by Robert M. Traxler

Innocent until proven guilty is not just an American Constitutional right, but an international basic human right.

Hate is an emotion that means different things to different folks. Those who do not hate Judge Kavanagh believe him; those who do dump all their pent-up emotions from the election on him. All women complainants are to be believed if the complaint is against a male.

Now on the face of it, that is just old-fashioned stupid, and a mind free of hate will not believe it. The mantra that Dr. Ford is to be believed because no woman would ever lie about sexual assault is not true. Physical and testimonial evidence is not needed, all that is needed is the charge, a charge so repugnant it must be believed. Let’s hope you are never charged with pedophilia or a person you care about is; if so you are guilty until you or they can prove your innocence —the charge being so horrible there is no defense, you are automatically guilty.

A person I debated politics with tells me, “Fundamentalist Christians are more dangerous than Muslim fundamentalists.” True? No, but the desire for it to be true overrides common sense. “Most African Americans in prison are victims of a racist nation.” True? No, but they want to believe it, so they do.

Some say all men are evil especially old white men. Your father is evil? your grandfather is evil? Your brother is evil? Your neighbor is evil? Heck, you are evil? Only hate could make a person believe things that do not pass the common-sense test.

Prejudice is wrong, even if the target of the prejudice is a group not politically correct. Prejudice is the act of judging people by the group. Judging people by race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sexual preference, age, or sex, it is all wrong.

If the argument is made that it is fine for folks to say all old white men should just shut up, substitute the ‘men’ in that statement with ‘women.’ Old white women should just shut up, old African Americans should just shut up, old gay men should just shut up, you get the drift of what I am saying. It is all prejudice and all wrong. Many folks who are progressives believe prejudging people by race if not a minority, is fine, judging people by wealth, zip code, political affiliation or occupation is fine; it is not.

Socialist history bears this out. In the French Revolution, the King was guillotined, the Queen was guillotined, their children were executed, the gardeners, kitchen staff, guards, stable boys, anyone and everyone who were involved with the Royal Family, to the tune of 500 people on one day, and more than 40,000 in total were guillotined. Hate of a non-politically correct class by Socialists rationalized this act. We should doubt a 13-year-old stable boy shoveling horse crap was a person who oppressed the masses and was a danger to the revolution and an enemy of the state.

The current class of vile people are “old white men.” Most voted for President Donald Trump, thus they are vile, haters who should “sit down and just shut up.”

The FBI will investigate Judge Kavanaugh and the allegations against him, some 37 years old and all questionable. It should be easy to work the case; no physical evidence, no crime scenes to work or analyze, it is all interviews. If the possible witnesses do not play the same game Dr. Ford did by saying I will not answer questions until weeks later, it should be a snap to work. The investigation will need a few hundred special agents to interview the classmates, friends, family and neighbors of Judge Kavanagh and Dr. Ford, but it will not be a complicated process — merely large.

If the FBI finds no additional evidence, the anti-folks will say sure, they work for President Trump and Trump had the Deputy Attorney General come to the White House to intimidate him; the investigation was rigged. The time frame was too short for a proper investigation, or the FBI is run by old white men, so what do you expect. The folks so full of hate for the President will dismiss the facts and truth, as it is not the politically correct outcome they believe to their core is true.

Bill Maher on HBO criticized Senator Lindsey Graham Friday for his defense of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying the South Carolina Republican Senator was missing “the stabilizing influence of his dead boyfriend.” He was referring to the late Sen. John McCain, his audience erupted with laughter.