Why NOT Lock Her Up ??

So I’m wondering, see? Because that’s all I can do is to wonder. And I’m wondering about how bad it would be to “Lock Her Up”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not “one of those” people. Actually I’m one of those other people but that’s a subject for a post on that private page. No, this isn’t about that. This also isn’t about the so called “third world” practice of using ex post facto laws to go after and or persecute or prosecute former political opponents for the “crime” of opposition. This is about the law and how far the rich and powerful are allowed to go in pursuit of their goals before they are held to the same legal standards as the rest of us.

Specifically, Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act when she received, retained, and resent classified information from the boot leg server that she set up for herself as Secretary of State in her basement. Many Information Technology professionals believe that network was less secure than google mail, and was almost certainly penetrated by the hostile foreign governments.

The server was set up immediately upon her appointment and inarguably to thwart Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests for records, another violation of law.

The improprieties that took place during the FBI investigation are bad enough as to make J Edgar Hoover look good in a calf length silk skirt and a midriff halter top, five o’clock shadow and all. But this isn’t about the particulars, or whether or not James Comey predetermined the outcome of the investigation because he knew that because everyone in the White House including the President knew that the Secretary of State, the future president, was acting illegally and that they were complicit in the crime. They were as guilty as she was.

So. What of the law? Were they just political crimes? Crimes that only mattered in the context of an election, or were they real crimes. Right now, there is a former Navy submarine sailor in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, his life ruined, for the crime of having a few photos of piping on a nuclear submarine on his phone. He mishandled classified information. Why is it that Hillary Clinton, who operated a boot leg email server in the basement of her home, and who trafficked in classified government documents is on a book tour explaining to everyone that it’s the racists, misogynists, and Russians that kept her from being elected president?

Is it excusable because it was just politics? And if that’s the case, how serious would a crime have had to have been before she was liable for prosecution. Armed robbery? BANK robbery? Kidnapping? Murder? What crime could Hillary Clinton and her minions have committed that would have exposed them to the same jeopardy that the rest of us face every day, and why would it be improper, unseemly, or “third world” for her to be held accountable for violating federal law?

But that's just what an average guy thinks.