Where's the Justice, or At Least A Reasonable Facsimile Thereof?

 Deana Chadwell at the  American Thinker today has a good article on the fact that we are currently Living Without Justice and America can not long survive this situation. Mrs. Chadwell notes that even very small children have an inate sense of right and wrong, at least as it concerns themselves.

That sense of moral outrage never leaves us; it is as inherent in the human character as is the love of beauty and the need for affection. Governments exist partly to protect us from outside invaders, but more importantly to dole out justice -- to punish those who break both natural and cultural laws. That’s why we have police, why we have codified laws, why we have juries, lawyers, and prisons. Our internal compass demands that evil be held accountable.

Justice is the point at which we homo sapiens connect with God. We were created in His image, and God is perfect Justice, but the Fall, Adam and Eve’s disastrous decision, left us all with a disease of the soul that’s worse than anything COVID can do to the body. Until we agree to accept God’s arrangement for our forgiveness we are out here in a justice-deficient zone, and no amount of law will create even a reasonable facsimile.

Law can, however, keep things semi-manageable, if -- and this has turned out to be a big “if” – if those impacted by the laws of the land respect that law. If they don’t -- well, we’re seeing the result and it’s terrifying.

Mrs. Chadwell gives just one example of the current level of injustice form her home State of Oregon. That area has suffered wild fires that were actually set by an arsonist. As she points out, ha whole town has burned to the ground, and many peoples lives have been devastated. Yet the prosecutors don't seem to be interested in finding and prosecuting the crime. but she also then goes on to cite the Biden corrunption, which reminds of a crime family in which the "Big Guy" gets a cut of everything the other members of the "family" "earn." Then there is the Hilary Clinton emails, the Fast and Furious criminals, the Antifa and BLM rioters, the list goes on and on. If you are a member of a certain party, you can get away with pretty much anything, and if you are a supporter of a different party...well...you may get D'Souzaed.

Chadwell points to the main issue in this two tiered injustice system; there is a lack of truth on the Left. Whether it is Global Warming, which has been recast as climate change because the truth became so obvious, or the current issue of the press studiously ignoring the Biden emails and scandal, the press has ceased to be truth tellers and have become the faithful scribes of the Democrat party.

That is because the heart of the idea of justice is truth -- absolute truth, above and beyond human frailties. We can’t have justice without truth and this progressive idea that truth is relative, adjustable, disposable, and personal makes justice impossible. District attorneys across this country are refusing to prosecute rioters because those attorneys, who are supposed to be on the side of justice, agree with the perpetrators’ twisted view of truth. You would think that justice needs to be served by punishing those who have destroyed lives and businesses and property, but if untruth rules the day, it will rule over “justice” as well.

If the left, which consistently denies truth, wins in these upcoming elections, we will see the final death throes of both justice and truth. Already, when the Hunter Biden laptop surfaced, we witnessed an almost instantaneous denial not only of the truth but of our right to decide for ourselves. The left censored that information so quickly that they couldn’t possibly have taken the time to research the allegations themselves. They took no time to analyze signatures, watch videos, look at photos, or read the emails. They just clamped down on the story, locked it in a cage hoping that the story would die just as the Benghazi story slipped quietly away, as Hillary’s email scandal dozed off to nothing, as the Russia hoax has gone unpunished. And perhaps this Biden mess will also fade, but we’d better hope not.

The moral outrage that’s boiling up all over this country is reaching a flashpoint, and whatever this election brings, the lack of truth and justice in our government -- the government that’s supposed to be protecting truth and justice -- will bring about a conflagration that’s really hard to think about. We must walk a narrow path edged on one side by the Constitution and its limits on government and on the other side by the necessity of cleaning out that government at the local, state, and national level. We can’t break the constitutional limits, but we have to weed out evil that’s sprouted because of the disdain for that Constitution. Our personal, and national, inherent demand for justice must be met, and if it is not, our society is doomed -- not just doomed to live without fairness, without protection, without freedom, but a society without those essentials will eventually collapse.

Oh, and while we are speaking of moral outrage, Bill Barr has promised us that the Durham investigation would yield some justice for the horrible coup attempt against the President. So far, it seems Durham has netted a low level FBI employee. This is like using a sledge hammer to swat a fly. Where is the justice, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof?