Making America Just Again

EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS require extraordinary evidence, Carl Sagan famously said. He was talking, of course, about pseudo science, conspiracy theories and such, all the various and sundry sorts of nonsense modern humanity uncritically puts forth as fact, online, and elsewhere. Extraordinary claims come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. I've made a few myself, and I have learned to be prepared to back up what I claim wirh facts, because, if you don't, you have to resort to less powerful methods of persuasion, such as lies, and your "factual" claim becomes nothing more than mere opinion. In a just society, if the United States were truly a nation of equal justice under law, for example, donald Trump would not be president, he would be incarcerated, on death row, awaiting execution. Undoubtedly some would consider this to be an extroprdinary assertion, others would ridicule the mere sugestion, while still others might angrily dismiss it out of hand as nothing but a harsh opinion based on lies, anger, and unreasonable hatred. In fact, the assertion that Donald Trump deserves conviction for incitement to insurrection of a violent coup attempt against the United States government, and the death penalty, after an honest examination of the facts, is not only readily apparent, it is indisputable, based on the facts and the law. Among Trump detractors there is much talk about the fact that the president is a convicted felon, who ought properly be serving time in prison. This, due to his convictions on thirty four counts of financial fraud by a New York state court. But as time passes, and events fade into the background, there is less talk about the fact that the president never came to trial for stealing thousands of classified documents from the government, nor for his preplanned attempt to steal the presidency by violently overthrowing the federal government. Arguably, the mere fact that the Supreme Court has ruled that no American president can be prosecuted for crimes committed while acting as presidnt unto itself repeals the motto on the front of the SCOTUS Bldg.: "Equal Jutice Under Law". And every day that passes, as Trump acts with less legality and more criminality, and nothing, including seemingly toothless court rulings oppose him, it becomes ever more painfully obvious that Trump, in a few short months,has indeed become a de facto dictator, with no obligation to answer to the law. Its not just about Donald Trump. Any and all presidents who refuse to accept reelection defeat, who support their false claim of victory by organizing and leading a violent coup - deservs the death penalty. The original constitution lists only three federal crimes: piracy, counterfeiting,and treason, all punishable by death. Can you even imageine the attitude of Trumpublicans if Barack Hussein Obama had refused to leave office, and had sent an angry mob of thousands of black men to Capitol Hill to assume complete control of the government? He would have been dragged out of the White House and lynched by the "Proud Boys" and MAGA mbsters, and the military would have shot dead hundreds of Obama's black insurrectionists on the Capitol grounds. None of this should ever happen,to any president. All presidents deserve proper dueprocess,like everybody else.But they should not be placed above the law, and when they try to overthrow the government, they sould be sent to a prison cell or gas chamber, not the Oval Office.