<TriceEdneyWire.com> — All of my life I’ve heard “no one is above the law.” If you’ve heard that and believed it, you’ve probably done all that you could do to stay out of trouble. There’re others who don’t believe it’s true because they’ve seen too many people who look like them prove that statement wrong and wonder if that law only applies to Black people! When they see many of their buddies in prison for minor crimes, they must be confused.
When they listen to the news and find there’s someone they know who has skated around the law many times, they wonder what the exceptions are—especially, when they do something far less harmful causing them to be behind bars. What they ultimately determine is that someone is above the law—and that someone is never Black.
With good reason, there are people who actually believe there is someone above the law, and they believe they are that someone, since they’ve always been able to live above any type of punishment because of the color of their skin. It’s always been that way, so I urge any Black person to look at the exceptions before you think about committing a crime. You are not now and never have been able to use: ‘I am above the law.’
Now look at who has been getting to live above the law all of his life. He has been labeled “the most corrupt and dangerous president in history.”
Just look at what this person has repeatedly done to prove he is above the law! Here’s just a smidgen of what he’s done and he’s still adding on to the list. He is confident he’ll never serve a day in prison for the crimes he’s recently committed:
He unlawfully attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. We heard him on the telephone trying to persuade a governor to join him in committing a crime.
He was indicted in New York for falsifying business records to cover up ‘hush money’ payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
He was indicted for retaining top secret national security documents at his private residence.
He led an insurrection at the United States Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results and wound up wrecking the United States Capitol building, causing people to be severely hurt and even a few dying—but Trump’s answer is “Pardon them all!”
What is it that is holding up a pardon by President Joe Biden for former Baltimore, Maryland state’s Attorney General Marilyn Mosby who was prosecuted for doing her job? She didn’t destroy public property. She didn’t kill or hurt anybody. However, Trump’s cronies that he loves so much did. He has promised to pardon them as soon as he is back in office in a few days. More than all of those White people, Marilyn Mosby deserves a pardon for being convicted of doing her job.
President Biden will be leaving office in a few days. Please sign the petition for him to pardon Atty. Gen. Marilyn Mosby at <www.justiceformarilynmosby.com>. If Trump is above the law after 34 convictions, why should Marilyn be punished for doing her job?
Because Trump’s gotten away with so much due to his cronies being on the Supreme Court giving him sweeping immunity, he thinks he’s totally off the hook!
Trump has been convicted of 34 crimes by a unanimous jury. Judge Juan Merchan, presiding judge in Trump’s hush money case, has said Trump is to report to court January10 for sentencing; however, Merchan already added Trump will not be receiving jail time!
Those of us who aren’t above the law just shook our heads and wondered what must this man do to be properly punished for his convictions and still be president?
(Dr. E. Faye Williams is president of The Dick Gregory Society.)ct
