(Fred Weinberg, Penny Press) Sometimes, when I struggle to find the appropriate words to describe what’s in the news, I turn to an American poet and his sidekick who have said what I want to say far more eloquently than I.
I’m referring to Toby Keith and Willie Nelson.
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
The song, if you are of the wrong musical persuasion, is Whiskey for my men and beer for my horses.
It tells the story of a justice system, then and now:
Well a man come on the 6 o’clock news
Said somebody’s been shot, somebody’s been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didn’t get too far yeah
They didn’t get too far
Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see
That song came immediately to mind when I heard about FBI Director James Comey’s letter to Congress effectively reopening the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Comey sent a letter to members of Congress letting them know that new emails had been uncovered in an unrelated investigation that were “pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information. Comey said the FBI will now examine those emails to determine whether they contain classified information, or are otherwise relevant to the case. He wrote that he does not yet know whether they are significant.
My guess is that Comey was pressured into last summer’s legal contortions where he said that Clinton actually did violate the law but that she would not be prosecuted for it using the same sort of tortured reasoning the Supreme Court once used to come out with the Roe v. Wade decision. This may have been his revenge on Attorney General Loretta Lynch and President Barack Obama. Or, it may have been the equivalent of a bad NFL ref calling pass interference—a pretty subjective call—to even up a bad call he made earlier.
We, of course, won’t know until we actually see those emails.
But we did see last summer’s festivities and we already know that in the opinion of a large percentage of America, Clinton SHOULD have been prosecuted. This, after all is not receiving oral sex in the oval office and lying about it like her husband.
This was endangering the security of the United States and lying about it (like her husband).
Generals and much lower ranking soldiers have been charged with and plead guilty to felonies for much less. Hillary is running for President.
We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We’ve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ’em all to their maker and he’ll settle ’em down
You can bet he’ll set ’em down ’cause
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
Do I think that Hillary and her crew should be hung or shot?
Of course not.
But when Donald Trump talks about draining the swamp, this is what he means. These folks in Washington—often of BOTH parties—have created an environment where certain people are simply above the law.
The version of James Comey’s letter to Congress which I hope happened is an upraised middle index finger to Obama and Lynch.
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses
Toby? Willie? Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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