“Impartial”
By Jim Culp
January 27, 2020
As this month comes to a close, it is with
blistering contempt that the impeachment process has taken the shape that it
has. No, I am not going to make the argument about whether the President did
anything wrong, or whether the Democrats are making things up, or if Russia
will influence another Presidential election for the highest office in the U.S.
Government. That’s all been done, and no two parties agree on it.
This trial will go on for many more days and weeks,
and whether it comes out with one or the other party on the winning side makes
no difference. Things like this have been going on in our country for 244
years. The only reason that the Trump impeachment diatribe is so “visible,” is because
of technology. Is Donald J. Trump guilty of A, B, or C? I don’t know. But we’re
not going to come to a resolution the way that we are doing it. The
Constitution was not written for things to get so far out of hand. It was
written for law abiding citizens and government officials to follow the rule of
law.
Let’s say a trial is conducted in Anytown, USA.
There is a judge, a jury, two attorneys, and Bob Smith and John Jackson. The
two men have engaged in a bar fight, and that allegedly led to damages to the
premises, Bob’s right arm, and John’s left leg. Each man has an attorney, and
two witnesses. Every impartial witness has been sworn to “tell the
truth, and nothing but the truth.”
The jury is a group of impartial persons
that will hear all the facts, deliberate on them, and issue a decision about
their findings to the court.
At the end of the trial, the impartial jury
announces their decision. The judge uses that decision as the tool that gives
him the right to punish the guilty, and hopefully compensate the innocent.
Awesome process.
Here and now, the President of the United States
(Donald J Trump) is accused of 1) abuse of power, and 2) obstruction of
Congress.
The President was impeached in the U.S. House of
Representatives on December 18 2019; and the articles of impeachment have been
sent to the Senate.
But we went through this process before. Remember
1998? William Jefferson Clinton was then accused of 1) lying under oath, and 2)
obstruction of justice. He was impeached in the House of Representatives on
December 19th. The articles were sent to the Senate, and the “impartial”
senators voted that the President was not guilty, and he remained in office
until his term ended.
There was no question in anyone’s mind that Clinton
lied under oath. There was no question that he continually blocked efforts to
find facts about his affair; one that he had right in the White House, not some
hotel thousands of miles from Washington. He thought he was above the law, and
as time would tell…he was. Why? Not because an impartial group of people
listened to the facts, and made a decision based on them. He was above the law
because the Senate had more Democrats than Republicans.
So, when you are worrying about Donald Trump (like
him or not; this is not about that) remaining the President of the United
States, don’t. The U.S. Senate is filled with 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and
2 independents. When it comes time to vote, the Senate will vote that Trump
stays in office.
It’s the Rule of Law in these here United States of
America. It’s a broken system, and it needs to be fixed.
-Jim
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