Innocent Till Proven Guilty

Are We Really?

In my life experiences I have discovered that the concept of “Innocent till proven guilty in a court of law.” Only applies to “A Court of Law”.

Everywhere else you are considered guilty till you prove you are not.

Courts have rules and protections that are supposed to maintain the innocence of the alleged criminal till proven guilty. Granted, those protections do not always work the way they should.

The court of public opinion does not have any protections. This is why things are often tried in the media and social circles. It’s easier to destroy someone when you don’t really have to prove anything.

Innocent till proven guilty used to be a foundation of liberty and a common belief in America. But, it has fallen by the wayside. We seem to have become jaded.

As soon as a person is accused and posted online or on social media, we have them found guilty and hanged outside the Facebook courthouse.

This is a terrible thing in our culture, where a person can be canceled with no real proof, or consideration. This is similar to what allegedly happens in China, where they have worked to implement a “Social Credit System” whereby people are supposedly punished for not following political correctness, such as saying the wrong…