Prologue
In his historical play A Man For All Seasons, Robert Bolt compares English law to a great forest, or woodland. The law is about to be violated flagrantly by King Henry VIII. One man, Sir Thomas More, refuses to give his assent. Here are More’s famous lines defending the law.
Sir Thomas More: … What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? … do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
The Trees Are Down
Lies
Theft
Murder
Treason
Patriot Act
NSA
The Trees Are Down
Barak Obama
Hillary Clinton
Loretta Lynch
James Comey
John Kerry
Mitch McConnell et al
Paul Ryan et al
Harry Reid et al
Nancy Pelosi et al
John Roberts
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Anthony M. Kennedy
Stephen Breyer
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Tree-slayers all
The winds are howling
The trees are down
And who but The Donald
Can replant so fallen a wood?
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