"The Double Jeopardy Clause (Fifth Amendment) was added to the Bill of Rights to limit the government's power to abuse and harass individuals. It prevents the government from using its vast resources to wear people down by pulling them into court over and over again until it gets what it wants." "Revolutionary War and Beyond."
June 5, 2019
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
You can worship Buddha freely in China.
But first you have to remove the statues of Buddha from temples, and replace them with depictions of Communist revolutionary leaders, like Mao Zedong. As a Buddhist temple in the mountains of Henan province was pressured to do.
It's China's campaign to make religion subordinate to the Communist Party. But actually it is a campaign to eliminate religion.
Completely.
In China, if you do not please those in power, you get eliminated, one way or another. It's the same in North Korea.
After a failed summit in Hanoi between North Korean President Kim Jong-un and President Trump this February, Kim Jong-un's translator and other foreign ministry officials were held responsible for the summit's collapse.
Kim Yong-chol, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's counterpart, was sentenced to forced labor;
Shin Hye-yong, the interpreter for Kim Jong-un, was sent to a political prison camp, because of a critical interpretation mistake;
And other officials were alleged to have been put to death.
You can't win when you mess with that kind of government. As the saying goes, it makes for a Slippery Slope.
And lately there are some slopes that are getting mighty slippery here in the U.S.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allows anti-Semitic comments from Representatives Omar and Tlaib go unchallenged. And Lady Justice seems to smile on only one kind of defendant. Liberal Democrats.
A couple of years ago former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was accused of hitting, choking and generally abusing four women in his spare time.
Tanya Selvaratnam was one of them.
"He would slap me until I agreed to call him 'master," she told The New York Times. "He called me his 'property,' and recounted fantasies of taking me from far away and making me his 'brown slave.'"
Schneiderman resigned, and no criminal charges were ever brought against him.
Schneiderman. Comey. Hillary Clinton, et al. These are the Chosen People in a system that has become increasingly unjust.
Today, while Schneiderman is teaching meditation classes, the now wheelchair-bound Paul Manafort is slated to be transferred to Riker's Island, to be held in solitary confinement.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance requested it, and a New York State judge ordered it.
Manafort was President Trump's campaign adviser for a brief time, but that was enough to seal his fate.
When Manfort wouldn't cave to Special Counsel Mueller and his "pit bull" Andrew Weissmann, and refused to implicate Trump, they found him guilty of decades-old, white collar crimes, and prosecuted him.
But before that, armed FBI agents rousted the 70-year-old from his home, at dawn, just as they did to Trump supporter, 66-year-old Roger Stone.
It's all part of the Vendetta.
If you know Trump, knew him, worked for him, or are related to him, you're going to experience punishment akin to that doled out in China and North Korea.
It's the way things are, but it's not the way it always was.
The Vendetta is especially nasty in New York.
While President Trump is busy taking on the tough stuff, Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, Rep. Jerry Nadler and Schneiderman's replacement, Attorney General Letitia James, are busy with Political Side Dishes.
Such as taking down the president.
While rats are doing the bossa nova in New York subways, de Blasio is Green-New-Dealing Trump's NYC buildings.
Rep. Nadler (D-NY) is chairing the House Judiciary Committe and working toward Trump's impleachment.
And minutes after being sworn in, AG James swore to God, country and CNN, that she would investigate the heck out of Donald Trump.
And she did.
She subpoened bank and tax records. But more importantly, she pushed the New York state assembly to pass legislation which would allow her to pursue state charges for anyone the president pardons.
Like Paul Manafort.
And they did.
The bill changes state law that precludes state prosecutors from bringing charges against someone pardoned of federal crimes based on the same set of facts. And Gov. Cuomo has given it his full support.
We've seen it before. Before the Revolutionary War.
Even though the principle against Double Jeopardy has its roots in English common law, the principle was often abused by British kings, allowing the government to continually try the same case until it got the verdict it wanted.
That's why we have the Fifth Amendment.
King George III suffered from bouts of insanity, so he had an excuse as to why he mishandled the American colonies. And Double Jeopardy.
But what excuse do Cuomo, de Blasio, Nadler and Letitia James have? Except that their Party lost the 2016 election and they just can't get over it.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots