America is a Nation Without Laws

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

 

During the 2016 campaign, Trump told his fascist supporters: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible." Sadly this is true. The wealthy and powerful in America are never punished for their crimes.

Trump was impeached twice for confirmed Constitutional violations and given a free pass by a Republican Senate when he was acquitted twice. He is a traitor who planned, organized, and executed an attempt to overthrow our government, but remains a free man. He stole dozens of classified documents, including top secret nuclear documents and lied about this fact. Unlike the Rosenbergs, who acted in the same manner in the 1950’s, he remains a free man. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1955 for their acts of treason against the United States of America.

It is not surprising that the longest lists of criminals serving in Washington were during Republican administrations, most significantly those of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Many of the men and women who admitted to their crimes or convicted were allowed to resign without fair and just punishment.

The one incident which is most upsetting to me occurred inside Trump’s current residence; Mar-a-Lago.

He claimed that he had returned all the documents he took with him when he was evicted from the White House. However, boxes containing classified documents were found hidden inside his millionaires only playpen. He should have been arrested at that very moment and placed behind bars. Anyone who is not rich and/or powerful would have been locked up awaiting trial immediately.

Final facts. Black Americans are incarcerated at a disproportional rate. The average yearly income of all men and women incarcerated in U.S. prisons was under $20,000. However, Republican politicians continue to claim there is no connection between poverty and crime.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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