I have guts enough to stand, though I may stand alone. I love my Lord and my family. I love my nation, my country, my flag, my freedoms — inherent rights and liberties that come with this great nation along with the right to a guaranteed freedom of speech via the first amendment.

The rumble on the streets is vibrant enough to be all-inclusive and constant. The talk is about what basis was applied to the biased ruling in the Binkey Vines decision.

For what reason does a judge retire, and by the same token what motivates him, the judge to come out of retirement. Is it benefits, profits, pride? Just what was the bait, if you will, used to lure this man back into the public domain?

I recall a few adages — “Something’s rotten in Denmark,” “Money makes the mare go!” or “Love of money is the root of all evil.”

This recent ruling by a retired judge has made a laughing stock of all justice and rights in our courts. Free license to all crime is granted prematurely by a slap on the wrist by one person in authority.

Something magnetized toward this persons’ domain, be it money, pride, property or whatever, to motivate his blatant disregard from any iota of a just interpretation of the law as it is written.

How can a confessed felon state his guilt and state “but I will pay it all back, plus interest.” How can anyone, when he admits guilt, be blatant enough to say I’m guilty, but I will pay it all back with interest? I would suggest that any money used as a pay back is tainted by default.

Fool me once your fault. Fool me twice, my fault.

This is like putting a mouse to guard the cheese. Even the thought of returning a person under these circumstances to the same job he admittedly stated caused his downfall is ludicrous.

Thomas E. Young

Natchez resident