Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
What caused our ancestors to fight so vehemently for freedom? And how does it relate to us today?
In Las Vegas we have about a dozen questionable cases of police shootings. They have what is called an "inquest" to determine whether or not the cop did anything wrong. In 100 years there has only been one cop ever convicted of wrongly killing a citizen in the line of duty. One.
The inquest process consists of the District Attorney offering testimony from the police. The only witness that can be called are the ones the district attorney wants to call. There is no rebuttal. Family members are not allowed to question the police to bring out inconsistencies and lies. A panel is then read a list of laws and instructions that make it virtually impossible to find any wrongdoing on the part of the officer. The newspapers have reviewed them and found that nothing short of a planned, premeditated murder with LOTS of evidence will ever result in an officer being found guilty.
How does that tie in with the founding of our country?
The kindle for the fire of freedom was the Coercive Acts. They were designed to bring the city of Boston and the other colonies into submission.
One portion of it was the Administration of Justice Act. Here is an explanation of it from http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1243.html
Parliament’s offensive against Massachusetts, the perpetrator of the Boston Tea Party, included an effort to afford legal protections to officials serving in the disobedient colony.
The Administration of Justice Act provided that British officials accused of capital crimes in the execution their duties in suppressing riots or collecting lawful taxes in Massachusetts could avoid hostile local juries. The governor, at this time General Thomas Gage, was authorized at his discretion to decide that such cases be heard in England.
Angry colonists labeled this particular Coercive Act the “Murder Act,” because it offered a means for accused murderers to escape colonial justice.
It's here again Gentlemen. The Regulars were the "police" of the day in the colonies.
Our founding fathers would have none of this.
They gave their lives and their fortunes to protect us from this very thing.
We spit on their graves whenever we allow this type of thing to happen now.
In Las Vegas we have about a dozen questionable cases of police shootings. They have what is called an "inquest" to determine whether or not the cop did anything wrong. In 100 years there has only been one cop ever convicted of wrongly killing a citizen in the line of duty. One.
The inquest process consists of the District Attorney offering testimony from the police. The only witness that can be called are the ones the district attorney wants to call. There is no rebuttal. Family members are not allowed to question the police to bring out inconsistencies and lies. A panel is then read a list of laws and instructions that make it virtually impossible to find any wrongdoing on the part of the officer. The newspapers have reviewed them and found that nothing short of a planned, premeditated murder with LOTS of evidence will ever result in an officer being found guilty.
How does that tie in with the founding of our country?
The kindle for the fire of freedom was the Coercive Acts. They were designed to bring the city of Boston and the other colonies into submission.
One portion of it was the Administration of Justice Act. Here is an explanation of it from http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1243.html
Parliament’s offensive against Massachusetts, the perpetrator of the Boston Tea Party, included an effort to afford legal protections to officials serving in the disobedient colony.
The Administration of Justice Act provided that British officials accused of capital crimes in the execution their duties in suppressing riots or collecting lawful taxes in Massachusetts could avoid hostile local juries. The governor, at this time General Thomas Gage, was authorized at his discretion to decide that such cases be heard in England.
Angry colonists labeled this particular Coercive Act the “Murder Act,” because it offered a means for accused murderers to escape colonial justice.
It's here again Gentlemen. The Regulars were the "police" of the day in the colonies.
Our founding fathers would have none of this.
They gave their lives and their fortunes to protect us from this very thing.
We spit on their graves whenever we allow this type of thing to happen now.