Posted on 06/30/2008 12:56:06 PM PDT by mondoreb
Systematically Gutting the Constitution While Reshaping America in their Image
About this time every year, 300 million-plus Americans drag themselves out of bed, get ready for their day and learn what rights they have been allowed under the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The unelected Supremes, in their hair-splitting wisdom, have ruled this term:
* That elected representatives of the people may make no law to execute child rapists;
* That enemy combatants--captured on the field of battle as they attempted to kill U.S. service personnel--have many of the same rights as law-abiding U.S. citizens;
* That the Second Amendment is not unconstitutional.
Like some Inter-Galactic Council, straight out of a low-budget sci-fi movie, the Court's 5-4 decisions hand down their brand of justice and law to us lowly interplanetary peons.
Americans assess the impact and damage to their lives--and then, scramble to obey.
In the Court's granting of habeus corpus rights to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the 4 liberal judges (plus Anthony Kennedy, in a ruling that's sure to increase his facetime in the Washington Post) overturned 200+ years of law.
The ruling itself was an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers--never a concern when the Liberal justices are busy reshaping the U.S. into something a little more to their personal tastes and preferences.
(Excerpt) Read more at deathby1000papercuts.com ...
...and that is why I shall henceforth refer to them as “The Gang of Nine”.
Don’t forget The First Amendment and Campaign Finance “Reform”.
Apparently, “Congress shall make no law ...” was hard reading for them.
The Question is: how do we peacefully fix this without just resetting the tyranny back to a point from which it can more easily return (because it only has to follow the map it drew the first time it blazed its trail)?
Wow, they affirmed to us that 5 of them can read... and that 4 of them can’t:
“Oh, it IS in the Constitution! They CAN bear arms. Who would have thought that?”
What? The Constitution doesn’t read “We the Subjects...”?
Votes by the people are routinely overturned by these emperors in black robes after the votes take place.
Republican choices for the court become liberals half the time. Democrat picks are always dependable libs. What a mess.
Bump for Truth.
F’ing Dictators.
Bears repeating. You own NOTHING.
Thomas Jefferson (1820):
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.”
This, from one of Mr. Jefferson's co-conspirators:
"However true, therefore, it may be, that the [federal] judicial department, is, in all questions submitted to it by the forms of the Constitution, to decide in the last resort, this resort must necessarily be deemed the last in relation to the authorities of the other [federal] departments of the government; not in relation to the rights of the [States as] parties to the constitutional compact, from which the judicial as well as the other departments hold their delegated trusts. On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert for ever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve...
"...if all the departments of government, including the [federal] judiciary (where the question is of a nature to be submitted to it,) combine to commit or to sanction, a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous violation of the Constitution, the states, as parties to the Constitution, may determine, in the last resort, whether the alleged violation has occurred, and may interpose to arrest the evil."
James Madison, Report of 1799
http://www.constitution.org/rf/vr_1799.htm
My, how things have changed - from a constitutional republic, to an elitist pentrarchy, in less than 200 years.
Personally, I agree with another of Mr. Jefferson's 'rabble-rousers:':
"As ends may be made to beget means, so means may be made to beget ends, until the cohabitation shall rear a progeny of unconstitutional bastards, which were not begotten by the people..."
John Taylor, 1820
John Taylor! Great quote.
It actually hurts every time I read it, because it's so d@mn true. But I post it, nevertheless...
Very good question. I have been thinking along these lines for some time. We need to lay the groundwork now for future generations. Maybe they can get it right. Just as Ancient Greece experimented with democracy, then Rome, then England, on to the US, it keeps getting better but is never perfect. And unfortunately, it slides backward into anarchy and chaos over time. I don’t know if we can peacefully fix this or even fix it at all. We do need to keep the ideas and knowledge of what went right and wrong alive for future generations that may want to try it again.
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