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Jewish World Review August 6, 2010/ 26 Menachem-Av, 5770 Incremental Tyranny By Arnold Ahlert
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I hope the people of California have learned their lesson. All this silly voting stuff is "so Twentieth Century" Voting? We don't need no stinkin' voting. All we need is the "enlightened wisdom" of the judiciary. A solid majority voting in favor of keeping marriage between a man and a woman--for the second time? For the second time since 2000, the judiciary has invalidated the will of the people.
Like their counterparts in Arizona, the people of California are discovering that law, the will of the electorate, or even the Constitution is nothing more than a temporary impediment--a speed-bump if you will--to the eventual imposition of the liberal worldview. The American left's accomplices, hacks in black robes who have sold their collective souls to the idea that "social justice trumps all," are apparently immune to the idea that majority of Americans hold them in utter contempt.
Unfortunately that contempt is completely irrelevant to those who consider themselves intellectually and morally superior to the unwashed masses of ordinary Americans. In California, the expressed wishes of seven million people at the ballot box were tossed aside to placate radical homosexuals. In Arizona, the surveyed wishes of seventy percent of that state's people were ignored to placate illegal aliens and their enablers. Only the Supreme Court--also tainted by people for whom the Constitution is nothing more than a point of departure for "discovering" one's personal biases--can thwart America's headlong march towards liberal fascism.
Make no mistake: fascism is a perfectly acceptable form of governance for the American left. As long as they control the levers of power, tyranny--a form of government where the people's wishes are completely subservient to the ruling class--is a fine thing. And nothing abets that tyranny more than an in-the-tank judiciary, without which liberalism would already be sitting on the ash heap of history.
Tyranny is the ultimate destination of secular humanism. It begins with the removal of a Supreme Being and the accompanying moral code of religion which codifies right and wrong. Once morality becomes "relative," the bastardization of language follows: words like "family," "marriage," "illegal" and countless others are stripped of common understanding. "Family" is reduced to virtually any combination of people who claim such status. "Marriage" becomes a union between any two people, regardless of sex. "Illegal" becomes "undocumented" implying that a lack of procedure, rather than overt law-breaking, is the problem.
Once common understanding of language evaporates, the law becomes "interpretive." It no longer matters that every word in the Constitution was carefully debated before being added to that document. It no longer matters that specific procedures were enacted to amend that document. Language and procedure are cumbersome. Equal outcomes for equal cases is no longer assured. Justice, which should be over-arching, is doled out capriciously and arbitrarily. A nation of laws becomes a nation of men--men who consider ordinary Americans and their everyday concerns beneath contempt.
I've often heard people say there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. To a large extent that it true, but I'm sitting here trying to remember the last time conservatives, with an activist judge in tow, successfully overturned a law against the expressed wishes of a majority of Americans. In fact, I can't even remember when they tried to do such a thing. It must have happened, but the fact that nothing stands out--as opposed to the countless times liberals have done it--tells me something.
What it tells me is this: the lesser of two evils is still less evil. The Senate is about to put another radical leftist on the Supreme Court, a women with a demonstrated contempt for the law as written. That she is replacing another liberal jurist is scant comfort. If president Obama, who lamented that "the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society," and that they "didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution" gets to put a third judge on the Supreme Court, America as we know it may be over.
We are literally one Supreme Court Justice away from the imposition of a liberal fascist state.
And there is only one genuine antidote: the capture of the Senate--which has the final say on nominees--by Republicans. An ultimate panacea? Not even close. Perhaps little more than tourniquet to stanch the bleeding. But America is indeed bleeding. It has been deeply wounded by leftist ideology, which can only prosper if Americans continue to allow the judicial branch to run roughshod over the will of the people. Will Republicans allow that to happen? It's certainly possible. Will Democrats allow that to happen?
Absolutely, one hundred percent yes.
Those are the real stakes of the 2010 election. By 2012, it may no longer matter. Do I take comfort in imploring you to vote for a Republican party with a track record nearly as tattered as the Democrats? Nope. But it beats the hell out of tyranny. What has happened in California and Arizona is the tip of the iceberg. If liberals had a clue they'd also be concerned: judicially-imposed tyranny may be breaking your way at present, but nothing is forever.
Tyranny is an equal-opportunity oppressor.
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