Dear Friends,
It seems to me, a sure sign you live in a tyranny, is if the government uses criminal prosecution as a political tool. No time is this more true than when only the wealthy can afford to defend themselves. This is because the poor and middle class then have no protection from such actions. Even if a middle class person sells his or her home, to get a top notch lawyer, there is no telling if that lawyer is not in on the game, making the tactic of political prosecutions far more effective against the poor and middle class, who in reality, are the people government always seeks to oppress. It matters not how many “rights” a person is “granted” by that government, if he or she can be charged with a crime spuriously he or she has no rights. They are in fact if not in word… a slave.
A slave isn’t necessarily a person officially owned and stamped with a mark of ownership. There are many kinds of slavery. As Nietzsche said, most Europeans have the slave mind. They are slaves in their own minds since Europe civilization has for so long been feudal. That history has ingrained in the European ethos a slave mentality. One that is nearly impossible to break. We see this in action today, with the slow motion train wreck, that is the European Union. The people dutifully accept the destruction of their own civilization, no go zones, outright tyranny from an unelected bureaucracy, as well as the rape and sale of their daughters. Heck, most Europeans love their oppressors! They are slaves in all but name.
Rights only exist where people defend them. Where the citizenry allows their rights to be subject to the whims of politicians, they have ceded those Rights away. The Right to free speech, is not a Right, where saying unpopular things can get you charged with a crime. It is irrelevant if you are guilty or even if you have committed a crime. You still have to defend yourself in court. The rich have access to the best attorneys who, because they are defending the wealthy, will have their allegiance guaranteed. The poor and middle class on the other hand cannot know that a lawyer they pay for is actually working for them… or the state. They are in fact an officer of the court. Moreover, the poor have to rely on public defenders who are over worked, underpaid, and in many cases incompetent.
Even if a middle class person sells their family home and go onto the streets or into an apartment… and win, they are still impoverished. Rest assured, everyone who knows them or hears the story will get the message. They could even loose their job simply because they are charged. It matters not then, how many Rights is enumerated in a Constitution, the flowery language politicians spew or the independence of the judiciary, the common man is a leaf in the wind. Since no prosecutor has ever been, or will ever be, criminally charged for exploiting the criminal justice system as a tool of oppression and exploitation, there is no incentive for them not to. The power to criminally charge a person without proper oversight, can only lead to oppression… and it does.
The individual has no power against a State that is unwilling to follow it’s own Constitution, and where the judiciary is in agreement with the politicians, that the Constitution is too limiting, the individual is a slave and nothing more. Subject to the whims of the elite. Tell an inconvenient truth, demand your Rights be protected, push back against oppression, see the wrong thing, get in the way or have land the elite want, and face prosecution for it. So if the State wishes to destroy a person, all it need do is charge that person with a crime. It doesn’t matter if they are guilty, only that it will bankrupt them to stay out of jail. If a real accounting of people in prison, not because they broke the law, who are there because of a prosecutor exploiting his power, would scare the average person to willing slavery!
Sincerely,
John Pepin
