Judicial and Sanctuary Abuse

The Western World, which unprecedented prosperity is the natural result of individual freedom and limited government, is suffering remarkable political turmoil. On their long-running experiment authoritarians in all parties have become too strident, prompting popular uprisings. And to extend arbitrary control, an independent judiciary has been corrupted. Individuals such as General Flynn are threatened in a manner seen in Medieval Times.  And what San Francisco, for example, has been doing to the medieval concept of sanctuary has been astonishing. Political turmoil, even hysteria, began when ordinary folk finally woke up saying "No!" to unrelenting bureaucratic intrusion.  Regrettably, our governing classes have become, well, ungovernable. 

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Another great reformation is needed. 

The seemingly endless ambition of in-your-face and in-your-wallet bureaucrats is becoming too much for ordinary households. This is prompting popular uprisings whereby the intrusion of big government is at last being questioned and resisted. A change that ambitious political promoters just can't handle. The biggest political tantrum in history needs some chilling out, and history provides both guidance and hope. The last great experiment in authoritarian government ran through the 1500s. Becoming unendurably nasty in the early 1600s, it inspired a series of popular uprisings that eventually accomplished a great reformation. Best followed in England, on its way to enlightened liberalism. 

Almost all of the principles of 19^th Century Liberalism have been bypassed by the corruption of "liberal" to authoritarianism. The big concepts have been International Socialism or National Socialism. For this essay, representative party names are England's Labour Party to America's Democrats to the Liberal Party of Canada. All dedicated to what is best described by a term from physics – the definition of an authoritarian system: That which is not compulsory is prohibited. An elegant description of today's control freaks, right down to school boards. 

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"Double-standard" has displaced common law, whereby all were judged equally.

America, being originally constituted as a country of freedom has been recording unprecedented conflict as the governing classes have been defending their unique privileges. The Deep State is an appropriate description of too much power in the hands of a corrupt few in important agencies such as DOJ, FBI, and CIA. Perhaps in the last 150 years of parliamentary history in Canada, England and the US, there have been no examples of senior bureaucrats attempting to depose a duly elected leader. 

However, some 63 million "deplorables" in 2,626 counties out of 3,141 (according to AP) voted for Trump. Trying to cancel this seems naively ambitious. 

An outstanding gift from the Brits has been the tradition of common law. And America with its republican system with checks and balances being so violated is an ongoing study in civics. These formerly separate and balancing elements have coalesced into one voice and it is the voice of big government. The so-called "Fourth Estate", the media, has become the tool of the assault upon freedom. And "double-standard" has displaced common law, whereby all were judged equally. 

Self-appointed privileges by those with political power to a degree not seen since in centuries. 

Common law was the means to make royalty accountable. Now it is needed to make the Deep State accountable, which shocked by opposition, is desperately employing old brutalities. The judicial system has been abused by unrelenting attacks upon Trump advisors to find or "compose" evidence to cancel the 2016 election. The so-called impeachment is just another ploy. The other legal abuse has been "sanctuary cities". Of which San Francisco is the most outrageous in harboring federal criminals and in turning its streets into medieval sewers.  

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Entrapment, by the judiciary

A couple of previous examples can instruct and are reviewed in Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, published by Ian Mortimer in 2008. 

One dealt with outrageous abuse, such as entrapment, by the judiciary (page 24):

"There are very few checks and balances in the system. Hence there is a great deal of corruption. 

In 1366 the sheriff of Yorkshire, Thomas Musgrave, is accused of malicious arrest, wrongful imprisonment, extortion, and the entrapment of an innocent man through employment of a packed jury. What he is up to is an old game played by sheriffs for centuries. He has seized one of his enemy's servants. Tortured the man until he was almost dead, and forced him to confess to a series of felonies. He has then forced him to accuse his master of complicity in all his crimes, allowing the sheriff to proceed legally against the master, his enemy."

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To protect his family from similar outrage General Flynn "confessed"

 To protect his family from similar outrage General Flynn "confessed", but it was on an issue that could not bring President Trump down. The  always smartly attired Roger Stone was so dangerous that he merited a pre-dawn raid by a SWAT team. Up to two-dozen federales complete with their helicopters and media vans. At 5:30 AM. A 66-year old who specialized in political operations against Democrats had to be abused. 

Of course, threats were used hoping to obtain actional "offenses" against Trump. It hasn't worked and judicial abuse, as the past shows, was eventually recognized and ended. 

And what about today's "sanctuary cities"? Mortimer provides some examples of how the locals dealt with such abuse:

The Law: Sanctuary, Chapter10 [Pages 243-244]: 

"For those who are guilty of a serious felony, and in fear of retribution, there exists one last resort.  If you can get to a church before you are arrested, you can claim sanctuary. With the slamming of the consecrated oak door behind you, you are safe – in theory – for up to forty days. Sanctuary is confirmed by your confession, while in said church, to witness. Those pursuing you at that point must place a guard over the door to prevent you escaping—and they can be fined if you escape. According to the Act of 1315, anyone claiming sanctuary cannot be forced from the church by hunger—the guards should feed you. The coroner should turn up within the forty days and confiscate your goods. He will then assign you a sea port from which you will abjure the realm. You will make your way to it along the king's highway, bareheaded and barefoot, and take the next ship leaving the kingdom. 

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Authoritarian government: Judicial Abuse and the horrors of a corrupted concept of sanctuary

That is, at least how sanctuary should operate. In reality, you will be lucky to reach exile, especially if you are a murderer. Sometimes the community is 'unable' to persuade the coroner to attend, and will stop feeding you after forty days. Sometimes they will not feed you at all. When a thief is set to abjure the realm, a large crowd normally gathers to pursue him on the highway, making his life a misery as far as they wish. 

In 1320, Isabella de Bury kills the parish clerk of Allhallows in the Wall, London, and takes refuge in the same church. The bishop of London himself sends word that the Church refuses to shelter such a woman, and she is dragged out and hanged. 

The concept of Church sanctuary seemed reasonable during the terrors of judicial abuse, which in England was abolished in 1623. The Democrat's intense opposition to highly qualified appointees to the Supreme Court is another form of abuse. 

Today's regrettable experiment in authoritarian government has resorted to ploys seen in previous such experiments. Including judicial abuse as well as the horrors of a corrupted concept of sanctuary. In finally finding it too much, ordinary folk have turned to popular uprisings that could eventually add up to another great reformation. 

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