A Prince Of A Guy

  “They [the police] have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation. Let me state clearly: the law must take its course."

These were the words that the King of England used to describe the situation with his brother Andrew Nottaprince. Mister Andrew, as he is currently known in Great Britain, was arrested this past Thursday on charges of "misconduct in office." It makes me wonder how many of our our own United States government officials might stand up under that kind of scrutiny. And as a certain amount of meringue on top, this all took place on Mister Andrew's sixty-sixth birthday. 

But back to this "misconduct in office" business. British law defines it as: Willfully neglecting to perform one's duty and/or willfully misconducts themselves to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust in the office holder without reasonable excuse or justification.

Again, this gives me pause. I believe this particular bit of jurisprudence could use a spin around Washington D.C. And Mar-A-Lago. And not just the whole Epstein thing, though that seems to be a great place to start. Public trust in the former game show host, who has already been convicted on thirty-four felony counts of falsifying business records. The business records that were falsified in order to obscure the payments made to an adult film star, Ms. Stormy Daniels, with whom the adjudicated rapist had an affair just after his third wife had given birth to his son, Andrew. 

Excuse me: Barron. Not a real Baron, just a name that sounds like royalty. 

Which he isn't. 

And neither is the father.

But it would seem that even royalty can be brought low when they exhibit misconduct in office. Like for example if the "person" in question was impeached. Twice. And appeared more than a million times in the dossier I like to call "The Trumpstein Files."

This is how we, in America, like to do things apparently. There have been no arrests made in the murders of Renee Good or Alex Pretti, while citizens of all sizes, shapes and colors are being snatched up off the streets of our country without anything resembling probable cause. 

There was a time when the British tabloids used to cheekily refer to Andrew Nottaprince as "Randy Andy." Maybe it's time to remember how we were all introduced to the convicted felon currently tearing down the White House and our constitution. Misconduct? Where do we begin?