No one is above the law | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

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"I have learned with deep concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair, and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities. In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and cooperation.

"The law must take its course. As this process continues, it would not be right for me to comment further on this matter. Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all"--King Charles

This, friends, is Charlie engaging in Kingspeak to his kid brother for "So long, Andy--it's been good to know you."

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Andrew has proven himself particularly loathsome, even by the standards of the Royals. His ties to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are impossible to deny by now. Even his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson was in tight with Epstein. Andrew's repeated denials of wrongdoing are countered by the millions of files and pictures that have been released from Epstein's sordid life.

What are you going to believe--Andy's unconvincing denials, or your own lying eyes?

Kings, potentates and rulers have frequently struggled to make peace with the concept of all, themselves included, being under the law. France's spectacular Sun King Louis XIV declared, "L'Etat , c'est moi." I am the state.

Does that sound like Louie was at all worried about one of his French minions making a citizen's arrest on his royal rump?

Uh, no.

F. Scott Fitzgerald spent significant time hanging out with the filthy rich of the Gilded Age. I never understood his rechristening those toney towns on the Long Island shore as East Egg & West Egg, though. Did he suppose residents of the Hamptons would be offended by his characterization of them as wealthy and worthless?

Perhaps. But he pulled no punches when he said about Jay Gatsby's benefactors, "The very rich are different from you and me." And in too many ways to go into here. Maybe the most significant way is that things that would get us into a lot of trouble usually give them little to no trouble at all.

Sure, once in a while some Master of the Universe will get tripped up by their own hubris. Richard Nixon explaining, "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." Leona Helmsley declaring, "Only little people pay taxes." Bill Clinton denying that he "had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

You get the point.

I really hope they put Randy Andy under the jail. Not that this would make up for the damage he did to those little girls--one of his alleged victims, Virginia Guiffre, committed suicide at 41--because that ship has sailed. What it would do is to send a message to the hoi polloi like us that are under the law. Even the rich, powerful, and famous. Usually they aren't.

The sad tragedy of people like Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is that, given an enormous platform to lift people up, they choose to waste it on their own baser instincts. Instead of inspiring a young lady through public service, he destroyed her through degrading sexual assault.

Allegedly.

God help us to uphold the dignity of man. Or what's left of it.

Chuck Monan, the Pigskin Preacher who appears with Justin Acri and D.J. Williams on KABZ 103.7-FM's "The Buzz," is a minister with nearly 40 years of experience, having served congregations in Michigan, Oklahoma and Arkansas. He is a founder of Pinnacle Church of Christ in Little Rock.