Good day. I'm Douglas Wilson. This is the podcast that you've wandered into, and this is episode 363 of the podcast. I'm Doug Wilson. Welcome aboard. Thanks for coming. So I wanted to talk to you about politicized pardons. As I'm recording this, yesterday was the inauguration where Trump was sworn in

as our 47th president. And over the last two days, therefore, we've seen a frenzy of presidential

pardons. Well, a little more than the last two days, but in the run-up to the

conclusion of Joe Biden's administration, there was a slew of pardons, and these pardons

included General Miley. I'm not sure, Miley-Milly, General Miley. It included the January 6th Congressional Committee.

It included basically the cohorts in crime.

It included Dr. Fauci.

And then, right at the tail end, the outgoing president pardoned a bunch of his family members.

And this was necessary because the Biden family has been basically the Biden crime family,

which can be seen in how the whole Ukrainian operation was dealt with,

and Hunter's laptop and all of that.

And then when President Trump came in, one of the first things he did was he signed

a blanket pardon for about 1,500 January 6th prisoners, but defendants and or prisoners. This is the situation.

It is not possible to radically politicize the swords and spears without at some point the shields becoming politicized. If all the legal,

prosecutorial offensive weapons are politicized, then people who need to defend themselves

are going to pick up on those available means that are there to defend themselves.

Now, sometimes guilty people will pick up the shield to defend themselves. They want to defend

themselves and their crimes. Other people who are innocent want to be able to defend themselves.

So the thing that we have here is the last

administration has gone after their political opponents with sort of a naked aggression.

It's really been banana republic stuff from the three-ring circus of the various

impeachments of Trump to the Russian collusion investigation to the four prosecutions that were

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