Would you sacrifice all to punish the Devil?

Opinion

Many Americans perceive President Trump as the Devil himself, incarnate. They call for his impeachment. I’m told that a petition begging that end collected more than a million signatures in less than a week. Well, collect away. I don’t care how many sign. A hundred million. Two hundred million. We don’t decide who will be impeached and who won’t, not even We the People. The law decides and it's clear.

“SECTION 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

-- The United States Constitution

To punish someone without due process of law is mob rule. Sadly, the pursuit of President Trump’s removal from office this past year, since even before he took office, has been worse. It has been a reprise of the Salem Witch Trials, fraught with hysteria. To name a word to describe it, it has been embarrassing. I see Americans frustrated with the law, calling to cast it aside. They have put me in mind of a scene from the play A Man For All Seasons wherein the enemies of Sir Thomas Moore are attempting to entrap him and have enticed one of his proteges, Richard Rich, to bear false witness against him.

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Well, there certainly has been a lot of that, bearing false witness, hasn’t there? And yet, after months of investigation by a hostile team with the aid of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has been acting more like a secret police organization than the federal police, there is no evidence of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. He may be boorish and sophomoric, but still innocent of any crime.
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I suppose that people consider me as one of the Devil’s minions. However, in their anger they fail to perceive that I am not defending President Trump. To be fair, I haven’t seen that he is yet in need of defense. No, I am defending the law which is what all of us should do, especially those of us who swore to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”