From the Archives: Jail Them! They’re Political Offenders!

Editor’s Note: At Savvy Street we focus on the philosophical detection, on principles, on the trends that are either good or evil, liberty promoting or dangerous.

An excellent illustration of this is Walter Donway’s August 2018 essay. This is how it began:

There is no more alarming harbinger of political chaos and freedom’s twilight than the introduction into a nation of the concept—and prosecution—of political crimes. Literally millions of people in our time have been punished with death or life in a concentration camp or imprisonment—under regimes communist, fascist, or authoritarian—for the “crime” of political disagreement.

On the Trump indictment last week, this is what Alan Dershowitz said: “This is a case of targeting an individual and then rummaging through the statute books in search of a crime. Prosecutors seem to have come up with nothing under established law, then made up a misdemeanor and then piggybacked it on another alleged crime to create a felony.”

Read More of the trend identified in 2018 at:            https://www.thesavvystreet.com/jail-them-theyre-political-offenders/

About the Author: Walter Donway

Walter Donway has written and edited for Savvy Street since its inception in 2014. His essays and interpretative commentaries on breakthrough books have dealt with philosophy, politics, literature, science, history, psychology, and personalities. His new novel, "Retaking College Hill,” became Amazon’s #1 bestseller in political fiction. This year, the Atlas Society published his Pocket Guide to The Fountainhead and Romanticism Reborn--essays on the Romantic movement in literature and its 20th Century revival in Ayn Rand's novels. His collections of essays and short stories and his "Collected Poems" are available on Amazon. He lives in East Hampton with his wife, Robin.