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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The decline of the rule of law and justice in America can be traced in a straight trajectory from Thomas Preston to Derek Chauvin.
Chauvin, as nearly everyone in the world knows, is a convicted murderer who was just stabbed and seriously injured in federal prison on Friday. No information has been released about who stabbed him or why, but it is virtually certain that his attacker was someone who hates him for murdering George Floyd, the black serial offender and drug addict whose death, apparently at Chauvin’s hands, touched off nationwide riots in 2020 and gave significant impetus to the idea that America was beset by “systemic racism.”
Despite his criminal record and lack of accomplishment in life, George Floyd has become a hero and a secular saint, a symbol of the injustice against which all decent people must struggle. Scholarships are now offered in his name at North Central University, Alabama State, Oakwood University, Missouri State University, Southeast Missouri State, Ohio University, Buffalo State College, Copper Mountain College, and other allegedly academic institutions. Murals honor Floyd in Minneapolis, Houston, Naples, Belfast, Manchester,England, Dallas, Miami, Idlib, Los Angeles, Nairobi, Oakland,Berlin, and Pensacola.
All this and much more has happened despite the readily demonstrabled fact that Chauvin is not guilty. Chauvin is supposed to have murdered Floyd by holding his neck on Floyd’s neck despite the victim’s cries that he could not breathe. The autopsy report, however, showed “no life-threatening injuries” and no “blunt force injuries” to the neck; thus if Chauvin had murdered Floyd, he did it with extreme subtlety. The great man, however, did have fentanyl in his system; could that have had anything to do with his death?
We didn’t get the answer to that question at Chauvin’s trial, and the outcome of that trial was a foregone conclusion. Chauvin was white, Floyd was black. Chauvin was a police officer, and Floyd was a serial criminal. The Left, meanwhile, was pushing the idea that police were systemically racist, as was the whole country. Chauvin’s supposed murder of Floyd was Exhibit A in the case against not just the accused cop, but against all white Americans and the United States itself. Chauvin and Floyd were too valuable as symbols for Chauvin possibly to get a fair trial, and he didn’t. Today, Chauvin remains too valuable as a symbol to have his conviction overturned and be released, because no matter what the evidence says, to exonerate him would be to confirm all of the Left’s charges about racism and white privilege in America. So Chauvin not only remains in prison, but is left vulnerable to attacks from other inmates, for protecting him would be likewise racist.
America isn’t supposed to work this way. It is supposed to be, and for a considerable period largely was, a nation in which an accused person could get a fair trial no matter how unpopular he was, or how much he was associated with an unjust cause. This principle, in fact, has been part of the United States since before the Declaration of Independence.
On March 5, 1770, and angry crowd of American patriots got into a hostile confrontation with a group of British soldiers in Boston. The unnerved soldiers ultimately opened fire, killing five Americans in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. After the incident, the soldiers, who were commanded by British Captain Thomas Preston, were more hated than ever, but one American patriot, whose loyalty to the cause of independence was beyond question, stepped up to be their defense attorney: John Adams. Largely due to Adams’ efforts, six of the British soldiers were acquitted; two others were convicted of manslaughter, but their sentences were reduced.
Adams later commented:
The Part I took in Defence of Cptn. Preston and the Soldiers, procured me Anxiety, and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the Verdict of the Jury was exactly right. This however is no Reason why the Town should not call the Action of that Night a Massacre, nor is it any Argument in favour of the Governor or Minister, who caused them to be sent here. But it is the strongest Proofs of the Danger of Standing Armies.
Yes. And just as a “Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently,” so the conviction of Derek Chauvin in these latter days is a foul stain upon the late and declining republic, and an indication that it has discarded the rule of law that Adams’ defense of Captain Preston and his comrades so courageously upheld.
Derek Chauvin could have used the help of a John Adams. But we have no such men today; only a treasonous class of aging socialist corruptocrats who are too busy fattening at the public trough to see to trivialities such as justice. And so Derek Chauvin is recovering from his wounds, but neither he or we are out of the woods yet.
David Ray says
The street-trash Floyd had THREE TIMES the fentanyl needed to kill him . . . and so it DID kill him, but the camera image looked bad & that was all the left needed.
I’m sure the images of Floyd pistol-whipping that pregnant woman looked much worse, but it wasn’t recorded, so the left could care less about her black life.
The left craved something to use to distract from then Trump’s inevitable win in 2020. (He did win, but 1000s & 1000s of mail-in ballots took it from him.)
No wonder cops resigned in mass. They knew they’d also be sold out if they put down a scumbag of the wrong color (black privilege is alive & well. White privilege doesn’t exist.)
The spineless police chief in Minnesota lied & sold out Chauvin, just like Bush43 sold out border agents Ramos & Campeon. (Agent Ramos was also jumped & nearly killed while in prison, so he & Chauvin now have more in common.)
dennodog says
…….and our cowardly US supreme court refused to hear his appeals and remanded them back (dumped it) just a few days prior to the attack. Looks like they want to “get rid” of him, like they did to despicable whitey bulger who was on his way to “talk” about crimes in Boston when they decided to “stop (unscheduled ?) over night” in a fed prison where a lifer with no chance of ever getting out was waiting for him. The US federal prison system is more like “murder incorporated” when it comes to eliminating their “problems”
David Ray says
Sad that enough members on the Supreme Court refused to hear it.
I guarantee ACB was one of the jurists too cowardly to hear his case.
(What part of the exonerating autopsy are they having difficulty understanding!??)
Steve says
Are you denigrating the (mostly) Trump Supreme Court as cowardly? Maybe Dem appointed members would help get it right.
Michelle says
Exactly. And not only what you have stated so very well, Chauvin’s mother didn’t know right away about her son being stabbed in prison.
This from a newsource:
The family of disgraced former police officer Derek Chauvin claimed they were kept in the dark about the details of his prison stabbing that required employees to perform “life-saving measures.”
Chauvin’s mother, Carolyn Pawlenty, found out her son was “seriously injured” in a stabbing through the media and was not contacted by any officials on his condition, according to Alpha News on Saturday afternoon.
“How the hell do these news agencies know and his own mother doesn’t even know? And that [prison] has an emergency contact number [for me],” Pawlenty told the outlet.
Pawlenty explained she’s “worried and scared” about her son’s condition.
“I can’t even think what to say. I haven’t been to bed and made a path in my kitchen and living room floor by pacing,” Pawlenty said.
David Ray says
That’s not surprising considering that Ramos’s family wasn’t informed right away either.
His near miss enraged his family, and all who were informed of the agents being sold out, and a resulting groundswell of support finally cowed Bush into granting clemency.
Sandi Hancock says
I lost both my sisters to fentanyl this year. George Floyd had 3x the amount of fentanyl to kill him. Things that make you say mmmm!!!
aristotle cam says
And, please, don’t forget our beloved SUPREME COURT! ( I’m sadly laughing to my self)!!!
danknight says
Yes … anyone who has looked into the case knows … Derek did not kill St. George. He did not contribute to George’s death, and he could not have prevented it.
Only two points of evidence seem to contradict this conclusion: One observation of damage on the Saint’s neck bones – allegedly consistent with someone doing something – with no verification, rebuttal, expert pathology to check this assertion out …
… it appears to be made up out of thin air by an expert for hire – hired by a family that won the lottery when their criminal relative passed under Derek’s knee.
The other piece of evidence … is an 8:42 second videotape of Derek smirking while St. George complained. While the evidence and circumstances exonerate Derek of murdering St. George …
just an observation …
Neither of these two pieces of evidence justify a murder conviction. The first is likely a lie that should have been rebutted (and may have been somewhere in the testimony). The second – damning – evidence has nothing to do with anything but the smirk.
But … I don’t think Derek will be exonerated on this side of the grass.
Meanwhile – my legal-support donations will be going to J6 prisoners …
Jeff Bargholz says
There’s video footage released long months after St George’s death from behind him and Chauvin. It clearly shows Chauvin with his knee on citizen of the decade’s neck for a minute or so, and then he transfers it to the upper back. That can’t be seen on the video from the front, which is why the media used it ND suppressed the rear video as long as possible.
Semaphore says
At the very least there should have been a change of venue, the fact there was not says volumes.
leslie stein says
A good article but if anyone would like another approach suggesting Chauvin’s innocence he or she t might well read my book ‘;The undermining of Western Civilization. Cheers Leslie Stein
Miranda Rose Smith says
Chauvin could have used a John Adams or a James B. Donovan, the fervently ANTICommunist lawyer who defemded Rudolf Abel.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes but nobody can get past a hanging judge.
Mo de Profit says
He is a political prisoner. Along with the January 6th prisoners who were held in solitary confinement for more than a year WITHOUT TRIAL.
The show trial of Chauvin should have resulted in him being quietly released with a name change, sadly the TDS victims actually believe the hype.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, a sociopolitical prisoner. He had a show trial.
Banastre Tarleton says
This is a latter day Dreyfus Affair ”
That’s a heavy, HEAVY burden for Derek t carry ; I just hope he can hold on until someone like TRump can get him out
Apart from the immense psychological done to Chauvin , there is the collective damage done to police officers all over the country ; the message is clear, Government doesn’t have your back , infact Leftist government is your enemy
LET THAT SINK IN !
Jeff Bargholz says
Trump can’t pardon Chauvin because the blacks would go ape shit.
Miranda Rose Smith says
He could say “Let rhem. He’s innocent.”
He could wair till the last day of his presidency if Chauvin stays alive and sane that long.
Viet Vet says
Too fucking bad!! I’ve had it up to my ears with blacks!!!! Whites that had anything to do with bringing those sonsabitches to this nation should be dug up and hanged!!!
Dean Olson says
Policing in America only works when the social contract is upheld. In it the cops know that their legal and reasonable actions will be backed up by the public and the politicians regardless of the pressure brought to bear by special interests including the cop-hating useful idiots of the left and the ACLU. Abandoning the contract leads cops to pull back out of self interest and survival. No one wants to see their actions on TV and have their families and friends continually subjected to a veritable lynching and character assassination on the nightly news and via proclamations by crap-for-brains politicians pandering to their base. Every use of force, regardless of the professionalism and skill of the cops, looks like a pier 6 brawl and abuse of force. Overcoming a resisting suspect who can’t be talked into handcuffs is an ugly event. It has always been that way. And with the proliferation of cellphone cameras nearly all arrests will be recorded and shown over and over by the corrupt media with no regard to the reality of what it takes to arrest a resisting criminal suspect.
One aspect that is never mentioned is that nearly every one of those who die at the hands of police while resisting would still be alive if they had complied with the orders of the officers. The push to de-legitimize police has aggravated this problem by emboldening criminals who know that they no longer have to comply with lawful commands of cops leading to use of force and the ugliness that flows from it. When you have politicians from POTUS to local elected hacks demonizing the cops the social contract is voided and resisting and use of force increase as a result.
Marilyn Echelbarger says
Yes! This piece is very worthy of reading and considering! But reading does not seem to be in the average American’s wheelhouse. Most are subscribed to shallow and useless activities like the NFL or Tik Tok. We are losing brain cells and discernment everyday, making it possible to be easily influenced by the “common narrative.” Thought GIANTS like JOHN ADAMS are still lurking in our culture, but no one stops to listen or READ!
Renee Short says
CNN played ▶️ this incident so many times from so many angles..got me praying 🙏
And now I find out Chauvin was innocent. Help LORD JESUS 🙏
Steve says
CNN lies. Even CNN’s camera lies.
Mo de Profit says
I knew about his innocence the day after it happened, and I live in the UK, however I do not watch or read any legacy media.
Kevin says
Our Justice system is corrupted and broken especially in an area where Democrats are more prevalent.
I think of the January 6 election steal protestors sentenced to years and decades in prison for nothing more than walking around the Capital while BLM/Antifa rioters burned, murdered and looted and all of them walked free.
internalexile says
Watch “The Fall of Minneapolis,” from the Alpha News MN channel on Rumble. Chauvin was convicted on a lie that destroyed major chunks of already dying American cities.
Kasandra says
It’s also on YouTube. Excellent film. What a railroad job.
TRex says
Jason Whitlock recently covered this documentary on his program. For those who may not know, Whitlock is a black man and a retired sports journalist who often covers the decay of black culture in America. You can find him on youtube or Blaze Media.
Drew458 says
And within a couple days of the news breaking that Floyd had a kind of cancer that can dump large amounts of adrenaline, and how his symptoms and behavior exactly match an adrenaline overdose, and how he had had nearly the exact same reaction when he’d been arrested a year before this time … the Supreme Court denied Chauvin a review of his case.
Ingesting a lethal dose of fentanyl was not helping him any, but the adrenaline dump is a perfect match. It helped kill him.
James F Rogers says
Clearly none of the commenters here are martial arts students.. What Chauvin did amounted to a blood choke, which is applied for any length of time will cause unconsciousness and eventually death. I and my fellow students and teachers were horrified by this; the outcome was certain.
Nikolaos Halkides says
If that were the case, there would have been some evidence of it at the autopsy, but there wasn’t. In the end, it shouldn’t have mattered how bad Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s back looked; the issue was the medical evidence. (And did you not read that Chauvin’s knee, if it were ever pressing on Floyd’s neck, was quickly shifted over to his back?) The State could not and did not prove that Chauvin caused Floyd’s death, and if he had, while using a technique approved by the Democrat-run Minneapolis government, wouldn’t that be there fault morally and not his? And without such proof Chauvin should have been acquitted as a matter of law. It really is that simple legally.
Politically, it was another matter: the mob and Muslim-Marxist Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted Chauvin’s blood, and the coroner along with the Minnesota judiciary were too chicken to stand up to them. At the Federal level, Chauvin was at the mercy of the Obama-Biden DOJ, which means he got a “civil rights” show trial with a pre-ordained conviction. Needless to say, since Chauvin’s arrest of Floyd was lawful and he was innocent of murdering Floyd, he was a fortiori innocent of violating Floyd’s civil rights.
Duane says
Chauvin at 160lbs restraining Floyd at 240lbs and no blood vessels on the back of the neck or on the back, really? Chauvin using police training protocol as how to restrain a perp.
Mo de Profit says
Are you funded by BLM or the UN?
Chris Cloutier says
Loser! What a bunch of garbage. Keep spewing but do it somewhere else.
Robert Hagedorn says
@JamesFRogers: You got blasted for presenting an alternate view. It’s a view that warrants consideration in light of your martial arts background. Also, lest we end up with not one, but two saints, Chauvin was noted for his aggressiveness when on duty in the field, an aggressiveness that may have been necessary, but nevertheless an aggressiveness that made him stand out from the other officers. Chauvin and his fellow officers should have just handcuffed Floyd quickly and moved away from him. But if he had died, the outcome would have probably been the same. Narratives almost always override facts. One lesson for cops: don’t smirk when making an arrest.
Viet Vet says
You are a fool!!
CowboyUp says
Yet floyd was still conscious and talking when Chauvin moved the pressure to the back of his neck. Chauvin didn’t kill floyd, floyd killed floyd.
E T Gwynn says
As a practical American, I give your comments the same credulity that I give Hannity for his “studying mma” and his multitude of firearms safes and the BS goes on.
Knowing anything leads to the term “vascular choke” and away from “respiratory choke” abandoned by the LAPD when death occurred due to the throes of the culprit resembled struggle thus prompting a prolongation of the choke.
Back to your books big boy!
LTC John says
Scripture tells us that we should not bear false witness. That was done multiple times during Chauvin’s trial. It is my hope that Trump is again elected POTUS and pardons Chauvin and the Jan 6 political prisoners on his first day back in office. It is also my hope that those that testified falsely against Chauvin and the city of Minneapolis suffer greatly for what they have done.
Donna Sherwood says
Chauvin did not kill Floyd facts are he and other officers were attempting to save him calling EMS TWICE hoping for narcan. He was displaying classic symptoms of fentanyl overdose suppression of respiratory system and was flailing around like he was drowning. Chauvin used a technique originated by Israel to restrain without injuring suspects . There was no damage to Floyd internal respiratory organs, observed in autopsy. Michael Baden hired by flloyd family never examined the body for second opinion. And commented out of turn. Also nor of these officers. Even attempted to move the crowds or stop the cell phone recordings, that these men who made a heroic effort to assist this POS are in jail is the travesty. Only thing the Floyd family should have said is “thank you for trying “.
Sword of The Spirit says
Having been in prison I know the mind set. Fist of all most prisons have what is called PC , “protective custody”. As a very high profile and at risk prisoner, Chauvin would have been placed in PC automatically. The PC is only as protective as the good will of those that enforce it., After a period of time that the general public has forgotten Chauvin, that protection could be unenforced at any time and for any reason.
More than likely whomever stopped protecting Chauvin was paid to do so. And the prisoner that stabbed Chauvin was also paid to do so. Many prisoners in have no family sending them money to live on and depend entirely on what the “state tip” (money given to prisoners) and what they can take or steal from others. They are desperate for anything they can get so the price for stabbing another prisoner, especially a most hated ex-cop, is a very low price.
These desperate prisoners will do ANYTHING for a very small amount of money, cigarettes, candy, etc. They’d literally kill for a carton of cigarettes. As time goes on, and the free world forgets about Chauvin, he is more at risk of being murdered in prison.
For the recent stabbing, he at some point probably had to leave the PC unit to go to court and at some point during the traveling and outside his PC unit, there was an opportunity for an assassin to get to him and do the stabbing.
TRex says
This incident will soon be forgotten. We may hear he has recovered from this attempt on his life and is back in “enhanced PC”, if there is such a thing. The next thing we hear, after that, is he has been murdered. The details of who and how will be sketchy with, maybe, some guard being “disciplined” for failing to follow protocols. His memory will fade and mob justice will be served. He will be the victim of the racism no one wants to acknowledge.
Sword of The Spirit says
Yah a likely scenario is that a collection of money is taken on the outside to pay an inmate to kill him. Easy to find an inmate that is desperate for money in any prison that will kill someone. Desperate inmates with long sentences or life sentences that have nothing to lose and do not care if they get a murder conviction because they know they are not getting out anyway. When I was in prison in Missouri I saw a man crying because he was leaving the prison. Yah that is right…. Crying because he was leaving. There are many prisoners that are “institutionalized” and know that they cannot function normally outside the prison. The prison system gives them the only stability they have ever had. Three meals a day, a place to live, and friends of the same feather. If they are living on the “state tip” and someone tells them “hey we will put $5000 on your books if you kill Chauvin, then they will gladly do it.
David Tunno says
Since I published Fixing the Engine of Justice: Diagnosis and Repair of Our Jury System in 2012, I have been saving articles on jury trials for a sequel. The Chauvin case will be one of them. It’s a prime example of the decay of that system. The book was a 16-year project, and as readers will note, the motivation for writing it was the O.J. Simpson trial, so the decay has been in progress for some time.
ed says
What really epitomizes the Decline of America is Biden in the White House
VOWG says
Thank you for this article. It is very much how I felt and still feel about the insanity of George Floyd worship. There are so many more intelligent honorable black men and women in America it is most distressing that drug addicts and criminal are lauded by black Americans.
Jack P Chivatero says
Derek Chauvin needs our support. He did not kill Floyd. Give us a way to support him.
Jack Chivatero jpc13843@gmail.com
Walter Sieruk says
Police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
Floyd died by his drug abuse and the stress he brought upon himself by being such a fool that he resisted arrest. In other words, Floyd is responsible for his own death.
Walter Sieruk says
Some things need to be known, if for nothing else but for the sake a balanced perspective.
Which is that George Floyd was a vicious hardened criminal therefore it’s very wrong to make some kind of a “hero” out of hooligan was such criminal that he not was not only on drugs but was also involved in drug trafficking .
Mr. Floyd was so totally despicable that he even entered a pregnant woman’s home under a false premise of deception to let his lawless ruffians lot her home , all the while he threateningly pointed a gun to that pregnant woman’s stomached ‘You better cooperate.”
The list of crimes that Floyd was guilty of can to go on. It’s absurd as well as wrong to make a “hero” out of heinously wicked thug. As the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good…” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
The police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
In the light of Bible it’s wrong to resist of police officers or their orders. Romans 13:2.
Furthermore as this CP unjust prison sentence upon Mr. Chauvin is a reminder for Christians to pray for him since he was wrongly sentenced and that Bible also instructs in Hebrews 13 : 3. “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – Those who are mistreated…”
CC says
Many J6ers still there!!!
Viet Vet says
That blacks and the left hang their hats on this career criminal and druggie says it all about them. If this thug was a white, whites would be saying good riddance, and glad he’s dead so we don’t have to pay his keep in prison. Blacks have become the criminal class and democommunists have become their enablers.
CC says
Many J6ers still there!!!
Lightbringer says
St. George of Floyd died of an overdose involving multiple drugs and he had a heart condition, but an additional fact appears to have emerged in the discussion of all of his many medical problems: The man tested positive for COVID-19. So obviously that was what killed him. In an era when victims of motorcycle crashes and gunshot wounds were classified as COVID deaths, he surely must have been one, too.
//sarc off//, and pray for Mr. Chauvin’s speedy recovery and his release from the hell that he has unjustly suffered for these several years.
Robert Jacobs says
That’s amazing. This story is about rule of law. Yet, you state in your bio, that you will be checking for appropriate comments. WTF? The Constitution doesn’t have any sway in this format, that’s for sure!! Free speech means exactly that, free speech. Even hate speech is free speech. Otherwise, there is no free speech at all.
You can’t have both…
Time to grow up boys…
Sword of The Spirit says
A very likely scenario is that a collection of money is taken on the outside to pay an inmate to kill him. Easy to find an inmate that is desperate for money in any prison that will kill someone. Desperate inmates with long sentences or life sentences that have nothing to lose and do not care if they get a murder conviction because they know they are not getting out anyway. When I was in prison in Missouri I saw a man crying because he was leaving the prison. Yah that is right…. Crying because he was leaving. There are many prisoners that are “institutionalized” and know that they cannot function normally outside the prison. The prison system gives them the only stability they have ever had. Three meals a day, a place to live, and friends of the same feather. If they are living on the “state tip” and someone tells them “hey we will put $5000 on your books if you kill Chauvin, then they will gladly do it.
rogers says
The inability to have civil conversations about complex histories and issues is at the heart of our nation’s decline. Racists denied rights to blacks and other peoples of color. Now those same groups subvert justice (no evidence matters) in an attempt to right historical wrongs that cannot be redressed or made right. If we want to avoid scenes like we see in the Middle East, both extremes better find a way to talk and resolve differences without resort to name calling, demonization or racist cant. We rise together or we fall together.
fsy says
AFAIK, the prosecution did not even claim that Chauvin’s actions, whatever they were and whatever effect they had, were motivated by racism. Justice is dead in Amerika.