I really love Sam Waterston. He's been one of my favorite Law and Order stars of all time. Tonight, I saw him do something amazing. I saw him stand on Lexington Green.
I know as well as any bloke that Law and Order is just a TV show. I know that actors are symbols. Symbols are given power by people, and so I choose to make this symbol a power by sharing it with you.
Tonight's Law and Order season premier, upon which I happened by complete chance, dealt with a lawyer from a previous administration who tried to avoid prosecution by virtue of connections. Even an official from the current administration stepped forward to block Sam Waterston's character, so as to prevent prosecution for their dirty laundry after they leave office.
The DA's office pointed out that they don't want a county prosecutor able to take down a federal official, except that this is EXACTLY what should be possible. The Created is not greater than the Creator. Shall the ax boast itself against him who heweth therewith? Yet, the federal government, which came after the states which came after the people who settled them, claims hegemony over all that gave it life and attempts to hold ours at ransom.
In his closing statement, the ADA says:
There are those who do not want you to speak. Harry Reid once wrote me back and basically told me that I'm stupid. Others stopped holding town hall meetings. They don't know you. They don't consider themselves responsible to us or responsible for anything. They should. We pay them. We hire them. We will fire them.
Whatever you feel about torture, feel this about government. No official, servant to the people, has the right to railroad you. No politician or bureaucrat, obstentiously engaged in the "general welfare" has a right to ignore an individual's welfare. They may sit on their thrones and consider themselves safe. King George III made that mistake. When General Gage said, "If you think five thousand men enough, send ten thousand", and the king ignored him, he sowed the seeds for his own loss of empire.
Like Patrick Henry said, "millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us." People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of the people.
I know as well as any bloke that Law and Order is just a TV show. I know that actors are symbols. Symbols are given power by people, and so I choose to make this symbol a power by sharing it with you.
Tonight's Law and Order season premier, upon which I happened by complete chance, dealt with a lawyer from a previous administration who tried to avoid prosecution by virtue of connections. Even an official from the current administration stepped forward to block Sam Waterston's character, so as to prevent prosecution for their dirty laundry after they leave office.
The DA's office pointed out that they don't want a county prosecutor able to take down a federal official, except that this is EXACTLY what should be possible. The Created is not greater than the Creator. Shall the ax boast itself against him who heweth therewith? Yet, the federal government, which came after the states which came after the people who settled them, claims hegemony over all that gave it life and attempts to hold ours at ransom.
In his closing statement, the ADA says:
it is not disloyal to hold our officials to the highest standards of conduct and
it is not disloyal for you the people to decide what you want done in your name
There are those who do not want you to speak. Harry Reid once wrote me back and basically told me that I'm stupid. Others stopped holding town hall meetings. They don't know you. They don't consider themselves responsible to us or responsible for anything. They should. We pay them. We hire them. We will fire them.
Whatever you feel about torture, feel this about government. No official, servant to the people, has the right to railroad you. No politician or bureaucrat, obstentiously engaged in the "general welfare" has a right to ignore an individual's welfare. They may sit on their thrones and consider themselves safe. King George III made that mistake. When General Gage said, "If you think five thousand men enough, send ten thousand", and the king ignored him, he sowed the seeds for his own loss of empire.
Like Patrick Henry said, "millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us." People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of the people.
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