I’m going to paint some broad strokes, but my hope is you
can see the parallels I’m trying to point out. Those parallels are between the
regression that is in danger of happening in our legal system now, & what
we left behind centuries ago.
All of the things I’m going to mention have one thing in
common. Here goes...
Many people in our country believe that the Inquisition was
a pre-Enlightenment occurrence. They believe that was carried out by religious
bigots who persecuted people they thought who wanted to leave a church
organization. There is some truth to those ides, but the reality is that the
Inquisition was more a reaction to the political changes that were affecting
the ability of the Roman Catholic Church & various European monarchies to
prop up each other.
The French Revolution was really not much different in its attempt
to acquire & maintain political power. It simply targeted a different group
of people. In claiming to right the wrongs that were committed by the monarchy,
the revolutionaries executed those associated in any way with it. People who
happened to be part of the aristocracy, regardless of age or any other
consideration were assumed to be the enemy of the new regime & of the
people.
Each of these historical processes, the Inquisition &
the French Revolution, was similar to today’s class warfare that is waged by
the Left; certain classes were assumed to be guilty & others were assumed
to be in the right. The individual was judged based on what class he or she was
part of. Does that sound familiar?
There is good reason to be alarmed at what is happening in the
Kavanaugh hearings. Elected officials are attributing guilt to him simply
because he is a white male. His accuser does not have the responsibility to
prove guilt because she is in a class that is by default to be believed.
That’s the way the Inquisition worked. You were lucky if you weren’t in the guilty class. Too bad for you & your loved ones if you were.
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