Resistance Is Necessary

I’m listening to a re-hash of the Supreme Court’s hearing of the 14th Amendment/Colorado State election case and I am appalled by the fact that no one there wanted to make a decision about the 14th Amendment. One of the male justices, in fact, said something like, “You don’t expect us to make a statement, do you?” Why the heck not?!?! You are the highest court in the land! It’s only your job to make the decisions when no one else can! That’s why people go there!

Instead, after taking the case, they spent pretty much the entire session looking for a way not to decide anything substantive! It seems to me that the court was being asked were three questions:

1) Did Donald Trump engage in an insurrection?

2) If he did, is he disqualified from running for office?

And 3) Isn’t that what the law says?

Their answers seem to be 1) we don’t know or can’t say;

2) We don’t know or can’t say;

3) We don’t know or can’t say.

Why? Bad things could happen if we do. Donny’s minions could get violent. Is there any proof that they could? Yes, they could, but that’s the future and there is no way to know for sure. They are not responsible for how we and his minions act!

So much for being the wisest court in the land !

Ok, the court doesn’t want to act. What about Jack Smith? Is he going to answer those questions? No. No, he is not. Trump’s not on trial for insurrection.

Ok, before that, the January 6th Committee? They were brave and answered the first question in the affirmative. Beyond that, nope and nope.

Ok, before that, Impeachment #2? Maybe, sort of, yes, but not really; we could have died, literally, but no, it wasn’t an impeachable offense. We’ll turn it over to the legal system and let them decide. Maybe there’s a 14hh Amendment, but that was a law to enfranchise Blacks and we don’t agree to that either.

Ok, Impeachment #1? Certainly not! He’s not that bad!

The Mueller investigation? Even if he was guilty of something, the law doesn’t cover it, this little rule of the DOJ takes precedence! Say what? Huh? Who ever heard of that?

Then, magically, there’s nothing to see here! Total Exoneration! Total Exoneration! We had to fire the last Attorney General to get a guy who could pretend that nothing happened and, if it did, it didn’t matter anyway.

So, to repeat, a man can destroy people’s lives left and right. We can all see what happened, we can feel violated, just the Capitol was, and no one in the government will acknowledge the 14th Amendment?! At All? No one can stop him from hurting people?! Why do we have a Justice System if it, by definition, acknowledge a crime, can’t punish a person for breaking the law, and don’t even acknowledge that a law exists lest it offend the criminal?!

But the woman who thought she could vote and went to jail? The people falsely accused of any crime but weren’t in the government? The people who went to jail and stayed because they couldn’t afford bail? The Supreme Court owes those people an explanation for their lack of courage.

They could still rule about the existence of the Amendment. They could hold Trump responsible. The could develop courage and “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”. We haven’t seen it yet.

Resisting with Peace,

John