Why follow due process of law?

[Mullenite]

QUOTE Dara Hess

Under law, all are equal. By adhering to it unerringly, individuals (including and ESPECIALLY children) can enjoy more safety, protection, and opportunity than under any other form of government on Earth. Dara Hess law,

"Why follow due process of law? Because in the end, far more children will suffer if law in America crumbles. History indicates that sweeping raids are red flags of a nation ripe to lose its freedom, and no one suffers more in the resulting poverty, crime and violence than children. It is not human nature to take action when there is injustice to others, but we must remember that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Our law should be no respecter of persons. The president is the same in the eyes of the law as the lowliest street merchant. When a country’s rule of law is ignored, usually a scapegoat is created which distinguishes a certain people in the eyes of the law, whether by religion, profession, or age. What once was considered shocking and inhumane becomes acceptable, and those who disagree grow increasingly silent. Liberties are taken which stretch the limits of law until it is no longer recognizable.

In the end, I wonder if the seemingly philanthropic but misguided attitude of “but what about the children” will cause America to finally, willingly lay aside her freedom. We are so concerned with protecting children (with the exception of outright killing unborn babies) that we willingly give our freedom in hopes that some government will save our neighbor’s baby. We should quickly see through this trap as even a brief study of China, Hungary, France, Germany and Cambodia to name only a few, will teach us that governments with too much power don’t protect, provide, or nurture. On the contrary, one can expect rape, pillage and plunder as society in general degenerates under oppressive or misguided leaders.

Unchecked governmental power fails to deliver even the basics of human subsistence. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The idea that we would be safer if authorities have more power than that rendered in the constitution is based on (however well intended) wishful thinking.

People who have traveled extensively quickly find that where there is corruption of law, fear is rampant. Only those with superior connections may be spared the ravages of devastating poverty, (Children seldom have those connections in a corrupt system,) and even those with special privileges live in fear of losing their status at any time. Countless governments have made hollow promises of protecting everyone, feeding everyone, clothing and housing everyone. They simply fail to deliver; indeed, cannot deliver, and the entire people suffer. This is why we must not let our law be trampled. Where there is crime, let it be investigated. Where there is offense, let charges be brought to the courtroom.

The following passages highlight some parts of the laws of our land that are being blatantly disregarded. If we need a different or new structure, let us put one in place using the peaceable processes now available, but if not, let us use what we have decided upon, and uphold that system, not allowing the whims of judges or Gestapo-like police to twist and ignore America’s due process of law including, but not limited to:

Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers…against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and

no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V: No person…shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. (If our own children don’t fall under this protection, you can hang the whole system. Child Protection Services is NOT above the law.)

Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….

Amendment VI: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury... and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor….

Amendment VIII: …Nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. (Usually this refers to action taken after a trial, but would certainly include the unlawful practice of punishment BEFORE a trial, such as the removal of a suckling child from its mother.

Amendment XIV: States not to abridge citizens’ privileges…Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law (This means that a person is innocent until proven guilty by the law); nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

From article I section 9 clause 3 we learn that Congress shall pass no ex post facto law. Most, if not all, state and local legislation has adopted this as well. Ex Post facto simply means “after the deed or fact.” Therefore, it is illegal to charge someone with an offense or crime that was not illegal at the time it occurred, or subjecting them to a greater punishment than was prescribed by the law at the time the offense was perpetrated."

"Under Law, all are equal. By adhering to it unerringly, individuals (including and ESPECIALLY children) can enjoy more safety, protection, and opportunity than under any other form of government on Earth. Dara Hess law,"

Recommended Readings:

The Freedom Factor by Gerald Lund

The Law: the classic blueprint for a just society by Frederic Bastiat

The Five Thousand Year Leap by Cleon Skousen

The Making of America: the substance and meaning of the constitution by Cleon Skousen

To Destroy You Is No Loss: the odyssey of a Cambodian Family by Joan D. Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam

Wild Swans: three daughters of China by Jung Chang

And There Was Light: autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran

The Endless Steppe: growing up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig

The Bridge at Andau: the compelling true story of a brave, embattled people by James A. Michener

ALICIA: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman

Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Constitution of the United States of America

Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America

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[Hemidakota]

Interesting read...

[NeuroTypical]

Hi Mullenite,

Could you take a moment and answer the questions I've asked you on this thread?

Thanks,

LM

[Moksha]

Hmmm, seems the wrong forum for political theory.

[Mullenite]

I agree with the author of this document in the sense that when we do

not follow the constitution as it was stated by our Founding Fathers we

are following the wrong path; then we are following Satan's plan. I

think she has a point that giving up our freedoms for the "sake of the

children" is just one of his clever plans to take away our freedoms. I

am just so saddened to see the way our country, this blessed country, is

being governed by corrupt politics and greedy people at all levels.