LYNCHING JUDGE ROY MOORE

Lynching Judge Roy Moor


In the 1940 novel “The Oxbow Incident”  Walter V T Clark tells a tragic tale of the brutal lynching of four innocent cowhands in Nevada of 1885.  Clark’s novel relates how a group of vigilantes  capture four men they believe are cattle rustlers and the killers of a local rancher.   Instead of bringing these men back to face a court of justice, the mob brutally hang them..  After their heinous deed, the vigilante posse returns to town.  On the way, the vigilantes encounter the supposed victim—the rancher— alive and well and  taking part in a formal sheriff’s  posse seeking to apprehend the actual rustlers.  In recent weeks our nation seems to have regressed back into 19th Century “frontier justice” described in Clark’s novel.  

In these last weeks we have been barraged by waves of allegations of male sexual predation. The media-driven accusations have led to summary justice—“lynchings”—with the accused suffering loss of reputation, firing, expulsion, and worse.   As in the actual lynchings of 19th century’s frontier justice—at the end of a rope in the recent wave of allegations of predatory behavior there has been no attempt to provide an impartial inquiry, no  judge presides, there is no presentation to a body of peers, or ability of the accused to respond to their accuser.  All we observe is the drumbeat of allegations dug up by and for journalists who, too often ignore the search for the truth and are only eager to  post a new and scandalous story so as to sell more air time or more newspapers—or tip the political balance in a direction they prefer.  

To compound the injustice and the danger to our democracy,  in too many cases there is a powerful and clear underlying political agenda motivating the newspaper investigators and media types.  Both the left and the right are guilty.  But in the Roy Moore case the element of political motivation is the elephant in the room and is impossible  to ignore.  The loss of the Alabama Senate seat, could tip the knife edge balance of that body back into Democrat hands.  Such a scenario could lead to upending the President’s tax and trade agenda. More importantly it is the lynchpin of the underlying holy grail of the left and its all pervasive strategic objective...impeachment.  In such circumstances we must all be circumspect in examining the allegations against Roy Moore.

In this process our so-called “investigative journalists”. seem to forget that than an “allegation” is just an assertion—an unsupported statement— with no proof, that someone has done something illegal.  The USA and the rest of the civilized world has long ago developed a systematic way to evaluate allegation of illegality  through our justice system—a confrontational process—between the accused and the accuser in an impartial setting which begins with the presumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty.

“Innocent until proven guilty” has a long legal history.  It may have first appeared in ancient Roman Law and certainly appeared in the legal codex of Roman Emperor Justinian, Justinian Code, (@500 AD) It is clearly stated as “Every man is presumed  innocent until proven guilty” in the French  “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens” (1789).

I don’t know if the allegations against Moore are true or not.  But I do object to the character assassination  and political lynching of a person simply based on allegations that are in most cases four decades old.  His response to these unproven claims that  he is innocent, deserves our attention as well as the alleged behaviors claimed by his accusers.  Let’s not regress to Nevada frontier justice. Let’s not descend to mob rule. .


On another matter.   CNN and MSNBC continue to unjustly and erroneously  label Judge Moore  a ‘paedophile”’.   Of what we know of the allegations against Moore, not one of his accusers were prepubescent children nearly four decades ago when these actions are alleged to have occurred.  The actual definition of paedophila is one who is sexually attracted to pre-pubescent (immature) children.  The constant mis-use of the term  is an example of the “big lie” form or propaganda used in North Korea and Communist China. It  underscores a purposeful attempt at disinformation, left wing political machinations and bias.  It undermines and weakens any actual allegations against Roy Moore.
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