Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Constitutional Amendment or Revolution?

When members of the Judiciary take it upon themselves to engage in legislation, they are usurping the constitutional right of Congress. Our Government is to have been an institution by, of and for the people. I believe it once was. When we were governed by our duly elected officials. Those days are behind us. We no longer bow to a distant King, now we pay homage to those who wear black. They are not of us, they are not for us and they simply can not abide our ignorant intrusion into the sacred realm they inhabit. They are above our laws, and we are beneath their contempt.
I long for the days when we were created equal. Now a hand full of the saints in black can determine our foreign policy, our nullify our right to pass laws with a scratch of their powerful pens. What recourse do we as citizens have? We can not impeach them. Congress has that right but Congress for better or worse is a partisan body. This is a non-partisan issue. This is above all other issues right now. Are we a nation of men or of laws? Are we a republic that treats all men equally under the law? If so we can not allow a usurpation of our liberty to a duly elected governing body. The judiciary must be directly accountable to the people of this nation.
Perhaps this seems extreme, but then so are the actions of the few when they exercise disproportionate power over the many.
This is not a new issue, it has dogged our nation from it’s founding and perhaps it will be until the end of our nation. When the loyal citizens of the British Colonies were tired of the oppression and more so perhaps of the arrogance of a distant power they rose to rebellion. Justly. Would an armed rebellion profit our nation now? Did it then? In that generation perhaps not, but most would agree that in the near decades they were allowed to prosper in their liberty.
Rebellion or an armed revolution should never be undertaken lightly, I do not lightly suggest such a notion, but perhaps even the mention of such a dreadful solution would cause those in the ivory tower to take note of the fragility of their position.
Far better, and yet not a desirable proposition is a constitutional amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowing for a direct impeachment of Judges who sit on the federal bench. The ones who now sit for as long as they draw breath or until they abdicate their lofty position, barring a congressional impeachment.
Whether or not this Amendment were to be ratified, the debate it would inspire may be just the thing to awaken our celebrity obsessed culture to the very grave danger our liberty now endures.