By DR. LARRY MOSES
No one asked me but… The American justice system is no longer a level playing field, if it ever was. Are the economically privileged treated differently than those who are less fortunate financially? Are there one set of rules for one ethnic group and another set for others? Can rich college kids occupy government offices and shut down government operations without penalty while a few cowboys shut down a minor government building in the wilderness sit in jail? Do police sometimes overreact because of race, and do officials sometime under-react due to race?
The answer to all of these questions is a resounding yes.
Is this the way it is supposed to be? No!
The Statue of Justice should no longer be depicted as having a blindfold and a balanced scale. Lady Justice must now peek to see who is standing on her scales to decide the proper balance.
The director of the nation’s top law enforcement agency reinforced this concept when he stated that it should not be assumed, had someone else committed the same acts Secretary of State Clinton did in handling classified information, they would not be indicted. However, he would not indict Secretary Clinton.
Many Americans in the inner cities where poverty runs rampant have chosen to assemble in protest to what they perceive to be an unjust system. I support their right, as Americans, to do so. Those who feel their actions are un-American have failed to study the history of this country. Americans have a tendency to be a very riotous people who stand up for their God-given rights.
A founding document of the country, the Declaration of Indepence, is very clear in God’s role in all of this. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”
This would indicate that the earliest people to identify themselves as Americans believe these are God-given rights, not government permitted rights.
This divinely-oriented origin of American citizen’s basic rights may cause heartburn for some but this is an important fact. Since the government did not instill those rights, the government cannot remove those rights.
Another founding document of the United States, The Constitution of the United States, protects the right of the citizens to protest. The First Amendment to the Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law… prohibiting the free exercise…of the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
I believe it is important that Americans exercise this first Amendment right. Emphasis should be placed on “peaceably” and the people should be held accountable when they turn protests into riots and commit criminal acts by destroying property, stealing, and causing bodily harm.
If you want to see justice being distributed differently in America, let’s not only look at what appears to the shooting of unarmed black men. Let’s look a little closer to home.
A radical Islamic terrorist set off a pressure cooker bomb in New York City injuring 29 people. The only reason no one was killed was the incompetence of the Islamic terrorist. This Islamic terrorist has been granted bail set at a little over $2 million.
However, same justice system is holding Nevada ranchers whose only crimes are that they defied the federal government by grazing 300 cows on 600,000 acres of BLM land and became involved in a protest against the government over the imprisoning of two Oregon Ranchers. These Nevada ranchers did not kill, maim, rob, loot, burn, or destroy property but they sit in solitary confinement without bail.
No one asked me but… In my lifetime I have lived through nineteen presidential elections. If this is not the strangest presidential election in American history, it has to rank in the top five.
The latest oddity was the release of at least eight statues under the title of “Naked Trump” by the anarchist artist collective INDECLINE. These statues have appeared in public areas in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, New York, and Las Vegas.
The very fact that the caricature of a candidate for the Presidency of the United States in the nude would appear in American cities is odd enough, but when one of these statues shows up in Las Vegas at the “Life is Beautiful” collection of drug sniffing oddballs, and is vandalized, this is real news.
Can you imagine the field day the American press would have had if these had been statues of “Nude Clinton”? The very thought hurts my eyes but one must wonder how our political process has deteriorated to this!
We have only two viable candidates for the presidency, one has proven her incompetence over a thirty-year political career. For some reason the Democrat candidate is a woman who feels she has to shout everything she says. Her major campaign slogan seems to be “I have not been indicted.”
The Republican candidate is megalomaniac who was born on third base and thinks he has hit a triple. His major campaign slogan is “I am rich.” He would like you to forget he was born into money. He portrays himself as a self-made man who tends to praise his maker. He reminds me of the description Mark Twain made of William Jennings Bryan, the Democrat presidential candidate in 1908 and 1912. Twain stated Bryan was “Like his native Platte River: he is a mile wide and six inches deep at the mouth.”
As Rome began to fall the rulers increased the “bread and circuses” for the people. As America has lost its prominence on the world stage and the country is racked by chaos in our inner cities, our rulers have become the circus.
There is no question the United States has survived poor presidents in the past. How much worse can either of these candidates be than Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, Millard Fillmore, Richard Nixon and there are others who were less than stellar. Fortunately, during those times, leadership came from Congress.
I am not sure we can count on that this time. Will someone step up to fill the void this election will leave? I don’t have the answer to that question, only time will tell.
Thought of the week… If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader. You are rather a problem on your own that must be solved.
-Israelmore Ayivor
