tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post5079335086813398991..comments2023-11-05T03:25:20.581-08:00Comments on STOP THE MADNESS: CHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE AMERICAN STORY, PART II: FROM CONFEDERATION TO UNIONRick Staggenborg, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-73500617058643021152010-05-27T07:50:17.569-07:002010-05-27T07:50:17.569-07:00This essay owes its title and major theme to the a...This essay owes its title and major theme to the author of the book Consencus and continuity, which I read in 1980 for the one and only class I took in Political Science. The author was Benjamin Fletcher Wright.<br /><br />This class provided a valuable gounding in US history and the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting laws passed by Congress. I recall with mild amusement my horror at sitting in class when the 1980 election results were announced. Nost of the class shared my recognition of the significance of the fact that the American people had chosen the star of Bedtime for Bonzo as our President.<br /><br />Reagan has left us with a mixed legacy. He famously admonished Gorbachov to "Tear down that wall!" that separated East and West Germany. He is unfairly credited with bringing about the fall of Russian communism as a result of his ruinously expensive military buildup. The truth is of course that communism as practiced in the USSR was doomed by its inefficiency to failure due to ultimate economic collapse. A nation cannot long endure by subjegating and terrorizing its own people.<br /><br />The irony is that Russia ultimately fell because of its own choice to iinvade Afghanistan, the graveyard of Empires. The US has repeated this idiocy because our great leader George IV was completely ignorant of US or world history. It is an illustration of the need for the American people to keep a close watch on government if we are to preserve the freedoms we hold dear. This requires a public who understands the history of our nation and does not rely on an increasingly Orwellian view of it.<br /><br />The Supreme Court gave us President Shrub, in open defiance of the Constitutional separation of power between Federal and State government. The American people tolerated this because they too are ignorant of our history and because the tyranny of the minority was allowed to prevail over the good of the people. <br /><br />The men and women on the Court are deliberately chosen from among the most conservative jurists in the nation in the hope that they will make change slowly and carefully, respecting legal precedent and the limits of the power of a body that is selected for life to protect the Constitution and our freedom.<br /><br />The Supreme Court has degenerated into a rubber stamp for the corporate agenda. Having been selected by the very tools of the Puppetmasters of the Senate, these meat puppets have used divisions the Republican and Democratic Parties have created in our society to place counter-Revolutionaries in positions of trust in the highest Court in the land. Is it any wonder that we now have to take matters into our own hands to Take Back America for the People?Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.com