A fair judicial system is essential to any form of free government. Five out of the 10 amendments making up the Bill of Rights deal with the judicial process. John Locke, one of the biggest influences on our Founding Fathers, wrote that “it is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases, that self-love will make men partial to themselves and their friends.” For this reason, he believed that “God hath certainly appointed government to restrain the partiality and violence of men.”
No matter your opinions on what happened in Minnesota, any true lover of freedom must tremble at the notion that anyone has “absolute immunity” from the laws of this country, as JD Vance claims the ICE Agent in last week’s shooting has. If the roles were reversed, where it was a Democratic administration claiming one of their own had absolute immunity, is it still fair? This is not an issue of whether you agree with illegal immigration or not; this is a threat to our Constitution. Anyone, especially those in any position of power or authority, should not be exempt from the law, and if they are, we are under threat of tyranny.
Oakley Buttars
Herriman