Here is a quotation from a historically huge and beloved Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, former Colonel of San Antonio’s home-recruited “Rough Riders,” renowned from the Spanish-American War in Cuba: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
And here’s another, or two: “No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it.” “Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”
(Third Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1903) We are a law-abiding nation; therefore we should all obey, support and willingly subject ourselves to these laws which we ourselves have created and under which we are all honorably equal -- as so should our leaders, first and foremost. Whenever they fail or demur to do so, they should be roundly repudiated by every honest voice in the land and rendered subject to the penalties of the laws they have flouted, fouled or subverted, just like all the rest of us.
William Cornelison Bandera
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