justice is blind now. that s a lofty standard. sta but because americans have long believed in fairnessndarericans, and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behave d in good faith, this country has, for liv the most part, lived up to its core ideal for two hundred and fifty years, making it the greatest country in the world. but the populist surgthe of 2016 changed everything permanent. washington s suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by american voters than by any foreign adversary, donald trump. dom, seem more dangerous than isis. they panicked and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as thete american intel agencies and if necessary, the u.s. armyopponen. against their political opponents. they felt they had n theyo choin doing this. they abandoned the ancient principld e of equality under the law, and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime
by halo, the number one program . the hallmark of tierney is the thtal distortion of justice. differences of opinion become felonies for which you can be imprisoned. well, actual crimes are e.described as just business as usual the way that we do things. and so even as we re tryingor to throw people in prison forthc criticizing the democratic party, we are allowing people who ve hurt this countryo clim profoundly to ascend upb the ladder of succesups. a million examples of this, but we pick one tonight. victoria nuland was one of the leaders of the state department, the architect, by the way, of our current wari with russia was alsoof the architect of the war in iraq. now that war began under false pretenses. more than a million people died archit reason and it destroyed ancienect christian communities in iraq before the war.e there araboue about a million aa now christians in that country now. just a few hundred thousand are