Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
TRUMP IS TYPICAL NOT ATYPICAL
TRUMP IS TYPICAL NOT ATYPICAL
United States President Donald Trump's vast legal difficulties raise a specter of criminality. It is almost laughable, if it was not so pitiable. I naturally wondered where else had such criminality reigned in history?
As I reflected, however, indeed, before I undertook to do research another question superseded the first one. It was: Which kings, emperors, rulers, potentates were not criminals ? There are so many criminals just in America and in the Americas, there was no need to inquire further, abroad, to the rest of the world! Hence, it may be easier to search for those that were not criminals! Very ancient nations.
Nations before Rome must be searched for righteousness and for non-criminality, since Rome fed Christians to the lions tigers bears for amusement, entertainment in their massive amphitheaters. Rome also crucified Jesus Christ, then stole his redemptive theology as their own centuries later under Emperor Constantine, and others.
Greece of course was not a nation but an aggregation of city-states like Athens, Sparta, others. They were great mariners and traders, whose influence was more derived from their contact with Africa, than autochthonous, as portrayed today.
Yet even in Greece rulers' names like Draco for Draconian: harsh, severe yet survive. Athens' fabled wise man, Socrates, was jailed for teaching philosophy "foreign ideas" to youth. Socrates drank hemlock to poison himself to death, while jailed, rather than compromise philosophy's principles says Plato, his alleged student and renowned author . Its democracy excluded Athens' vast class of slaves and its lower classes from juries, voting, offices, power perquisites of rulers.
Of course, Greece and Rome are the model of the West, especially Western Europe and America, whose ancestors were "barbarians" to Greece and Rome, whom they routinely fought, subdued until they were later, themselves, subdued by their descendants, today's rulers!
But I digress . Trump is typical , not atypical, of all criminal leadership!