If America’s Legal System Proves Anything it is that the Law and Justice Are not the Same

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

If the law and justice were synonymous, Donald Trump would be in a federal detention facility awaiting trial today. In the early 1950’s, two seemingly ordinary citizens were arrested, convicted, and executed for violating the Espionage Act. They were selling our nation’s nuclear secrets to a foreign nation. Trump acted in a similar manner in 2021, and lied about his possession of national secrets two more times, but remains a free man who is allowed to run for the presidency. Something is very, very wrong with this situation.

ABOVE THE LAW?

Why is Trump given a free pass for two of the most serious crimes anyone can commit against our nation? I watched all three hours of the failed coup attempt on January 6, 2021, and there is no doubt that Trump’s actions and words were the very definition of treason. Between this fact and his violation of the Espionage Act, he should be serving out his decrepit life in a federal prison as I write this.

I might understand the way Trump is being treated if he had ever once in his wasted life accomplished something for our nation or another individual. However, he has never performed an act which could be considered as “respectable.” Trump is a lifelong criminal, and a malignant narcissist whose loyalty is to Vladimir Putin, not to the people of the United States of America. I just wish that the former fourth estate would print this fact. It’s time for the truth.

JUSTICE AND THE LAW ARE NOT INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER IN A NATION FOUNDED ON A SYSTEM OF LAWS

Justice: “the establishment or determination of rights according to the rules of law or equity: a system of justice: the quality of being just, impartial, or fair.”

It continues to be a fact that within the 50 states which compose the United States of America there are two or more “Americas.” Within the Black community, it is an irrefutable fact that Black Americans are treated differently than whites, and have been since 1619. Throughout my nearly 78 years, I have learned that there is also another separation: how the rich and powerful are treated far differently than the poor or those struggling in the low-income bracket.

Only Black children must be educated at a very young age how to act around members of law enforcement, or others in authority. This is for their own physical safety.

Americans accused of crime without the ability to pay for the best legal services are punished far more severely than the wealthy and powerful who seldom receive punishment equal to the crimes they commit. Less than one percent of all men and women incarcerated in our prisons was wealthy prior to their convictions. However, the percentage of men and women who were below the poverty line prior to conviction ranges between 67 and 80 percent. But every “Republican” will lie to you and claim that there is no relationship between poverty and crime. “Dazzle me with brilliance, but never baffle me with bullshit.”

I guarantee you that when Trump is sentenced for the felonies he committed related to hush money payments and the 2016 election on July 11, he will not serve a single day in prison, although he was found guilty on all 34 counts. If there was ever an old, white, lascivious man who deserves the maximum sentence, it is Donald John Trump. His actions were more harmful to our country than anything else in history, including December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001. But it won’t happen.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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