Posted on 07/10/2015 9:23:14 AM PDT by xzins
There was a time when members of the European nobility could have a member of the lower classes flogged, incarcerated, tortured and even executed without standing trial before a jury of their peers.
There were no repercussions, no penalties and nothing less than disfavor with the monarchy could interfere with their "rights as aristocracy," and they ruled their fiefdoms with fear and cruelty.
Under a supposed law – droit du seigneur, also called jus primae noctis – feudal lords had the right to have sex with any subordinate woman they desired, up to and including her wedding night, and it allowed medieval lords to take the virginity of the daughters of his serfs.
The injustice alone was maddening, but the worst part was the helplessness, the total inability to do anything at all. Even a verbal protest could provoke a whipping or worse.
The feudal aristocracy was untouchable.
It's easy to see why so many uprisings and revolutions took place over the centuries.
Under England’s King George, American colonists were considered little more than chattel, bound to serve and pay taxes to the crown, taxes they had no say in levying. To rebel against doing so made one subject to imprisonment on nothing more than the word of one Redcoat officer, and they were untouchable.
In America, we had slavery, and the slave owner was free to whip or even hang slaves, to sell off their children and their spouses without a thought of family ties.
The slave owners were untouchable.
That is until the rank and file finally had enough and overthrew the tyrants, brought down the monarchies and instituted a more democratic kind of government, one where, at least in theory, all men were created equal and all were equally subject to the same laws.
No one is supposed to be untouchable anymore. From the president to the street bum, from the movie star to the soccer mom, everybody is supposed be bound by the law of the land. All are answerable to a judge and jury, brought before the bar with equal footing, entitled to legal representation, innocent until proven guilty and treated the same under the law, whether prince or pauper.
Unfortunately, many of our elected officials seem to consider themselves above the laws that the rest of us have to abide by. They cover for each other, muddy the water with inane legalese, hide pertinent paperwork and even some of the most egregious acts, crimes that should rate jail time, result in nothing more than cloture, and many times, nothing at all.
There are bureaucrats at the IRS who should be in jail. They have violated the very premise of the Constitution, denying equal rights under the law by favoring political entities. And nobody knows what else they may have done. There’s no telling just how deep the IRS's crimes go, and there is a distinct possibility that we will never know.
And yet Lois Lerner walks the streets, a free woman still drawing a paycheck paid by the same taxpayers she cheated.
Seemingly untouchable.
Eric Holder's incredibly stupid "Fast and Furious” that actually put American guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and getting a lot people, including an American who was killed in the process, deserved at least a thorough congressional investigation, but that came to a screeching halt at the desk of Barack Obama, who exerted executive privilege, resulting in the cover-up of one of the most inept actions ever undertaken by an Attorney General.
Eric Holder is untouchable.
Hillary Clinton, in spite of being "the smartest woman in the world," saw nothing wrong with using a private email server in her home when she was Secretary of State, making personal and classified documents available to every master hacker on the planet.
Now, Obama is exerting executive privilege to keep the congress and the voting public from knowing the extent of Hillary's elitist folly.
Hillary is untouchable.
Folks, what do you think would have happened to you if you denied the equal rights of even one person, if you had given firearms to known criminals, or if you exposed classified documents to enemies of the state?
Are you any less an American citizen than Lois Lerner, Eric Holder or Hillary Clinton? Are you not entitled to the same treatment under the law as they are?
Are we not creating a new class of "untouchables," a new brand of elites who can break the law without fear and walk away without punishment?
Are these not the acts of a monarchy, not a republic?
Whatever happened to the proposition this country was founded on, that all men are created equal?
Are some people created "more equal" than others?
What do you think?
Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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Already done. And it’s not just democrats.
You are 100% correct, Paulie.
I remember when the true facts about “Fast and Furious” became known. We intentionally armed cartels for the killing of hundreds of Mexicans and of at least 2 American border agents.
It was horrendous. We always repeat “if it had been a republican...”, and that really is true, but it’s worse than that.
If we had justice in this nation; if we had a real justice department; if some weren’t part of the protected class, THEN we would have seen the dismantling of an administration. It was a horrible thing we did. In a different era it would have been an act of war.
At some point the peasants will not let them remain untouched. They’ll be cooking over a bbq pit.
Kneel! Kneel before your government employee masters, you filthy taxpayer! Bring them fragrant offerings of bribes and bonuses lest they strike you down!
I really do yearn for an uprising of the citizenry against ALL of the elite.
Old Zimbabwe: king served first term in office, second on gallows ...
Powerful stuff.
Tom Clancy’s book “Executive Orders” opens with a possible solution to the elected-officials-as-untouchables issue.
I agree. I was surprised how powerful it was.
Is it a good book?
Would it be a spoiler to know what happened?
If you are interested, I would start with the previous book “Debt of Honor”, which sets up “Executive Orders”.
Let's just say that “Debt of Honor” ends with the wish of being able to start-over actually happening, while “Executive Orders” shows how the main characters actually go about setting everything up from scratch.
Both books are good summer reads, especially if you like political/military/techno thrillers. Hope that helps.
I liked Clancy’s early stuff. I think I’ll take your advice. I’ve been doing old westerns this summer, and an adventure would be just about what the doctor ordered. Thanks.
More and more, I’m seeing people treat politicians as if they’re gods. It’s both sad and scary.
There are those who set their sights on one person, and I agree, it becomes a major sin to say anything evil whatsoever about their guy.
Glad I could help. Be warned, like Tolken, Clancy’s books start kinda slow with a lot of character development in the first third to half of the book. After that though, it’s hard to put down.
Hitting the nail on the head time after time.
We may finally have the majority fight back.
Trump is making reporters cry like little babies and exposing the useless rinos.
Daniels is attacking the “more equal pigs”.
The only think the left will have remaining is which mother to cry home to. Assuming they are even home and not out parading in the streets.
bump
They aren’t Americans. They’re UN elites.
It’s scary.
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