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The
Great Power Grab and All for the “Good” of the American People
By: Jack Dalton
05/25/05 "ICH"
- - I’ve been sitting here listening to all the nice sounding
words spewing forth from some of our “esteemed” senators over
the so-called “agreement” just reached about judicial
nominees, filibusters, and the Trent Lott named, “nuclear
option” to eliminate senate judicial filibusters.
One of ‘things’
that really stands out to me is simply this: the extreme right of
the Republican Party is not satisfied with “winning” some of
the time; is not satisfied with “winning” the overwhelming
majority of the time; the only thing that will satisfy them is
“winning” 100% of the time on every single thing they want to
super-impose upon us all.
Priscilla Owen,
William H. Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown ( see
profiles of these and other judicial nominees here ) all three
of whom have been “vigorously” opposed by senate
“democrats” will get now a rubber stamped into a life-time
seat on our federal courts—oops, their federal courts.
From the very start,
this was, and still is about a lot more than just these three or
some of the others still waiting in the wings—all of which it
appears will now “win” senate approval. This is about the
vacancies that are coming up in the Supreme Court. BushCo (my pet
name for that marvelous mob of Mayberry Machiavelli’s) has had
the eye on the Supreme Court for day one.
Gain control of the
Supreme Court, control of all three branches of government will
then be complete. You say I am making too much of this? You say I
am pushing a panic button? You say I am taking this too an absurd
conclusion?
To those who think
or say that I remind them of this: “The
accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary,
in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether
hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced
the very definition of tyranny.” James Madison, Federalist Paper
47
While the specter of
what Bill Frist had planned to eliminate the opposition
filibustering judicial nominees was not a good one to contemplate,
let alone have to deal with; the Democratic Party caving in to the
extortion is worse. They thru their “compromise” have helped
to insure the completion of the radical rights three way power
grab.
This is just one
more thing convincing me that we
only have one party in this country with only minor
differences in the opposing ends of the same stick—the one we
keep getting in the back. They care more about “preserving the
institution” of the senate than they do about the people whose
name they so freely and constantly invoke. How can giving away the
courts be in the “interest of the American people?”
In 1935, Sinclair
Lewis wrote his novel, “It
Can’t Happen Here.” A
“fictional” account of what amounts to a fascist take-over of
this country. I wonder what the title of a sequel would be if
Sinclair Lewis were alive today? “The
15% Solution: A History of American Fascism, 2001—2022”
another fictional account of the rise of fascism by constitutional
means which so perfectly describes this nation today since 9/11 it
is frightening. Especially considering it was written years before
9/11 ever happened.
“Those
who believe a police state can't happen here are poor students of
history. Every government, democratic or not, is capable of
tyranny. We must understand this if we hope to remain a free
people.” (Ron Paul, R-Tx, Dec. 2004—he’s one of the
only republicans in congress with some sense of integrity).
The last thing
needed to permanently secure power with some air of internal
legitimacy by Hitler and the Nazi’s over
Germany
and the German people were the courts. These they stacked and then
completely took over, and using their constitution to do it. If
you want to secure complete power and control over that which you
govern, control of the courts is an absolute must. This is about
gaining so much power and control everyone will be forced to live
according to the world view these nut jobs have; and they will
have the courts to back them up.
If I sound like
someone screaming “the sky is falling” so be it. I just
can’t stress the danger we face with this power grab for the
courts. There will nothing to stand between people and
government/corporate predators. The very people that lied
this nation into invading Iraq and then lied about lying.
These are the people who determine whom will sit as life-time
judges on
U.S.
federal courts.
Jack
Dalton is a disabled Vietnam veteran, writer and activist. He is a
columnist for the POAC
and has a blog—Jack’s “Straight-Speak”
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