The idea that powerful people are exempt from the law and its consequences is as old an illusion as history itself is old.  The end of WWII did not automatically deliver the Nuremberg trials.  At the peak of WWII no one would dare imagine the crimes being committed in their home streets would ever be accountable. Even when the war was won it seemed life would go on for the perpetrators in comfortable settings outside of Germany.  The shock that shook the world was the patient law of the lands wrapped around the lives of many of these WWII criminals sans power and they found themselves at the end of a rope.

People may love power, but power has proven itself over and over, across all history, not to be a faithful lover.  Power is better understood as a commitment junkie.  Power goes to the committed and is as amoral as they come.  What our present government and its secretaries seem to have forgotten is that if they lose the people’s commitment, they lose power, and with that power goes their so called legal immunity. Power will come back to the people if the people show a commitment to their own morality, freedom and prosperity. Should we once again remember that democracy is a complicated but effective means of governing, power will gladly leap from the shoulders of these oligarchs and pretenders and return to a committed people. With the peoples commitment to democracy, the enforcement of Constitutional law will also move back into the system.  The current perpetrators will discover to their dismay accountability has come for them.

A Modest Proposal for Good

This is not a time for personal vengeance. We have a justice system that can and must do the work of accountability and what punishment is due will be administered out of the courts. This arrangement has worked before and can work again. We the people, simply must become the people committed to work our own system.  Politics is not a spectator sport. Democracy is a committed discipline that can draw down the power we need to once again become an effective government as well as nation. Although in recent practice it may look that way, no living human being in the USA is exempt from the law or immune from the consequences of breaking the law. If the arc of justice seems too long, only we the people can shorten it.  That would be good