Sir Thomas More: You threaten like a dockside bully.
Cromwell: How should I threaten?
Sir Thomas More: Like a minister of state. With justice.
Cromwell: Oh, justice is what you’re threatened with.
Sir Thomas More: Then I am not threatened.
Robert Bolt, A Man for all Seasons
Roger Kimball has a good piece of commentary at Pajamas Media citing Saint Thomas More in reference to the Zimmerman case:
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! 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!
Margaret More: Father, that man’s bad.
Sir Thomas More: There’s no law against that.
William Roper: There is: God’s law.
Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him.
As in the Zimmerman case, Saint Thomas found himself on trial for political reasons masquerading as a criminal prosecution. When the law is thus prostituted for political ends, none of us are safe or free.
“The Constitution is the last refuge of the reprobate.” Author unknown.
When one chooses violence in answer to a perceived affront there will always be consequences.
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