General Flynn, Team Obama, and You - American Greatness
By Sebastian Gorka
Symbols matter. And I don’t mean in the churlish and asinine sense of the “symbology†one might find in a Dan Brown novel. I mean it in the sense of visual shorthand for deep cultural concepts and values.
Whether it is the vision of the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, D.C., or the sight of Blue Angel jets flying overhead in a national salute to those on the front line fighting the Coronavirus, symbols static and mobile can express so much.
One symbol we forget at our peril is our civilization’s representation of Lady Justice.
Traced back to the Roman depiction of Justitia, holding a sword in one hand to signify decisive and final judgment, and a pair of scales in the other for measuring the validity of a given case, since the 16th century Western physical expressions of Justice have added only one additional symbolic touch to Lady Justice: a blindfold. Why?
The blindfold is meant to signify the essential civilizational standard of impartiality before the law. All must be equal. No one should be rewarded or punished in our judicial system simply because of his name, rank, or social and financial standing.
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