Forty Percent

 

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

 

 

{editors note: In discussions on how to approach this topic, two quotes kept entering the debate. We decided to utilize both, despite some question as to their origins.

To wit:

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – credited to Thomas Jefferson

 

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Credited to Star Trek: The Next Generation}

 

 

Tyranny is at the door and it seems that the electorate appears to be, at best, either ambivalent or oblivious to that reality. The founders and framers constructed the United States Constitution specifically to protect the individual. It was designed to limit the power of government. The rights of freedom for America’s citizenry are beautifully enshrined within the first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights.

 

The political left is intent on dismantling those rights because of a specific hatred.

 

We would ask you to consider what happens when the following constitutional rights are ignored for any single American citizen.

 

To wit:

 

An American citizen is told that they may not speak about their court proceedings, but if they do, severe sanctions will be imposed for simply speaking.

First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

 

Is it acceptable to be threatened with imprisonment for speaking your truth? The freedom of speech is meant not to protect speech you accept, but for that which you hate loathe and despise.

The same American is in dispute with the government over ownership of papers. Rather than allow the legal process to follow its just course, the government launches a raid to seize the documents. They even search underwear drawers, a site that would not be listed in a warrant, as mandated by the Constitution. Remember the Constitution limits the actions of the government. It might be difficult and cumbersome to legally delineate specifics in a warrant, but therein is the point.

 

Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

 

As the American citizen is prosecuted by the state, and while a civil and not criminal case, he is not afforded the right to examine the witnesses against him. Oddly, the only witness against him is the states prosecutor, who ran for office specifically to put the one citizen in jail. Not on a platform of protecting the people, but to railroad this singular person. The case brought against this citizen has no victims. All associated parties have all been made whole in the normal course of business. The state, however, wants this one citizen crushed. So the prosecution and persecution continues unabated.

  

Sixth Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

 

The State, having secured a guilty verdict, a decision THEY KNOW WILL BE OVERTURNED, nevertheless continues with imposing a penalty. The populace is aware that OJ Simpson who was found liable for butchering two human beings was ordered to pay thirty million dollars. There was no victim, and no crime in the case of the Citizen. Somehow a single judge was allowed to impose a penalty in excess of ten-fold to the OJ penalty. In addition, the citizen has 30 days to post that amount in order to appeal, and the prosecutor has gleefully announced the State will seize assets to satisfy the judgement.

 

Eighth Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

 

We are confident that our readers are fully aware the citizen of this narrative is Donald Trump.

This post however is not a defense of Trump. It IS a warning to the American people to take heed of the quotes that led this column. The Constitution was written to prevent the government from doing exactly what they are attempting to do to Trump.

Love him or hate him, he is correct when he states that if they can do it to him, they will certainly do it to all of us.

We implore you to let your voice be heard in defense of the Constitution, or surely those quotes will become self fulfilling prophecies.

Unless you are comfortable surrendering 40 percent of your constitutional rights.