In 2016,  I wrote a post titled: “Justice For All?”.  At that time I was concerned about the fact that there wasn’t, at least in the Obama administration, equal justice for all.  The abuses by Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch’s DOJ’s were selectively prosecuting some individuals, (read Conservative Republicans), while seemingly ignoring the transgressions of others.  For example, Hillary Clinton was being given a pass for her egregious violations while serving as Obama’s Secretary of State.  Most notably, she deleted 30,000 emails from her private server after they had been subpoenaed by Congress.   In July of 2016, FBI Director James Comey spent 45 minutes listing that, and other illegal actions, and then stated, although these were serious alligations, “No reputable prosecutor would indict her!”  Hillary was, after all,  on the fast track to become our first female president, a position unjustly denied her by Barack Obama eight years earlier, who trumped (no pun intended) her gender card with his race card, so becoming our first minority president.

Incredibly, the (according to Liberal Democrats and the national media) “Buffoon”, Donald J. Trump soundly defeated her in the 2016 election.  So began the “Resistance Movement” called for by Obama, and eagerly put into action by the Democrats, their lapdog media allies, and elements of the “Deep State” federal employees, which permeated all areas of the federal bureaucracy, including the CIA, FBI and NSA among many others.  Even though their obvious political biases have been exposed, as yet none of them have been taken to task in any meaningful way for their obvious transgressions.  The bureaucracy and “Deep State” protect their own.  That has become blatantly obvious to all but the most willingly blind partisans on the left.  If this continues unchecked, we will lose our country, and the basic concept, stated in our “Pledge of Allegiance”, of guaranteeing “Liberty and Justice For All”.

One of the most basic precepts of our Constitution is the legal precept of being innocent until proven guilty. 

The 6th Amendment states, in part:

“The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury. To be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”

Have Carter Page, Michael Flynn, or indeed President Trump  and many others been treated Constitutionally under those concepts?

The 4th Amendment states:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.”

As has been amply demonstrated in recent days, those concepts can be violated at will when emotions take the place of legal judgement.  The “FISA” Court rules, established in 1978 under the administration of Jimmy Carter,  give that body unbelievable powers to grant secret search warrants against American citizens if requested by various federal agencies and approved by the U.S. Attorney General.  Incredibly, over 98% of these warrants are routinely granted by the Court.  In the interests of “National Security” our Constitutional Rights are being systematically shredded.  The Founding Fathers feared the very government overreach which politicians have allowed, and are doing so on an ever expanding basis.

A poem is displayed on a monument at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. It is based on a confessional speech made in 1948 by a German Lutheran Pastor named Martin Niemoller. It reads:

First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Because of his outspoken political views, Niemoller was eventually arrested by the Nazis, and spent years in German concentration camps before being freed by Allied troops in 1945.  

As Americans, we had best stop engaging in petty political squabbles like the current impeachment of a President, whose main “crime” is that he was not the choice of the opposition.  Instead, we must reject the identity politics of the Democratic Party and concentrate on respecting, and living by, the concepts of our Constitution.  If we don’t, in the words of President Ronald Reagan:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”