DARK BRANDON RISES
(From Huffington Post)
What once distinguished the United States from illiberal regimes following the Orwellian mantra “some are more equal than others” was the hallowed American idea of “equal justice under the law.”
The phrase is engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court—an ideal that took centuries to achieve. Yet it is an ancient concept—what the Greeks called isonomia that distinguished classical democratic Athens from its anti-democratic rivals. Isonomia later became enshrined as the central criterion of all Western consensual governments.
Does it still exist in Joe Biden’s America?
In many ways, no—due both to state and private vendettas as well as state efforts to destroy rather than merely defeat political opponents.
Is the law equally applied at the border?
Ask yourself whether you are more likely to be hounded by the federal government for not being vaccinated if you are a citizen in the U.S. military, or illegally violating federal immigration law as you storm the southern border?
VDH again notes that there are certain "Western" thoughts about justice that matter ... excellent article.
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