Political Column by Franklin County resident Larry Wiwi
Old Guy Rant: Lady Justice is No Longer Blind
If you believe that Lady Justice still blindly holds the scales of justice and that we are all equal under the law, you have not been paying attention – today Lady Justice sees what she wants, and importantly does not see what she doesn’t want to acknowledge. I am not exactly sure when this started, but I first noticed it during the Obama years where Lois Lerner used the IRS to go after conservatives, the illegal “Fast & Furious” gun running campaign saw no prosecution and Hillary Clinton had no charges pressed in her illegal e-mails, wiping the computer server and her “pay for play” Clinton Global fund.
I had hoped the FBI and Dept. of Justice (DOJ) would get a serious house cleaning during the Trump years but that did not happen, perhaps because much of that time was spent fighting investigations by these very same organization. Regardless, we saw Trump hounded for election tampering with help from the Russians which proved to be the hoax any thinking American knew it to be followed by two impeachments, one for making a legitimate phone call and the other for supposedly inciting the Jan 6 “insurrection.” I am not making excuses or apologies for the Jan 6 protestors who entered the Capitol, but if it was an insurrection, it was the world’s first unarmed insurrection.
Compare all that FBI, DOJ and Congressional activity against Trump versus what we see today with Biden. In just a few months commander-in-thief Biden has managed to kill oil pipeline jobs and taken other anti-oil actions to drive up the price of fuel and thereby everything else while approving a gas pipeline for Putin and begging the mid-east oil countries to produce more. He opened the southern border entirely, so far bringing in more than 1MM more illegals, many covid infected and spread them throughout the US. He set a new, shockingly low standard for how to not withdraw from another country, leaving billions of dollars of some of the world’s most sophisticated weaponry for the Taliban and far worse, knowingly leaving American citizens behind to fend for themselves. All this, and yet no talk of impeachment – how can that be?
How does a chief executive steal billions from American citizens, endanger their lives, threaten their jobs, enrich the enemy, heavily arm terrorist, proclaim an illegal covid vaccination on citizens and all we hear are some tepid remarks from a few weak Republicans that he should resign?
Lady Justice is not blind – she sees guilt for Republicans and conservatives often when there is none and she sees no fault with Democrats, almost no matter what they do.
We are living in very dangerous times, with our liberty and Constitutional protections very much in jeopardy.
Larry Wiwi
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