Posted on 04/16/2015 3:06:58 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A confession: Many years ago, I was an ultra-left liberal, a Marxist, in fact. As a newly minted attorney at law in New York, I joined the ACLU and volunteered serve as one of their lawyers. About six weeks later, they asked me to represent an American Nazi accused of inciting to riot. I refused. They were mightily put off, horrified in fact. They remonstrated. But he has a right to counsel. I said, Maybe so, but he doesnt have a right to me. Im protected by the Thirteenth Amendment. (The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.)... It doesnt protect only former slaves. It also protects Jewish lawyers.
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It took me ten years of mulling over the matter to realize that the right to competent counsel is not the right of the accused. It is our right. We are the ones who have the right to insist that the accused be represented by counsel. That is to protect us, the society at large, from the terrors of a Star Chamber. Like all civil liberties law, it is based on the bedrock notion that what the government does to him today, it can do to you tomorrow. And it will. Therefore we have the right to counsel representing the accused. In his case, I am willing to waive that right. In my opinion, we have the right to decline to even share the planet with Nazis. I know they feel that way about me. We can surely turn a deaf ear to his plea for counsel to defend him when he incites to riot against me.
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In the realm of non-legal services, these are some of the reported cases of people being penalized for refusing to provide services for events celebrating homosexuality for religious reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Photographer Elaine Huguenin was ordered by the State of New Mexico to give a lesbian $7,000 for declining to photograph her same-sex wedding.
Bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein were fined $150,000 by the State of Oregon for refusal to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding based on religious objections.
Blaine Adamson was ordered by the city of Lexington, Kentucky, to undergo 'sensitivity training" for refusing to print T-shirts for a gay pride festival.
Sounds like involuntary servitude to me.
What else would one expect from the party of slavery?
Oh. I thought this was an H-1B thread.
I predict that the next front in the battle to accept gay or lesbian or any form of marriage other than traditional one will be against DEVOUT CHRISTIAN chaplains of the military ( ignore the liberal chaplains who have already sold out ).
Chaplains are COMMISSIONED OFFICERS of the military and receive a salary. Therefore, it will be but logical in the eyes of the gay lobby to target this institution using the standard tactic they’ve already used for bakers, Florists and photographers — GOVERNMENT COERCION.
If a devout chaplain refuses to perform a gay wedding, he will be stripped of his rank and dishonorably discharged.
Once this front is defeated, the next front will then be the Christian churches.
How you ask? STRIP THEM OF THEIR TAX EXEMPTION STATUS!
Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.
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CWII Spark Ping — Old news, but perhaps examined from a different perspective than usual.
“Once this front is defeated, the next front will then be the Christian churches.
How you ask? STRIP THEM OF THEIR TAX EXEMPTION STATUS!”
I think that one is right around the corner.
Geez.
I was going to open a spice business. Maybe not now.
The socialists/communists are doing all they can to destroy the entrepreneurial spirit. After all, the owners didn’t build their own businesses - the government did it for them.
So did I ...
It’s already been proposed by some LGBTEIEIO activists.
“How you ask? STRIP THEM OF THEIR TAX EXEMPTION STATUS!”
Good. Then all Christian churches will be able to speak out without having to tow the government line. It was satan’s snare anyway.
Churches dont need irs tax exemption letters to be tax exempt. Churches predate the federal government and most state governments. Those very same churches had pastors give sermons and then take of their frocks and underneath were wearing their military uniforms, with swords and srms, asking for volunteers from the congregation.
Research Liberty Counsel. They have an excellent legal pamhplet explaining this.
Children in high school must now perform mandatory volunteerism in order to get their diploma.
Just an extension of the 100+ yrs of involuntary servitude called....the 16th Amendment; not even getting into the 4th, 5th, etc.
Add in the ‘War on Welfare’ and most income tax payers are slaves in all but name.
That's exactly right. I've been a criminal defense attorney for many years, and I have had a few real scumbag clients. But I don't defend my clients. I defend the Constitution of the United States. Making sure that even the lowest of the low are represented by competent counsel is one of the things that keeps the wolf of tyranny from our door.
I should add that a large majority of my clients aren't scumbags - they're just folks who acted like idiots on a particular day. Drank too much. Lost their temper. Let a loved one talk them into something stupid. In this criminal defense game I find myself saying "there but for the grace of God" about 100 times a day.
But some are real bottom feeders. I represent them, too.
That's exactly right. I've been a criminal defense attorney for many years, and I have had a few real scumbag clients. But I don't defend my clients. I defend the Constitution of the United States. Making sure that even the lowest of the low are represented by competent counsel is one of the things that keeps the wolf of tyranny from our door. I should add that a large majority of my clients aren't scumbags - they're just folks who acted like idiots on a particular day. Drank too much. Lost their temper. Let a loved one talk them into something stupid. In this criminal defense game I find myself saying "there but for the grace of God" about 100 times a day. But some are real bottom feeders. I represent them, too.
Involuntary servitude is just the beginning...
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