Juris Contemptus: The Un-American Scourge

I know it when I drive past Home Depot, in “Sanctuary” San Jose, and spot protected illegal aliens canvassing for construction jobs, while Senator Ted Kennedy praises their illegality—in Spanish, no less—at an immigration-rights rally in Washington, DC. I know it when the liberal, arrogant mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, orders the validation of illegal homosexual marriages as well as when he publicly refuses to enforce federal immigration laws.

I know it when liberal judges, like John Connor of Columbus, Ohio, return child predators to the streets with light probation, while the liberal, disgraceful newspaper editors-in-chief applaud in response. And, I know it when a district attorney refuses to prosecute a woman who falsely accuses an innocent man of rape—an everyday occurrence—and then admits her felonious lie. Never mind that she practically destroyed the life and wealth of that innocent man.

What exactly do I know, you ask? I know that American jurisprudence, once the cornerstone of this country’s legal foundation, is extinct, a relic of the past. Its replacement is juris contemptus, the forerunner to and root of anarchy and socialism.

The evidence of this transmogrification is a climate where federal and state legislative, judicial, and executive branches are, on one end of the spectrum, giving rights to the constitutionally unentitled—illegal aliens—and, on the opposite end of the spectrum, stripping rights from the constitutionally entitled—male citizens.

The fallout from the unconstitutional Roe v. Wade, VAWA (Violence Against Women Act), and safe-haven laws—they all violate the Constitution’s 14th (equal-protection) amendment—is that men have lost both civil rights, especially the presumption of innocence, and parental rights.

Presumption of innocence—once an absolute, fundamental right derived from the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendments to the US Constitution—is now a slick tool for prosecutors, who use it selectively to pursue personal political agendas. If a district attorney can get reelected, or not get fired, by pandering to liberal or female or nonwhite voters, he’ll do it. Presumption of guilt, in the name of political correctness, is far more important than justice, right? Men are tough and disposable; why should DAs care what happens to them? That’s why we have defense attorneys.

There was a time in the US when prosecutors had the burden of proving guilt; they did so in the courtroom with evidence. Now, in juris-contemptus America, an increasing number of them plead their cases in the streets, in front of network-TV cameras, before they ever go to trial. Then, once tagged publicly with guilt, it becomes incumbent upon and outrageously expensive to the defendant to prove his innocence.

On April 14, 2006, the Boston Herald reported that a 16-year-old girl recanted her rape accusation against her stepfather, a friend of her stepfather, and her mother—who “allegedly” videotaped the rape. The stepfather was facing four counts of child rape. But, then, the girl admitted faking the story, whose plot idea came from the girl’s cousin two years before. The Massachusetts Department of Social Services immediately presumed the girl innocent and the adults guilty, and removed the girl’s younger siblings from the custodianship of her parents and placed them in foster homes. Neither the police nor DA Timothy Cruz elected to prosecute the girl, who destroyed the lives of her siblings and three innocent adults—two of whom just happen to be her parents.

As of this writing, we are witnessing a politically hungry DA use presumption of guilt in a case of alleged rape in Durham, North Carolina. In what is now a world-famous case, a 27-year-old black stripper, who is also a college student and single mother, has accused three white male members of Duke University’s lacrosse team of raping her. Her allegations at this juncture seem shady at best, but, before all the evidence is known, we cannot and should not conclude anything. Jesse Jackson, never too shy to maintain his dubious profile and fatten his wallet, has pledged that, regardless of this stripper’s honesty about her accusations, his Rainbow Coalition will pay her full tuition. Jackson is playing the race card, again, presuming the white boys guilty.

Even before filing any charges, District Attorney Mike Nifong told TV reporters that he “believes” a crime was committed. Believes? Not only are his beliefs irrelevant, he violated one of the American Bar Association’s Rules of Conduct: “except for statements that are necessary to inform the public of the nature and extent of the prosecutor’s action and that serve a legitimate law-enforcement purpose, refrain from making extrajudicial comments that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused, and exercise reasonable care to prevent investigators, law enforcement personnel, employees, or other persons assisting or associated with the prosecutor in a criminal case from making an extrajudicial statement that the prosecutor would be prohibited from making.”

Did any government official reprimand DA Nifong for his prosecutorial transgression? No. Did the National Organization of Women reprimand Nifong for a miscarriage of justice? Hell no! How can these boys, now presumed guilty, ever receive a fair trial? They can’t. Juris contemptus reigns supreme.

Reality is, the United States of America no longer has a justice system. Yes, of course, it has a legal system—but not a justice system. A country that has contempt for the law cannot advocate or deliver justice. What caused this systemic collapse? Simple. Electoris amor: love of the voter. Actually, politicians don’t love voters; they love votes. I will call the true culprit voti amor: love of the vote. Politicians would rather give citizenship to illegal aliens and sacrifice innocent men than sacrifice votes.

George Santayana once said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Our politicians know that most Americans have short memories and little knowledge of history—in other words, no memory of the past and no ability to detect its repetition.

Is it any wonder? The California senate is now hearing a bill that would require public-school students to study the contributions of “people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America.” I believe this colossal waste of everyone’s time is part of a left-wing conspiracy to keep voters perpetually stupid. Do kids really need to know about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, or Abraham Lincoln? After all, these guys were just white European-Americans who invented the very system they now enjoy.

Too many Americans have no appreciation for the uniqueness of the USA or the meaning of being American. Why would they? If an illegal alien can sneak into the US and be treated as royalty, the original definition of American ceases to exist. What was once un-American is now American.

So, when politicians rewrite, distort, or pollute history, or selectively disregard or tweak laws in exchange for votes, they meet little resistance: the electorate is too ignorant and apathetic to fight back. How else can one explain the massive crowds of American citizens protesting in the streets on behalf of illegal aliens?

Every election day, people get the government they deserve. By the same token, they also get the laws they permit their deserved government to enact. The government we have, and the laws it enacts, is taking us down. Juris contemptus is a scourge, a stain we must eradicate. If we do not take back control of our country from the politicians who are dismantling the American way of life—in the name of political correctness, senseless tolerance, and shameless vote-mongering—we as citizens will be guilty of injuring ourselves with self-inflicted wounds. I pray it is not too late to stop the hemorrhaging.

Great Article Ping!

Giving rights to illegals, and stripping them from citizens.

Al Gore is finally right...up is down, and down is up. Good is bad, and bad is good.

Lawlessness begets more lawlessness. I have said this many times.

Illegal aliens enter the country by breaking the law and America's toleration of it confirms to the trespassers "breaking the law is the right thing to do."

We will never get such criminals to obey any inconvenient law since they have successfully broken the law from the day they trespassed across our border.

When massive lawlessness such as this is tolerated, laws are for suckers!

American citizens are suckers to play by the rules when foreigners here illegally do not. American citizens pay (dearly) for health care. Illegals pay nothing for it. That sounds to me as if breaking the law is a wonderful and logical course of action. In fact, Americans are crazy not to use Mexican surnames to get free health care.

Imagine my surprise when seeking an apartment I was told that my roommate's name was on a list of suspects up for child-perversion charges. The fact that my friend was not the same guy and had never been arrested for anything in his life made no impression on the apartment-holders.

Not only was he smeared for someone else's presumed behavior, I was denied housing because of it. The advancements of technology are obviously enabling the human faults of humanity that the founders warned of us. Guilty before a hearing - dismissed.

In fact, Americans are crazy not to use Mexican surnames to get free health care.

Brilliant! From here on out I'm Miguel Tostidos who doesn't understand what medical personnel are saying and signs with a scrawl before vamoosing.

>>Every election day, people get the government they deserve.<<

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain

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