Kachelman: When the Rule of Law Unravels
Guest post by John Kachelman, Jr.
In “Sweet Home Alabama” I was raised to expect accountability for stupidity. Of course, many wish to evade personal culpability for their actions. But one’s “feet are held to the fire” and accountability is unexcused. People still try to evade their actions. They project their uncivil, criminal and self-centered actions onto others trying to justify what they have said and done. But it does not “hold soap.” So, downhome simple language tags them with the idiom, “Bit dog hollers first and loudest!” These folks are “called out” for their arrogant attempts to dodge the evil they have fostered. There is eventual accountability even when the arrogant attempt to excuse themselves of their dastardly deed.
