Words fail to mean anything these days. Just because words are said, doesn’t mean that they are true. Maybe, the old truism needs to be applied to our discourse, particularly our national discourse.
“Silence is more powerful than words.”
In light of
this long held opinion, if we are searching for what is true, should we not
look first for what is not being said? A
case in point, the Supreme Court promised a thorough speedy investigation into
who leaked the draft of the abortion case on its agenda. This first in history breach was followed by
outrage from the court but ever since May 2, the silence of the court on the
identity of the leaker has been deafening, who done it?
The dominate
assumption of all concerned from the get go has been that a politically
motivated clerk of the Supreme Court is the likely villain. If this were true, won’t this clerk be taking
bows from the political left? Law career
be dammed, the leaker could write a book.
Document security in the Supreme Court could not be so lax that the identity of a clerk type leaker is still a mystery into the last week of June.
Let us
consider the silence. The silent possibility is that the leaker is not a clerk but, instead, a Supreme Court Justice from the outnumbered
left of the Supreme Court. That
certainty would throw the court into a national turmoil and constitutional
crisis that would require the politicians from the left to demand a fix. Anyone
can see where this would be going.
Maybe, we
don’t need to know the identity of the leaker. Maybe, silence is golden!
G. Goslaw
Landers,
