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Our former President, Donald J. Trump, has been subjected to the scrutiny of a public trial and found "guilty" on 34 counts of what amounts to a misdemeanor under the usual circumstances. But since Trump is running for President of the United States, the circumstances are not usual and so the law has been compromised in order to try to halt his campaign.
The people who hate Trump are willing to destroy our legal system in order to ruin him. A precedent has been set for political enemies to dig up frivolous charges against each other in order to take the other out of the running. This could result in chaos and the complete collapse of our system of government. Are politicians going to begin assassinating each other, as they do in other countries? I am reminded of the recent film The Last Duel (2021) which is based upon the medieval practice of allowing the accuser to fight the defendant to the death, the winner being proven by God to be in the right. That is how societies with primitive or undeveloped justice systems settled things. Have we reverted to those days yet? Almost.
I am also reminded of Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons about Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, who refused to violate his conscience to please King Henry VIII. Thomas More, being a lawyer, displays a reverence for the laws of England which in his time, the sixteenth century, had taken a thousand years to solidify into British Common Law. In a debate with his son-in-law, Thomas Roper, More claims that he would give even the Devil the benefit of the law. Roper is appalled and wishes he could tear down every law which stood in the way of destroying the Devil. More responds thus:
Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down--and you're just the man to do it--d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes. I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Two hundred and fifty years later, one of our Founders, John Adams, who eventually became our second President of the United States, defended in a court of law several British soldiers who had shot his countrymen in what is known as the Boston Massacre. In an argument in which he said "facts are stubborn things" Adams was able to prove the innocence of the soldiers. Adams was an expert on British Common Law and to him the defendants, whether he liked them or not, had the right to a fair trial; he made sure they had one.
What is British Common law? It began with the sixth century and seventh century laws and customs of the Angles and the Saxons who, building upon Celtic and Roman traditions in Britain, began to have court hearings in which evidence was presented. In the late ninth century Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, codified the laws of the Angles and the Saxons, insisting that rich and poor, high and low, were all subject to the same laws. Alfred had emerged out of an era of lawlessness and disorder in which the Danes had almost conquered all the Saxon lands in England but under Alfred's military leadership had been driven back. Law and order were therefore precious to Alfred.
Under the Plantagenet kings in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a complex legal system, upon which our own is based, was formed in England. In 1215 the Magna Carta stated the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, which is one of the foundations of our judiciary. We forget that under Roman Law, which many countries of Europe adopted, a person was guilty until proven innocent.
Have we taken our legal system for granted? I think so. When some people who commit crimes go free while others are hounded for much lesser offenses, or no offense at all, then the laws become meaningless. To live in a lawless land is a frightening concept but one which looms over us as our judicial system is abused and broken.
The following is a statement from Richard Osborne, Chairman of the Talbot County Republican Central Committee:
The New York trial of former President Trump has done a great disservice to our country. The shameful actions of the DA, the political activist judge, and his apparatchiks in the media, have shaken Americans' confidence in a fair and just legal system. The May 30th verdict is much bigger than President Trump; they are damaging the rule of law. This decision is a travesty that will haunt our nation long after Donald Trump is gone.
Our country continues to be divided by inflation, making people with low incomes poorer, with undocumented workers not paying taxes while they are using our social services; the education process "dumbing down" students, causing the parents to flee to private schools as a substitute. President Biden's policies are dividing our country, causing more economic separation. We who believe in the American system, that someone can do the right thing, work, and be successful, must stand up for former President Trump and vote in the next election. Please vote; get involved and be a patriot.
"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." Proverbs 29:2
