Bill Barr Wants Dirty Harry-Style Justice | Talking Points Memo

“Thanks for coming, Bill. Please, have a seat.”

“I’ve never seen a chair like this before.”

“I’m not surprised. And I’m pretty sure you’ll never see another cucking stool again.”

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Maybe this asshole needs to turn off the old westerns.

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So, the essence of Bill Barr’s judicial philosophy* =

Screw Due Process

roll the lynch mobs!

…* when it suits him

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So comforting to know that our so-called Attorney General, allegedly the top law enforcement officer in our land, believes in premeditated, violent murder.

Bar swore an oath to our Constitution. It now appears that his fingers were crossed.

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So he wouldn’t be averse to our delivering a little ‘rough justice’ to the members of this administration?
Doubtful.
I gotta sense there’re (ed) some other criteria defining who’s an appropriate recipient of this innate and inchoate wish for justice.

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Barr: Fuck the law, we are going to do what we feel is right, and the ends justify the means.

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Nothing like having the top law enforcement official in the country who fails to understand why we have a public system of justice, supposedly administered fairly, rather then a ‘do-it-yourself’ kind of approach. Process is essential to justice. And he prefers Dirty Harry.
The popcorn at the WH must have been really good.

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Does Barr have ANY idea what a tobaccy-jawed mob of good ol’ boys would do to a pasty, manicured, city-slicker doughboy like him, given half a chance at backwood “justice” without that pesky rule-of-law thingy to hold their basest instincts in check…?

#NedBeatty

(Shudder)

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Maybe Barr can relate

Justifiable anarchy? What cesspool did this idiot crawl out of?

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Next, Barr will appoint G. Gordon Liddy as new head of the FBI.

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When Dirty Harry shoots an absolutely guilty criminal in the leg to find out where a girl he abducted is buried alive - in a fictional movie - that’s applaudable justice for the audience (remember, though, Callahan was disciplined in the movie).

When a cop shoots and kills a 12 year old who’s playing with his toy gun, seconds after getting out of his squad car, when there is no threat to him or others … well, that’s not justice. That’s fucking racist and insane (as have been many other instances of ‘officer involved shooting’).

Perhaps the Attorney General of the United States should know, recognize, appreciate, and be willing to stand up for the difference.

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Notice how the examples he used take place in cities that MAGAts hate?

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Exactly. Conservatives learned everything they need to know from old Hollywood movies as distilled through Limbaugh’s Oxybrain and are outraged that we don’t all believe the same fantasies.

In Death Wish, Charles Bronson never got revenge against Jeff Goldblum and the other punks who raped and murdered his women. Instead, he bought a gun so he could bait gunless muggers he could shoot in cold blood without giving them a chance to surrender;.

Meanwhile, his daughter was still alive and in the hospital and probably could have used a living father with health insurance and not a dead vigilante father; which is what he’d have been in the real world. The dude had zero gun training, but became invincible once he bought a large gun. That’s Barr’s idea of justice.

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By Barr’s standards for Justice, Trump should be very, very, very concerned around him.

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The idea that the Attorney General of the United States thinks that vigilante action is laudable and satisfying is just appalling. I have no words for how frightening that is.

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Be careful what you wish for, Tubby.

Many in this country consider Trump and you and many others in this administration to be treasonous weasels, and you know what “vigilantes” do to traitors.

But if that’s what you feel, then who am I to argue as they drag you away?

First they came for the corrupt fat-ass President, but I wasn’t a corrupt fat-ass president, so I said nothing.
Then they came for the corrupt fat-ass Attorney General, but I was not a corrupt fat-ass Attorney General, so I said nothing.
Then they came for…

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Lately he is resembling that picture in my mind. I can see him in the overalls, no t-shirt, chaw in pocket and spitting black juice into the saw dust. And egging on the youngsters when one of ‘those’ people steps outside his boundaries and dates a local blond. Then by the power of his statements, the young mob of good ol-boys chase someone down, beat them to a pulp and hang them from a tree.

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So when police shoot an unarmed black man and then aren’t charged, he’d be cool with friends and/or relatives of said black man extracting “justice” on their own? Or is it a one way street?

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My immediate reaction falls into the same category as yours: OMG, our Attorney General uses a Charles Bronson movie as his model for justice!

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