Monday, December 17, 2018

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

D.C. Council to have final vote on bill aimed at seizing guns from suspected abusers [More]
As long as due process is no longer a thing, maybe we'd be better off with a law to seize guns from government officials and their enforcers suspected of abusing rights.

[Via Dave Licht]

1 comment:

Henry said...

The most gaping loophole in the American constitutional system is that we have all these high-sounding laws and amendments stating all the rights which the government may not violate, and not a one of them prescribe any actual penalty for the "public servant" who violates them anyway. When somebody screws up and writes a law that actually penalizes a government violator (e.g., TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242), the government may occasionally use it against its underlings, but carefully ensures that no cases brought under that law against government actors by private citizens ever see trial.

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2015/11/28/when-the-color-of-law-of-law-is-gray/