Accountability Redux
Accountability still matters
“The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation… We-even we here-hold the power and bear the responsibility.” — Abraham Lincoln, 1862
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln stood before Congress to give his annual message, quoted above. The country was in the midst of a bloody civil war and the outcome was anything but certain.
January 2022 marked one year since the assault on the U.S. Capitol and democracy. And, according to an Ipsos poll, Americans seem inexorably split on their perceptions of the events that day.
Sun Tzu wrote “the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.” And Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Uttered thousands of years apart, these two sentiments run parallel in their faith in mankind and in their geometric analogies. Both a wheel and an arc are curved entities. Neither is a straight line.
It is very rare that we find instant justice.
True justice is a lengthy process, as investigators need to gather facts, prosecutors…
