All Are Created Equal?

I've been thinking about the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights and thinking in particular about the "created equal" clause.  It seems it is often misinterpreted, or intentionally misused to push a political agenda.

Of course, looking at the clause in terms of created with equal physical or mental capability, handsomeness or ugliness, or birth into a family of means or not - well, then, it makes no sense.  But is that what the founding fathers meant? No.

Or does it mean the government should play "Robbing Hood" and take from the working and give to the idle?  No.

Does it mean the government should seize all jobs and all property and hand back equality -  equal food, equal clothing, equal housing, equal possessions? No.

So what did they mean?

They were talking about equality under the law.  You know, justice is blind, the theme the founders and early statesmen promoted.  Whether nobility or common man, rich or poor, handsome or ugly, physically weak or strong, or mentally astute or handicapped, everyone would be equally protected under the law.

Inequality under the law was one of the reasons the early citizens of this country fled England and came to the New World.

Equality under the law meant that government officials, teenage stars, and football celebrities should receive the same kinds of protection and punishment as everyone else. 

Sadly, this does not seem to be happening. Lately, justice seems to have lost its blinders, noticing some are stars or celebrities, noticing some are rich and influential, and noticing some are politically connected to the "correct" views. 

Justice is not only determining type of punishment, but even guilt or innocence, based on the the very factors to which it should be blind.

OOFDAH!