Posted on 11/01/2016 5:17:47 PM PDT by jerod
A Republican congressman named Ken Buck, refreshing the tree of liberty with his patriotic blood, stood up for due process last week.
"Lady Justice doesn't see black or white," Buck shouted in Loveland, Ohio. "She doesn't see male or female. She doesn't see rich or poor. But soon, Lady Justice will see Hillary Clinton."
Black and low-income Americans would likely have another view. On the face of it, Buck's remark was unhinged from reality.
But Representative Buck was vocalizing something Americans want to believe: the founding myth that unlike authoritarian states, or the more corrupt, classist nations of the Old World, the United States holds all equal before the law.
And, as the Bush-era attorney general Michael Mukasey argues persuasively in the Wall Street Journal this week, storing U.S. State Department emails on a private server and exposing them to (potential) hacking, as Clinton has apologized for doing, is both a misdemeanour and a felony under various statutes.
"Members of the military have been imprisoned and dishonourably discharged for mishandling far less information," Mukasey wrote, expressing contempt for the decision of FBI director James Comey not to charge Clinton.
Even a left of center socialist such as Neil MacDonald can sense the direction of this years election winds... And they're not blowing in Hillary's direction.
Appreciate your input, Canada.
Hillary Clinton should not be allowed to be represented by any attorneys.
Is there equality before the laws when it comes to high political leaders?
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