"The Bush brothers' refusal to prevent Terri's killing will do lasting political damage to them both," writes Wheeler.
Talk about twisted thinking, President Bush and Governor Bush were mocked and jeered for the actions they did take, and some even tout the polls were against them.
Unfortunately, that would require a mass cure for cranial/rectal inversion disease. Not likely.
""If any good is to come of this tragedy it would be to catalyze the recognition among Americans that America is no longer a democracy "
What an idiot. We've NEVER been a democracy, but a constitutional Republic. No need to read further.
No fear of theocracy, No longer a Democracy, We Got us a KRITOCRACY
Posted on 03/30/2005 2:58:42 PM EST by St. Johann Tetzel
It is time to add a new word to the "pop culture of death" lexicon: Kritocracy
Kritarchy \Kri"tarch*y\ (kr[imac]"t[aum]rk*[tcr]), n. [Gr. krith`s judge + 'archh` beginning, government.] The rule of the judges over Israel.
Kritocracy: "-the rule of "wise", "omniscient" and omnipotent judges unchecked by constitutional strictures or popular constraint-appealed greatly to an authoritarian like Plato. But it doesn't resemble democracy, and it isn't freedom."
--definition from KEN BELL, "Judges Benched for Bad Behavior"
As Alan Keyes has so elequently pointed out, to the continued consternation of not a few so-called "conservatives" on this forum, when the judiciary branch assumes supremacy over and above that of the legislative branch and the executive branch, and inviolation of the safeguards against same written into the US Constitution, and the legislative and executive branches refuse to act to restore the proper checks and balances distorted by the judiciary branch, we are no longer a Representative Republic.
We have become a Kritocracy with absolute rule by omnipotent judges unchecked by constitutional strictures or popular constraint.
Unless and until the legislative and executive branches make definitive efforts, including force if necessary in cases like Terri Schiavo, to re establish the checks and balances between the three branches of government, we will continue to live as unrepresented people, the subjects of judicial tyrants.
This situation is of course untenable.
From a document that should be familiar to us all, but apparently has been forgotten:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. The long train of judicial abuses and usurpations that has lead us to this current stage of absolute judicial Despotism, unchecked by the other two branches of government, have brought us to an unwanted but grim reality.
As Fr. Frank Pavone, of Priests For Life, stated so eloquently during Hioly Week,
"The Terri Schiavo case has demonstrated that we are being governed by unelected judges, and that the legislative and executive branches of government lack the will to stand up to them when they authorize acts of violence.
"The matter, therefore, now rests with [WE] the people," he said in a statement.
"When government fails to protect life, the people must do so directly. Today must mark the beginning of a new era of civil disobedience and conscientious objection, with simultaneous, determined efforts to curb the authority of the courts and restore government to the people through their elected representatives."
They are wrong wrong wrong. It shows that the Governor Bush and President Bush do believe in the rule of law. However, most importantly it shows the need for reform of our judiciary. If we had judges that merely interpret the law as strict constitutionalists (as do Thomas and Scalia) instead of making law by judicial fiat, we would have never reached this point in our history. What happened in Florida should bring even greater pressure for George Bushes nominees to the judicary to be confirmed by an up or down vote in the Senate.
"It has become a krytocracy, a government of judges. We no longer have a government of, by and for the people. America today is ruled not by elected representatives, but unelected judges, governed not by law but by the arbitrary – and in the case of George Greer, homicidal – whims of people in black robes."Bump.
As proven in the Clinton impeachment, the RINOs in the U.S. Senate at that time made the Republican "majority" one in name only. Today the same RINOs make George Bush's senatorial "majority" a delusion. G. Bush must know that the same RINOs who backed Clifton after he was impeached would sell him out in a heartbeat if he gave them what they could see as grounds for impeachment.
Jeb Bush is in the same position with the his false republican majority in the Florida Senate.
In short, executive action by either would have been at best a very short lived victory. The forces of radical judicial activism would force both Bushs into a side battle to save their own jobs and Court reform would have been totally derailed. ( And the courts would have reclaimed jurisdiction of Terri. )
The war could not have been won by executive action NOT supported by the Congress. It can only be won by replacing the RINOs with real Republicans.
And I thought it was just lefties that blamed Bush for everything.
instead of attacking the bushes, why don't people do something useful:
work to lessen the wrongful influence of judges.
Democracies get the government they deserve. As for the ostriches that think this is still a republic I refer them to the speeches of GW Bush, who at every opportunity promises to spread "democracy" (his word not mine) to every corner of the globe - at gunpoint if necessary. The constitution is dead, has been dead for decades (1860 or 1930s, take your pick)
There is a word for the idealogy of democracy, the world has seen it before - JACOBINISM - look it up.
We live in a pagan plebscite democracy and allowing the powers that be to misdirect our attention onto one aspect of that system and thinking we can somehow work within a governmental structure that denies the Kingship of Christ is foolish.
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