Due Process is Presumption of
Innocence Until Proven Guilty
A bit of America died when George Floyd died on camera. The camera was not the instrument of death but it was the lens which focused self-righteous rage regardless of facts or context. The murderers were reporters from left and right and middle as well as every citizen who chose a position before due process could ascertain both the facts and the context of those facts to determine if those four men were culpable. Suddenly everyone became omniscient and knew these policemen determined to kill this man on camera in front of a crowd! I do not know who is more stupid; those policemen or all who believed these men actually killed Mr. Floyd on camera!
Unique to British and American Law
Due Process Sets Forth Legal Guidelines
Americans are a profound ignorance of their own government due to the flaws of the government-mandated public education system. Because of this ignorance, divergent elements within the education system has replaced our traditional Protestant morality system with a relativistic morality based on transient elements popular for the moment, popular in support of the latest political agenda. Modern Americans are as much victims as Mr. Floyd and yet just as guilty as he in their own fates. Due Process was put in place not only to limit the powers of the central, federal, government; due process was also in place to prevent vigilantism: lynching by the mob whether real or metaphorically.
What are the facts? Mr. Floyd was a career criminal capable of threatening a pregnant woman with murder while his accomplices looted her residence so they could buy more drugs. Mr. Floyd had a long history of both crime and drug abuse; both of which are personal choices. Mr. Floyd was again engaged in petty crime trying to obtain money illegally for his drug habit. In addition, Mr. Floyd was on drugs, methamphetamine and fentanyl, according to his toxic screen. Thus, the police were called for both the attempted commission of a crime and because Mr. Floyd appeared to be under the influence of substances and thus a danger to himself or others. The police arrived, placed Mr. Floyd in handcuffs and attempted to put him in the police car. He refused claiming claustrophobia and became more unruly. Once on the ground and restrained by three policemen Mr. Floyd appeared cooperative; however, this is deceiving since people under the influence are extremely unpredictable. Mr. Floyd was speaking showing he could move air in and out of his lungs. The police were keeping Mr. Floyd restrained until the arrive of people trained in medical care; i.e., the paramedics. Mr. Floyd was dead by the time these responders responded. Correlation does not prove causation! Mr. Floyd was being restrained to prevent himself from being a danger to himself or others as was consistent with their training. However, facts, due process and truth were thrown out the window by the masses who were not trained in medical care or police tactics and by politicians who were placated the masses to keep their jobs. The mayor almost immediately ordered the firing of the four policemen, without due process, and declared their guilt which had the affect of preventing any due process in Minneapolis; all before any facts were known. The only proof were the videos taken by the crowd who were advocating for Mr. Floyd but were also medically ignorant. What if Mr. Floyd immediately became violent when he was released and harmed himself or others? What would the outcry have been then? The police would have been condemned for not protecting the person in their custody; and the video would also have been the so-called proof. America has a long history of killing due process.
“Honest Abe” was not honest
He was the Tyrant of America
The president credited with saving America was perhaps the most instrumental in destroying the America put together some eighty years earlier under the Constitution. Lincoln, and the Republicans, rejected the history that the federal government was made by the states and thus could be unmade by those same states. Once Lincoln had maneuvered the South into firing on Ft. Sumter, SC, he had his unpopular war. It was almost as unpopular in the North as in the South. Rather than take the time to pass legislation, as had his predecessors via the Alien and Sedition Acts, he simply suspended due process by executive fiat; today we would call it an executive order. Martial law in fact, if not by law, existed throughout the North. Legislators, judges, newspaper editors and reporters and even common citizens were incarcerated without charges or hope or trial during the war. Thousands died. Modern America, declared with the Gettysburg Address, was already a terrible reality. One of the most revered presidents was a tyrant and his image had to be remade after his assignation. His assignation was a blessing allowing his government, Republicans, to remake both his image and the South into their own creation. It was due to the iteration of the Union Leagues and the Republican reconstruction corruptions that gave rise to the Klu Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws once the military force was withdrawn.
Each successive President has followed
“Honest Abe’s” Example of Rule by Fiat
Each successive president has sought a crisis in order to justify laws that would secure what Lincoln had achieved but could not hold. Teddy Roosevelt grabbed large tracts of state lands ostensibly for protection but actually to exploit them to fill federal coffers. Wilson implemented national socialism by entering World War I and sought to extend this hegemony globally via the League of Nations. FDR took a Federal Reserve initiated crisis to re-implement national socialism and extend it into the grass-roots of America. Truman did extend American influence globally via the United Nations. LBJ’s Great Society legislation confined black Americans to urban reservations much like the Indians had been confined to rural reservations; both were made totally dependent on the federal system in exchange for their votes. Bush junior’s No Child Left Behind Act legalized public education’s socialistic teaching agenda, training two generations of Americans how to be dependent on the federal government. This incurred rebellion against all other sources of authority; however, rebellion is a hard thing to control.
Rebellion demands instant action to satisfy the mobs rather than justice which may be against popular demand. Government is supposed to be in place to punish evil and promote good, even when that is not popular (Ro 13:1-7). Power is the most insidious of narcotics and the hardest habit to break. Power gravitates to more power. The limits of national power are being reached because of financial limitations inherent in national governments. Global elements looking to establish a global government have enticed legislators, media stars, information purveyors {reporters} and the ignorant of one’s culture to their cause. They point to so-called injustices as evidence of the corruption of national governments. They do not say how their global government will be able to avoid corruption; especially since there will be no higher authority to appeal!
The media virtue signaling by left, right, middle and extreme all join in condemning the police’s responsibility in Mr. Floyd’s death, even before any facts were ascertain or a context established. All participated in the ongoing death of due process. All join in worshiping Lincoln’s tyranny of the minority over the majority to the demise of one’s nation. The rioters were simply following what they had been taught and those elements that were injected into their midst as leaders. The final goal is to complete Lincoln’s work: destruction of the government that he hated and replaced with his own though incompletely. Adage: a single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. Mr. Floyd’s death was a tragedy. What of the deaths that occurred during the riots? Those deaths were executions also without due process. Due Process is what keeps us civilized; without it, we are simple a band of terrorists.