Why Aren’t More People in Jail?
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Canon Press
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Douglas Wilson argues that exposing corruption still requires real prosecutions and consequences, continues his hamartiology series with moichos as the Greek word for adulterer, and reviews Richard Baxter’s A Call to the Unconverted as a warm, urgent, and reformed evangelistic appeal.
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| 0:00.0 | So welcome to the podcast. This is episode 426. My name is Douglas Wilson, and I am glad you decided to join us. |
| 0:27.0 | The current events topic I'd like to address today raises this question that I think is perhaps agitating more than one conservative. |
| 0:36.7 | And that question is, why aren't more people in jail? |
| 0:42.2 | Why aren't more people in jail? |
| 0:44.4 | Now, it might be, there might be legitimate answers to this question. |
| 0:48.9 | But when you look at all the illegal events that happened over the course the last five years, |
| 0:58.5 | whether we're talking about the CDC and gain of function research or Somali fraud in Minnesota |
| 1:06.9 | or the bogus cases, bogus impeachment cases brought against the President, President Trump at the time, |
| 1:16.7 | or the raid on Mar-a-Lago, or the Fulton County shenanigans, or the Maricopa County shenanigans. There have been many misdeeds |
| 1:31.8 | identified, spotlighted, you know, the fraud that was uncovered in Minnesota is one thing. |
| 1:40.5 | Well, then California passes a law making it illegal to investigate fraud. |
| 1:46.8 | So, you know, I saw a cartoon. What are you, you know, two prisoners sitting there. What are you in for? I'm in for fraud. What are you in for? I'm in here for investigating it. Right. So we have such a swamp of corruption. |
| 2:05.5 | You know, Trump's campaigning the first time was drain the swamp, drain the swamp. |
| 2:11.2 | Well, it turns out that draining the swamp isn't so easy. |
| 2:15.3 | I think Trump was relatively naive when he went in the first time, |
| 2:19.5 | but he doesn't appear to be naive now. And a lot of things have been good in that they've been |
| 2:26.7 | exposed to the daylight, exposed to daylight, exposed to sunlight. But I quoted a time or two ago, Ecclesiastes 811, |
| 2:38.6 | where justice is not speedily executed upon the criminal. There, the heart of man, is filled to do |
| 2:44.1 | evil. There have to be consequences. And this goes back to, you know, lowest lady who went after used the IRS, |
| 2:57.1 | the IRS lady who was using IRS data against conservative groups. And then those two FBI |
| 3:05.8 | agent lovers who did all that conspiring against the president's stuff, |
| 3:12.2 | and they got a big severance package. They got a monetary award. |
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