U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)-“We can only conclude that you’re guilty,’” Rep. Eric Swalwell told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Tuesday, Fox News reports. He was trying to exploit President Donald Trump’s refusal to buckle to Democrat demands on impeachment documents and witnesses.
“In America, innocent men do not hide and conceal evidence,” Swalwell pressed on. “They are forthcoming and they want to cooperate and the president is acting like a very guilty person right now.”
“I believe the Fifth Amendment was just repealed on live television,” Ben Williamson, communications director for Rep. Mark Meadows, tweeted in response.
Innocent men don’t serve themselves up to ruthless prosecutors as a matter of basic justice. We don’t give them or the police ammunition to use against us, and to detour for a moment, if you have not seen “Don’t Talk to the Police,” featuring Professor James Duane, reserve 45 minutes to watch it soon.
Evidently Swalwell would repeal the Fourth Amendment as well if he had his druthers. Otherwise, why would innocent men require a warrant for police to search their homes?
Our entire adversarial legal system is based on the burden of proof being on the state and defendants having a presumption of innocence. Up until Opposite Day “progressives” started insanely turning things on their heads, the American standard was “Innocent until proven guilty.”
And Swalwell’s major league baseball player refusing a drug test analogy also falls flat. Most jobs these days, to the discredit of Americans for allowing things to devolve this way, require peeing in the cup and other surrendered invasions of privacy and dignity. Still, those are private contractual agreements either party is free to walk away from without fear of self-incrimination and prosecution by the government.
It figures Swalwell, a power freak with contempt for the Second Amendment, would view other Bill of Rights protections as impediments to getting the control he hungers for. Then again, we’re talking about a monster who advocated the government deploy against American gun owners with nuclear weapons—until he backtracked and claimed he was just making a point.
That’s some point, especially when you consider how many innocents would become “collateral damage” in an act of monstrous evil that only a genocidal maniac would “suggest.” Hence, we retain the right to keep and bear arms as the ultimate last resort safeguard of the people against tyrannical madmen. And knowing we will not surrender that power drives them howling nuts.
Still, concluding someone is guilty before they have been proven so beyond a reasonable doubt is the shaky foundation upon which the whole “red flag law” house of cards has been erected. And President Trump himself should be having a “hoist on his own petard” moment when his own words about that are thrown back at him:
“Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
Lewis Carroll’s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” said it best:
“‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first — verdict afterwards.’”
Once upon a time, even a child understood the evil absurdity of that. Seeing the enactment of such edicts now being touted as “commonsense” by Mad Hatters with political power shows us we truly have gone down the rabbit hole and through the looking-glass.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Yet more proof that the Dems – commiecrats – are the true enemy of liberty in America, and want to take away all freedoms and rights form everyone but their most hardcore party elites and followers!
Everyone saw what a meathead Swalwell is the moment he announced his candidacy. It was a short run my friend.
Message to Swalwell. We Will Not Comply. Molon Labe. Kiss My Rebel Ass.
Country Boy
Can SOMEONE do SOMETHING and explain what a “”military semi-automatic ASSAULT weapon” is????” As far as I KNOW, there IS NO SUCH INANIMATE OBJECT IN EXISTENCE !!!!!!!!!!
OH! I forgot for a second that CON-gressal CONs CAN LIE all day long and are not held accountable for their LIES!!!!!!
It amazes me that so many lawyers in Congress have no real understanding of the discipline they earned their degree in. This man has quoted Trump out of context.
Why was he silent when Eric Holder refused to appear under subpoena for running guns to Mexico? Why was he silent when the World Famous JV ex POTUS BHO exercised executive privilege?
Salwell has treated the 1st and 2nd Amendments like a dog treats a fire hydrantr.
That he is now extending that represehensible behaviour to the 5th Amendment
should be no surprise.,
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Whenever the branches of government, be-it two or three, collude to chill the Rights of the citizenry, tyranny results. Madison provided the alarm centuries ago: There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. and The accumulation of powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Two incidents in history ring clear of the collusion between the… Read more »
What is hard for me to believe is that people voted this psychopathic control freak into office to “rule’ them Those same people reproduce more of the same fools and Swalwell should just show us his hammer and sickle tattoo he must have on his shoulder. What a f#%&@n idiot!
The successful rejection of Communism and Soviet Domination by Poland was the beginning of the end for the “Evil Empire.” Obviously the Second Amendment is the Poland the Liberals have chosen to destroy the Bill of Rights and other restrictions placed on the power of government by the Constitution.
Many of them, perhaps a majority, believe that thus freed of constraint they can and will bring about a Messianic Age never to be equaled until the Second Coming.
People who disagree with them on this realize they are simply paving the way for the Anti-Christ.