“I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.” Charlton Heston
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
April 21, 2021
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Why bother with trials? Especially if you know the guy on trial is guilty.
This week Chelsea Handler tweeted that exact same idea:
“So pathetic that there’s a trial to prove that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd when there is a video of him doing so.”
“Pathetic” was the right choice of words, but not to describe our jury system.
“While it’s easy to mock,” Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker pointed out, “we should be careful not to assume that this taste for summary conviction, on the basis of popular sentiment is confined to unfunny comedians.
“It seems to be widely shared among the ideologues who now control the Democratic Party, the media and cultural elites.”
Precisely.
While the jury in the Chauvin trial was inside the barricaded Minneapolis Court House, awaiting closing arguments, an elected representative to Congress joined demonstrators at Brooklyn Center, the site of violent rioting last week.
A “guilty, guilty, guilty,” murder verdict, that’s what Rep. Maxine Waters demanded.
Everyone knew what she was doing. She was jury tampering.
And she was threatening the rest of us with non-stop Antifa and BLM riots if she didn’t get what she wanted.
“We’ve got to stay on the street,” she screamed -- surrounded by armed bodyguards to protect her.
“And we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”
The judge wasn’t pleased, and neither was anyone else.
Yet yesterday the House of Representatives refused to censure her. And they didn’t attempt to remove her from office for “incitement of insurrection,” as they did with Donald Trump.
Biden prayed for the “right verdict.”
Nancy Pelosi thanked George Floyd for dying. “Thank you, George, for sacrificing your life for justice,” she said, flanked by the Congressional Black Caucus.
And Maxine defended her behavior by saying she was just a caring "auntie."
The “Democrat Standard of Justice” is a lot like what President Joe means when he talks about “Jim Crow.” Buck us, and we’ll make your life miserable.
“We will hijack your car, burn down your businesses and indoctrinate your children.
“If, like former Brooklyn Center City Manager Curt Boganey, you say Derek Chauvin deserves 'due process,' you’ll be fired.
“And if you are a witness in a trial testifying for the “wrong” defendant, we will hunt you down and splash pig blood on your door.”
Conviction of Derek Chauvin won’t be enough. Everyone knows that.
Because the people rioting do not like this country. They are anarchists, and Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Maxine Waters are staunchly behind them.
After the Boston Massacre, colonists wanted to hang the British soldiers. The soldiers had fired upon them. A trial wasn’t needed to know that.
If there were contradictory facts, it didn’t matter.
Except to John Quincy Adams.
When no one else would, Adams stepped forward to serve as counsel to the British soldiers. Because of the Rule of Law.
He was adamant that any defendant, even a British soldier, would be guaranteed the presumption of innocence.
Six of the eight soldiers were acquitted; two convicted of manslaughter, with minor punishment. Because of the facts.
For more than a year, everyone in this country knew the jury in the Chauvin trial would find the officer guilty. The media, the president and Congress demanded it. Or else.
Members of the jury were scared out of their wits. USA Today printed a chart of the jury, with each of their statements about George Floyd.
Major cities prepared for the worst. And more rioting was promised, if the “right” decision wasn’t reached.
Is this your America?
“I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case,” presiding Judge Peter Cahill said from the bench, “especially in a manner that’s disrespectful to the rule of law, and to the judicial branch and our function.”
Chauvin’s defense counsel requested a mistrial. It was denied, but the judge said the concerns were legitimate.
“I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result on this whole trial being overturned,” the judge said.
To see American outside the courthouse, the president and other elected officials cheer at hearing the conviction was sad in a country such as ours.
And because it won’t be enough.
But wouldn’t it be funny if the case was overturned on appeal?
It would tell Maxine that We the People, and our Constitution also mean business.
Hold the line,America.
Where We Go One, We Go All.
Stay strong, Patriots