In Accusing A Just Man Of An Egregious Crime, The Dems Forgot A Major Fact

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Good point - I'm sure they all know the story "To Kill a Mockingbird". Originally Posted by friendly fred
Ya thinks? Here is a reminder...





The Senate’s Job Isn’t to Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s tale shows how prejudice fuels the presumption of guilt.


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By Allysia Finley
Oct. 3, 2018 7:00 p.m. ET

If you read Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” in high school, you probably recall it as a parable of racial injustice in the Jim Crow South. It was more than that. The novel chronicles the persecution of an innocent man by a bigoted and bloody-minded town. Amid the left’s crucible of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Lee’s enduring lessons about due process merit reflection.

The story is set in the sleepy fictional backwater of Maycomb, Ala., in 1935. A black man, Tom Robinson, stands accused by 19-year-old Mayella Ewell and her father - lower-class whites who live on relief - of rape, a capital offense. Atticus Finch is Tom’s defense lawyer, and the trial turns into a public spectacle - “a gala occasion” - as all the townspeople flock to the county courthouse.

Mayella alleges that after she asked Tom for help breaking down a dresser in her house, he took advantage of the situation to violate her. Tom claims that Mayella aggressively propositioned him, and he resisted her advances as well as he could without hurting her. In Tom’s account, Mr. Ewell, witnessing his daughter’s lewd behavior from the window, blew his top and shouted at Mayella: “I’ll kill ya.”

“The only thing we’ve got is a black man’s word against the Ewells’,” Atticus notes. “The evidence boils down to you-did—I-didn’t.” But through cross-examination, he is able to poke holes in the Ewells’ testimony.

It is revealed that Mr. Ewell didn’t call the doctor after the purported rape. Mr. Ewell also turns out to be left-handed. Mayella’s injuries were on her right side, suggesting a left-handed assailant. Tom’s left arm is crippled.

When Atticus cross-examines “the fragile-looking” Mayella, she bawls and accuses him of bullying. She then contradicts herself: “No, I don’t recollect if [Tom] hit me. I mean yes I do, he hit me.” Asked for clarification, she replies: “Huh? Yes, he hit—I just don’t remember, I just don’t remember... it all happened so quick.”

Apart from the Ewells’ eyewitness accounts, the prosecutor can produce no evidence that Tom raped Mayella. He claims that a prior disorderly-conduct citation is evidence of Tom’s criminality, though people who know him well “say he kept himself clean.” In his testimony, Tom resists calling Mayella a liar. “She’s mistaken in her mind,” he says.

“This case is not a difficult one, it requires no minute sifting of complicated facts, but it does require you to be sure beyond all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant,” Atticus tells the jury in his closing. The state is relying on hearsay from two unreliable witnesses in “the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption - the evil assumption - that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women.”

He concludes: “Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal” but “there is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions.... But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal,” and that is before the law. “Our courts are the great levelers.”

Overcoming the jury’s prejudices proves too great a challenge for Atticus Finch. As the trial judge remarks, “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” Mayella’s accusation is deemed credible because she is a white woman.

“In the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case,” Lee writes. “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”

Lynching was not uncommon in the Jim Crow-era South, so Tom was relatively fortunate to receive even an unfair trial and conviction. He is later shot while trying to escape prison. With its unsettling ending, Lee’s tale underscores how the presumption of guilt based on prevailing prejudices threatens American justice.

Despite high praise from people who have known him for decades, liberals presume Judge Kavanaugh guilty on the basis of his race and sex. “Brett Kavanaugh’s indignation was the sound of privileged white male entitlement,” read one newspaper headline.” What difference does it make that after excavating his past for weeks, liberals in the Senate and the media have failed to produce a shred of corroborating evidence of any wrongdoing?

Unlike in Tom’s case, there is no physical evidence that Judge Kavanaugh’s accusers are lying. But Democratic senators assert that a woman’s testimony should not be doubted regardless of its inconsistencies. If they prevail in the absence of additional evidence, Brett Kavanaugh was a dead man the moment Christine Ford opened her mouth.

Ms. Finley is a member of the Journal’s editorial board.

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good summary of mocking bird story. its a good parallel with Kavanaugh.


we're dealing with a different kind of racism, a political one.
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Really its SEXISM against MEN in general ,
In my opinion the Female social justice warriors what the statute of limitations to go away so this type of BS can continue, can you just think how the overworked criminal justice system will crash and burn if they get 36 years ago something happened I didn't like and have to investigate.
who cares? more female babies are conceived than male babies....women will take over
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What a crock of shit. You start another thread about the number of people banned and the lack of brain cells in this forum and then post the dumbest sterotypical bullshit around. You should be praying that someday you will get a brain. Read my signature line about dead people. That describes you and the libs to a tee. Originally Posted by Budman
Apparently you do not know what one should use their brains for. Do you really think the AA moms are gonna vote for a republican? They have sons and daughters serving unfair sentences and being treated like dirt from every angle thanks to republicans.
None of us hobbyist know the truth about this. We do know what kind of person he is though. We also know that he is not truthful on many of his answers.
Someone being considered for the SC should be better than that, no matter what political party they are affiliated with.
I do not see a signature line so I guess that comment was just like the rest of your reply, pointless.
After seeing this shit show alot of AA moms just won't vote at all. And that's a vote for a R.



Apparently you do not know what one should use their brains for. Do you really think the AA moms are gonna vote for a republican? They have sons and daughters serving unfair sentences and being treated like dirt from every angle thanks to republicans.
None of us hobbyist know the truth about this. We do know what kind of person he is though. We also know that he is not truthful on many of his answers.
Someone being considered for the SC should be better than that, no matter what political party they are affiliated with.
I do not see a signature line so I guess that comment was just like the rest of your reply, pointless.
Originally Posted by MT Pockets
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These days the Klan consists of a couple of toothless guys being egged on by 2 undercover FBI agents, several undercover State Police, and a few other undercover officers all teaming up on the mark so they can pad their statistics and claim they are fighting racism.

It is a straw man resurrected to hate on white people. Originally Posted by friendly fred
Not sure where you get your info but the klan has grown noticeably since 2016. Not that I think you believe your own post. If you do than maybe you need to do a little research.
Not sure where you get your info but the klan has grown noticeably since 2016. Not that I think you believe your own post. If you do than maybe you need to do a little research. Originally Posted by MT Pockets
You seem to have a fixation with the "Klan".

If every active "Klan" member voted, it would probably be .01 of one percent of the voting public.

I figure they have about the same amount of voting power as the New Black Panthers, so it evens out.
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Since the point is about the Klan being supported by the GOP, it will drive away nearly all of the AA voters. So now we are talking about well over 10% of the voters.
I have been a Republican my entire adult life and I do not know one Klan Member.

African Americans aren't as stupid as you make them out to be. They are smart enough to know that the Republican Party does not endorse, support, or even tolerate the Klan.

I wish the same could be said about the Democrats and their refusal to distance themselves from organizations such as the New Black Panthers, ANTIFA, and the entire left wing radical factions that are undermining the Constitutional Republic of the United States.
Yssup Rider's Avatar
Just. Wow!

The reversal in the national discussion is astounding. The self righteous anger by Kavanaugh and those who would marginalize more than half the population is a disaster for Trump. Kavanaugh will be confirmed, but the D’s have already won.

I believe the message of division, nationalism, and such is proof that the Twitler BS machine is working on some of the population.

But not as many as the WH wants it’s followers to think.

we’ll see that in a few eeeks.
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Just. Wow!

The reversal in the national discussion is astounding. The self righteous anger by Kavanaugh and those who would marginalize more than half the population is a disaster for Trump. Kavanaugh will be confirmed, but the D’s have already won.

I believe the message of division, nationalism, and such is proof that the Twitler BS machine is working on some of the population.

But not as many as the WH wants it’s followers to think.

we’ll see that in a few eeeks. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
Just. Wow!

The reversal in the national discussion is astounding. The self righteous anger by Leftist/ANTIFA and those who would marginalize more than half the population is a disaster for Democrats. Kavanaugh will be confirmed, but the D’s have already LOST.

I believe the message of division, nationalism, and such is proof that the Leftist/ANTIFA BS machine is working on some of the population.

But not as many as they want their Leftist/ANTIFA/Democrat/Socialist followers to think.

we’ll see that in a few weeks
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That being, millions of Women have Sons. These mothers see that if an outstanding man such as Brett Kavanaugh can be falsely accused, any one of their sons could be as well.

The polls are reflecting this. Originally Posted by Jackie S
The lib-retard Slate agrees with you.


The Kavanaugh Hearings Have Women Fired Up … to Vote Republican

... the Kavanaugh spectacle seems to have evaporated the Democrats’ enthusiasm edge, according to a poll conducted Monday by NPR, PBS NewsHour, and Marist. In July Democrats were likelier, by 10 percentage points, to say the November elections were “very important.” That gap has now narrowed to a statistical tie. “The result of the hearings, at least in the short run, is the Republican base was awakened” ...

The change is particularly striking when comparing women in the two parties. Of all the cohorts measured by the poll (including Independent men and women), Democratic women are the only group to display less enthusiasm for the midterms this week than they did in July. Meanwhile, Republican women seem invigorated. In July, 81 percent of Democratic women said the November elections were very important, compared to 71 percent of Republican women. Now, Republican women are 4 percentage points likelier to view the midterms that way (83 percent to 79 percent). That’s a 14-point swing in female voters’ interest in the midterms—after the hearings, and in Republicans’ favor.


(Slate)
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It will soon be open season on the daughters and wives of the GOP
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Grand Kleagle Robert K Byrd of the KKK and democrat party.