James, when you have the opportunity please elaborate on this statement. (Please have a safe and happy move!)
In what way does tRump open himself up for jail time?
I am hoping you are aware of some knowledge that provides this prosecutory safeguard.
As I understand it, our Constitution, for all intents and purposes, places our President above the laws of the land.
tRump has almost complete immunity from any actions he might take.
Yes. He could be impeached and removed from office if the charges for impeachment were written well enough to expose a tRump faux paux of undefendable position.
But any further criminal prosecution or penalty has not been written into our Constitutional ‘safeguards’.
And, I suspect it was not at any time until now thought necessary, for the sane reasoning of thought, that we would never allow the degradation of such a hard won values of virtues, namely our Independence and Constitution, by trodding them underfoot by electing to our highest office, a man as unfit, unethical, immoral, and dangerously self-absorbed as tRump.
I believe I can say without fear of censure from any intellectually reasoning human being, that were our Founding Fathers here to witness the contempt for the loss of lives and blood lost during the wars fought to gain, and then preserve, our Independence (Revolutionary War), and our Union (Civil War), they would shed great wracking tears of sorrow, every one to a man among them.
Virtues of great nobilities have been entrusted to us by our ancestors, only to see them apathetically and recklessly disregarded, abused and endangered.
That men like tRump have been given the reigns of our tattered democracy illustrates how far we have fallen as a society and as a civilization — and worse, as individuals.
We have not earned, nor do we deserve the honor of these virtues.
We have not proven ourselves worthy of the lives given for our sakes.
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“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” — George Washington’s Farewell Address, September 1796
“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope and pride. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” — Patrick Henry
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“You should not honor men more than truth.”
— Plato
