One of the cornerstones of a functioning liberal democracy is the belief that the courts are impartial and that everybody gets a fair shake.
As with everything in life, the real world never attains the lofty heights of our ideals, but a system that is seen as basically fair is fit enough for purpose.
Our justice system is no longer fit for purpose. The examples of biased courts, terrible judges, criminals getting released, political lawfare, and two-tier justice are just too numerous to allow us to sustain faith in the system over time.
BREAKING: A major fraud suspect in Minnesota flees the country days before his trial. Abdirashid Said was the top defendant in an $11 million racketeering PCA fraud case, the largest the MN Attorney General’s office has ever prosecuted. But he skipped town before a pretrial… pic.twitter.com/72CUH0OMgo
— Lou Raguse (@LouNewsMan) April 10, 2026
BREAKING: A major fraud suspect in Minnesota flees the country days before his trial. Abdirashid Said was the top defendant in an $11 million racketeering PCA fraud case, the largest the MN Attorney General’s office has ever prosecuted. But he skipped town before a pretrial hearing this week.
In recent years, we have endured the "Defund the Police" movement, Soros judges, crime waves of repeat felons committing ever more horrendous crimes, and prosecutions of people like Daniel Penny. There is a massive decarceration movement, and the anti-ICE riots were directed against efforts to take rapists and pedophiles off the streets.
Keith Ellison finally prosecutes a major fraud case and lets the guy keep his passport so he can flee the country.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 10, 2026
Unbelievable.
In Fairfax County, three out of four murders were committed by illegal aliens, and the prosecutor bends over backward to go lenient on murderers, to the extent that he now routinely allows pleas of insanity to go unchallenged.
Fairfax County’s main prosecutor, Steve Descano, consistently drops charges against criminals, and especially illegal aliens, as a matter of policy.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 2, 2026
Stephanie Minter’s alleged killers had over 30 previous arrests. Almost every case was dropped.
This is not sustainable. https://t.co/SeIyX7QsYf pic.twitter.com/YuWdvkqCC3
Most crimes are committed by a tiny cohort of career felons, yet our criminal justice revolving door allows them to walk time and again, until they murder somebody. Once they do, they get ridiculously low sentences.
The same Fairfax VA Dem prosecutor @SteveDescano who’s letting illegals murder and molest women and girls across Northern Virginia… let a teen out of prison after just 4 months. That teen robbed and murdered a 73 year old senior https://t.co/zBRMSFtFJz
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) March 14, 2026
None of the illegal aliens who rape and murder in Fairfax County will be handed over to ICE when their sentences are served, because it is a sanctuary for illegal aliens. Few career criminals will see the inside of a prison until their crimes are so horrendous that it is unavoidable, and even then the sentences will be light.
His prior arrests include:
— Punished 'Venom' Simulator (@fleshsimulator) February 26, 2026
Forcible Rape
Attempted Murder (5x)
Malicious Wounding (5x)
Assault and Battery (4x)
The Fairfax DA declined to prosecute every single one of these charges. And now a woman is dead.@SteveDescano must resign. This is ridiculous. https://t.co/4jGrlBIsQH pic.twitter.com/Op2lbv9sbd
And that's just one country of many.
The fact that, in the case described by Lou Raguse above, a man could run a massive fraud scheme that netted $11 million, was given a $150,000 bail, and skipped the country, shows how unserious our legal system is. It was the most predictable thing in the world.
Also, here in Minnesota, two convicted Somali fraudsters were released by judges who overturned jury verdicts, letting them walk free. How is that possible? Our justice system sucks.
FYI … if you live in Minnesota … MEDICAID FRAUD IS 100% LEGAL!!
— Marc Josepi News (@markjos05095724) December 3, 2025
Minnesota judge overturns $7.2M taxpayer fraud conviction despite jury verdict https://t.co/VyZUnUChIW
The bizarre thing is that in many ways, crime is not out of control. Overall, crime is down compared to previous decades, but a certain KIND of crime is exempt from that trend due entirely to policies pursued by liberals.
It’s kind of hilarious that this is what it takes for the NYT to interest itself in recidivism. They wouldn’t dare publish something about actual recidivism rates by eg @Rafa_Mangual https://t.co/MPWv7Zdhh0
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) April 10, 2026
The New York Times reports that 12 of the ~1500 January 6 rioters have reoffended in about a year's time—calling it a "crime spree".
The recidivism rate of the J6ers is 0.8%. The average 1 year US re-arrest rate, by contrast, is 43%.
funny how that works
Very few people commit the vast majority of crimes, and it is the leniency given to unbalanced and career criminals that creates the horror stories we see and read about. We could eliminate a whole category of violent crime by imprisoning relatively few people, and more harshly punishing those who are likely to reoffend.
STORY: https://t.co/tMv2AC5sYr
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) April 8, 2026
This isn't rocket science. The data is there. Common sense tells you that the data is correct. A man who is in jail after committing multiple felonies isn't out in public to commit horrific murders.
In 2021, 70% of D.C.'s prolific gun violence was done by about 500 people.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) April 8, 2026
That's about 0.075% of the D.C. population at the time.
That's basically nobody and they gave the national capital a bad reputation, and they were KNOWN TO THE POLICE! pic.twitter.com/maRs57OyoT
All the cries of oppression in the world are distractions from the basic reality that a few people commit most of the crime, and we can prevent the majority of crime by jailing the criminals.
Just so everyone understands what just happened in Charlotte NC:
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 5, 2026
>woman rams cop with car
>gets $3k bond
>leaves jail
>gets indicted for Assault With Deadly Weapon
>still no jail
>same woman rams 2nd man with car 3 weeks later
>gets $10k bond
>leaves jail
>currently walking free pic.twitter.com/G42wJuACJV
ust so everyone understands what just happened in Charlotte NC:
>woman rams cop with car
>gets $3k bond
>leaves jail
>gets indicted for Assault With Deadly Weapon
>still no jail
>same woman rams 2nd man with car 3 weeks later
>gets $10k bond
>leaves jail
>currently walking free
Nobody can reasonably expect the system to be perfect. The human condition is complicated, and there is no perfect way to prevent crime; there obviously should be limits to how far we are willing to go. We don't need to become a police state.
We just need to punish the criminals.
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