I Can’t Stand It Anymore! – No Wonder Hamlet Wanted to Kill Us!
[The subject of this post is not what I normally share on this
blog. But after posting a slightly different version on my Facebook page and
seeing the reaction it evoked, I decided to post it here. Why? Because the concerns
I raised, have and will, adversely affect rights to freely exercise our religious
beliefs, to be welcomed participants in the public square and to protect human
life from natural conception to natural death.]
What do I, a
simple retired country lawyer, know?
(Image Source:
Wikimedia Commons)
A pox upon my brother and sister lawyers, who essentially
control all three branches of our government. No wonder Hamlet wanted to kill
us.
We, who are charged with the sacred duty of upholding our
constitutional protections and structures, participate in, or sit silently, watching
or even rooting for the total destruction of our social and legal order. We are
on the brink of losing all that has made this Nation unique in the world.
The deafening, cowardly, self-serving silence among far too
many in the legal profession must end, as, among other things, we:
Abandon the concepts of due process
and the presumption of innocence.
Shift the burden of proof from the
accuser to the accused.
Create a fictitious and extremely dangerous finding of being unable to exonerate the
subject of our investigations.
Find rights
that do not appear and are not specifically enunciated in our written statutes
and constitutions.
Demand
people resign from their elected and appointed positions or lose their jobs on
the basis of mere allegations.
Told we must
accept as true on its face, any allegation of sexual abuse.
Tolerate the
removal of elected officials we don’t like, not through the ballot box or after
Court found breaches of law and/or malfeasance, but by protests in the streets,
or even through illegal surveillance.
Or when:
Our
legislators refuse to legislate but try to adjudicate.
Our Judges
prefer legislating over adjudication.
Political
ideology overrides the rule of law and legal precedent.
We allow
Courts to exert injunctive power beyond their geographic boundaries.
State and
local governments act contrary to Federal Law and the Courts allow them to do
so.
Chief law
enforcement officers at the Federal and State levels, whose duty it is to
defend validly enacted legislation, refuse to defend that legislation,
effectively allowing one person to negate the decision of an elected Legislative
body - an act presumed to be valid.
Permit virtually
anyone who dislikes any governmental action legal standing to challenge and
delay the implementation of validly enacted legislation in any jurisdiction
they choose.
We refuse to
impose reasonable protections on the right to vote, such as requiring the
presentation of a photo ID, something we are required to do in so many other
forums, such as getting a passport, opening a bank account, or receiving medical
services.
When we arbitrarily
and/or politically pick and choose which of our laws we will enforce and which
we will ignore. This is most especially dangerous in the area of immigration where
our national safety and sovereignty are under attack.
When we
don’t call out elected officials who make a mockery of our system by the shameful
way they conduct themselves and Congressional hearings and by demanding records
and testimony to which they are not legally entitled.
I have to stop. I could go on with countless other shameful
examples but you get the point.
No, I don’t want to kill all lawyers. It would be a sin to do
so. There actually are many honorable ones. We must pray for them all. But
I do want to wring their cowardly necks.
How about you?