Yes, of course they are unhappy about being caught. There have been a lot of bad actors, and they are horrified at the possibility of being held to account.
Like most of us, I have a lot of sympathy for innocent victims. What I don’t have sympathy for is evil people angry about being caught. The bank robber is not gonna be happy about being put in jail. That doesn’t mean the jail is not the right place for him.
I have little sympathy for the devil.
In fact, the FBI was part of the biggest political scandal in the history of the United States: the effort by highly placed—exactly how highly placed we still do not know—members of one administration to mobilize the intelligence services and police power of the state to spy upon and destroy first the candidacy and then, when that didn’t work, the administration of a political rival.
But wait, there’s more!
Then, too, it turns out that those get-out-of-jail-free cards might not have been signed by good ’ole Scranton Joe but by an autopen when Joe was physically (or perhaps only mentally) absent. Is that constitutional? This thoughtful law article suggests that the answer may well be “no.” The matter of the Constitution’s signature requirements (Article I, § 7, clause 2) is something that President Trump might want to have his Department of Justice look into with respect to that promiscuous sea of indulgences with which Joe Biden left office.
Sorry, but the wicked are gonna be upset when good starts to be done. That in no way means that good should not be done. We are just hearing the shrieking of the damned.
