THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
by Cody Robert Judy, ©2014, blogging at CodyJudy
(Dec. 31, 2014) — Our Nation has an enormous pledge of allegiance which my youngest son in Kindergarten recently memorized, and it ends with the words, “One Nation, Under God, With Liberty and Justice for All.” The length of the Pledge of Allegiance isn’t the enormity but it’s the principal characters within that rise and swell as the Rocky Mountains do above the plains within the heart. A critic might say the ideals and principles found in that Pledge are lofty, while those who recite it feel a marvelous work and a wonder suddenly possible in their creative imaginations as unique and very important individuals.
The Pledge has rooted deep inside the psyche or conscience of Americans and the world has levied criticism at us for ‘being self-absorbed’ or ‘consumed with ourselves,’ maybe ‘selfish’ or caught up in our own ‘image’ in a ‘selfie’? Of course where such ego becomes consuming to the point of not caring for others, the negative reflection is warranted. However, self-aggrandizement has a true principle to it and that is when it looks to lift others up, especially in truth upon being engaged in a good cause.
We as Americans feel our hearts burst and fill with joy for the principles of justice upon each and every one, including ourselves in the words “and Justice for All.” As a Republic we have a Supreme Law called The U.S. Constitution which embodies what we have defined as inalienable rights. Are these inalienable rights defined for your neighborhood, or city, or state particularly? No, they are defined for you as an individual and that has remarkable power because it tells us a story that says “you count,” “you’re important,” “you’re not lost because of a sum but you are unique and vitally essential to it.” That is power and powerful. No one likes to feel powerless to the crowd stampeding over them.
With all of the civil unrest and agitation our Nation is feeling at this time, it is imperative that our justice system pause and reflect upon people as individuals rather than a herd. We count ourselves as Americans due to our civil rights, and the success of our nation as a whole has been fostered when individuals feeling whole, free, and at liberty then collectively moving together in bonds and working in harmony towards goals.
When the “system” starts breaking down the wholeness of ‘individuals’ and treating them like a herd, then we start having very big problems because ‘justice for all’ has been circumvented, and that pulls us apart. If we lose our faith that justice for each one of us is possible, we quit working together and begin relying on the ‘might is right’ tyrannical ideologies. Why is this important at this time?
There are reasons that people in America of every race, color, gender, and age are feeling that ‘individual justice’ is not being applied, but rather, is being denied. The very concept of cheating justice for an individual is injustice. That perverts the truths in our Pledge, our collective as well as individual psyche. Do I understand that personally? My own written record with a big trumpet declares ‘Yes! I do.”
In my personal and political life I’ve seen and crawled on my belly through the entangling weeds of law that seemed to wrap up upon your limbs and tighten till you ‘couldn’t breathe.’ It’s like wading through the sewer system that was above your head with only a straw in your mouth with barely enough oxygen to curb a frightful panic of suffocation. Being buried alive is exactly what ‘I can’t breathe” is all about, and I get that.
I’ve had eight case numbers or appeals that have been denied essentially in the political arena. Jim Carey had a great answer to a client who called for legal advice when he yelled, “Stop breaking the Law!” Excuse me, Jim, but when you haven’t broken the law and you’re appealing for justice, that means someone else is breaking the law. In my political action or appeals for justice, that nemesis person is Barack Obama, who is not qualified as a ‘natural born Citizen’ (born in the U.S. to Citizen Parents) and has a fabricated long-form birth certificate and forged draft registration by the standards of law enforcement investigations. Do these facts fall on deaf ears because I am not counted in the “ALL” part of “Justice for all”? Do I as a Presidential Candidate have no hope, no right to run a fair race by the definition of our Republic’s standards cited in the United States Constitution?
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CRJ, it is the RULE of law that has replaced the law itself. You keep good company when you look at all the people that have be deprived of their Liberty by the RULES applied by the JUDICIARY that supersede Liberty and Justice for ALL.