Shownotes Transcript
In this final episode covering election season, Brian gives an overview as to why the "Right to Life" is an essential concept when it comes to laws, law making, and the current elections.
The Right to Life presumes an important foundational element to our legal system. It is a statement that the government has certain duties, principally the duty to protect the lives of the governed, and specifically the innocent governed. The 'non-innocent', the miscreant, it has a duty to restrain in its protection of the innocent vulnerable.
So determination of 'guilt or innocence' is one of its jobs, and government has ascribed that job to the courts. It is important to note that before 1973 it was recognized that human beings were innocent before birth, and that every state in the nation had laws protecting that child. That was up until the Roe v. Wade decision.
Roe did not say that children were 'guilty' and could therefore be killed, it did something even more sinister: the court merely said it didn't think the child was a human being, and therefore ALL of those laws which had been passed in the several states protecting that innocent human life could be dismissed.
"Roe has no foundation in either law or logic," said Sandra Day O'Connor years later. Interestingly, it appears that the desire to protect the illogic of Roe v. Wade was the motivating factor in the defamation of Justice Kavanaugh. But in so doing, the unsubstantiated assertions, repudiated by even the supposed witnesses, were offered in all seriousness based on a VERY different premise.
"Innocent until proven guilty" was no longer the predicate of this view of law and truth. 'Assertion is guilt' and proving guilt is no longer necessary for some people who wish to be rid of a 'problem' and appear to use law and justice to do so.
This violation of America's essential legal premise was clearly the 'weapon' used against Justice Kavanaugh, as it is also used against other human beings unable to defend themselves.
Brian concludes this episode talking about specific elections in this election year.