Posted on 07/22/2013 4:21:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
The liberal elite is still in shock that six Americans resisted the relentless pressure of its hack politicians, slavering mainstream media mediocrities and progressive hustlers in order to acquit George Zimmerman. Consciously or not, the jurors’ verdict was an act of rebellion against the progressives who wants to jettison our most sacred principles.
The case was a joke, but you wouldn’t know that if you only listened to the mainstream media. The media’s rank speculation, mischaracterization of the evidence and outright lies were designed to replace the strict adherence to law and the rules of evidence that for a thousand years have protected the accused from the mindless fury of the mob.
Progressives needed Zimmerman to be guilty, so when mere facts and laws got in the way of the predetermined narrative they could be dispensed with. Luckily, no one told the jury they were not supposed to take seriously all that stuff about the State having to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
But the undermining of the rule of law in criminal cases is just one component of their insidious strategy. The elite and their slobbering minions are growing more and more frustrated at the obstacles the American principles embodied in our Constitution and our traditions place in the pathway to their hideous progressive Utopia, so they seek to undercut these principles at every turn.
They don’t even try to hide it any more. Here are just a few examples:
The First Amendment, the cornerstone of our nation’s great experiment in freedom, is a prime target. Progressives want to limit the freedom of the press to only those designated media outlets they know will back the status quo, calling their censorship “campaign finance reform.” The government, defending the McCain-Feingold Act, once even told the Supreme Court that it was perfectly constitutional to charge an American citizen with a crime for writing a book critical of a politician.
Think about that. Our government actually argued that it was A-OK for the feds to stick you in jail for writing a book.
Fortunately, the conservatives on the High Court rejected that insanity. The liberals? Don’t think they would not happily give the power to bureaucrats to decide who can and cannot say what. In fact, in their dissent in Citizens United they argued hard that the First Amendment should come with an asterisk.
How about the right to petition the government? The IRS launches a campaign of harassment and intimidation designed to silence opponents of the regime and the elite thinks that it’s perfectly all right.
Freedom of religion? Obamacare is designed to target religious groups, to force them out of the health care field by making them to choose between their principles and their charities. That’s not a bug. That’s a feature designed to eliminate faith-based competitors to the government in providing health care to the poor.
Need we even mention the liberal hatred of the Second Amendment? The same people who scoured the Bill of Rights to find a right to an abortion up until junior gets his driver’s license can’t manage to find a right to keep and bear arms in the text guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms.
How about the Fourth Amendment? You have a right not to have the government poking around your stuff without probable cause unless, of course, the government decides it feels like it.
Astonishingly, the government has now even managed to infringe on the Third Amendment. How the hell do you even do that?
Too bad the government isn’t even a hundredth as creative and competent its actual duties as it is in engaging in petty tyranny.
This is not a matter of a few rogue villains lurking out in Cincinnati. This is a systemic attack on our nation’s basic principles led by the reigning progressive elite and abetted by its mainstream media buddies.
It’s time to resist. It’s time to say “Hell no!”
When you get called up for jury duty, don’t weasel out of it. Proudly sit as a juror, and if the State fails to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, proudly acquit. If the case was so weak it never should have been brought, after giving your verdict tell the judge what you think on the record. Let’s deincentivize overcharging by embarrassing abusive prosecutors.
And exercise your other rights – exercise the hell out of them because if you don’t you will lose them. Speak out, loudly and proudly, and refuse to be silenced. When the government annoys you, petition it for the redress of your grievances. Petition it until the bureaucrats shiver when they see you coming.
Demand your right to live according to your conscience, and refuse to abide by the oppression of other people based on their religion or lack thereof.
Own a gun and ammunition, and be prepared to defend yourself, your family, your community and our Constitution.
When some government flunky gets into your private affairs without a warrant based upon probable cause, drag his sorry rear into court.
And when some agent of the government attempts to quarter troops in your home during peacetime, you tell him to get off your lawn.
Americans are citizens and not subjects because our forefathers refused to countenance the abuses of far-away elites who sought to control their lives. That’s our heritage, and that’s our duty.
Let’s get back to where standing up for our American principles, as the Zimmerman jurors manifestly did, is no longer courageous but a minimum expectation.
PING!!!
Excellent article Kurt. I hope you live on 40 acres with your house in the center surrounded by an alligator infested moat.
BTTT
A majority of Americans wanted a first Black President.
They got it.
They have to take the Baggage that comes with it.
Anti-white racism and liberal entitlements.
Won't matter. They will use a drone which will soon be armed on US soil IMO.
What we’re now seeing with regard to SYG and right-to-carry would have happened regardless of the verdict.
That GZ was found not guilty has the Left’s collective knickers in a twist and they’re showing themselves to be the spoiled children they are.
When progressive freakazoid Flint Taylor wrote:" The Zimmerman jury decided that a white police wannabe could justifiably profile an unarmed African-American 17-year-old as a criminal, hunt him down, and fatally shoot him."
Some "uncompassionate" types described Taylor as a hopeless ignoramus, a shameless liar, an incurable guilt-ridden, self-loathing white fool.
I say give the progs a frickin'break----the Trayvon killing is one of the few times they get to "feel good about themselves." Oh happy day----those cold lifeless gonads were all a-tingling when the Zimmerman verdict came in.
Eric Holder was up first---exposing himself to the feel-good NAACP convention goers...promising wholesale revenge against the white culture that killed their "child" hero.
And who can forget? The very first thing Holder did as AG was to tell us we were a "nation of cowards" WRT race.....putdown cheered on by America-hating Obama, gonads all a-tingle, of course.
Mmmmmmm.....tingle tingle tingle.....having a dead black troublemaker to whine over sure feels good in their nether regions (cackle).
Let the 2nd American Revolution begin!
Very few. The only ones it semi-respects are those which have a dedicated following to protect them.
The recent IRS scandals notwithstanding, we have general freedom of the press, because the press can make electoral life very difficult for politicians who wish to repress it.
The second amendment is relatively respected because its support groups can do the same.
What about our other rights that do not have civil protectors?
Our God given rights to free exercise of religion, security of our persons, papers and effects, to a grand jury, double jeopardy, taking of private property, the 9th and 10th Amendments . . . have been greatly diminished or practically excised from the constitution because they do not have adequate support.
As James Madison wrote, parchment barriers, bills of rights are insufficient protection.
If ever there was a time to give ourselves one more chance to return to self government, it is now.
An Article V people/state initiated amendment convention is all that possibly remains between us and certain despotism.
Just replace those police officers with British red coats and there you have it.
Ping...ping...ping!
If you mean a Constitutional Convention be careful what you wish for. It would put the entire document up for grabs.
“Revolutionary Act”........?
You can call me a “Revolutionist” then because I’m all in for it.
Article V doesn’t mean a constitutional convention.
No it would not. Quit posting this nonsense. An Article five convention would allow us to return to limited government.
A CC is nothing more than a second option to propose amendments to the Constitution. Any amendments that get proposed would still have to be ratified by (38) states to become the law of the land.
The people proposing amendments and putting them to a vote is the biggest fear of the left. They don't have the numbers to win and never have.
Obama’s brand of bullying could hardly be called “petty tyranny”...his foray into the Zimmerman/Martin trial is despotism at best. I keep getting the feeling that the neighborhood bullies are breaking all laws that they don’t like, demanding it be their way or the highway....while good men do nothing...for fear of starting a race war.....well since Barack Obama, Valery Jarrett, Michelle Obama, Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson and others started it first the ‘people’ are now free to fight back for their rights i.e., freedom. Is this nothing more that the “squeaky wheel syndrome?” Well America enough race blather....start shouting!
Petty tyranny?
I don’t see much of our Constitutional Rights anymore....that’s no ‘petty’ to me!
And sure as sh!t haven’t, in a long time ‘...to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...’
Nice take. Thanks.
I stand in humble shame. I have misunderstood the Article 5 content. Mark me chastened. I probably should shut up for a couple of more years.
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