We knew it was coming....

[69forever]

Those of us who think, question and want what is our right knew this was coming.
*making note to get passport* ~sighs~ I give up. Well maybe not.

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050323215320295


Introducing the Constitution Restoration Act

Say Hello to Taliban America and Goodbye
To Godless Judges, Courts and Law

By W. David Kubiak
March 24, 2005

Tired of waiting for the Second Coming to enforce Christ's rule on
Earth? Fortunately, so is your Congress and they know how to "bring it on."

Just when you thought the corporatist/Christian Coalition had milked
the 9/11 "surprise" for all it was worth in powers, profits and votes, we
regret to report that you may have to think again. Just in case you've briefly
fallen behind on your rightwing mailing lists, you might have missed
the March 3rd filing of Senate bill S. 520 and House version is H.R. 1070,
AKA the "Constitution Restoration Act" (CRA).

In the worshipful words of the Conservative Caucus, this historic
legislation will "RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION!", mainly by barring ANY
federal court or judge from ever again reviewing "any matter to the extent that
relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State, or local
government, or against an officer or agent of Federal, State, or local government
(whether or not acting in official or personal capacity), concerning
that entity's, officer's, or agent's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign
source of law, liberty, or government." [Emphasis demanded - see full text here.]

In other words, the bill ensures that God's divine word (and our
infallible leaders' interpretation thereof) will hereafter trump all our pathetic
democratic notions about freedom, law and rights -- and our courts
can't say a thing. This, of course, will take "In God We Trust" to an entirely
new level, because soon He (and His personally anointed political elite)
will be all the legal recourse we have left.

This is not a joke, a test, or a fit of libertarian paranoia. The CRA
already has 28 sponsors in the House and Senate, and a March 20 call to
lead sponsor Sen. Richard Shelby's office assures us that "we have the votes
for passage." This is a highly credible projection as Bill Moyers observes
in his 3/24/05 "Welcome to Doomsday" piece in the New York Review of
Books: "The corporate, political, and religious right's hammerlock... extends
to the US Congress. Nearly half of its members before the election-231
legislators in all (more since the election)-are backed by the
religious right... Forty-five senators and 186 members of the 108th Congress
earned 80 to 100 percent approval ratings from the most influential Christian
Right advocacy groups."

This stunning bill and the movement behind it deserve immediate crash
study on at least 3 different fronts:

1. Its hostile divorce of American jurisprudence from our
hard-won secular history and international norms.

To again quote the Conservative Caucus: "This important bill will
restrict the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court and all lower federal courts
to that permitted by the U.S. Constitution, including on the subject of
the acknowledgement of God (as in the Roy Moore 10 Commandments issue); and
it also restricts federal courts from recognizing the laws of foreign
countries and international law [e.g., against torture, global warming, unjust
wars, etc. - ed.] as the supreme law of our land."

Re the last point, envision some doddering judges who still revere our
Declaration of Independence's "decent respect to the opinions of
mankind," and suppose they invoke in their rulings some international precepts
from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Covenant on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women or, God forbid, the
Geneva Conventions. Well, under the CRA that would all be clearly
illegal and, thank God, that's the last we'd ever hear from them.

2. The political implications of replacing "we the people" with a Christian deity as the "sovereign source" of all our laws.

Imagine hyper-zealous officers or "entities" of the Federal, State, or
local government (like a governor, legislature or school board) that mandate
Christian prayers, rituals and/or statuary in public buildings under
their control. Were this to happen, some local Jews, Muslims and/or Buddhists
might be moved to hire a lawyer and legally object. But if the CRA
passes, their objection would be beyond any court's jurisdiction and that's the
last we'd ever hear of that. It in fact demands "impeachment, conviction,
and removal of judges" who dare to even hear a case that challenges its
"Last Days" morphing of Christian church and state. (Just how our new
Sovereign Source of Government's advocacy of public executions for adultery,
gay-ness, contraception and blasphemy will fit into our current corrections
system still remains to be seen.)

3. The incessant mainstream media blackout on the bill's existence
and import.

The potential impact of the Constitution Restoration Act on American life,
law and politics is so radical and vast that you would expect a boiling
national debate. Yet just as with the crimes and questions of 9/11,
everyone in the media seems terrifically busy looking the other way. If you want
yet another dramatic metric of US journalistic dysfunction, try Googling
"Constitution Restoration Act" in their News category and see what you
get. Today, three weeks after the bill was filed, I find a grand total of
three throwaway mentions in Alabama's Shelby County Reporter, the Decatur
Daily, and the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. ("Terry Schiavo" in contrast
will net you over a thousand news hits, and "Michael Jackson" just passed 36,000
with a bullet.)

If the Alabama paper interest seems a little odd or sponsor Shelby's
name a bit familiar, you should recall that this old boy AL senator was high
among those same wonderful folks who kicked off the 9/11 cover-up. As his
Senate bio proudly relates:

"From 1995 to 2003, Senator Shelby served on the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. In this capacity, he and the other committee members
provided oversight of the intelligence community, and following the September
11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Senator Shelby served diligently to investigate
the intelligence failures that led to those attacks." [Emphasis demanded
again.]

Got that? First he "oversees" intelligence for six years before 9/11,
then "diligently investigates" its bizarre "failures" for two years more,
and finally finds--in a no-fault judgment--it was all due to "deep
institutional defects" and "systemic miscommunication" that he'd apparently never
noticed or heard about before.

Having so brilliantly defended the country before 9/11 and the official story since, some seem to find it comforting that he's now busy defending our court-harassed Constitution with a legally bulletproofed God. Some, alas, do not -- feel comforted, that is, either by Shelby's blurry oversight or fundamentalist agenda, not to mention the Orwellian performance of our autistic corporate press.

In the meantime, however, before the CRA takes force and reduces legal
education to a Bible study course, what say we undertake a little
Constitutional defense of our own? To get up to speed on the current
Christian right agenda, Moyers' "Welcome to Doomsday", Katherine
Yurica's "The Despoiling of America" and John "The 9/11 Truth Candidate"
Buchanan's "Fixing America" are excellent places to start.

None of these analyses offer a silver bullet or paint a pretty picture,
but as students of 9/11 now know, spreading the courage to face the truth
is really the only hope we've got.

====================================================

W. David Kubiak is a Project Censored award-winning journalist and
executive
director of 911truth.org. He can be reached at david(at)911truth.org.
(He is
indebted to John Buchanan for the latest heads-up on this story and the
Shelby office call.)


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[69forever]

Thanks Kbate. Done.

 

[kbate]

Thanks Kbate. Done.

wish more people would read this.

thanks 69forever..

 

[69forever]

wish more people would read this.

thanks 69forever..

It's being re-posted on the GB with my permission and blessing.

Your welcome.

 

[Queersetti]

The hubris of these people is amazing. I do, however, think they have finally gone too far, and exposed their true faces so blatantly, that the American people are beginning to recoil from them and their anti-democratic agenda.

 

[Prime]

to quote something I heard on NPR yesterday (paraphrase rather...)

oh, and this was said absolutly dripping with sarcasm.....

"We may be criminals, we may kill other men in a fit of rage, steal cars, light buildings on fire, make drugs, sell drugs, use drugs, rape women, urinate in public places, and drive our cars at breakneck speeds stone-drunk, but damnit, we're straight, and marraige is something sacred to us."

that is really all i can remember, he then went on to describe this gay couple he knows who is active in their community, helps tutor children, donates all kinds of money, etc......, and who had even been together longer than the commentator and his wife. they are the model of perfect citizens, why shouldn't they have all the same rights as heterosexual people? Marriage is an institution far older than this government, it only is given a gov't issued document for financial reasons (when one dies, the other takes on the assets, etc.....)

and my train of thought just kinda stops there, i thought i had something insightful going.....
oh well, maybe someone can finish it for me

 

[69forever]

The hubris of these people is amazing. I do, however, think they have finally gone too far, and exposed their true faces so blatantly, that the American people are beginning to recoil from them and their anti-democratic agenda.

We can only hope and keep speaking out to expose their outrageous plans at every opportunity. No time for complacency or timidity now!

 

[DarkAurora]

Where are all those liberal, activist judges that Bush keeps bitching about? They sure as hell wouldn't stand for this!

 

[College_geek]

The hubris of these people is amazing. I do, however, think they have finally gone too far, and exposed their true faces so blatantly, that the American people are beginning to recoil from them and their anti-democratic agenda.

I'd like to think that, but you know how many people are probably thrilled that they're doing this? All those people who are upset at the judicial system and think that they have too much power because they're saying that homosexuals should have equal rights as heterosexuals and they're saying that there shouldn't be prayer in public school and they're saying that there can't be a monument of the 10 commandments outside of a public place. They just have too much power! Shame on them for doing their job! Instead of doing their job and deciding whether or not something is unconstitutional, they should just worry about putting people who have abortions in jail for murder and things such as that. The nerve of those judges...

 

[69forever]

I'd like to think that, but you know how many people are probably thrilled that they're doing this? All those people who are upset at the judicial system and think that they have too much power because they're saying that homosexuals should have equal rights as heterosexuals and they're saying that there shouldn't be prayer in public school and they're saying that there can't be a monument of the 10 commandments outside of a public place. They just have too much power! Shame on them for doing their job! Instead of doing their job and deciding whether or not something is unconstitutional, they should just worry about putting people who have abortions in jail for murder and things such as that. The nerve of those judges...

Therin' lies the very real danger. Very few people knew about or believed that the military had been instructed to prepare for mass detentions during the height of the anti-war movement during the '70's. They were.

We only have the freedoms in this country that we take and fight to keep. The "Moral Majority" would have us a secular state if they could.

 

[College_geek]

Therin' lies the very real danger. Very few people knew about or believed that the military had been instructed to prepare for mass detentions during the height of the anti-war movement during the '70's. They were.

We only have the freedoms in this country that we take and fight to keep. The "Moral Majority" would have us a secular state if they could.

All I can say is that I'm eagerly awaiting the next liberal wave in this country. Maybe I'll have to wait for my children's generation (I sure hope it doesn't take that long). It does seem to shift in waves, for the most part.

 

[69forever]

The hubris of these people is amazing. I do, however, think they have finally gone too far, and exposed their true faces so blatantly, that the American people are beginning to recoil from them and their anti-democratic agenda.

You know, I had some optimistic feelings like that. Even told myself people wouldn't sit by and let it happen. Then last night I was watching Tavis Smiley on PBS. The gist of his interview was on the rule changes being made by the Republicans in the Senate. Limiting ethics violation censoring, and now the attack on the fillibuster. They're inch by inch re-writing the Constitution and the way we are governed to suit their desire for absolute control.

THAT is a telling indicator of things to come.

 

[College_geek]

You know, I had some optimistic feelings like that. Even told myself people wouldn't sit by and let it happen. Then last night I was watching Tavis Smiley on PBS. The gist of his interview was on the rule changes being made by the Republicans in the Senate. Limiting ethics violation censoring, and now the attack on the fillibuster. They're inch by inch re-writing the Constitution and the way we are governed to suit their desire for absolute control.

THAT is a telling indicator of things to come.

I'd like to think that whoever is the next president (unless of course it's Bush's personal choice of successor) abolishes all (or at least most) of the crap that this administration has put up.

 

[69forever]

I'd like to think that whoever is the next president (unless of course it's Bush's personal choice of successor) abolishes all (or at least most) of the crap that this administration has put up.

People aren't getting it. If the Republicans are successful in ramming these ultra conservative Federal Judicial appointments through, we're stuck with them. They're appointed for life. The implications for re-writing Constitutional Law are staggering and frightening. THAT is their agenda. Having control over all three branches of the government gives them absolute control. Checkmate.

 

[DarkAurora]

All I can say is that I'm eagerly awaiting the next liberal wave in this country. Maybe I'll have to wait for my children's generation (I sure hope it doesn't take that long). It does seem to shift in waves, for the most part.

With all the republican and conservative control at the moment, I feel the next liberal wave coming very soon.

 

[69forever]

With all the republican and conservative control at the moment, I feel the next liberal wave coming very soon.

The question is how long and how much of the damage can be undone when/if it happens. We're on the verge of losing so many rights and freedoms that another liberal wave may not take place from censorship and persecution.