Regis Tremblay interviews Lucy Komisar on video, Dec. 2022. --Bill Browder. Convicted of tax evasion in Russia, ran off with millions. Singlehandedly with the help of anti-Russian Democrats passed the Magnitsky Act to punish Russians. His anti-Putin, Anti-Russia lies played right into the hands of the US Deep State, CIA, St…
Of course, a republic can’t run without authorities who follow the rule of law. Civil disobedience by citizens can be an important challenge to corrupt or immoral politicians, but when corporate leaders themselves start breaking the law in their own narrow interests, societal order breaks down. Polishing their left-libertarian veneer, the on-demand economy firms now flouting basic employment and anti-discrimination laws would like us to believe that they follow in the footsteps of Gandhi’s passive resistance, rather than segregationists’ massive resistance. But their wealthy, powerful, nearly-all-white-and-male cast of chief executives come far closer to embodying, rather than fighting, “the man”.
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by James Grant When rights are at issue, Americans instinctively turn to the courts. It is an undemocratic habit that they have exported, along with the underlying institutions, with dismaying success