AARON BURR: JEFFERSON’S VICE PRESIDENT
Monday, August 13, 2018
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
A friend has characterized President Donald Trump's insatiable stupidity and viral venality as a consequence of "affluenza," that made-up "affluent white alleged legal ailment defense" that has become apparent to the non-white, or non-affluent among us, as exemplified by the drunken rich white boy who killed 4 people while driving drunk, but who got probation, before fleeing to Mexico. Then, another “affluenza” travesty was the male Stanford student who raped a drunken female, Stanford student in an alley behind a garbage dumpster, and got the same “affluenza sentence”--probation.
I fully appreciate my long-time friend’s perspective. But I am more inclined to align President Trump’s alleged “treason” with the now-little known “Aaron Burr conspiracy treason,” and with treason whereby tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers, received pardons and restored civil rights from Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President, Andrew Johnson, who narrowly escaped conviction after impeachment by one vote. More recently, former Vice President, Gerald Ford's pardon of renown “southern strategist” “tricky-Dick “, Richard Nixon may also offer some insight.
I first caught wind of the “Burr Conspiracy,” reading David O. Stewart's THE SUMMER OF 1787 (2007).
Aaron Burr served as Vice President under Thomas Jefferson (1801-1805) when he killed Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel and also when Burr was tried and was acquitted of treason by a jury in Richmond, Virginia, over which Chief Justice John Marshall presided. Aaron Burr was acquitted of attempting to form a separate nation in then- “Southwest” aided by Spain , Great Britain, others. As one commentator has crucially noted, “The government, to clarify, charged Burr with levying war, but in attempting to prove the charge, they persisted in using the more lax and indeterminate standards of proof for conspiring to levy war. Treason and the conspiracy to commit treason, Marshall ruled emphatically—and crucially—were two distinct crimes.” This latter point may presage the outcome of Trump-Mueller in our present day, with its Presidential cries of “no collusion.”
At any event facts again seem to verify, that there is “nothing new under the sun!”
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AARON BURR: JEFFERSON’S VICE PRESIDENT
Monday, August 13, 2018
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
A friend has characterized President Donald Trump's insatiable stupidity and viral venality as a consequence of "affluenza," that made-up "affluent white alleged legal ailment defense" that has become apparent to the non-white, or non-affluent among us, as exemplified by the drunken rich white boy who killed 4 people while driving drunk, but who got probation, before fleeing to Mexico. Then, another “affluenza” travesty was the male Stanford student who raped a drunken female, Stanford student in an alley behind a garbage dumpster, and got the same “affluenza sentence”--probation.
I fully appreciate my long-time friend’s perspective. But I am more inclined to align President Trump’s alleged “treason” with the now-little known “Aaron Burr conspiracy treason,” and with treason whereby tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers, received pardons and restored civil rights from Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President, Andrew Johnson, who narrowly escaped conviction after impeachment by one vote. More recently, former Vice President, Gerald Ford's pardon of renown “southern strategist” “tricky-Dick “, Richard Nixon may also offer some insight.
I first caught wind of the “Burr Conspiracy,” reading David O. Stewart's THE SUMMER OF 1787 (2007).
Aaron Burr served as Vice President under Thomas Jefferson (1801-1805) when he killed Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel and also when Burr was tried and was acquitted of treason by a jury in Richmond, Virginia, over which Chief Justice John Marshall presided. Aaron Burr was acquitted of attempting to form a separate nation in then- “Southwest” aided by Spain , Great Britain, others. As one commentator has crucially noted, “The government, to clarify, charged Burr with levying war, but in attempting to prove the charge, they persisted in using the more lax and indeterminate standards of proof for conspiring to levy war. Treason and the conspiracy to commit treason, Marshall ruled emphatically—and crucially—were two distinct crimes.” This latter point may presage the outcome of Trump-Mueller in our present day, with its Presidential cries of “no collusion.”
At any event facts again seem to verify, that there is “nothing new under the sun!”
#30