The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 9-26-2018

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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 9-26-2018
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Alexander's Column · Sept. 26, 2018

The Demo Assault on Kavanaugh ... and Our Constitution's Rule of Law

These Democrat tactics are the "ends justify the means" standards of "justice" upon which totalitarian regimes are built.
Mark Alexander

"They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men." —John Adams (1775)

My wife, Ann, is traveling with friends in the Northeast this week, walking in the footprints of Patriots at Lexington and Concord. She sent me a text message with a photo of a plaque engraved with the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson's words immortalizing "The Shot Heard Round the World." Her accompanying message was simple: "God Bless America."

In a follow-up conversation, she described the contrast of being at that place where Patriots were willing to fight and die for Liberty — their own and generations to follow — while she simultaneously felt besieged by the current progressive assault on our Constitution and its principles.

"What struck me most was the very sad and stark contrast between those Patriots who took to the field in Concord, charging against an enemy and an empire to defend Liberty, versus the current crop of politicians who are engaging in an appalling game to destroy a good man, and by extension, our Constitution and the Liberty it ensures. I am very discouraged by their antics. As our son is serving our nation as a Marine, abiding by his oath to our Constitution, I expect our nation's leaders to honor his service and that of all those like him who are risking their lives to defend Liberty. These politicians can do so by honoring their own constitutional oaths."

I asked that she not be discouraged, noting that while the battle for Liberty began at that old bridge in Concord, it did not end in 1783 with cessation of hostilities. And it requires constant vigilance every day.

It's no small irony that the hallowed ground at Lexington and Concord is now surrounded by a Democrat corridor where the majority of residents (though certainly not all) support the same statist tyranny that, in principle, those early Patriots were fighting against.

It's likewise ironic that a mere 30 miles from Concord is the town of Salem, notorious for a shameful series of colonial "trials" of more than 200 people who were accused of witchcraft and were presumed guilty — unless they could establish their innocence. Many of the accused were executed.

It is from that disgraceful chapter in English colonial history that the term "witch hunt" was derived.

Today's campaign by Democrats and their media brethren to "destroy a good man" is nothing less than a modern-day witch hunt. Ancient, unsubstantiated accusations have been put forth and, just as in 17th-century Salem, the accused is being required to prove his innocence.

As the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh got underway, I wrote about the Democrats' efforts to stop the nomination: "Obstruction of Justice: The Kavanaugh Blockade."

After the hearings concluded, ranking committee Democrat Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) delivered a vicious late hit on Kavanaugh with uncorroborated allegations of an assault by the nominee some 36 years ago. I have covered the formulation and execution of Feinstein's scripted charade in great detail in my column, "Judging Kavanaugh — Feinstein's 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' Strategy."

There is now evidence backing up the assertion that Feinstein cooked up this collusion and obstruction strategy in July, even timing the drop of the alleged victim's letter after the Kavanaugh hearings closed. Coinciding with Feinstein's receipt of that letter was a conference call to Democrats about the Kavanaugh nomination from leftist strategist Ricki Seidman (who is now one of the accuser's "advisers"). In that conference call, Seidman said, "Over the coming days and weeks there will be a strategy that will emerge, and I think it's possible that that strategy might ultimately defeat [Kavanaugh]."

(Hypocrisy alert: These spurious charges are coming from the party of serial sexual assailant Bill Clinton and his chief defender and enabler Hillary Clinton, and DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison. Somebody get Juanita Broaddrick and Clinton's other victims on the line...)

Feinstein's complainant is one Christine Blasey Ford, a leftist Bernie Sanders-supporting California college professor, who alleges that she was subject to some kind of assault, maybe in the summer of 1982, at some location she can't recall, by then-17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh.

Republicans won't tolerate Feinstein's absurd standard of justice in the Senate. Instead, they'll afford Judge Kavanaugh a full measure of self-defense while Feinstein and her Demo colluders adjudicate their "guilty until proven innocent" standard in the court of public opinion, in which the loudest voice is their Leftmedia propaganda machine.

This week, after the Judiciary Committee had set a date for Feinstein's alleged victim to testify, the fourth and final person that Ford claimed had direct knowledge of her alleged assault, a lifelong friend, declared she also had no knowledge of the assault. And what did the Democrats do? They trotted out another, even less credible individual alleging in a New Yorker article that she had also been assaulted — though even the hard-left New York Times refused to run her story. That sequence of accusations and denials is covered in detail in "Destroying Kavanaugh, One Scripted Attack at a Time."

Predictably, as the Feinstein/Ford fortunes began to fade, attorney and self-promoting provocateur Michael Avenatti emerged from his rat hole hoping to steal some thunder from the Feinstein/Ford charade. Avenatti produced allegations from another woman who claims she was sexually assaulted at a party roughly 36 years ago. She does not claim Kavanaugh was involved in the assault but that he and his friend Mark Judge were at the party.

You know, Kavanaugh, that "party animal."

If a salacious claim has Avenatti's brand on it, you can trust it's all about Avenatti.

The accumulation of unsubstantiated and uncorroborated charges aside, allow me to focus on two aspects of how Democrats have responded to these allegations: the insistence that the complainant should be believed regardless of the truth, and the insistence that Judge Kavanaugh is "guilty until proven innocent."

These are the "ends justify the means" standards of "justice" upon which totalitarian regimes are built.

What follows are a few excerpts from the last week that demonstrate leftists' relentless effort to turn Rule of Law on end, and to replace it with their own rule.

Consider some shameful remarks from Hawaii's junior senator, Mazie Hirono — remarks that best frame the Demos' assertion that Ford should be believed regardless and that Kavanaugh is guilty until proven innocent.