How we lose our Constitutional Rights

[GhostOfMatchesMalone]

We don't say anything when they get taken from us.

Let's look at two amendments to the Constitution: The 2nd Amendment, and the 6th.

The 2nd Amendment is the right to bear arms. We all know that one.

The 6th amendment is the right to a speedy and public trial: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."


The right to a speedy and public trial has been denied the J6 prisoners. They have been sitting in a jail cell for 30 months now. I believe most of them are still waiting to hear what they are charged with.

A clear violation of their Constitutional Rights. But where is the outcry? Dems don't say anything cause they love it. Pubs don't say anything cause they are scared to death of the media and dems claiming they are 'domestic terrorists'.

But the point is, their Constitutional Right to a speedy and public trial is being denied them cause no one says anything.

Contrast that with 2A. What happens when someone even SUGGESTS that someone's 2A rights should be infringed on?

"Let a MFer just TRY to take my gun and see what happens!"

That's why we still have our 2nd Amendment rights, and we no longer have our 6th Amendment rights.

We lose our rights when we LET someone take them from us. Simple as that.

 

[EvilWayz]

Blame Lincoln. He suspended habeus corpus during the Civil War and they've been doing it ever since.

Add to that the enormous window of "in the interests of national security" and the ex post facto nature of the sixth amendment and we've always been kind of screwed.

 

[BamaFan1137]

I'm not surprised by the un-speediness of the trials. I am surprised that, despite the lack of a speedy trial, so many people are being held without bond.

That's usually how these things get settled or become at least somewhat tolerable. When it drags on, the defense and the judge pressures the prosecution and then either a trial date is set or bond is set.