Justice Has Departed America. Will Justice Return?
Paul Craig Roberts

Readers of this column will remember some years ago my many reports on gratuitous police violence, often resulting in death of innocent and unresisting people.  Many incidents were the result of SWAT teams being sent to the wrong address. On one occasion the police, not realizing where they were, arrested their own mayor on drug charges and terrified his family. A 12 or 13  year old black kid was shot down by police without the police asking a single question, mistaking his toy gun for a real one.  A man in a wheel chair was choked to death.  These incidents were due to police trained according to Israeli practices used against  Palestinians.  Full of authority, the enjoyment of which they were experiencing, the police destroyed their reputation, making it easy for “abolish the police” movements to take hold in blue states and cities.

You should be able to find my reports on gratuitous police violence in this website’s archives, including a report I wrote for Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal.  

I prophesied that the police misconduct would come back and bite them, and it did.  Officer Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers paid the price of the public’s loss of confidence in the police due to the brutality that has come to be part of a police arrest in America.

Just as I reported on police brutality, I, almost alone, reported on the orchestrated frame-up of Derek Chauvin for “murdering” George Floyd.  

The only evidence that Chauvin murdered Floyd was a cell phone video taken by a young black woman from a distance that suffered from perspective distortion. The video suggested that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s throat or neck, while Floyd was crying out “I can’t breathe.”  The close up videos from the police showed that Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s shoulder, the approved and taught technique for holding a person still.  Chauvin was holding Floyd still, because he realized that Floyd  was on a death dose of fentanyl and was using up his little available oxygen by thrashing around. Chauvin had medics called.  Their delay was not Chauvin’s fault. Chauvin did everything he was supposed to do.

Floyd  complained of breathing difficulties while sitting in the back seat of the police car before he was held motionless on the ground by Chauvin by the correct measure of knee on shoulder.

The medical examiner’s report found in Floyd’s blood a death dose of fentanyl and said that if it were not for the politicized case against Chauvin, that would have been the verdict.

Undeterred by evidence the corrupt, in my opinion, Minnesota governor, Kamala Harris’s vice president running mate, Tim Walz, whose election as governor raises serious questions about the integrity of the people of Minnesota, inflamed the situation. The presstitutes, prosecutor, judge, and jury had their orders: convict a white racist for murdering a black man.  The American whore media scripted the entire frame-up of a totally innocent Derek Chauvin.

The corrupt, in my opinion, prosecutor and judge, willingly participated in the frame-up and conviction of an innocent man. All evidence of Chauvin’s innocence was withheld from the trial, not that the jury would have paid any attention to the evidence. The jury knew that they had to convict, because Chauvin had already been convicted by the American whore media, and jurors did not want Black Lives Matter and Antifa on their front lawns and their house burnt down with them inside while police and Governor Walz stood aside.

Here we see Woke Justice, a fraud that convicts innocents in order to support its ideological agenda. This is law in America today. In earlier years of my life, the American whore media’s conviction of Chauvin in the press would have resulted in all charges dropped against Chauvin on the grounds that there was no jury that could give him an honest trial.  

Nothing has been done about  the  intentional false conviction of an innocent person.  Chauvin was stabbed 21 times in prison by an inmate brainwashed by the whore American media and Minnesota governor Tim Walz.

Chauvin’s mother showed on TV the Minneapolis police training manuals that demonstrated the technique of knee on shoulder used by Chauvin, and the corrupt or intimidated or cowardly or paid off Minneapolis black police chief denied that the manuals existed.But there the manuals were, held up for inspection.

The facts of the case are totally clear.  George Floyd died from his own overdose of fentanyl. An overdose prevents red blood cells from carrying oxygen to vital functions. That is why Floyd couldn’t breath and why he died.

A totally corrupt Democratic prosecution prevented any examination of the evidence. They needed a white racist victim, and they manufactured one.

As it is always the case, it is years afterward that the truth starts to emerge.  It took a half century before it became clear that the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a total fraud. It took a decade before 9/11 was exposed.  The Gulf of Tonkin lie, which gave us the Vietnam War, lasted a long time. We are only now understanding that President Franklin Rosevelt, the great hero of American progressives, deceived Americans about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that he more or less orchestrated.  

I could go on. Remember what US Marine Commander General Smedley Butler said:  “War is a racket.”  “I and my US Marines were enforcers for the New York Banks.”

In America today frame-up convictions are easier than convictions on the basis of evidence.  Indeed, evidence plays a diminishing role in trials today. The career function of a prosecutor today is not to find innocence or guilt but to convict. The prosecutor’s conviction rate leads to his reelection and creates name-recognition so that he can run for higher office, as Rudi Guiliani did with the Michael  Milken case. The pubic is never told that the prosecutor’s conviction rate is based on coerced plea bargains in which the original charges are dropped in exchange for lessor charges that no one committed.  

The corrupt judges go along with this conviction by self-incrimination, a violation of Anglo-American law and written and unwritten Constitutions. All parties–the prosecutors, the defendant, and his attorney–agree, when asked by the judge, that no deal was made and that the defendant is guilty of his plea to have committed a crime that he has not committed. Corrupt American law schools justify these falsehoods as a cost-effective way of maximizing convictions and for clearing the schedules of Judges’ court cases. A plea bargain only takes a few minutes.  A trial can go many days, even weeks.

No juror in any US court case should ever accept any evidence of guilt, because 97% of it is falsified. Even the guilty are convicted on the basis of false evidence. Police and prosecutors do not have to be careful about evidence, because it is seldom tested in a trial.

American justice today thinks that no one is worth the time a real trial based on real evidence takes. A real trial is too inconvenient to a prosecutor’s career and to a judge’s case load.

In America today, if you are arrested, no matter how innocent you are, the chances are ninety something percent that you will be convicted. 

Americans need to wake up.  It is not only immigrant-invader criminal gangs that are a threat to America, it is the government itself.  Will this change under Trump?  Will Trump pardon wrongly convicted Derek Chauvin and in order to protect American justice launch an investigation into the Democrats’ intentional false conviction of Dedrek Chauvin and his fellow officers who did their duty.  If not, we know that Donald Trump is just another fake.

Hon. Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. A former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service, he is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles and a columnist for Investor's Business Daily. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists.

He was Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During 1981-82 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy.

In 1987 the French government recognized him as "the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism" and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.

Dr. Roberts' latest books are The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with IPE Fellow Lawrence Stratton, and published by Prima Publishing in May 2000, and Chile: Two Visions - The Allende-Pinochet Era, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen Araujo, and published in Spanish by Universidad Nacional Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, in November 2000. The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen LaFollette Araujo, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. A Spanish language edition was published by Oxford in 1999. The New Colorline: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, was published by Regnery in 1995. A paperback edition was published in 1997. Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, co-authored with Karen LaFollette, was published by the Cato Institute in 1990. Harvard University Press published his book, The Supply-Side Revolution, in 1984. Widely reviewed and favorably received, the book was praised by Forbes as "a timely masterpiece that will have real impact on economic thinking in the years ahead." Dr. Roberts is the author of Alienation and the Soviet Economy, published in 1971 and republished in 1990. He is the author of Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis, published in 1973 and republished in 1983. A Spanish language edition was published in 1974.

Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments. He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Finance Quarterly, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Harper's, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.

Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College.

He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The Dictionary of International Biography, Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, and 1000 Leaders of World Influence. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached at: [email protected]

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