Elected and Above the Law: Bill Would Exempt Lawmakers from Prosecution of Nearly Any CrimesMac Slavo Granted, most of the political class is already de facto above the law to begin with. But now, a lawmaker in Oklahoma has introduced a bill to officially give most lawmakers, judges, appointees and holders of high office immunity from prosecution. The bill proposes to strip away the ability of a local level prosecutor, such as a district attorney, from being able to bring charges against anyone holding a government position. The text reads: Under the legislation, only an Attorney General would be able to bring charges against such a person, who would effectively live in a separate class of citizens who are above the law. So long as they are in office, any public offense would not be considered a punishable crime. As Counter Current News reported, this has at least one local prosecutor up in arms over the abuse of power: The only justification offered for this outrageous and odious piece of legislation (for how can one make a law exempting ones self and peers from the law?) is to combat politically-motivated malicious prosecution, as in the case of former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is being prosecuted for abuse-of-power (or how the irony twists round-and-round in this case). So, to prevent abuse-of-power in frivolously prosecuting elected or appointed officials for alleged abuse-of-power, these officials should have immunity from the law to begin with? And corruption already runs rampant in the halls of Congress, both on the state and federal level. If Oklahoma adopted this law, it would likely only be a matter of time before other states do so as well. Washington would be on this yesterday, if possible. This would absolutely cement the culture of corruption in politics, giving carte blanche for all sorts of behavior and all manner of deals involving conflicts of interest. The politicians could do almost anything and so long as they tow the party line (of the two-headed, single party system), they would operate under total immunity. But as for everyone else, not so much, of course. The little people will continue to get the squeeze, facing prosecution and significant financial penalties for even petty crimes and misdemeanors, as well as imposed mandatory insurance policies, increased taxes and much more, generally laid upon these taxpayers by appointed and elected officials doing favors for their corporate lobbyist partners-in-crime. Thats why the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world, with more than 2 million people behind bars. Thats why the U.S. has a guilty-until-proven-innocent system in place, with more than 72 government-sanctioned non-criminal reasons to suspect some of being a potential terrorist. Thats why the U.S. operates under a nightmare scenario where civil asset forfeit seizure laws have been used to steal peoples homes and property, even when they have not been charged with a crime. This is how the other side lives. While it is true that there are plenty of bad guys committing some awfully heinous crimes, it is also true that there are far too many laws in a country that was once founded on freedom, but is now swallowed up in bureaucracy resulting in prisons filled with offenders whove committed non-violent crimes, victimless crimes and even petty and sometimes bizarre offenses. And there are plenty of corrupt officials enforcing this system, but many of the judges and LEOs dont even agree with the laws they are enforcing and sentences they are handing out (some of which are mandatory under statute). Those same judges and LEOs would be powerless to arrest the politicians who made these laws even if it were clear that laws were broken and abuses occurred. Even if they wanted to, not that Im holding my breath. Enter the trump card an entire deck of get-out-of-jail-free cards. What do you think about that? You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com, where this first appeared. 