disappointed: I’m not sure that I’ve ever before read a book about the life of another living person written in such a spirit of obvious malice aforethought.
Faye has never heard of the principle of charity. He does not understand that, when confronting ideas, even ideas you may find deeply repellant a priori, basic intellectual hygiene demands that you seek to understand how a rational person might find them appealing. Might there be a case for these ideas, however faulty? Might the particular circumstances of those who subscribe to them explain in some measure their appeal? Could it even be – pshaw! – that they are not entirely wrong?
It is for these reasons that I did not respond to Faye’s repeated requests for interview. In retrospect, I have no doubt that this was the right course of action.
I have little to say about Faye’s article, a simple rehashing of the standard lines of attack on Jean Raspail and The Camp of the Saints. Nathan Pinkoski responds to all of these – and with brio – in the introduction to our new edition.
If Faye’s article has any interest, it is only at the level of its organizing conceit: Faye still seems to believe that, if you just tattletale hard enough, wag your finger, play connect-the-dots with enough publicly disfavored individuals, you will have won your case.
But those days are over, in my view. No honest person can continue to pretend that the past twenty or thirty years of mass immigration to Europe have been a net benefit for host populations. No honest person can pretend that there has not been a concerted effort to dissolve the nation state, dilute its sovereignty, and replace its people. Condemn the book and its admirers all you like, you can only deny reality so long. More and more people are waking up to the reality, more visceral than anything they’ll ever read in the pages of Le Monde, that the world they had so long taken for granted is on the point of disappearing.
- Ethan Rundell,
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