Daily Take: Permanent Chains: When Surveillance Becomes Guilt
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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How “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime” is rewriting American justice…
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| 1:02.7 | becomes guilt. I'm not just worried. I'm enraged. We're watching our system of government |
| 1:10.3 | being systematically step by-by-step, |
| 1:12.4 | refashioned into a surveillance-fueled engine of political vengeance. |
| 1:18.3 | Even worse, the same chilling logic that ruled Stalin's courts. |
| 1:22.9 | Show me the man and I'll show you the crime. |
| 1:25.4 | Has become this administration's sinister operating principle. |
| 1:29.3 | It retrofits guilt to the target, not justice to evidence. |
| 1:34.0 | That phrase isn't hyperbole. It's rooted in dark history. It was popularized in the Soviet Union, |
| 1:40.2 | attributed to figures like Soviet jurist Andrei Vichinsky or the notorious secret police chief in Putin's hero, Lavorente Baria. |
| 1:49.1 | The sentiment is unmistakable. Arrest the person first, cook up the criminal case later. |
| 1:55.5 | History proves the simple fact that nobody's invulnerable to this. |
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