The Bill of Rights Is Done

 At the American Thinker Andrea Widburg has a post entitled Lawyers, guns and money (and speech): How Democrats steal our Constitutional rights.  She has embedded a Tucker Carlson interview on X with Douglas Mackey.  Mackey is probably someone you have never heard of, but he is a canary in the coal mine.  Just as Trump is being prosecuted on specious charges, anyone who opposes these people is at risk.  Please watch the interview before we go any further.

Have you watched it?  Good.  Mackey seems like a typical New Englander.  He is a man of few words, dry even.  Carlson asks open ended questions but gets short answers.  

One of the most basic legal premises is that the government cannot do indirectly that which it is barred from doing directly. However, in Washington, D.C., and across America, Democrats are using indirect means to destroy our constitutional rights.

If you’re reading this post, I’m betting that you’re aware of the Twitter files, which revealed that the Deep State was working closely with Big Tech to censor content about Russiagate, COVID, the vaccinations, and Biden family corruption. Therefore, I won’t rehash that. However, if you haven’t seen Tucker Carlson’s most recent interview, this one with Douglass Mackey, you don’t know that the administration is also using its police powers to silence political speech.

Douglass Mackey is the man who posted a joke on Twitter telling people to text their votes for Hillary. It was a joke identical to posts that Democrats were putting up regarding voting for Trump. However, unlike the Democrats, Mackey was hunted down. Seven days into the Biden administration, he was on the receiving end of an FBI raid and staring at 11 years in prison for election interference. The fact that there was no evidence that anyone, even a Democrat, was stupid enough to take his joke seriously was irrelevant...In Democrat-run America, political jokes will get you arrested. So, while the Democrats haven’t succeeded in amending the Constitution to remove the First Amendment, they have engaged in policies that effectively chill political speech. They have done directly that which they cannot do directly.

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In Democrat-run America, political jokes will get you arrested. So, while the Democrats haven’t succeeded in amending the Constitution to remove the First Amendment, they have engaged in policies that effectively chill political speech. They have done (in)directly that which they cannot do directly.

Democrats have effectively erased the First Amendment right to free speech for Mackey. They are trying to do the same with the Second Amendment by going after ammunition. After all, if they can make the ammunition illegal, the right to arms becomes null and void. Now, they are also nullifying the Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel.

To date, the Democrats haven’t amended the Constitution to remove that right, nor would they want to. It’s important for Democrats and their voting blocs to have attorneys. However, they desperately want to make it impossible for their political opponents to have attorneys, whether in civil or criminal matters.

Because they cannot do that directly, leftists do it indirectly by going after the attorneys who work for their political enemies, seeking either to disbar them (e.g., John Eastman) or criminally indict them (e.g., Jenna Ellis) for daring to advance arguments with which Democrats disagree. Disfavored individuals like Derek Chauvin also have an almost impossible time finding legal counsel.

Imagine having to defend yourself from made up charges with incompetent legal counsel. They might as well just put you in jail without a trial at all. This is, as Carlson notes, Soviet stuff. Someone like Mackey will not have the resources to appeal the conviction.

In posting his Douglass Mackey video, Tucker Carlson (or his team) wrote “The First Amendment is done.” Through the connivance of the Democrat party, the Deep State, and the Biden administration, the Second Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, and Article I are done, too. If we don’t push back hard in the next election, our wonderful, unique, and liberty-oriented Constitution will have been rendered meaningless.