America, A Half-Step from Chaos
Friends,
What, in the name of common-sense, is going on in Florida’s legal system? For that matter what is going on with America’s approach to justice?
Some examples…yesterday a 10 year old in Florida was arrested by police, placed in a juvenile facility, because she was using a steak knife to cut her meat that she brought to school in her lunch. Now one can argue the meat should have been cut at home, but given she was displaying no intent to do anything but cut her meat at lunch, why would a teacher call the police rather than confiscating the knife, calling her parents, and using the situation as a reasonable learning experience, not only for the young girl, but the entire school?
In Destin, Florida, a man was convicted and given a life sentence without parole because he loaned his car to a friend who, with some others, committed a robbery which resulted in a homicide. The owner of the car was not involved, knew nothing about the crime, but was convicted along with those that committed the crime because his car transported the individuals to the crime scene.
I don’t have to rehash the DA Nifong criminal and wrongful prosecution debacle of Duke University lacrosse players which Nifong used as a political reelection tactic.
Consider border agents Ramos and Compean…convicted and sentenced to 10+ years for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler who lied on the witness stand against the border agents…a prosecutor who knew the illegal alien was lying, but for political gain used the false testimony to convict two border agents protecting America.
National Security Adviser to the Clinton Administration, Sandy Berger pleaded guilty to pilfering highly classified documents from the National Archives, saying he showed “very poor judgment” and that his actions were “wrong.” What’s his sentence? A fine, some community service, and barred from the National Archives. Berger was later selected to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign staff as an adviser which appears more painful than the theft sentence.
None of this meets the common-sense test…worse yet it demonstrates a legal system that is broken, focused on numbers of convictions, arrests, but without the underlying principle of “justice”.
To take this issue one gigantic step further, consider the “illegal alien” fiasco. The American legal system is replete with laws on the books to control our borders, prosecute those that violate immigration policy, and protect our sovereignty.
Given the Florida example of the Destin man who knew nothing about a crime being committed but was convicted, what does this say about the United States Congress, and all other officials who know crimes associated with illegal aliens are being committed, and take an oath,
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Yet, from top to bottom, our officials who know without any doubt, that illegal aliens are breaking American laws, are pouring across America’s borders, employers are hiring them, these aliens are bankrupting our medical facilities, overcrowding our schools, creating hazards on the highways, depleting social services designed for Americans, destroying unity and assimilation principles in America, a major ingredient in crime and prison population, a potential funnel for Islamic terrorists, yet Congress plays political games, ignoring the criminal activity and threat to America’s sovereignty for political advantage.
Doesn’t it follow that the United States Congress, given they are fully aware of crime associated and being committed by illegal aliens and take no meaningful action, be prosecuted by the United States Justice Department for violating their Congressional oath? A Florida man can be convicted for a crime he knew nothing about, but the US Congress can perpetuate an ongoing crime and not be held accountable?
The point seems to be made without going into issues such as, politicians abandoning warriors in battle, givng aid and comfort to the enemy, thirty some US Senators voting against English as our official language two years in a row(four of them presidential candidates), our moral rudder is considered obsolete and “political incorrect”, we have to define marriage, smut rules, God and prayer is attacked, we must establish forts as homes, on and on.
Friends, America is about a half-step from chaos…our nation is disintegrating and destructing from the inside. We are being herded as sheep to the slaughter by wolves rather than being protected by a faithful shepherd.
While our gallant warriors sacrifice to protect our freedom from without, they cannot save us from the cancer within.
We need to stand-up on the homefront and take back America.
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret