A Mountain Sermon on Immunity and Equal Justice
On Exemptions, Power, and Police
Justice loses its force the moment it is applied differently to police, homeland security, and government appointees acting on behalf of their political power. When the law shields authority rather than restraining it, justice ceases to be justice and becomes corrupt power.
When this president can target people based on skin color, income, or identity by empowering badges and hiring former enforcers to control the public, the outcome points to domination where justice should have stood. And when exemptions are granted to the powerful without the consent of Congress or the sovereign states, those exemptions lose all moral gravity.
An exemption imposed without consent carries the force of privilege, and not of legitimacy.
The Exemption Story
We are told that government officials need special protection so the system can function. That immunity is necessary to keep order.
But the outcome is plain. Ordinary people are punished when they are wrong. Government actors, including police and homeland security officers, often hide behind anonymity, secrecy, and silence. This arrangement produces hierarchy rather than balance.
What stands here functions as a power structure rather than a justice system. A system that punishes the governed while excusing the governors is corrupt at best and treasonous at worst.
Who Created These Unconstitutional Exemptions
We, the people of the United States, never voted on legal immunity. It was never openly debated and approved by Congress. It was created through court opinions, prosecutorial practices, and police union protections designed to shield themselves from accountability.
Once legally recognized as precedent, these exemptions began to feel permanent, even though the people never consented to them.
When private police organizations and prosecutor networks shape nationwide rules that limit the people’s ability to hold power accountable, they are not interpreting the law. Their actions amount to self-governance rather than legal interpretation.
What’s being practiced here is self-rule by authority rather than democracy.
Exemptions Were Meant to Be Narrow
Some exemptions make sense. Witnesses must speak freely. Legislators must debate openly. Bad-faith lawsuits should not paralyze government. These were meant to be guardrails.
But guardrails become walls when they shield abuse. Exemptions become corruption when they protect power instead of service. At that point, immunity undermines public trust rather than preserving government.
One Law or None
A nation cannot survive with two justice systems. One strict and unforgiving for the public, often marked by racial discrimination. Another flexible and forgiving option for officials.
People notice. Faith collapses. Legitimacy drains away.
Accountability is what gives government credibility. As our Constitution makes clear, We the People own this nation. And We the People will not allow pirates of justice to steal freedom, truth, and morality.
Our Call
If exemptions are necessary, let them survive daylight. The people, not the courts alone, must debate, legislate, and approve them. Let no immunity exist in silence or secrecy.
Justice must be one system for all: with no crowns, shields, or special exits for the few.
Wrong is wrong. Right is right.
We are children of the same universe, and we stand at a moment of reckoning. Like the battle at Jericho, the walls of injustice must fall. Racism must fall. Homophobia must fall. And like the government of Babel, Babylon the Great must fall.
This nation was born 250 years ago. We have entered a new age. The pale blue dot Carl Sagan spoke of is here, and it is us. We are the body, the voice, and the reminder that power must answer to conscience.
The walls will come down.
Amen.
Presiding Chaplain, George Freeman, Universal Life Church
