PF Whalen
April 21, 2021
The list of tragedies resulting from the death of George Floyd last year is extensive. The most obvious is, of course, the demise of Floyd himself; a 46-year old man who’d previously shown promise as a musician and athlete, but who became plagued by demons and ultimately died after a dreadful series of events. There are others, however… many, many others. There were 25 people who died in the mostly-peaceful Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots that followed Floyd’s passing. There was as much as $2 billion worth of property damage caused by those riots, as hundreds of small business owners saw their lives’ work destroyed in the flash of a Molotov cocktail. But based on yesterday’s verdict convicting Derek Chauvin on all charges and the recent events leading up to that verdict, the most significant casualty of the George Floyd affair, and one which may have the most long-lasting impact on our society, is the decision by many on the left, including elected public officials at the highest levels of government, to blatantly disregard and attack due process.
One of the most fundamental rights we have as Americans is the right to due process. Prior to the American Revolution, and before the ratification of the Constitution, one’s access to due process was hit-or-miss. Monarchies such as those of King George III of Great Britain had various mechanisms in place to apply justice, and in some cases those mechanisms provided legal protections to suspected criminals. But the utilization of those instruments often depended on the financial or social status of the accused. As a result, our founding fathers deemed due process to be such a critical component of our new republic, it was immortalized in the Bill of Rights.
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