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Thursday, August 18, 2022

On Due Process

 


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.

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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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Sunday, July 17, 2016

America First Unity Rally 2016 TOMORROW Monday


America First Unity Rally 2016
  

After a protracted battle through the courts, a Free Speech victory was secured for our right to rally and show our support for GOP nominee Donald Trump during the RNC Convention.
  
Make America Great Again in 
Cleveland during the RNC Convention at the
America First - Unity Rally 2016!
  
Hosted by Citizens for Trump, and co-hosted by Roger Stone & Alex Jones, the America First Unity Rally 2016 will be where we all come together and take the first step in taking back our government and the White House.
  • Date: Monday July 18, 2016 11:30am - 3pm
  • Location: Settlers Landing Park / (East Bank Flats / Click for Map)
Join in with the Bikers for Trump, Truckers for Trump, the electrifying Pastor Darrell Scott, Alex Jones of Info Wars, Roger Stone, and many more as we stand in unity & support the GOP nominee Donald Trump at the America First Unity Rally 2016!
  
Speakers:
More to be announced....
According to Cleveland Police Dept. parking will be available at various areas throughout the Flats.
To volunteer for the America First Unity Rally email us at clevelandteaparty@gmail.com.

PS In case you missed Pastor Darrell Scott's introduction of Donald J. Trump at the IX Center Rally, the YouTube video is at the "electrifying" link, above, or here. And Info Wars (Alex Jones) is sponsoring the advertising banner already flying around over downtown with the message:  "Hillary For Prison 2016"!
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Saturday, July 2, 2016

America First Rally July 18


America First Unity Rally 2016
  

After a protracted battle through the courts, a Free Speech victory was secured for our right to rally and show our support for GOP nominee Donald Trump during the RNC Convention.
  
Make America Great Again in 
Cleveland during the RNC Convention at the
America First - Unity Rally 2016!
  
Hosted by Citizens for Trump, and co-hosted by Roger Stone & Alex Jones, the America First Unity Rally 2016 will be where we all come together and take the first step in taking back our government and the White House.
  • Date: Monday July 18, 2016 11:30am - 5:00pm
  • Location: Settlers Landing Park
  • (East Bank Flats / Click for Map)
Join in with the Bikers for Trump, Truckers for Trump,the electrifying Pastor Darrell Scott, Alex Jones of Info Wars, Roger Stone and many more as we stand in unity & support the GOP nominee Donald Trump at the America First Unity Rally 2016!
  
Speaker's:
More to be announced....
  
To volunteer for the America First Unity Rally email us at clevelandteaparty@gmail.com.
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

And to the Republic, for which it stood

We have all pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. But what is a flag? It is mere thread, stitching and colored dye. It is a mere symbol. What we are pledging allegiance to is the Republic! The Republic, for which the flag once stood.


John Adams wrote, “A republic is an empire of laws, not men.” A republic’s ruler is the law; its ruler is the rule of law. And no law is more supreme in this land than the U.S. Constitution; its subjects are princes and paupers alike.


Yet we have elected representatives to our federal government whose first official act of office is to lie. They place their hand upon the holy bible, and make the most sacred of oaths to defend the Constitution against all foes, both foreign and domestic. Yet they turn around, almost immediately, and break it. They are the domestic foes.


Beware the representative who comes to you touting a staunchly conservative voting record, giving lip service to the Constitution. What you should instead hear is, “I am perfectly willing to discharge my duty to uphold the constitution when politically and ideologically expedient.”


If the tea party movement is to be about anything, it must be about restoring the Republic; it must be about reestablishing the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. But here forth lies our challenge: We must be as willing to oppose unconstitutional legislation or action rooted in conservative ideology, as we are willing to oppose unconstitutional legislation or action rooted in liberal ideology. If not, we are no better than they are. If not, the Constitution will continue to be relegated to a mere relic, and we shall forever be an empire of men, not law.