Irresponsible critics

Trial by a jury of your peers, selected on the basis of their lack of bias and commitment to reach a just decision on the basis of the evidence is the crowning jewel of our judicial system. It is a guarantee that you will not be deprived of life or liberty arbitrarily or capriciously by the whim of a despot or the will of a mob.

By all measures, the jury in the Rittenhouse case discharged their duty in precisely the way the Constitution envisioned. The verdict should be accepted as a product of a judicial system that worked, but instead of inspiring confidence in our judicial system, the president, mayor and disgraced former governor of New York, Jerry "Walrus" Nadler and others in positions of trust who should know better, have attacked the verdict as if it was unjustly reached, thus undermining the foundation of, respect for and acceptance of justice and ipso facto encouraging the mob to seek their vision of justice in the streets.

This is grossly irresponsible of the president and his ilk. Actions like these erode the common bond and encourage contempt rather than esteem and pride for the Constitutional norms of this great country.

There is little doubt we are coming apart by the seams as we now have far more that divides than unites us and the president missed a "teachable" moment to rise above the fray and embrace for all the majestic way in which our jury system works. Shame on him.

Dan Dowd

Long Grove