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Ben Stein: Presumptions of innocence have vanished for good.
[American Spectator] Now for a few words about the "sex scandals" rocking the nation:As usual, Mr. Trump put his finger on the exact issue about Judge Roy Moore a few days ago. A woman reporter shouted out to him something like, "Is it better to have an accused child molester in the Senate than a Democrat?" Mr. Trump hit it out of the park. "He denies it all. He totally denies it," said the President. He thereby got to the crux of the matter. Judge Moore is accused of various misdeeds. There’s no proof of any of it. It might be true and it might not be true. But if the voters of Alabama elect Judge Moore to the Senate, is Mitch McConnell seriously planning to destroy the will of the voters of Alabama and the Constitution because of the allegations of a group of teenagers? Would we really fail to seat a Senator because of gossip ‐ totally unproved ‐ about events forty years ago? Surely the question answers itself. Don’t get me wrong, we should not have a child molester in the Senate. But we don’t know if Mr. Moore ever was a child molester. We have the presumption of innocence in this country. To throw it all away because of the recollections of a long ago teenager seems almost unbelievable. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-27 |
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