Posted on 02/15/2023 8:04:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We celebrate the acquittal of pro-life activist Mark Houck of the phony federal charges in Philadelphia on Monday, January 30. We celebrate the savvy and grit of the Thomas More Society for standing in the legal breach to give Mark back to his wife and seven young children.
But let's be clear: the acquittal was less about justice being served and more about averting further injustice. The sword of government appears to have turned away from protecting peaceful citizens to attacking them.
The very existence of a trial was a display of injustice, as the Department of Justice under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland and the prosecution of Sanjay Patel abused taxpayer resources, targeting peaceful pro-lifers on trumped up FACE Act violations.
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances is a federal law designed, and almost exclusively used, to cool public pro-life speech around abortion facilities. The FACE Act, on its face, is unconstitutional, robbing states of their Tenth Amendment rights to self-govern while unfairly targeting pro-life people.
The vast majority of the nearly 230 attacks on pro-life entities in 2022, many of which qualified as FACE Act violations, have gone unanswered by law enforcement. Compare that to the 26 people, all peaceful pro-lifers, indicted for being publicly, peacefully pro-life. But what does the DOJ do when real violence and conspiracy to deprive rights occur against pro-life people? And what should be done to get America's justice system back on track?
Over eight months have elapsed since the arson attack of CompassCare's pro-life medical office as part of an organized nationwide terrorist campaign to shut down all public pro-life activity.
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As with our Free Constitutional Republican form of government, the judicial system is not the problem.
The problem is the DELUSIONAL LYING LEFTISTS running it who need to be REPLACED BY SOUND-MINDED PATRIOTS.
The government needs “fixing”? That’s like standing next to a house that’s engulfed in flames and stating it needs “fixing”.
Anyone who gets any justice in court is ahead of the game. I have been walking into courthouses for more than 40 years and listening to and reading their sanctimonious declarations about justice and fairness It’s a load of crap. Those things cannot be dispensed like soda from a vending machine. Litigants only get a chance at justice, and it’s a damned slim one at best.
I disagree.
I’m a defense attorney and I find that fairness and justice happens a lot. Not every time but a lot.
And if you’re looking for “revenge” as “justice” as so many do, fugeddabouddit.
The people running our government including the courts is another story. The bad ones need to be replaced.
Our judicial system isn’t perfect but it is way ahead of whatever’s in second.
The punishment for Mr. Houck was the process of being arrested having to get a lawyer to defend him in court etc. etc.
In your learned opinion are the DC J6 detainees political prisoners?
Absolutely.
The process is so tainted that I would pardon every damned one - that includes those who assaulted police.
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