I suppose for most reading this, the question isn't where is Frank Johnson, but who is Frank Johnson, right? Will the real Frank Johnson please stand up, come on, don't be modest, you are a giant of American history, even with such a generic name.
Judge Frank Johnson (1918 -1999) may have been the grease that turned the wheels of the Civil Rights movement into a reality. Johnson, a law school classmate of Billboard segregationist of Governor George Wallace whose inaugural address in his 1962 win for Alabama Governor was "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. Johnson, the recipient of two purple hearts and a Bronze Star in World War II was a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement. At age 37 he was appointed to the bench by President Dwight Eisenhower and became the youngest Federal Judge in America.
Six weeks after his appointment to the Federal bench, an exhausted Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger inspiring her fellow black citizens to the famed Montgomery bus boycott that bought the bus company to its knees.
While Parks' case was tied up in State Court, Aurelia Browder filed suit in Federal Court challenging the Constitutionality of the states segregation law. In the case of Browder v. Gayle, it was decided in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that segregation on the basis of race in any public facility was unconstitutional as violative of the 14th Amendment. That decision was challenged by the State of Alabama and upheld by the US Supreme Court.
Looking in the rearview mirror, historical observation makes Johnson’s judicial lead with Civil Rights adjudication look like just another day at the office for him. However, the decision in the Browder case was both pivotal and revolutionary at the time. Johnson as a Federal Judge wasn’t merely a legal Mandarin sitting atop a high perch. Alabama at that time was the hardcore epicenter (along with Mississippi) of KKK Grand Wizardry, murder, lynching, violence of varying degrees against Blacks. Even more, reviled were those like Johnson and anyone like him deemed to be an enabler or champion of their Civil Rights.
Johnson, despite daily death threats against him, his family, and his co-workers, was committed to nothing less than enforcing the Constitution. Johnson’s position in the Alabama hellhole of his time was much like someone aggressively seeking to enforce temperance and prohibition in Al Capone’s Chicago. The Alabama Mob wanted to string him up, but Johnson stayed the course.
Today, there is a new Mob in town… (see THE MOB IS BACK AND IT'S BIGGER THAN EVER!)
That Mob is ardently dedicated to stirring up any and all who oppose the narrative of the now prescribed order as dictated by The American Pravda.
The current poster boy of that targeted media assassination is Kyle Rittenhouse, a hapless and foolish 17-year-old who is on trial for murder and several lesser charges. I don’t know whether Rittenhouse is innocent or guilty, but from the peanut gallery, the information looks as if his actions were in self-defense.
The ubiquitous pregaming by The American Pravda for Rittenhouse in the killing of two men and wounding of a third in August of 2020 has painted him as a racist murderer, white supremacist, and grand beneficiary of "white privilege".
At this juncture, things don’t appear to be going well for the prosecution in the Rittenhouse case. Accordingly, The American Pravda has labeled the Judge a racist, white supremacist, and has used their ubiquitous megaphone to already declare a mistrial prior to any jury verdict being rendered.
It has become clear since that awful summer of 2020 that The American Pravda has become the chief instrument of The Democrat Industrial Complex in fomenting, encouraging, and approving violent extrajudicial action unless their Mob doesn’t get the result that it demands.
The scales of Justice have become weighted down by the constant threat made to our judiciary system at every level from protests outside of the homes of US Supreme Court Justices, character assassinations at judicial confirmation hearings, threatened harm to family members, and continued threats of reputational and physical violence.
Judge Schroeder… Take a lesson from Frank Johnson and don't give in to the Mob.
It is your job to protect the constitutional rights of the man who now stands before you seeking justice. Regardless of your and the Jury’s findings, concerning guilt or innocence, let the Constitution, not the blood-curdling cries of The American Pravda, be your only guide. In failing to do so, you, like so many others holding your office today, would be destroying The American Way.
As for all of you John Doe’s out there, just because you have an ordinary name doesn’t mean you are incapable of doing extraordinary things.
Just look to Frank Johnson as your guiding light…
-Emes