"...with liberty and justice for all."
Those words have great import. Those words assure that the scales of justice are evenly balanced for all citizens. Those words promise that whether you are rich and powerful or poor and powerless, you will receive a fair hearing to your case and a jury of your peers will decide your fate based on facts, not on opinion--and not on your name.
When anyone--anyone--is treated unjustly, when anyone is denied the rights of the law or when anyone is deemed above the law--all citizens are denied the right to liberty and justice.
Is this really the way we want America to be?
We can go to any third world nation and find a despotic government in charge where citizens are denied basic rights. Whether it is a large and powerful country like Russia where Vladimir Putin has just signed a law that stipulates religion may be conducted only in churches, or whether it is a small nation that is ruled by the iron hand of a dictator, repressive regimes deny equity under the law.
Is this really the way we want America to be?
We can go to any third world nation and find a despotic government in charge where citizens are denied basic rights. Whether it is a large and powerful country like Russia where Vladimir Putin has just signed a law that stipulates religion may be conducted only in churches, or whether it is a small nation that is ruled by the iron hand of a dictator, repressive regimes deny equity under the law.
Is this really the way we want America to be?
Rand Paul added a new video: Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Above the Law.
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