assessing the case for pardoning fauci
laundry vs legalism
dr joseph marine recently published this provocative piece in which he makes the case for pardoning anthony fauci.
The Case for Pardoning Fauci - by Joseph Marine, MD
In addition to allegedly lying to Congress, Fauci has been variously accused on social media of malfeasance in oversight of the type of virology research, which may have caused the covid pandemic. He’s also accused of helping to cover up a laboratory origin of covid.
Members of the public have weighed in on different sides of the issue of a pardon. I am inclined to favor a last-minute pardon as Biden leaves office next week for the following reasons:
2. Even if prosecuted, it is unlikely that Fauci would be convicted. Especially in deep blue DC where such a trial would likely take place. Fauci remains very popular and admired in many regions of the country. Finding a jury of 12 who would vote unanimously for a conviction seems an impossible task that few prosecutors would want to undertake, no matter what the evidence.
4. A pardon would serve as a lasting badge of dishonor. Especially for those who would most like to see him prosecuted. If Fauci had done nothing criminal, then why would a pardon be necessary?
a trial, whether or not it results in conviction, is a means to surface information. the actual conviction is relatively unimportant especially if it comes down to technical semantics about whether "serially passaging a virus through a murine model to enhance infectivity" constitutes "gain of function work."
a court may run on technicalities, but public opinion can see a big obvious thing when the pachyderm is plopped into the parlor.
here in our hyper-focused highly informed rabbithole of covidian assessment, it's easy to forget an important salient:
most of america does not know this stuff.
they still think covid-19 was a bat virus in a wet market or maybe a pangolin.
and that is not a belief that we want to leave intact.
most of the american public have no idea that the NIH paid ecohealth to create covid 19 then their leadership lied about it.
they have no idea the the NIH as an agency and its staffers as individuals were paid royalties by moderna and bioNtech (pfizer) to license the mRNA payload for their covid vaccines.
they do not know that tony and the NIH staffers knew this all along and were taking aggressive and deliberate steps to sidestep and hide from FOIA so they could keep coloring outside the lines and feathering nests.
in our little slice of the world, this is common knowledge and common parlance, but in the rest?
this is exotic information widely doubted and disparaged.
so let's get all the definitive documents into court/congress and air the laundry.