Posted on 03/02/2005 1:24:42 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Wondering out loud here....Marches take time, work, commitment, energy and focus. In essence, you'll need to suck all the oxygen out of the political machine to have a meaningful impact.
Isn't our time better spent getting 60 Republicans into Senate seats in '06? That's not to stop a march if others decide that's our focus....
Let's do it.
Wasn't it Alabama that had them removed? What's the diffence if the SCOTUS roughshods over state's rights with the Ten Commandents and state's death penality laws? IT's time to protest, and protest BIG! I say, another MFJ, that's how I found FR in the first place. And, remember the ad FR took out? We need to be doing more of that.
Ive got the book. It will make your blood boil.
You build it they will come!
I'm ready, willing and able, but like fishing, I need a days notice.
Exactly, and according to Mark Levin - the Congress has the right TO UNDO ANY RULING - BECAUSE THE COURT IS NOT ELECTED - IT'S APPOINTED.
But the Congress is too spineless to take them on.
I think you have enough experience with Freerepublic to know what is Breaking News and what isn't.
Is the 10 Commandments display part of the need or the new Chief Justice after Rehnquist steps down [to have the activism]?
On second thought, we need to concentrate our fire on the Senate: we've GOT to get spineless GOP senate caucus to break through the dems' obstructionism. I don't care if they pass nothing else: if GWB doesn't appoint, and the Senate doesn't confirm, decent SCOTUS justices, nothing else matters.
The Senate is key, key, key. THe SCOTUS will ignore us. Senators won't.
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The death penalty decision wreaks of all kinds of BS about foreign sensibilities {PTUI}1 and concerns {PTUI} about how we are viewed in the world {PTUI}
1-I am virtual spitting
I say the Supreme Court should be permanently removed from Washington DC and relocated every session to a randomly-selected town no larger than, say, Topeka, Kansas. The justices don't need to be around the other branches of government and lobbyists, etc. Get them in a less rarefied environment and take away that high platform they sit on, while you're at it. Scalia and the other good guys can live with this, and everyone else can learn from it.
We can't hit all the governors separately, but if we can muster up a huge showing in DC, that should make them at least a bit nervous.
I think there's an opportunity here to gather the largest number of grassroots people to march in DC in a very long time. It seems to me that all the talk show hosts, who seem to be steaming over this latest Court decision, will push this thing (if we have it) to the hilt--and most of them, I would guess, would be clamoring to be on the speaker's roster. FreeRepublic has gotten a lot of good publicity in recent months, and has become much more well known around the country. Let's use our new public image to good advantage.
SCOTUS is not immune to public pressure, and their rulings are only as powerful as we the people allow them to be. They command no enforcement resources, those are the Justice Dept and military both under control of the executive. They have no financial power, the purse is controlled by congress. The states can ignore the ruling and the court is powerless unless backed up by the other COEQUAL branches of government.
They all need to hear from us. I'm ready let's go. Who will draft the petitions of grievance?
And we need to modify their oath of office while we are at it.
Just let me know where and when.
Amen. The Judiciary was supposed to be the "least dangerous branch." From Federalist No. 78: (http://federalistpatriot.us/fedpapers/fed_78.html)
"...Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments...."
It's time to re-establish the proper boundaries of the three branches.
We'll be marching on the judges, the Senate, the House and the POTUS. Lord knows we have plenty of grievances. They will all hear our wrath!
If you set the date, they will come.
Have Hardware, Will Travel...
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