J6 protestors have been incarcerated for 20 months - and counting - without due process
protection. Donald Trump is having
difficulty finding attorneys who will represent him. At American Thinker, Andrea Widburg provides
some important background and history on the Bill of Rights:
Leftists seem pleased that no
lawyers will represent Trump. This is a terrible thing that, as much as
anything else, represents the downfall of America under the left’s aegis. The
aggressive leftist purge of conservative or just brave attorneys is destroying
one of America’s greatest institutions: Every person’s right to have an
attorney at his side.
In 1770, Redcoats fired on a crowd
that had surrounded them, taunting them and pelting them with dangerous
projectiles. Five colonists died. The British soldiers claimed self-defense,
but the patriots in Boston called it murder. We remember it as the Boston
Massacre.
What too few Americans know is that
the soldiers, despite a trial in hostile territory, got a stellar defense.
Their attorney was John Adams. He knew that representing the soldiers was a
risk that could destroy his law practice and impoverish his family, but he also
understood something very important about the law in a free country: No one
should have to stand alone against the awesome majesty of the state, which has
the power of the police, the prosecution, the judge, and the executioner.
. . .
What’s happening here is troubling.
As John Adams knew, every person, even a guilty person, needs a friend in the
court who will help him when the all-mighty government comes calling. A good
lawyer may find himself defending unpopular people or causes, but that comes
with the territory in a free country.
Leftists want to destroy this
important right. When they’re done, we will all be at the mercy of a government
that can abandon due process entirely because hapless defendants will be
helpless to assert it. The same government can also do anything it damn well
pleases because no lawyers will be there to challenge its illegalities and
excesses.
Lots more here. When
the government can abrogate our Bill of Rights, we’re on our own.
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