My Point of View by Jerrold Dettle

A Webster definition of justice is the “quality of being impartial or fair.” The definition of American is “characteristic of a United States inhabitant.”

Traditionally, our nation has followed in the quest for justice, the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Many would include the value influence of the Christian religion and the Ten Commandments.

Currently, the major influences on the enactment and implementation of justice in the United States are laws and regulations and the Department of Justice.

First is the examination of regulation in the role of fairness and justice. Our culture is increasingly being guided by millions of laws and regulations and decreasingly by traditional influences. American citizens are very concerned now about justice in our current culture. The list of legitimate fairness issues is very large: rich versus poor, massive tax fraud, minimum wage, IRS scandals, free expression, civil demonstration, mass murders, release and/or destruction of top secret documents, immigration, abuse of minorities, political correctness, rights of property owners, environmental protection, rights of partial-born humans, privacy rights, legalization of drugs, rights for free health care and the list goes on indefinitely.

It would be very rare for any two of us to feel exactly the same on all of the above issues. However, to freely seek justice on the above is our inherent freedom. The unaddressed length of the list slows the wheels of justice. Most historians would agree that the passage of overwhelming laws, regulations and taxes by the legislative branches and local governments assist in the destruction of nations. The chains binding the process are stifling to the implementation of justice. Crowded criminal courts in the nation often appear as dog and pony shows. In reality, this diminishing of quality justice affects freedom and economy. The load becomes an albatross for any nation. An example of the complexity and side effects of laws and regulation would be to look at just one issue: wages considered too large or too small by politicians and special interest groups. Here is an example of justice being delayed:

America’s deteriorating gross production levels could be attributed to fairness in pay. Some say greed of the employer is unjust, others say the sloth of the employee is the problem, and yet others ask many to accept the justice described as earning and paying a quality wage based on the quality of work performed by the wage recipient.

Unfortunately, if the last view is the most just, then who determines the measurement of quality? Here it is submitted that depending on the good character of the individuals involved is preferred. Negotiation is chosen over the current trend, which is the forming of another committee containing the dubious integrity of our current politicians and a dictatorial central government.

The second greatest demon against justice in America seems to appear in the U. S. Department of Justice itself. The White House currently seems to dictate effectively to the  Justice Department. Incredibly, the left publication The New Republic includes our executive department in this headline on its cover, “It’s the age of Obama, and yet civil rights have gone backward.”

Within the publication, Dean Sparkman writes, “It’s a disgrace that the Department of Justice has failed to bring a single criminal charge against any Wall Street or mortgage executive of consequence for their roles in wrecking the economy.” The list of scandals occurring that have not been thoroughly investigated by the DOJ is appalling and unprecedented in the nation’s history.

Most distressing to many national observers is apparent acceptance and cooperation with this ideological movement towards an all-controlling central government by the U. S. senators and representatives that we have elected. Actual resistance to the suffocation by taxes and regulation is our moral responsibility. Voting the control monsters out of office is the only way to restore the quest of equal justice for all!

 

Jerrold Dettle is a member of the Freeborn County Republican Party.