A week after the academy awards debacle there’s a lesson to be learned. A week, just a week is a very long time to be under a microscope. The more exposure a situation receives the more likely there will be consequences. The consequences for the slap seen around the world are happening now.
While the blowback from this incident is unwinding we need to understand that there are more immediate dangers that need to be addressed. The weakness of our processes or lack there of is readily apparent. Supreme Court justices are left to police themselves. There may be no more clearer example of how the system fails to account for rogue behavior than Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Thomas’s dissent again 8 of his fellow justices is a clear signal that he is no longer working for the Republic.
The revelations about Virginia Thomas coupled with Justice Thomas dissent should have been front page news 24 hours a day for the last 7 days. Instead it was replaced by Will versus Chris. Part of that was because Will and Chris happened on Narional television in front of millions. It developed a life cycle of its own because of media coverage of an incident that happened over the course of seconds. The consequences of that visibility is still evolving.
Every American should be alarmed that there was more scrutiny of a slap between millionaires than a the revelation that the wife of a sitting Supreme Court Justice was communicating with the executive offices of the Whitehouse during a insurrection attempt. In one of the communications Virginis Thomas said “THERE ARE NO RULES IN WAR”. Now there will be people that will put forth the argument that in her text messages to the Whitehouse she was only exercising her right of free speech. Nothing could be further from the truth. She was in fact an active participant in an effort to over throw the duly elected government of the United States.
The difference between the coverage of Will and Chris as opposed to the Clarence and Virginia Thomas scandal could not be more stark. The American populace was bombarded with stories regarding a seconds long assault. Not so much for the behavior of the Thomas’s. Not a peep from Chief Justice Robert’s either pro or con. Just a concerted effort to have the story relegated to the background of media attention.
The reason more exposure was needed for the Clarence and Virgina Thomas story should be clear to everyone. There is no regulatory authority for the Supreme Court. The justices are relied upon to police themselves. When that doesn’t happen there is no backstop. Now there will be those that argue that you curtail a rogue Justice through the impeachment process. News flash the impeachment process doesn’t work when partisan politics replaces a search for truth. The best illustration of that is the two time impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump. Politics trumped a search for truth.
Every American should realize just how close we are to becoming the same kind of Autocratic government that Putin has in Russia. Not hyperbole just a clear eyed observation of the truth. The traitors are winning because we the people aren’t paying attention to the right things.
Think!!
Eyes Wide 👀 👁 Open!!!