Pay attention to human beings who corrupt and corrode their intimate, social, and political relationships. Lying is a criminal vice.
However, treachery, disloyalty, and cruelty are also crimes that politicians become engulfed in for the need for power. We’ve seen this in local, state, regional and national politics.
The accursed vice and the most vile and all-corrupting of them all is lying. Since understanding is brought about by words, whoever breaks their word betrays society.
I was once a South Florida journalist and I have a couple of family members who're high-profile Miami powerbrokers. Luckily they have Latino names. One is Soto and the other Suarez. They’re also both lawyers, so I know a thing or two about this subject. However, I am not insinuating that’s how both of the got to the top.
A Lesser BIG LIE in Miami Dade Judicial Politics In Miami Dade County if you want to win an election, give yourself a Latino surname and run against someone who doesn't have one. Marketing and Political Expediency over Competency.
14 Miami-Dade judicial candidates qualify for county, and circuit court races. Ladies and gentlemen, start your name-calling.
This is not a Miami only issue. Lying was front and center during recent #SCOTUS hearings. Since judges, in order to keep the perception of being unbiased, are not allowed to campaign on ideas or positions it basically becomes a popularity contest.
And while on the subject, it makes some folks angry when they hear the news disparage another nation's conviction rate and say that it’s because defendants elsewhere don’t have the same rights and protections provided for in the USA criminal justice system.
American federal prosecutors had a 99.6 percent conviction rate, according to a recent finding from Pew Research. https://www.pewresearch.org/, which is probably higher than other countries' conviction rates.
Exposing the fallacies of America’s criminal justice industrial complex might be with considering What is the percentage or rate of conviction in the federal court system in the USA?