By Kurt Schlichter
Monday, July 22, 2013
The liberal elite is still in shock that six Americans
resisted the relentless pressure of its hack politicians, slavering mainstream
media mediocrities and progressive hustlers in order to acquit George
Zimmerman. Consciously or not, the jurors’ verdict was an act of rebellion
against the progressives who wants to jettison our most sacred principles.
The case was a joke, but you wouldn’t know that if you
only listened to the mainstream media. The media’s rank speculation,
mischaracterization of the evidence and outright lies were designed to replace
the strict adherence to law and the rules of evidence that for a thousand years
have protected the accused from the mindless fury of the mob.
Progressives needed Zimmerman to be guilty, so when mere
facts and laws got in the way of the predetermined narrative they could be
dispensed with. Luckily, no one told the jury they were not supposed to take
seriously all that stuff about the State having to prove its case beyond a
reasonable doubt.
But the undermining of the rule of law in criminal cases
is just one component of their insidious strategy. The elite and their
slobbering minions are growing more and more frustrated at the obstacles the
American principles embodied in our Constitution and our traditions place in
the pathway to their hideous progressive Utopia, so they seek to undercut these
principles at every turn.
They don’t even try to hide it any more. Here are just a
few examples:
The First Amendment, the cornerstone of our nation’s
great experiment in freedom, is a prime target. Progressives want to limit the
freedom of the press to only those designated media outlets they know will back
the status quo, calling their censorship “campaign finance reform.” The
government, defending the McCain-Feingold Act, once even told the Supreme Court
that it was perfectly constitutional to charge an American citizen with a crime
for writing a book critical of a politician.
Think about that. Our government actually argued that it
was A-OK for the feds to stick you in jail for writing a book.
Fortunately, the conservatives on the High Court rejected
that insanity. The liberals? Don’t think they would not happily give the power
to bureaucrats to decide who can and cannot say what. In fact, in their dissent
in Citizens United they argued hard that the First Amendment should come with
an asterisk.
How about the right to petition the government? The IRS
launches a campaign of harassment and intimidation designed to silence
opponents of the regime and the elite thinks that it’s perfectly all right.
Freedom of religion? Obamacare is designed to target
religious groups, to force them out of the health care field by making them to
choose between their principles and their charities. That’s not a bug. That’s a
feature designed to eliminate faith-based competitors to the government in
providing health care to the poor.
Need we even mention the liberal hatred of the Second
Amendment? The same people who scoured the Bill of Rights to find a right to an
abortion up until junior gets his driver’s license can’t manage to find a right
to keep and bear arms in the text guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms.
How about the Fourth Amendment? You have a right not to
have the government poking around your stuff without probable cause unless, of
course, the government decides it feels like it.
Astonishingly, the government has now even managed to
infringe on the Third Amendment. How the hell do you even do that?
Too bad the government isn’t even a hundredth as creative
and competent its actual duties as it is in engaging in petty tyranny.
This is not a matter of a few rogue villains lurking out
in Cincinnati. This is a systemic attack on our nation’s basic principles led
by the reigning progressive elite and abetted by its mainstream media buddies.
It’s time to resist. It’s time to say “Hell no!”
When you get called up for jury duty, don’t weasel out of
it. Proudly sit as a juror, and if the State fails to prove its case beyond a
reasonable doubt, proudly acquit. If the case was so weak it never should have
been brought, after giving your verdict tell the judge what you think on the
record. Let’s deincentivize overcharging by embarrassing abusive prosecutors.
And exercise your other rights – exercise the hell out of
them because if you don’t you will lose them. Speak out, loudly and proudly,
and refuse to be silenced. When the government annoys you, petition it for the
redress of your grievances. Petition it until the bureaucrats shiver when they
see you coming.
Demand your right to live according to your conscience,
and refuse to abide by the oppression of other people based on their religion
or lack thereof.
Own a gun and ammunition, and be prepared to defend yourself,
your family, your community and our Constitution.
When some government flunky gets into your private
affairs without a warrant based upon probable cause, drag his sorry rear into
court.
And when some agent of the government attempts to quarter
troops in your home during peacetime, you tell him to get off your lawn.
Americans are citizens and not subjects because our
forefathers refused to countenance the abuses of far-away elites who sought to
control their lives. That’s our heritage, and that’s our duty.
Let’s get back to where standing up for our American
principles, as the Zimmerman jurors manifestly did, is no longer courageous but
a minimum expectation.
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