We the People

To the editor:

Independence Day, known as July the 4th, is two days away as I write this. A dark cloud descends upon it. July 4th commemorates the Declaration of Independence ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It established that we were no longer under the rule of Britain’s King George III. Now a few days before we celebrate this holiday, the delusional, extremist majority of our Supreme Court makes a decision to declare that the president of the United States is above the law. This makes any president, if he so desires, to feel free to commit crimes. We know a former president did and is a convicted felon. Now he may get away with his most shocking crime of all, the insurrection and disruption of the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, the will of the people. We can no longer believe in our nation that “no man is above the law, not even our president.”

We the people have the power to prevent putting in the office of the President of the United States a man or women who wants to be like a King, an oligarch, a dictator, someone who wants to destroy our Democracy and take away our freedoms. It is within the power of the people by their vote to say no to anyone who will not abide by the law of our great country and honor those brave folks who valiantly fought for that right.

Patty Reid La Grange