The present writing,/is contextually related to the theme of Blogpost # 171 “THE WEAPONIZATION OF LIBERTY.” In the latter writing, we frustratingly observed the cynical and tactically successful use of the Nation’s established constitutional rights, in aid of the perverse support of the extant attack upon that constitution and its subject Republican Democracy.
It is our observation that in the existential conflict between freedom and democracy and their enemy, authoritarianism, the opponents of Republican Democracy employ unprincipled guerilla tactics that appear to be inadequately opposed by the ethical rules of engagement, We do not critique the propriety or moral response to actions and policies devised to undermine our constitution, or the societally beneficial rule of law, but do observe their empirical and disappointing effectiveness. In sum, we affirmatively note the unbalanced effectiveness between brute force and unprincipled tactics and those, in response, which signify recognized propriety and ethical rules of engagement, To be clear, we do not encourage a sea-change by the responsive party to such contrasting phenomena; however, we do need policies in recognition of such impactful contrast.
The temporal motivation for this writing is President Joseph Biden’s publically broadcasted heroic statements that he will not grant a Presidential pardon to his son despite the long and copious history of past, arbitrary Presidential pardons to proven anti-societal and empirically undeserving criminals, This naive and morally principled declaration by Biden is, in fact, personally distressing as well a deemed morally unnecessary, especially in light of the political nature of the prosecution of the crimes, evidently based upon the familial relationship of the accused to the sitting President, If President Biden is motivated dedicatedly and unselfishly, in his public and painfully impartial resolution, inarguably based upon traditional principles of justice and equity, they empirically fall on deaf ears. This ubiquitous demonstration of self-destructive morality on the part of actors, supportive of democratic justice is beneficially appreciated by its effective beneficiaries, viz., the unprincipled, and autocratic enemies of the Democratic Republic. To essay a relevant, analogous reference, the Marquis of Queensbury Rules are fundamentally irrelevant and inappropriate in response to the style and practice of undisciplined street fighting.
It is precisely this Jejune dedication to the demonstrative ratification of legal and morally impeccable constitutional rectitude that provided the ammunition for Donald J. T rump’s “get out of jail” monopoly card for thirty-four adjudicated guilty felonies, ninety-one felony indictments, judicial adjudications of rape and misogynic abuse, his treasonous relations with Russia’s tyrant, Putin, his criminal withholding of secret governmental documents, acts of voter interference, sponsorship of insurrection, his egregious tax deceit, enunciated bigotry, profuse violation of the “Emolument Clause” of the constitution, his autocratic influence on SCOTUS and, as a disastrous result, his fateful reelection to the existentially significant role of President of the United States..
We do not, to any degree, support a protective or any other limitation of the Nation’s singular inventory of citizen rights or the adroit tailoring of the contextual garment of constitutionally protective assurances; nevertheless, we do ardently recommend their wiser strategic application in the morally existential interest of preservation and continuation of equal justice.
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