Bush’s Moral Decay Has Forced Us to Rely on Common Law to Protect Us From His Immorality

When moral consensus fades, as it has in our time under the Bush Administration, we turn to law; when law falters, as it must when morality is no longer widely shared, society and culture teeter on the brink of chaos.

Bush’s attack on our moral system is most pointedly an attack on our common law. When morality dissolves as it has under Bush, people turn to the law and that is where they come into direct conflict with Bush. When law is altered for personal benefit as Bush has done, culture and society waver on the brink of chaos. Bush has cut down constitional law that protects us from our leaders and baser instincts.

Sir Thomas More, in conflict with another tyrant, Henry VIII, said, “God made the angels to show Him splendor – as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.”

Our minds then tell us that authority (Bush) is wrong, that we must rely on our sense of right and wrong to protect us from Bush’s immorality, in order to live morally with virtue and truth because Bush has comprised the law.

Our nation must regain its morality and re-establish the rule of law if the US is to survive as a nation and if we are to survive as a people.