Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

It is amazing how one man has been able to turn the rule of law upside down on its face. There are serious conversations being held by people with influential voices over whether Donald Trump should be tried for his alleged crimes of taking government documents that are vital to national security. The line in the sand was drawn a long time ago when Donald Trump became president and with that newfound power, Mr. Trump appeared to show how power absolute can rule. Mr. Trump came into office demanding loyalty to him first and not the nation, nor the Constitution because he was the ultimate executive who had not only control of a business empire, but that of a nation. That was secured in the fact that, despite the overwhelming evidence produced through two impeachment trials, Mr. Trump was saved by those who feared what he could do to them, simply by talking to his voters. Remember all those candidates in the Senate (Cruz, Rubio) who ran against Trump and lost, but somehow forgot how they tried to warn the nation what a mistake voters would make if Mr. Trump was elected president? Turns out that they were right, but if one listens to them now, they dare not say anything remotely resembling what they once said because they know that Mr. Trump can hold a rally and completely eviscerate them. Which is why Republicans in Congress and around the nation continue to defend Mr. Trump over the assertions/allegations that he took highly sensitive documents from the White House and would not return them when asked. Mr. Trump has made the executing of a legal search warrant on his home all about him, making himself appear as the victim for his actions that he willingly carried out. It’s ironic that Mr. Trump never said one word about ordinary people who have experienced search warrants/ raids, where some have lost their lives. Oh, but then, he was on the side of law and order when it “was them”, but now that he has experienced what it feels like, those law enforcement agents who conducted the search are a “very real threat” to his freedoms and to those who support him. The nation now finds itself in a legal chess game of tennis, where the umpire is a judge who will decide how this saga in American history ends.Judges will as this saga plays out, decide how far and under what conditions DOJ can proceed, while the rhetoric will play out in media circles until there is a conclusion to this legal dilemma. There are those who are saying in the quest for justice, Mr. Trump should be indicted. Many are saying that with what the public already knows by established facts, anyone with lesser status than Mr. Trump, would have been tried, convicted and sitting in a federal prison somewhere. People that handle highly sensitive documents know the penalties for mishandling such documents, as Mr. Trump allegedly knew. One can’t imagine that those in the former president’s inner circle, surely told him that he just can’t do as he wishes with highly classified documents. Notice that none of Mr. Trump’s many lawyers ever asserted that claim. Nonetheless the conversation is starting to trend as to indict Mr. Trump and what “it would mean” to the health of the nation. There are conversations going on between those who say that an indictment of Mr. Trump would do more harm than good for the nation. The argument is that, if Mr. Trump is indicted, Republicans at their first opportunity, will indict the next Democrat president, no matter how trivial it may be. It would seem that they are saying that the nation “would not survive” intact because there would be violence in the streets, as Lindsay Graham indicated in recent remarks. There are those who would rather see the nation “held hostage” to save itself from itself. Is that the argument? If that is the argument, then America holds no legal and moral standing in a world that is rapidly coming to the point (or has passed it) where truth and justice no longer matters.

If we are at (passed) that point, then only the rich and powerful, the ones who write, pass and sign laws will benefit. When we look at the Constitution, much of it as we witness, is subject to interpretation of what is legal (the law) by a judge. Nothing is cut and dry anymore. Legal arguments in people’s case are raised each day. If a case is not settled at the first level, then it goes on to the next until it makes its way to the Supreme Court. The nation has not fallen apart. It should not fall apart if Mr. Trump is indicted. A war was fought over who could keep a race of people enslaved which went against everything that Jesus preached. The nation survived, only to need Jesus more than ever. In his time, he will come back, but an equitable law system is supposed to be one of the institutions that keeps this nation in line with others who believe in a “fair and just” system. If it is afraid to indict one man despite the evidence because more harm than good would come of it, then that nation is not as strong as it is said. Why have laws if they don’t apply to everyone? Why? Remember, the world is watching. So is God.