Anonymous ID: 205f6f May 3, 2020, 7:55 p.m. No.9020395   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0426

>>9020106

Note that the Constitution protects pre-existing unalienable rights; it doesn’t grant those rights.

 

The “color of law” section of Title 18 deals with both rights protected by the Constitution and by other statutes, such as civil rights legislation.

 

The statute exists specifically to sanction anyone acting with the power of a governmental or quasi-governmental office that results in the deprivation of protected rights. Because of the authority of their office, officials are able, in practice, to take actions against the populace when, in law, they have no valid legal basis for doing so. Note also that any law that violates the US Constitution is void, at least by Supreme Court precedent.

 

But there’s little advantage in attempting to explain this to a jackbooted thug in a uniform on the street. And the big question is: who is going to prosecute officials for overstepping their bounds? No one here can have much confidence in the DOJ.

Anonymous ID: 205f6f May 3, 2020, 8:09 p.m. No.9020516   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0573

>>9020426

Agreed. What value do rights have, if government can violate them with impunity?

 

The legal system is stacked against the ordinary person. If the DOJ is going to do its customary slow rolling act, it doesn’t matter what the AG might have said. We do need substantial legal reform in this country - an independent rights commission to bring actions on behalf of the people would be a useful part of any reform program.