As a lawyer, it must be quite obvious to you that our so called “just-us” system means some legalities do not apply to those who control the strings in the system. The entire edifice of civilized behavior and a polite society depend on a perception of fairness in all aspects of our constructed legal frameworks — and it has crumbled.

And a note on “low IQ criminals” — these tests are confirmation bias performed by “social” workers on the government dole. Perhaps a different sort of intelligence leads tribal adolescents and adults to “make their bones” and “win status” in a tribal cult far removed from that civilization created by white europeans? This whole IQ thing, as relating to what is not referred to as “HBD” is maybe interesting in the (hah) ivory tower sense; it does not seem to be studying what sort of intelligences are necessary for survival in the jungle.

1. You can chalk up that low-IQ to almost all criminals in jail today. Almost any person involved/convicted of serious crime (outside of some white collar frauds) is going to have a lower than average IQ. There are no master criminals, like you’d believe on TV; instead, its a bunch of stupid guys acting only semi-rationally for short term goals.

2. Arrogance. The average low-IQ criminal also has more arrogance/narcissism than a normal person. This is why they think they can get away with their crimes, and why they do them; they just think they’re better and luckier than the next dude.

3. The higher IQ bad guys often don’t do crimes because they literally do a cost-benefit analysis of the situation and realize its not worth the risk. They might screw over colleagues or do shady things (think the Clintons), but they’ve concluded that legal scumminess is more profitable than illegal.

I’m glad he said this. I sat on a NYC grand jury in the early 1970s that was convened to take care of a backlog of 35 murder cases. Many of the murderers themselves testified. The one thing they all seemed to have in common was incredible stupidity. Now, they may have been pretending, or they may have been coached. But I didn’t get a bad acting vibe. What I saw was a parade of individuals who were so stupid, they believed that killing someone was a valid solution to a problem.