On Wednesday, Nov. 13, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Illinois) defended the testimony of “witnesses” during the first day of public impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump arguing that “hearsay can be much better evidence than direct.”
“I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay,” he added. “Because the courts have routinely allowed and created needed exceptions to hearsay. Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct as we have learned in painful instances, and it’s certainly valid in this instance.”
He doesn’t, however, say how many innocent people have been erroneously convicted of crimes based solely on hearsay evidence. He did not go into how bias and hatred can cause simple hearsay to be used with damning influence.
The major problem with hearsay evidence, and even direct witness recollection, is mindset and objectivity at the time of observance and when testifying.
Rep. Quigley, with his statement above, illustrates the ability of authoritarian people seeking absolute power to make the absurd sound real to people who hear only what they want to hear. Remember, he is a member of the party that denies life until it can be seen outside the womb. Even then, if the mother and doctor involved choose not to accept it, that non-life might be terminated at will.
This is the group-think mentality under which progressive liberals demand adherence from all. If an activist progressive identifies yellow as a color of objection, then we must all eliminate yellow from our everyday lives or be outcast. If yellow ever adjoined one’s intersectionality (past or present) the only remedies are publicly renouncing and rejecting ever showing appreciation or even accepting the color yellow immediately followed by humiliating one’s self with apology or accepting excommunication from society at large.
So, if hearsay evidence is sufficient to incarcerate someone, then anyone who has flipped off another in heavy traffic becomes subject to gun confiscation (display of anger). Red Flag laws, now on the books and proposed, allow anyone to make a claim against a gun owner. With that claim, firearms and other lethal devices may be removed from the accused persons possession until there is an adjudication by the courts. A simple claim, even if that claim was experienced by another and verbally related to the claimant contacting authorities, is now enough to cause a home invasion and confiscation.
Progressives are taking this country from one of “innocent until proven guilty” to “guilty by accusation and innuendo”. They are making our world less safe by making crimes such as illegal entry, hit and run, theft, child rape, assault, battery, fraud and many other crimes into minor misdemeanors. There is no deterrent penalty to prevent recurrence or escalation to greater crimes. However, verbally defending your position against an angry idiot is enough for the police to confiscate all your legally owned weapons until you can prove that the idiot who lost the disagreement and engaged them is the one who should be jailed…and then the case is dismissed without redress for the false accusation.
People with this mindset are the same people who believe that Marxist/socialists will see to it that there is no charge for health care or higher education (aka their control and influence over your child pre-K – grad), that whoever wants to take advantage of the generosity of Americans is welcome to come from around the world and do so. No job, no skills, no education, no problem…it’s all free. And if you act now, the government will pay you $1,000 every month just for being here.
God, please save us!