WILL RED FLAG LAW DO AWAY WITH ALL DUE PROCESS?
THE FLOODGATES OF TYRANNY HAVE BEEN OPENED!
by Lawrence J. Braico for Black Wire Media 11-12-19 www.cnjfo.com/join-us
Can you say Star Chamber?
Yet again we see the truth in the cliché “First Gun Control, Then TOTAL Control.”
First, for years we've been watching, (some of us fighting against), as the most basic of the ten rights of The Bill of Rights, (i.e. Article The Second), is commonly denigrated and betrayed, ( to greater and lesser degrees), by all three branches of government, (State and Federal); while the media (print and electronic), cheers it on...
Then along comes a bold new attack on the Second Amendment called Red Flag Laws, this time pulling out all the stops of American jurisprudence as embodied in the essential basic tenant of Due Process; - and what is the result? You got it: due process can now be treated not as a sacrosanct part of any American court procedures, but as a not-so-essential relic of the past in all current day judicial proceedings.
The floodgates of tyranny have been opened. Example the present attempt by the party of "gun control," (i.e. Democrat), to clandestinely unseat duly elected President Trump through tactics of biased, closed door, non-transparency. Where open justice used to be the norm resorted to by "We the People," it can now be replaced by proceedings reminiscent of the state imposed isolation of the closed door Star Chamber courts of yesterday's Medieval kings, and monarchs as well as modern day communist nation tribunals worldwide. [Here at home] one would hope such deviations from treasured Americana would not be endorsed and bolstered by pseudo intellectual elitist members of New Jersey newspaper editorial boards. Unfortunately such is not the case when it is the Second Amendment that is their common target.
Governor Phil Murphy and his democrat ilk like to call themselves pro-gressives, but all I see here are very serious re-gressions into the dark recesses of the Star Chamber past and an extreme insult to New Jersey's glorious claim to be the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
EDITOR's NOTE:
Freelance contributor Lawrence J. Braico has witnessed the steady drum beat of anti-gun laws being INCREMENTALLY applied throughout his lifetime. His analogy to willful persecution by a vengeful King of years gone by is not such a stretch---for once DUE PROCESS is shelved in other so-called "EMERGENCIES of inconvenience" besides firearms confiscation raids, where will it all end? Where will us citizens continue to enjoy ALL the freedoms our Veterans all fought so hard to protect? The slippery slope of "The END justifies the MEANS" has been thrust upon us all. Pandora's Box has been opened! We must all yearn to put the Genie back into the bottle!
---The Editors
