Justices Come Under Election-Year Spotlight
One aspect of the article that I find particularly interesting is the profile offered of Reagan appointee Scalia.
Justice Scalia’s consistent behavior demonstrates his enjoyment of “the instant gratification of getting something off his chest,” Professor Laurence H. Tribe of Harvard Law School said in an interview. “His tendency in case after case is to paint his dissenting view in the most inflammatory terms possible,” Professor Tribe added, “giving red meat to those who want to make the Supreme Court their whipping boy.”Scalia likes to play the role of the emotional cheerleader of the right. His statements tend to inflate the potential threats posed by the Court's decisions where he holds a dissenting view. This is a quality that we frequently see echoed in the right, you overstate the danger and act as if that overstatement was happening. In other words its called a scare tactic. The curious thing is, it is based more on emotionality than on fact and reality. If you cry wolf 10,000 times, yes, its likely that one of those times you will be correct. Is it worth keeping everyone in a state of fear and state control during the other 9,999 times.
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It's a mark of the times that we've come to this low place where we have to even argue that a bedrock principle of our society like the 700 yr. old writ of Habeas Corpus is to be debated and questioned? But, it should give us all pause at just how regressive the far right and the Corp. right are in this country. Electing someone like OBAMA might stem this noxious tide for a while but we must not forget the people behind this crap have most of the real wealth and power in this country and beyond. We must also realize that the ONLY rule they really believe in when all is said and done is the GOLDEN RULE. Oh, not the religious Golden rule the REAL one. Clearly stated it means THOSE will the GOLD ($$) make the rules! No tickee no washee or Money talks and BS runs the marathon. Obama is going to find out real fast who has the REAL power here and he's going to also find out what its like to be a empty suit.
I certainly would agree with your comments.
Can you imagine what happens with a 5th judge from the Federalist Society.
Obama has to win, simple as that. If Obama is in for 8 years maybe we can at least get rid of Scalia. He'd be 80. We get back to 6 to 3. Six sane versus 3 from hell.
HELL is the right way of viewing these guys. They certainly do not agree with our Constitution thats for sure and therein lies the irony. These guys hate our Constitutionally guaranteed freedom. When they put their hands on the bible and swore to uphold it they LIED. What they really are aiming @ the whole rotten fucking bunch, is a society be fret of any freedoms except those accorded to the nobility directly from an all powerful Emperor. They want a ROMAN style Imperial order complete with a kind of neo-slavery. These are dangerous times indeed because the ruling class has become ever more sophisticated in its almost endless assault on our freedoms and our liberty. Even parts of the more Libertarian right have woken up to this. But, they don't see the weakness of their philosophy which is that property rights trump all the rest of our rights. They see the state as the enemy and don't recognize that non-state actors like HUGE INT'l Corps can be in some ways even more destructive of liberty! They are also enemies of liberty because in a society were gross inequality of means rules u cannot have a true freedom. Freedom then is then freedom of the strong to essentially enslave the weak. There ideal society was the south after slavery. Some ideal wasn't it? Its ironic that the same yr. Lincoln freed the slaves Russian Emperor Alex the 2nd freed the serfs. But, within 10 yrs. we ended up with a whole class of landed serfs in the south didn't we? That the north allowed this too happen showed who really in the end won that war and it wasn't the north or the Union. The south was allowed back into the fold with its slaves now chained to unfair labor and contract laws that really made most of them nothing more then chattel. In some respects these people were even worse off then before slavery. The vicious racism of the next 120 yrs . and the death squads like the KKK that enforced these codes is the real Amerika of BV$H and Regan anf Strom Thurmond and the rest of the EVIL MOFO's that really own and rule here. Obama had better wear body armor from here on because he's got a huge bulls eye painted on him doesn't he? Its sad really but look at who he's going to have to face these next 8 yrs. I hope he has good life insurance?
You wrote: "Freedom then is then freedom of the strong to essentially enslave the weak. There ideal society was the south after slavery"
This is getting to the heart of the matter.
It makes me think of how we can go about our lives unaware of the structures that govern and contain us.
We are free to live and work within the preordained system. The elite endlessly work to contain the status quo.
Did you happen to see this new one from the Bush Administration -
""Two new directives signed by President Bush establish sweeping authority for federal executive departments and agencies to establish a coordinated "framework" to collect and retain biometric data on U.S. citizens identified as "known and suspected terrorists," without requiring public or congressional disclosure of the procedures.
Although the directives run over 1,700 words in length, Congress is not mentioned once, nor is there any specification of how the coordinated "framework" will be disclosed to the public.""
The language is primed to reflect terrorism but its really about you and me because if you are not a terrorist then you are a suspect.
One more thing - I want t blog on this when I get more info but under the terms of the Patriot Act if you deposit a check for 10 grand into your account, there's a 10 day hold placed on it so they can check it out - make sure you are not a terrorist getting funded. I just realized that this was a give away to the banking industry because they get a free 10 day investment with your money while you collect no interest. Multiply 10 grand times the number of checks per year and the banks are making a huge huge windfall while the actually owners of the money get nothing.
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