EVIL THREAT

Sometimes one is confronted by such an evil threat to the fundamental principles to which we commit ourselves when we say the pledge of allegiance that those with a conscience cannot remain silent. Some of the things to which we pledge in an often mindless rote, similar in form to nursery rhymes, are equality, free speech, and equal protection under the law. When the law itself is undermined by those who hold the highest law enforcement supervisory positions in the state government, there is no longer by definition a rule of law. Citizens attempting to protect their communities from municipal corruption and retaliatory policing thus have no one left to protect them but a federal judge.