27 November 2020 #MAGAanalysis

The House That Innocence Built

It will take quite a while for the meaning of the past couple days' events to sink in. A great shift in the forcefield of America has occurred.

Flynn is free. It was his innocence freed him. https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1331934828812496898

2) In his joyous tweet but cautionary tweet, General Flynn points us to an extraordinary passage from the Old Testament. I didn't realize that this is a very traditional Thanksgiving Day passage until researching it just now. Here it is, in full..

3) Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice and all that is therein. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

4) I must confess, to get all 3 verses into one tweet, I had to delete the first two comas. I am not one for messing with Biblical punctuation, I assure you. Perhaps my penced will be acceptable by working a bit on each verse, comas duly returned.

5) Verse 32

32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.

Have you heard the sea roar? I have. I've heard its low rumble and its shrieking wail. Most of all I love the waves crashing on shore.

6) I'm originally from Illinois. We grow corn there. Not me, I was never a farmer. But I can see the perfect, proud straight rows. I can feel the scorching humidity of the still air waling among the towering stalks. And I surely know harvest rejoicing chomping sweet kernels raw.

7) Verse 33

33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth.

We have a stand of trees very near our home. We always wait for the great winds to come so we can watch their swaying, but most of all hear their song.

8) When we turn to such passages, I always find it critical to let them speak with as little interference as I can. I have to enter in, as you can see, but I still must listen. The passage has the trees of the wood singing at the presence of the Lord, for his judgement.

9) It's a fascinating historical question as to whether a pardon must be accepted in order to be effective, or if the sovereign granting power may give it without such requirement. I believe that's settled as to the negative. The pardoned need not accept, no matter.

10) But why might one not wish the pardon? Perhaps even the innocent so treasure the sanctity of the institutions of law, that a judgment at law, the prospect of a judgment at law is, for some, a higher mandate. Personally, I disagree with that, but I sure can see it.

11) It's interesting that a judge's gavel is made of wood. On the Throne of Justice that Lincoln sits upon in his memorial, there are bound bundles of wooden rods, an ancient symbol of the law itself. Kings had wooden staves of Justice as well.

12) In our verse, these trees have not been handled by man, yet. The life coursing up and down their trunks, and the farming system of their leaves sing when the wind blows, and we're told, this is the sound of justice coming. It's simply beautiful.

13 ) Verse 34

34 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

Mercy endureth forever. Now isn't that something? Immediately after the trees sing a chorus of judgment, we discover that mercy is the home of judgment and always shall be.

14) Who remembers Mario Puzo and one of his last characters, Don Clericuzio? Puzo tells us that when, as a boy in Sicily young Nico heard that, in America, our law stated that it was better for 1,000 guilty men to go free then to wrongly convict a single innocent man.

15) The future great Don fell in love with America in that moment. Mercy is something that speaks to the most hardened of hearts. I have a tiny personal example of its power to share.

16) My favorite law to break is the speed limit. I buy very fast cars, too, from time to time, and I often live in the range of 10 - 15% above the limit, playfully slowing down as soon as my well trained mirror skills spot the coming enforcer of that law on my tail.

17) My near perfect driving record belies all this, as I am very good at it. But one evening, an undercover cop sneaked past my detection capabilities and first I noticed him, he was yelling and pointing for me to pull over. I couldn't hear him, but boy could I see him.

18) Putting my trust horses under the hood to work, I accelerated throwing our heads back. Yes, Kate and Anthony were in the car at the time and I won't speak about their guilt or innocence in this little tale.

19) Thinking I'd lost him, I'd slow down, and then, boom, he'd be right back in my mirror. He had a great car, but it wasn't as fast as mine. I'd speed up again, etc., for about 3 or 4 miles. Then, he changed his tactics. He took out a hand-held flashing siren and my jaw dropped.

20) Instantly pulling over, the now known to me undercover cop took his time, looked me up and saw my spotless driving record, and eventually came to the car. Licence, registration and insurance checked, he started to literally yell at me with all he had.

21) I waited through the remonstrances, saying nothing. But somehow the angrier he got, the more calm I grew. He eventually noticed this, then paused, and then asked. "Why were you speeding like that, and why did you try to evade me?" I answered immediately with the raw truth.

22) "I thought you were an extremely dangerous, angry driver and my only thought was to get away from you."

He stood there looking at me for maybe 30 seconds or a minute. Closed up his ticket book, turned, and walked away.

23) I had no idea what was going to happen next. So, i just sat there and waited. It was long before he just pulled into traffic and drove away.

For me, that was a moment of mercy.

24) To include emotions rising and falling, I'll guess the episode took about 40 minutes. And then the mercy's full force of joy, like the fields rejoicing swept over all of us. I personally went from hating him to loving him. He gave me mercy. I still love him.

25) In our conversations, General Flynn has never shared a single aspect of his suffering with me, with but a single exception. Essentially, he simply told me that all this was really hard. His stoic great strength has amazed from start to finish on this vast injustice.

26) Who can do the emotional, spiritual math to look at my little 40 minute experience and compare that to 4 entire years of persecution, persecution on TV and in front of the entire world.

27) In this incredible moment, what does General Flynn do? He simply rejoices and, sharing this passaged, commends us to join him in rejoicing also. He has accepted his mercy, and indicates that the time of looking forward will soon arrive.

28) But we must return to Innocence and its function in law. Let's consider a few opposites:

1) Innocent/Guilty
2) Good/Evil
3) Right/Wrong
4) Rights/Wrongs

29) Law is a thing of words, so it is redundant to say that in law, words matter. Yet, the repetition is needful. If you look at the first three pairings, I believe you should find them, if not quite easy, not all that difficult to define and use. Not quite so with the last pair.

30) When I have debated with my friends across the political aisle, the worst debates, least satisfying or successful, have been about rights. My own theory is that Communism in its social and educational branches has succeeded in destroying its common definition.

31) In Natural Law, however, there is always the easy reversion to the term, "It was my right..." Still easy, but not quite as much, "What I did was right." In all this, if asked for a list, of rights, people most often, in my experience, go blank at first. What are your rights?

32) Let's go again with one of my beloved little lists:

1) Right as opposed to Wrong
2) Right as something inalienable to you
3) Being Right
4) Having Rights
5) Doing Right
6) Having done many Rights

33) If you know me, you know I might easily write (I almost spelled that right just to mess with you) an essay on each of the 6 forms of right and rights listed above. I won't today, but you never know about the future...

34) Having teased you above, we now arrive at the true heart of today's ponderings. What, exactly, is:

The Right of The Presumption of Innocence

In all of our law, and our being as a people, this is the most important right in law.

35) Please note that I emphasized the term "right in law" above. Why? There are four cardinal rights in our American System, and they are:

1) Life
2) Liberty
3) The Pursuit of Happiness
4) Property

All other rights we may discuss are subordinate to and derive from those four.

36) The Presumption of Innocence may be the best policy for just about every interworking of good people. But, unless stated so, you do NOT have such a right when you're at work. Husbands know better than to attempt that claim facing a raging wife. And etcetera.

37) But in American Law, there can be no greater nor more sacred principle. We often make the claim about ourselves that we are the greatest nation not only on earth now but actually in the entire history of all nations through time. I make that claim boldly and happily, too.

38) When I look back in future upon @realDonaldTrump's 1st term, the promise made and kept that will always mean the most to me is the historic creation and use of a pardon of innocence on behalf of @GenFlynn.

39) No, Trump did not make that specific promise. Rather he promised a restoration of the Rule Of Law. He always presumed Flynn innocent, and then, he redrew the lines of law in order execute true justice on Flynn's behalf. Mercy.

40) I believe I'll conclude with that for today. I may do a Part 2 on it tomorrow. I will state harshly that no aspect of the legal apparatus lived up to its legal duties in these 4 years. It is the relief of that, that Trump did something about it, that I must yet let sink in.

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