can’t stop a nazi
with a lawbook – drop lawbooks
… and learn how to fly?
From the book, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk.
Barney Greenwald explains to the officers of the Caine:
” … when all hell broke loose and the Germans started running out of soap and figured, well it’s time to come over and melt down old Mrs. Greenwald — who’s gonna stop them? Not her boy Barney. Can’t stop a Nazi with a lawbook. So I dropped the lawbooks and ran to learn how to fly. Stout fellow. Meantime, and it took a year and a half before I was any good, who was keeping Mama out of the soap dish? Captain Queeg.“
The tried and true standard operating procedure for on DJ Trump is delay delay delay.
His lightning speed blitzkrieg attack on the United States government from within has taken everyone off guard.
To defend ourselves, we run to … the lawbooks.
We run to the lawbooks and expect the other side to play by the rules.
But to the other side, the only rules that matter are the rules that help their side win.
Otherwise its a rule they don’t have to abide by.
To defend ourselves, we run to … the lawbooks.
It is as if we have been run over by a truck and left bleeding in the street and are running to the lawbooks to get a medical treatment.
The time it takes, and the known delaying tactics as well as the disregard for the lawbooks pretty much garruntees that regardless of how the lawbook action turns out, we will have died before any decision is reached.
In their Guest Opinion essay, This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them (New York Times Feb. 16, 2025), Trevor W. Morrison and Richard H. Pildes (Mr. Morrison and Mr. Pildes are both professors of law at N.Y.) write:
Executive branch defiance of the courts is not a simple, one-time-only decision. A prudent court will give the government officials covered by its order multiple opportunities to comply with the order, and will escalate things only when the officials by their own actions (or inaction) make their defiance clear.
Judicial independence and the stability of the rule of law take generations to establish in a credible, durable way. A foolish administration that seeks to defy the courts for short-term political gains or simply to show its “dominance” of other institutions would soon seek shelter from the whirlwind it would undoubtedly unleash.
Generations?
We don’t have 10 minutes.
You can’t stop a nazi with a lawbook.
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