On September 14, 2020
© By John Arkelian
Politics and the law don’t mix. In the Free World, the law preserves and enlarges our freedom by guaranteeing equal protection to all.
Keeping a firm grip on the electorate – copyright © 2020 by Linda Arkelian
Rich or poor, powerful or meek, mainstream or minority, we are all equal before the law. An inviolable, impartial guardian, the law must stand above partisanship, favoritism, and calculations of either political or private advantage. When politics and law collide, the rule of law is threatened and the chief guarantor of our freedom is undermined. Yet, precisely such headlong collisions – between a self-serving ‘irresistible force’ and our protective ‘immoveable object’ – have been coming fast and furious in the past couple of years. Consider the alarming recent examples from Canada and the United States discussed in “When Politics and Law Collide” at: https://artsforum.ca/ideas/regional-perspectives