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December
08 , 2003
The facts: The black man was stretched out on the lawn of a White Castle restaurant. This may have followed or been preceded by bizarre behavior clearly indicating that he was inebriated. Perhaps the “substance” abused was alcohol, perhaps drugs. He was not hurting or threatening anyone! Restaurant employees did not call police; they did the right thing, and called for Emergency Medical Services. The victim, a human being named Nathaniel Jones, was clubbed to death “resisting arrest.”
Some questions: (1) If Mr. Jones was a danger to other persons or property, why did White Castle employees properly evidence concern and call EMS instead of police? Obviously, they were calling upon government to merely help Mr. Jones. (2) Clearly, Mr. Jones didn’t want help, and became combative. Simply leaving him in that state, where he could possibly hurt someone, or could possibly hurt himself, or could possibly cause property damage, wasn’t an acceptable option. But why wouldn’t the appropriate procedure have been to merely restrain Mr. Jones and simply take him into “protective custody?” (3) Why was he beaten to death – was this to protect him from himself, or was he executed because of the possibility that he might harm others or cause property damage?
The last question has a definite connection to a new American crime wave created by American government at all levels, and the Mothers Against Drunk Driving. This is what happens when know-it-all do-gooder activists push for legislation that extends beyond the rule of law our former republic was guided by: the Constitution of the United States of America, preambled by the first responsibility of government: to promote justice!
Where was “trial by jury?” Where was “probable cause?” Where was innocent until proven guilty? Now merely being inebriated is no longer “drunk and disorderly?” It has morphed into a crime punishable by being beaten to death by professionally trained, authorized, statist, uniformed, armed goons empowered by “Mommyism:” mommies against drunks, mommies against guns, mommies against the Constitution, whatever!
D.W.I. is unconstitutional! It punishes people not by affording them their constitutional rights based upon probable cause, confronting accusers, and being innocent until proven to have engaged in wrongdoing by a court of law via a trial by a jury of one’s peers. What happened to all that? Where did that all go? The “Mommies” flushed it down Al Gore’s water-saving toilet in the name of political expediency, along with the law school graduates in the Trial Lawyers Association and our communist left-liberal court systems! Welcome to the new America, where mommies are now safe and drunks get clubbed to death on national TV! Thanks Mommies!
The problem is one of suspected wrongdoing, or of possibly doing harm. It parallels exactly the police state mentality of D.W.I., which has now become a very profitable industry for all levels of American statist government. Search and arrest warrants are no longer needed, and the USA Patriot Act has exacerbated this despotism.
Six police
officers couldn’t simply wrestle Jones and cuff him? They’re
authorized now to kick down your door with machine-guns blazing, but didn’t
carry Mace or a defensive spray to subdue Jones? They had to beat him
to death? But even more astonishing is the farce being peddled by the
media and government-is-always-right schlock Bill O’Reilly, accepting
the bull from Cincinnati “government officials” that it was
the unfortunate outcome of an arrest gone bad, instead of what it really
was as seen by the entire nation: a brutal murder! By the way Ms. Streisand
and “Rabbi” Foxman, they were just following orders and procedures! Theodore E. Lang © 2003 THEODORE E. LANG All rights reserved
Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer.  |
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